Education + Training: Volume 9 Issue 1

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The squatting students stand up

On 2 December Sir Sidney Caine announced to the students of the London School of Economics that a committee comprising 50 per cent staff and 50 per cent students was to be set up…

Comment

The Royal Commission and control of FE. Let us hope the control of further education will be seriously considered by the Royal Commission on Local Government. It has recently…

In parliament

Mr Ray Gunter announced in the Commons that he had decided to make available to the industrial training boards for a period of twelve months starting in the new year, the sum of…

Notes and news

One by one each industrial role in turn falls under the quizzical gaze of Minerva. Middle management has generally been able to escape, especially in the smaller firms. It was…

The dance of the arm‐chair radicals

Meeting at Margate between 25 and 28 November, 1000 delegates and observers formed the 1966 National Union of Students' annual council. Representing 350 000 students from some 240…

Technology and the secondary school: 3 The ‘pull’ of the universities

Donald Hutchings

Universities offer little encouragement to schools wishing to experiment with new courses. For most headmasters this is a hard fact of life — to try out new combinations of…

The principals

Gordon Hird

There are 573 principals, including 32 women, of Colleges of Further Education, Regional Colleges, Art Colleges and other Major Establishments. Between them, these principals…

Consumer education

Edith Rudinger

Consumer education is a by‐product of consumer information and consumer protection. The growth of consumer consciousness in the course of the last decade has caused a great…

Technical education in post‐war Poland

Richard Kotas

Technical education in Poland has a relatively long history. The first craft school was established in Opole in 1761 and, by the end of the 19th century, at least a dozen…

Programmed texts or teaching machines?

R.W. Lyne

Readers of this journal will know that in programmed learning we are dealing with control and communication systems. In applying PL (or PI = Programmed Instruction as it is more…

The West Riding programmed learning project

Tony Babb

In 1964, the West Riding Education Authority took the decisive and imaginative step of setting up its own Programmed Learning Unit. This unit, which is a distinct physically…

Designed for teaching: A micrometer tutor

Many teachers are familiar with the overhead projector, which is now produced by several manufacturers in quite a few different forms. It was intended in the first place as a…

Visual aids

The Engineers (col, 30 min, free). Hawker Siddeley have made an adventurous report on the variety and glamour of engineering. Shot in brilliant colour throughout the globe, it…

Cover of Education + Training

ISSN:

0040-0912

Online date, start – end:

1959

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Martin McCracken