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Public relations by leak … a £75 million rumour
People connected with training in the engineering industry have been waiting, almost with bated breath, for two announcements: that giving the name of the Director of the…
Notes and news
Construction Board's programme A notice has been sent by the Construction Industry Training Board to 33,800 firms in industry. It tells them about the Board and sets out its…
In Parliament
The fact that the Colleges of Advanced Technology had come under the university grants system did not mean any dilution of their technical status, said the Secretary of State for…
The challenge of engineering
Donald HutchingsThe shortage of suitable recruits to technology has come in for much discussion in the last year or two. It would be gratifying if some of this talk was beginning to have effect…
Technical College Student Unions
IAN FINCHAt this year's National Union of Students' Technical College Conference an NUS vice‐president, Mr Albert Swindlehurst, suggested that the age of technical college entrants be…
Examinations in Further Education
JOHN LEESE M.It is extraordinary that such an apparently forbidding aspect of education as examinations has become so charged with emotional attitudes and language that, before one even begins…
Implementing the Act … progress report 4
JOHN WELLENS‘Levy lore’ is how John Wellens describes the fascination this device holds for people. The trouble is that new training, which is presumably what the Industrial Training Act is…
First jobs
CATHERINE AVENT, ANN BRYDENThe authors quote a number of opinions expressed by young people about their first jobs. The general picture is rather encouraging — some even show a touch of that old‐fashioned…
DESIGNED FOR TEACHING: Spark machining
S.J. Cook, J. WilsonSpark machining is a process of growing importance in industry, but its full potential has yet to be realised. While it is, of course, industry's business to give it a try, or at…
A simple air track
J. JardineApparatus which will demonstrate the conservation of linear momentum is usually expensive or complicated. This is not really surprising if we consider the requirements. First of…
New dynamic materials tester
G.R. WilliamsThe Type 1825 Dynamic Materials Tester made by Dawe Instruments Ltd, Western Avenue, Acton, London W 3, is a new non‐destructive materials tester for the laboratory measurement of…
A smoke tunnel for lecture demonstrations
Rendering fluid flow visible can be of great help in the teaching of Mechanics of Fluids and Aerodynamics. A smoke tunnel for lecture demonstrations was developed at a leading…
Engineering drawing and the technician
R. GOODHANDThe Feilden Report on Engineering Design says of the technician:
Visual aids
Two new British Productivity Council films in documentary style deal with particular management techniques.
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