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THE WHITE PAPER ON INDUSTRIAL TRAINING
IT MUST COME HARD for a Minister to champion a policy and then, seeing it to be false, reject it. Yet this, in effect, is what Mr Hare has done and he has done it fearlessly, with…
Notes and News
“I regret to say that the response from industry has been most disappointing.” Mr H. V. Kirk, Northern Ireland Minister of Labour, made this comment on the Ulster Government's…
THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS
John WellensIN three and a half pages of text, one of the shortest White Papers ever, the Government, finally recognising the sterility of the Carr Report, has set down its own proposals for…
THE WHITE PAPER — SOME COMMENTS
The Education Committee of the TUC in general welcomes the Minister's proposals.
TEACHING ELECTRICAL MACHINERY THEORY TODAY — FOR THE '80s AND '90s: Part I
G.S. Brosan“The basic problem we are faced with is not what to teach in detail, but the way in which we teach, that is to say what to emphasise, and what attitudes to foster.” This month and…
‘HEAT’ AND ‘WORK’ IN THE SCHOOL
E.J. LeFevreIt is to the schools that we must look for the sources of confusion and misunderstanding regarding the meaning and use of the term ‘heat’. The school teacher is not only burdened…
CRAFTSMEN AND TECHNICIANS IN SPAIN 2: REBUILDING A TRAINING SYSTEM FOR BOYS — AND ADULTS
J.H. McSweenyWhy is the training of craftsmen in Spain of interest to the British reader? Because Spain, in her endeavours to improve her economic condition examined the possible methods of…
LANGUAGE LABORATORIES: — some conceptions and misconceptions
H. Friedmann, L. L.èsThe coming of the teaching machine has made it easier for us to distinguish clearly between teaching and drilling — between giving knowledge and supervising the acquisition of…
TECHNICAL TEACHING — VOCATION OR PROFESSION?
J. HansburyAccording to Nuttall's dictionary a profession is a “vocation, occupation or calling distinct from trade, and such as implies a measure of learning.” The same dictionary describes…
PRACTICAL WORK: IN THE NEW ENGINEERING COURSES … 2
J. LongdenThe teaching of practical subjects needs to be forward‐looking and related to industrial progress. The college course then becomes dynamic and attractive to the student instead of…
CONTINENTAL SYSTEMS OF ADULT TRAINING: 2. Sweden
Derick MirfinHow do other countries approach the problems of adult training? Following his descriptions last month of practice in France and Holland, Mr Mirfin now deals with the Swedish…
OPERATIVE TRAINING: PART 2: THE ANALYTICAL METHOD OF TRAINING IN ACTION
John WellensTo operate a sewing machine requires four basic skills: machine control, guiding the work with the hands, positioning several components together on the work‐table, and machine…
IMPERIAL COLLEGE'S TRAINING REACTOR: GEC Installation at Silwood Park
IMPERIAL COLLEGE has now placed the official order for its 100kW Consort II research and training reactor with GEC (Engineering) Ltd. This reactor, which has been specially…
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