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Publication date: 1 January 1977

Lyndon H. Jones

There are numerous reasons why people study by correspondence, including:

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There are numerous reasons why people study by correspondence, including:

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Education + Training, vol. 19 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 October 1971

LYNDON H JONES and PETER J POWRIE

Recently, one industry, the grocery trade, came into conflict with the Department of Education and Science over correspondence courses. The Grocers' Institute was keen to meet an…

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Recently, one industry, the grocery trade, came into conflict with the Department of Education and Science over correspondence courses. The Grocers' Institute was keen to meet an identified need for such courses leading to some nationally‐recognised examination. The DES withheld its support for the proposed scheme and the Grocers' Institute had to proceed on its own. Officialdom, it seems, does not like correspondence courses. But they are a necessary part of any national system which aims to give a comprehensive service. And they may become very important indeed since they are known to make a special appeal to the mature worker anxious to improve his position. This group of workers is seriously neglected by the conventional educational services. Official policy advances the point of view that students wishing to extend their education or develop their capacities should attend formal college courses. This is to make the system more important than the people it serves. It is interesting to note, also, that training boards, charged, among other things, with spreading the gospel to scattered locations and to men on shift work, have not yet appreciated the immense potential of tailor‐made instruction by correspondence, or, if they have, they have not felt able to proceed in the face of opposition from the DES. Despite this hostility to correspondence instruction, sometimes veiled, sometimes open, experimental courses are going ahead. This article describes one recent innovation in instruction by correspondence.

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Industrial and Commercial Training, vol. 3 no. 10
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ISSN: 0019-7858

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Publication date: 1 August 1970

LYNDON H JONES and A WYLIE

The incidence of drop‐out amongst those studying by correspondence per se is high. Various reasons have been hypothesised for the low completion rate, including: • The apparent…

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The incidence of drop‐out amongst those studying by correspondence per se is high. Various reasons have been hypothesised for the low completion rate, including: • The apparent magnitude of the course so discourages the student that he does not begin to submit lessons. • The student lacks the self‐discipline to complete the course. • The student becomes discouraged by the poor marking and late return of his scripts. • The nature of the work may be such that, in the absence of any oral tuition, the return on the investment of the student's time is disproportionately low. In an effort to combat some of these weaknesses, in particular the lack of oral element on the traditional correspondence courses, a number of schemes have been initiated during the past few years. One such scheme, operated at the South West London College, is Directed Private Study (DPS). This is the term used to describe linked oral and postal tuition and with continuous tutorial advice. Recently, an analysis of the attrition in such courses was made to determine at which point most drop‐outs occur. This report presents the data which relates to one of the several DPS schemes operating at the South West London College.

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Industrial and Commercial Training, vol. 2 no. 8
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ISSN: 0019-7858

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Publication date: 1 April 1974

Lyndon H. Jones and A. Wylie

The incidence of drop‐out amongst those studying by correspondence per se is high. Various reasons have been hypothesised for the low completion rate, including:

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The incidence of drop‐out amongst those studying by correspondence per se is high. Various reasons have been hypothesised for the low completion rate, including:

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Education + Training, vol. 16 no. 4/5
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Publication date: 1 September 1985

Lyndon Jones

During the early 1970s the author was instrumental in interesting a number of Members of Parliament in the subject of diploma mills, and the matter reached the floor of the House…

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During the early 1970s the author was instrumental in interesting a number of Members of Parliament in the subject of diploma mills, and the matter reached the floor of the House of Commons on several occasions. Witness the following extracts from Hansard.

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Education + Training, vol. 27 no. 9
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Publication date: 1 July 1984

This year showed a healthy increase in student registrations of which there were 3,230. 20 Licentiates were awarded Associate Membership. 220 other applicants were awarded…

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This year showed a healthy increase in student registrations of which there were 3,230. 20 Licentiates were awarded Associate Membership. 220 other applicants were awarded Associate Membership, and 9 Membership.

