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Whither the CEI?
There have not been many developments of note in the organization of the engineering profession during the last ten years. One notable exception was the formation of the Council…
In Parliament
Just before Parliament was dissolved for the General Election, the Minister of Labour, Mr Ray Gunter, announced in the Commons proposals for improving the arrangements for giving…
Notes and news
Mr Norman Longley, Chairman of the CITB, helped by his two senior assistants, Mr E. F. L. Brech, Chief Executive, and Mr H. B. Verity, Secretary, held a press conference recently…
Education and the working of democracy
HAROLD SILVERThe first of two articles discussing inadequacies in the structure and government of education. This article deals with some assumptions made about democracy and with the growth…
School science, industry, and the careers' master
W.S. SALMONWe are gradually coming to appreciate that school and the business of earning a living are both parts of one continuing process. The transition from school to ‘work’ is a step…
Production engineering plus — impressions of Remploy
SHIRLEY TOULSONAll production engineering is a daily challenge, but at those factories run by Remploy (a Treasury‐backed, non‐shareholding industrial company, limited by Government guarantee) it…
Routes to professional status in engineering
B.F. GRAYLast November the thirteen chartered engineering insitutions (see appendix), representing a total membership of approximately a quarter of a million, became a single chartered…
An all‐purpose work unit
R.S. RHODESIn 1958, the Engineering Department of the North Staffordshire College of Technology took over extensions which included a rectangular four storey block of concrete and glass, a…
Operational research in a college of technology
R. CROASDALEThe question of the best form of training in operational research (O.R.) has been brought to the fore again recently (Cook 1965). Here, the author describes how a college…
DESIGNED FOR TEACHING: A students' wiring project — Electrical Craft courses
R. ChandranThe equipment described below was designed both in order to comply with the requirements of various examining bodies, and to provide thorough training in the art of fault‐tracing…
The Polaroid camera in physics teaching
M.L. HaselgrovePhotography is one of the greatest weapons of modern science and technology. Why it has not been equally effectively used in the classroom and lecture room is something of a…
Visual aids
Fixings Are Our Problem (col, 17 min) has been made to show how Rawplug fixings are being used in the building, power and transport industries. New methods, new devices and new…
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