Table of contents
Imponderables
If the period from 1950 can be classified in educational terms, then the Golden Age of Further Education bids fair to take its place in our history books. Inevitably however times…
Notes and news
One might hazard that there are at least ten engineering teachers for every teacher of catering subjects in further education. One need hardly hazard that 2 000 engineers would…
Law in a liberal studies scheme
J.G.M. TYASThere must be a considerable number of colleges in which law teachers, whose primary function is to teach in professional courses, also make a contribution to the liberal studies…
Re‐training in the North‐East
MICK STACEYHow effective is training in government training centres? It is possible to take a fairly close look in the limited area of the North‐East of England to get an impression from the…
Training the trainers
IAN FINCHState encouraged monopolies are not among the easiest of institutions to evaluate. They provide on the one hand an enormous scope for the informed innovator, and on the other an…
Teaching mathematics to chemists
D.F. BALL, T.H. WISEThere have been large changes in the content of chemistry courses during the post‐war period, particularly at an advanced level. It is believed that the relevance of the existing…
The training aspect of sandwich courses
H.L. HOUGHTONSince the mid‐nineteenth century when the Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes became an examining body, considerable changes have occurred in technical education…
DESIGNED FOR TEACHING: The Hilton combustion unit —more experiments
M.E. HorsleyIn a recent article some simple combustion experiments performed on a Hilton Combustion Unit were described (see p 419, September 1965 issue). Since then the manufacturers have…
Stroboscopic photography
I.G. MacphersonStroboscopic photographs of moving objects are now being used in physics teaching in many Scottish schools following the Alternative Physics Syllabus of the Scottish Education…
visual aids
NEW FILMS The technical activities centre at Sevenoaks School (cf. our issues of October 1965 and January 1966) is well‐known. Every term visitors from all over the country go to…
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