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Education + Training, vol. 26 no. 7
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Publication date: 1 January 1985

The following prize‐winners have been announced:

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The following prize‐winners have been announced:

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Education + Training, vol. 27 no. 1
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Publication date: 1 February 1977

Sir Harold Wilson has accepted an invitation from the Open University Students Association to give the Fourth OUSA Lecture to be held at the University of York on 1 April, the…

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Sir Harold Wilson has accepted an invitation from the Open University Students Association to give the Fourth OUSA Lecture to be held at the University of York on 1 April, the pipe‐opener to the National Conference. Each year's lecture is always the view of the presenter, who is invited to give a perspective of Adult Education in general and the Open University in particular; Sir Harold, who on his retirement as Prime Minister said he would like to be remember for his involvement with the Open University, has entitled his lecture The Open University: Its Origin & Development.

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Education + Training, vol. 19 no. 2
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Publication date: 1 August 1924

At the recent conference of the British Medical Association, Dr. Langdon‐Down, of South Middlesex, submitted the report of the Ethical Committee on behalf of the Council, upon the…

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At the recent conference of the British Medical Association, Dr. Langdon‐Down, of South Middlesex, submitted the report of the Ethical Committee on behalf of the Council, upon the ethics of indirect advertising by the medical profession. The report mentioned a number of restrictions which it was thought advisable to impose as regards advertising by members of the profession. It was stated that in discussions in the Press on matters of public importance relating to the medical questions it was not necessary that the names of the medical writers or informants should be given. The newspapers, it was contended, could give the necessary assurance to their readers as to the professional standing of the authority quoted without mentioning names.—Dr. Fothergill moved that certain recommendations in the report be referred back for reconsideration, including that which related to medical men not attaching their signatures to letters and communications they sent to the Press on medical subjects. On that latter point he suggested that before the report was issued the council should approach the Press Association to get their views on the question. What the Press required was not the advertising of an inferior practitioner. What they desired was to get an adequate medical opinion. The Press said: “If you allow a doctor to go to the Church Congress and talk openly there of birth control, should you not allow that same doctor to put into the public Press a letter over his signature?”—Dr. Lyndon hoped the representative body would not be led away by Dr. Fothergill. The question of having a conference with the Press was brought before the council, who were all against it.—Sir Jenner Verrall said he did not think what was suggested would be a substitute for the indirect advertising complained of.—Dr. Bishop Harman expressed agreement with the contention that it was the name that really mattered in these contributions to the Press. An eminent medical man wrote to The Times a brilliant letter on an important medical subject, and signed himself “Veritas.” It never caused a ripple on the water. They thought it was a gas mantle or something, and there was no punch behind it. Three things mattered—what you say, how it is said, and who says it, and the last is the only thing that really matters.—The report was adopted with the exception of that part relating to medical men's names being attached to letters and communications sent to the Press. That section of the report was referred back for consideration, with the object of seeing how far it was possible to depart from anonymity.

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British Food Journal, vol. 26 no. 8
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ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 1 January 1901

IN order to be able to discriminate with certainty between butter and such margarine as is sold in England, it is necessary to carry out two or three elaborate and delicate…

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IN order to be able to discriminate with certainty between butter and such margarine as is sold in England, it is necessary to carry out two or three elaborate and delicate chemical processes. But there has always been a craving by the public for some simple method of determining the genuineness of butter by means of which the necessary trouble could be dispensed with. It has been suggested that such easy detection would be possible if all margarine bought and sold in England were to be manufactured with some distinctive colouring added—light‐blue, for instance—or were to contain a small amount of phenolphthalein, so that the addition of a drop of a solution of caustic potash to a suspected sample would cause it to become pink if it were margarine, while nothing would occur if it were genuine butter. These methods, which have been put forward seriously, will be found on consideration to be unnecessary, and, indeed, absurd.

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British Food Journal, vol. 3 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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