Education + Training: Volume 9 Issue 2

Plowden

Plowden is upon us — 556 pages, 197 recommendations and over three years of investigation and enquiry. After Crowther, Newsom, and Robbins we have at last arrived at what is the…

Outline: A review of educational and training developments over the past month

Nuffield Science — the transition from school to university. The London group of the Society for Research into Higher Education organized recently a seminar with the aim of…

In parliament

The Secretary of State for Education and Science, Mr Anthony Crosland, made a statement in the Commons about fees for higher education courses.

The costs and benefits of industrial training

D.A.R. Forrester

In this article the costs and likely benefits of industrial training are compared, for the nation, for the individual, and for companies under the impact of levy/grant systems…

Tertiary education and local government

John Leese

The Royal Commission on Local Government will by now be sitting in amused judgement on the widely differing views it is receiving as to the most suitable type of administration…

Technology and the secondary school: 4 The question of examinations

Donald Hutchings

So far, the main argument about examinations in school applied science has been on motivation. Clearly, since most sixth‐formers are primarily concerned with getting a university…

A new approach to mathematics in technical education

M. Bruckheimer, N.W. Gowar

Much important work is being done in schools in the reform of mathematical education. This involves not only the introduction of new topics, but the approach to what and how to…

Comment

Sympathy for the technical colleges. Three Vice‐Chancellors in one week commenting on technical colleges! They have never had it so good, particularly as some of these comments…

Films

Chris Edmonds

Four years ago the Nuffield Science Teaching Project was born. Teachers had a growing conviction that science syllabuses were no longer proving equal to the task — and were…