Education + Training: Volume 19 Issue 6

Adolescent educational mythology

Gerry Fowler

No area of current educational policy discussion is so bedevilled by mythology as the organisation of 16 – 19 education. Take for example the following statements. First, there…

Three and a half centuries on — the Great Debate continues

Brian Gee, Richard Stewart

In 1976, at Ruskin College, the Prime Minister made a rare and detailed excursion into the overgrown field of education, pin‐pointing a number of areas of concern and calling for…

English as she is exported

Harold Macmillan OM

The UK has one natural resource that won't dry up and for which there is an ever‐increasing demand — the English language. For the Algerian, it's the language he'll use to…

Adult education as a unifying influence

Cleeland Bean

Most people will doubtless agree that in the educational, business, and industrial fields the need for positive viewpoints and a willingness to work intelligently for the common…

Local government administration

Raymond Knowles

Continuing a trend discernible in the late 1960s, local authorities — each an independent employer within a national system — have provided in the three years since the…

Avoiding breakdowns in a working group

Denys Page

What is meant by “breakdowns”? A motor car, if it is driven too hard or too long, will inevitably lose its efficiency, and in the end may break down completely. This is because it…

Counselling for tutors in adult education

Sylvia Goodman

Problems do not magically cease when pupils leave full‐time education. When the Department of Adult Studies was set up in Harrow, one of the first worries to surface was the…

Adult education — the way ahead

Shirley Williams

In our diverse amd decentralised system of education, the best tool for the clear and collaborative thinking now needed for the future is the proposed Advisory Council for Adult…