The AUT is not opposed to two‐year qualifications as such. It appreciates that in appropriate ways they serve a useful function in further and higher education institutions…
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The AUT is not opposed to two‐year qualifications as such. It appreciates that in appropriate ways they serve a useful function in further and higher education institutions outside the universities. However, it does not regard the proposed Diploma in Higher Education as at all the equivalent of a degree or a proper substitute for a degree education. The AUT therefore opposes its introduction to the universities and, equally, rejects the implication that, inside or outside the universities, it is a suitable alternative for a proportion of those future school‐leavers who might otherwise be given the opportunity to study for a degree.
Brian MacArthur, education correspondent of The Times, reviews the month's news in education
About seventy colleges are already involved in submitting individualized computer data on further education students to the DES. The final report on the 1970 pilot scheme, carried…
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About seventy colleges are already involved in submitting individualized computer data on further education students to the DES. The final report on the 1970 pilot scheme, carried out by the Systems Group on FE student statistics, has just been completed, recommending a total reform of the way in which student statistics are collected. The individualized data scheme is to be introduced in stages, to include all colleges by 1974.
The dismissal of the ordinary and the embrace of chaos are characteristics of the thriller which has, over the last decade, accounted for nearly 25 percent of the best‐seller…
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The dismissal of the ordinary and the embrace of chaos are characteristics of the thriller which has, over the last decade, accounted for nearly 25 percent of the best‐seller market. In spite of its existential overtones, the thriller, with rare exceptions, is seldom viewed as quality fiction, yet is not generally classified as genre fiction with attendant categorization by libraries and bookstores. Readers of thrillers in pursuit of authors must either search through the general fiction or “mystery” shelves where thrillers are sometimes placed. However, the latter solution offends both mystery and thriller readers.
The management of children′s literature is a search for value andsuitability. Effective policies in library and educational work arebased firmly on knowledge of materials, and on…
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The management of children′s literature is a search for value and suitability. Effective policies in library and educational work are based firmly on knowledge of materials, and on the bibliographical and critical frame within which the materials appear and might best be selected. Boundaries, like those between quality and popular books, and between children′s and adult materials, present important challenges for selection, and implicit in this process are professional acumen and judgement. Yet also there are attitudes and systems of values, which can powerfully influence selection on grounds of morality and good taste. To guard against undue subjectivity, the knowledge frame should acknowledge the relevance of social and experiential context for all reading materials, how readers think as well as how they read, and what explicit and implicit agendas the authors have. The good professional takes all these factors on board.
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With this number the Library Review enters on its ninth year, and we send greetings to readers at home and abroad. Though the magazine was started just about the time when the…
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With this number the Library Review enters on its ninth year, and we send greetings to readers at home and abroad. Though the magazine was started just about the time when the depression struck the world, its success was immediate, and we are glad to say that its circulation has increased steadily every year. This is an eminently satisfactory claim to be able to make considering the times through which we have passed.
We confess that we get a little tired of the claims of originality put forward by librarians or their admirers, often for things that have been in use for a quarter of a century…
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We confess that we get a little tired of the claims of originality put forward by librarians or their admirers, often for things that have been in use for a quarter of a century. The public events diary, exhibitions of holiday literature, this or that form of reading list, library lessons, and what not, all of which have been familiar to us since the beginning of the century, have all been claimed recently by some library or other which is “showing the way.” Originality, alas, is very rare; and the claim might be avoided we think. At the same time, we much prefer the librarian who faces a problem himself, and shouts with delight at his solution, to one who faces nothing.