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Time to help
Signs are that the levy or the threat is beginning to bite. Many small and medium‐sized companies — and several large ones whose training activities are a disgrace to them and the…
Notes and news
‘Never more urgent’ Mr Gunter speaks on training ‘The need for training and re‐training was never more urgent than it is at the present time and I regard this as one of the most…
In Parliament
The Secretary of State for Education and Science, Mr Anthony Crosland, made a statement in the Commons on university education in Wales and the future of the Welsh College of…
Science as a liberal study
R. BAILEYThe past decade has seen Liberal Studies rise to a level of importance and acceptance in technical education that at one time seemed impossible to achieve. Much remains to be…
Stop it, you're hurting!
ADRIAN BRISTOWSlyme Green College of Further Education stands to the north of the town on the edge of a vast new trading estate. A glistening block of glass and concrete, it was opened a little…
Towards more creative school science
DONALD HUTCHINGSSchoolmasters are not the only ones who know that they are on safe ground when they talk of fundamentals. Professors of engineering, almost as a reflex, claim a grounding in the…
Teaching Economics in the technical college
K.W. NEALThe interest and value that Economics can have is considerably enhanced in the case of most students in further education by their recent entry into the world of work, and into…
Education and the aero‐space industry
A. A.F.R.Ae.S. M.A.I.A.A. A.F.B.I.S. SCIBOR‐RYLSKI Ing.Is it fair to suggest that the British aircraft industry must readjust itself to a new size corresponding to the reduced role our country plays in the world today, and to suggest…
Experimentation in applied science courses…2
S.D. PROBERT, J.P. MARSDEN B.Sc. Ph.As mentioned at the conclusion of the first part of this article last month, the first fortnight a student spends at college is devoted entirely to an induction course about…
Difficulties in Ohm's Law — and in teaching it
T. PALMERIt is fairly well known that nowadays Ohm's law has two meanings:
Engineering Drawing: from the general to the particular
R. THOMSONEarly in an engineering drawing course, students are given simple views of elementary objects, e.g. FIGURE 1, from which they are asked to project auxiliary views and from them…
Visual aids
A new film from the Banking Information Service is Money in the Bank (col, 25 min). Its aim is to sell the services of the clearing banks to the public at large and, in doing so…
DESIGNED FOR TEACHING: Statics: a strut‐and‐tie apparatus
Statics is one of the basic subjects of which physicists, mathematicians, engineers — and above all, just people — should have a good understanding. It is introduced early in the…
Beam testing equipment
Douglas BondTo enable structure testing strong‐floor space and standard testing machines to be used for other purposes, testing frames have been made in the Civil Engineering Department…
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