Table of contents
Educational apartheid
The state of disunity in Britain's educational system grows apace. Whatever views one might hold on the Crosland binary system, soundings reveal it to be regarded by those working…
Notes and news
The value of the conference on the teaching of engineering design held at Scarborough, 13 – 16 April, was reflected in the support it attracted: 50 colleges of technology and 25…
Promoting innovation — the role of the industrial liaison service
R.V. ArnfieldFurtherance of technological progress is seriously hampered by restricted communication between research establishments and industry. In order to deal with the current…
The Wool Board gets weaving
Kathleen M. AllsopIn her first article on the activities of the Wool ITB, Miss Allsop outlines the progress made so far in an industry less disciplined than the engineering giants. The…
Chemical research in technical colleges
D.F. BallIn this article, the author gives the results of an analysis into the extent of chemical research in technical colleges. By analysing the origin of papers presented in the leading…
The place of engineering in the sixth‐form curriculum
E. SemperMr Semper provides a fascinating picture of the ideas behind the progress of the Schools Council towards provision of engineering in the upper forms of schools. The development of…
Perception and communication
M.L.J. AbercrombieThis article was originally delivered as a lecture at the London Institute of Education. The author gives examples of errors in perception and relates them to the field of…
Education and the working of democracy
Harold SilverThe second of two articles discussing inadequacies in the structure and government of education. The first described the range of implications of the term democracy, and the…
Designed for teaching
M.L. HaselgrovePractically every school or college now possesses a good 16 mm projector, designed to project silent film or to add sound from optical film track or magnetic stripe. Many such…
Visual aids
The following four films are the first in a series on Fluid Mechanics produced by Professor Hunter Rouse of the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, State University of Iowa…
In parliament
The Queen's Speech opening the new Parliament, fulfilling its traditional function of foreshadowing the Government's programme of legislative and administrative action, included a…
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