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College row over merger plans
The recent controversy at Huddersfield Polytechnic over the proposed merger with the Huddersfield College of Education (Technical) at Hollybank has provoked widespread…
Job supermarket
Graduate unemployment is estimated at about 15 per cent. Alison Dunn analyses the particular problems for polytechnic students
Open
The Open University is to admit 500 under‐21‐year‐olds in January 1974 us a pilot experiment. Half of them will be school‐leavers with A‐level qualifications; the other will have…
The friendly invaders
Two million young people—mostly students—are visiting London this year. Education and Training reports on the summer accommodation crisis
Will they ever be married?
Kathleen Ollerenshaw examines the need for a closer relationship between educational supply and industrial demand.
Putting on the style
Education and Training looks at the fashion scene at Liverpool Polytechnic. Fixed around the hall for the fashion show at Liverpool Polytechnic's faculty of art and design were…
Interview
‘Someone once told me that the trouble with the Workers' Educational Association is that a lot of people think we are communists. All I can say to that is that if we called…
The engineers we deserve?
The academics have taken control of engineering. S. N. B. Gairn, President of the Society of Engineers, argues that students need less theoretical work and more practical training.
The right man for the wrong job
Dr T M Husband suggests some basic reforms in the planning of management courses.
A question of degree
Catherine AventCatherine Avent looks at a conference report which highlights the growing discrepancy between degree‐level work in science and the needs of employers.
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