Education + Training: Volume 6 Issue 12

Courses for the training of training officers

Earlier this year the Department of Education and Science sent out Circular 14/64 requesting information about the intention of colleges to provide courses for the training of…

Notes and news: The new ministers

British business schools The British Business Schools appeal has exceeded its original £3m target by some £1½m. Announcing this at a recent press conference, Lord Nelson of…

In Parliament

The Queen's Speech opening the new Session of Parliament declared that the Government would ‘take action to improve the arrangements for industrial training and for the retraining…

Programmed instruction in the factory

JOHN WELLENS

By 1964, ten years after Skinner's original publication on the subject, programmed instruction has made remarkably little headway in Britain. Some excellent work has been done in…

Six years of block release

G.V. WOOD, S. THORPE, J.T. DIXON

This article was prompted by the recent stimulating report in this journal of a controlled study of block release and day release courses made during the 1963–64 session in the…

Field review of ‘A/S’ level chemistry textbooks

MICHAEL BASSEY

PART II Analysis of the examination syllabuses Sixth‐form school chemistry is closely tied to the syllabuses of the GCE at ‘A/S’ level and in consequence the most practical method…

The computer as an aid to design: the Nordisk story

JOHN WELLENS

Modernisation! That's the thing. New cities, new houses, new factories, new schools, new roads, new ways of doing things: all these are implied by the term modernisation. But…

Producing 8mm teaching films … 2

C.V. HANCOCK, G.E. BONE

The basic equipment for film making. Very little equipment is necessary to make 8mm films. One should forget the complicated paraphernalia of the film studio and think in terms of…

Engineering Drawing: what should we teach?

H. LOUKES

No subject requires more critical analysis of its syllabus, course content, scheme of work, or in fact its whole conception and approach, than Engineering Drawing. At Eastleigh…

Visual aids

‘DRAGON’ ‘The Dragon Reactor Experiment at Winfrith, Dorset was made “critical” for the first time early on 23rd August, thus becoming the first high temperature helium‐cooled…