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The university and industry: time for two‐way traffic
From a national standpoint the Willis Jackson Committee on Manpower Resources for Science and Technology is probably the most important Government‐sponsored committee in being…
Notes and news
The ILEA's Education Committee was recommended at its meeting on 15th December to approve the establishment of a closed‐circuit educational television service for London. The aim…
In Parliament
Announcing the establishment of a National Computing Centre, the Minister of Technology, Mr Frank Cousins, told the Commons that it would provide and encourage training in systems…
Experimentation in applied science courses … 1
S.D. PROBERT, J.P. MARSDENApplied physics and engineering are essentially experimental philosophies, and so an appreciation of techniques is fundamental to their understanding. However, academic tradition…
Re‐training for automation
LAURA TATHAME'ectronic data processing and other modern techniques do not have to be the sole preserve of whizz‐kids: old‐timers of 35 and more can make a real contribution — even if they…
Ready, Steady, Go¡
ADRIAN BRISTOWTraditionally, physical education has no place in technical education. Until recently it was quite disregarded and there are still thousands of teachers in FE (of all persuasions…
Responsibility for new staff in colleges … 2
BERNARD ARMSTRONGSelection policy and procedure. The first point here is the policy on internal promotion versus external recruitment. In the postwar conditions of full employment and a welfare…
Practical training for commercial students
A.C. WISEThree years ago it was decided that full‐time students in the Commerce Department of the North Berkshire College of Further Education in Abingdon should obtain some form of office…
Problems of construction block release
W.R. SINNOTTWhen the examining bodies decided to examine candidates for the Construction Technicians' Certificate by papers covering Construction and Related Subjects together, they raised…
The public image of the training officer
V.T. STEVENSONRecently, I had need to recruit a new training officer for an engineering firm with which I am associated. Because I believe very strongly in the policy of promotion from within…
Engineering Drawing reading exercises
Ph.D. R.THOMSONEngineering Drawing is a technical subject, which suggests that it is one of mechanical skill in making a working drawing with the aid of instruments, i.e. draughting. When one…
A fuel cell for educational purposes
C.G. WilliamsIn a power hungry world fuel cells represent one of the most interesting ways in which electricity may be developed from normal fuels silently, at high efficiency and without…
New apparatus for the teaching of optics
G.W. DorlingUsing discrete light rays — or ‘ray streaks’ as they are now called — to help in the teaching of the elementary principles of optics is not new. The apparatus shown in FIGURE 1…
The Venner electric stop clock
J.N. EmeryThose who have had contact with the teaching of physics in schools will be familiar with the many attempts which have been made to time freely falling bodies. These include the…
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