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MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND BUSINESS STUDIES
While welcoming the proposals contained in Ministry Circular 1/60 (see p. 29), many people in education and industry, who have now had time to study the significance of the three…
Caribbean College
John WellensEvents in the last year have tended to focus attention on education in the Colonies and Commonwealth. In February, at the ‘Teachers for the Commonwealth Conference’, Sir David…
Project Hercules: — an Initiative Project for Craft and Engineering Apprentices
I.K. FergusonJUust a year ago the Industrial Welfare Society launched in this country an anglicised version of the French Zellidja Scholarship scheme — Project 59. It was hoped that it would…
The Illinois Institute of Technology
F. AylwardTHE ‘TECHNOLOGY CENTRE’ in Chicago, home of the Illinois Institute of Technology, has become a place of pilgrimage both for those concerned with science and technology and also…
Progress Report Number 7: Apprentice Classes at Government Training Centres
John WellensPLANS TO SET UP CLASSES in Government Training Centres to provide first‐year apprentice training were officially made public on 11th April, four weeks after the Financial Times…
Stress, Strain and Liberalisation
W.A.G. EastonMOST TECHNICAL teachers are agreed that liberalisation of studies is essential in technical colleges today. While this may be achieved quite easily in full‐time and sandwich…
TEACHING TOPICS: A Photoelastic Bench Demonstration Model
P. DavisONE OF the difficulties of teaching photoelasticity to mechanical and civil engineers is the problem of overcoming their unfamiliarity with the optical principles involved. To…
Designing for Manufacture — a new HND Subject
H. PeckTHE VALUE of the subject, Designing for Manufacture, and the need for it in industry have been emphasised repeatedly in many quarters connected with engineering production, but…
Notes on the Teaching of Framed Structures
G. PallettTHIS IS not an essay on the relative merits of the different methods of frame analysis, nor one which goes over method of sections, graphical analysis and other techniques which…
An Introduction to Electrical Resistance Strain Gauges
H.B. Dale, (H B.Sc.(Eng.)THE USE of electrical resistance strain gauges is becoming standard practice in a number of industries, and their introduction into engineering courses is increasing.
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Notes and News: EDUCATION FOR BUSINESS
THIS CONFERENCE, under the chairmanship of Sir Raymond Streat, took place on 30th March, two days after the publication by the Ministry of Education of its important circular 1/60…
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