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Change at the top
Mr James Boyden has been transferred from the Department of Education and Science and Miss Jennie Lee has joined the Department, assuming duties different from those of Mr Boyden…
Notes and news
Industrial Training: Mr Marsh's progress report By the end of this year the Government hope to have set up Training Boards for the electricity, water, gas industries, the group of…
ATI's London meeting
This year the Association of Technical Institutions held its AGM in the home of the Royal Institute of British Architects in Portland Place, London. It got off to a rattling good…
In Parliament
The Secretary of State for Education and Science, Mr Anthony Crosland, made a statement in the Commons on the development of higher education.
The head of department and his work
G.S. BROSANThe conventional wisdom has it that a Head of Department fits neatly into a perfect job specification, that he carries out all the tasks of the perfect manager by planning…
Sweethearts and wives
ADRIAN BRISTOWI have often wondered why the Germans, so methodical and precise a people, failed to make more use of their womanpower during the last war, especially in the military sphere. I am…
Implementing the Act … progress report 3
JOHN WELLENSIn his third article in this series, John Wellens describes the progress made so far in creating a training system for the construction industry as a whole
Field review of ‘A/S’ level chemistry textbooks
MICHAEL BASSEYPART VI Practical chemistry textbooks and miscellaneous books. Thirty‐nine practical chemistry textbooks were received from publishers for this part of the review and they have…
Silent concepts of sound film
S.J. COOKTo the experienced teacher of any subject, the question of lesson preparation is centred around the doctrine of:
Engineering drawing and the electrical fitter
H. LOUKESLast month's article dealt with the place of Engineering Drawing in the syllabus of the Mechanical Engineering Craft Practice Course (CGLI 193), and it is the intention this month…
‘The Age of Automation’
John WellensHere we have a skilful and absorbing treatment of automation by a man who is both one of the pre‐eminent authorities on the technicalities of automation and, to date, its most…
Visual aids
A new film shot by Cambridge University Department of. Education is intended to introduce teachers to the principles and techniques of programmed learning. Teaching Machines and…
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