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Publication date: 1 March 1970

Roger Beard

Girls' education owes much to the dedicated Victorian pioneers. Roger Beard puts forward the view that for the 1970s, all children should be educated together.

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Girls' education owes much to the dedicated Victorian pioneers. Roger Beard puts forward the view that for the 1970s, all children should be educated together.

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Education + Training, vol. 12 no. 3
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ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 April 1969

There are now in the United Kingdom over 205 000 undergraduate and post graduate students. Ten years ago, there were less than half that number. This expansion has, above all…

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There are now in the United Kingdom over 205 000 undergraduate and post graduate students. Ten years ago, there were less than half that number. This expansion has, above all, produced an academic situation in which the comfortable pre‐Robbins concepts have been in some cases swept from the board. The number of universities has increased to 36 in England, seven in Scotland, two in Ulster, and a complex of eight colleges in Wales. Within a decade Sussex has deposed Oxbridge in the popularity table, and the other six foundations — East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Lancaster, York and Warwick — have grown in stature at a rate which belies their present modest numbers.

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Education + Training, vol. 11 no. 4
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Publication date: 1 March 1969

Roger Beard

There were at the beginning of this year some 328 000 qualified teachers in primary and secondary schools — responsible for the education of nearly 7.8 million children. Trained…

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There were at the beginning of this year some 328 000 qualified teachers in primary and secondary schools — responsible for the education of nearly 7.8 million children. Trained either in one of the 184 colleges of education, or through post‐graduate university courses, they represent the largest intellectual labour force in the country. Yet few non‐teachers envy them their jobs, and a majority holds them in contempt.

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Education + Training, vol. 11 no. 3
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Publication date: 1 April 1970

Roger Beard

From the nine Quaker boarding schools to the 900 000 children in over 6700 aided or controlled Church of England schools, the religious bodies continue to play a large part in the…

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From the nine Quaker boarding schools to the 900 000 children in over 6700 aided or controlled Church of England schools, the religious bodies continue to play a large part in the provision of education at both primary and secondary level in the State system. Additionally, they control a significant number of the direct grant and independent schools as well as many colleges of education. With the exception of the 50 Jewish day schools, which take in over 11 000 Jewish children, religious education means Christian education.

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Education + Training, vol. 12 no. 4
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Publication date: 1 November 1969

Roger Beard

Education in Ireland can best be put in perspective by reference to two key documents. The first, Investment in Education, is the cornerstone on which future development of the…

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Education in Ireland can best be put in perspective by reference to two key documents. The first, Investment in Education, is the cornerstone on which future development of the Irish educational system will be based. Unlike the equivalent reports that temporarily shock the British public, and are then shelved for ever more, for Ireland, Investment in Education is more than a pious and obvious reiteration of education's value to a developing economy. To English eyes it is also a shocking indictment of the corporate neglect that education has received from both the politicians and the Church during the fifty years of independence. A neglect that no amount of partisan or clerical special pleading should be allowed to cover up.

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Education + Training, vol. 11 no. 11
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Publication date: 1 May 1969

Roger Beard

Professor Finer, in Anonymous Empire, defines a lobby as: ‘the sum of organizations in so far as they are occupied at any point of time in trying to influence the policy of public…

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Professor Finer, in Anonymous Empire, defines a lobby as: ‘the sum of organizations in so far as they are occupied at any point of time in trying to influence the policy of public bodies in their own chosen direction; though (unlike political parties) never themselves prepared to undertake the direct government of the country’ — to such formalized organizations can be added less formal pressure groups, which may or may not employ sanctions to achieve their chosen ends.

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Education + Training, vol. 11 no. 5
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Publication date: 1 January 1970

Roger Beard

Little that is desirable in the way of educational reform is in need of legislation, to judge from the mass of evidence submitted so far to the Secretary of State. However, a case…

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Little that is desirable in the way of educational reform is in need of legislation, to judge from the mass of evidence submitted so far to the Secretary of State. However, a case can be made out for considerable changes in the control of education vis‐a‐vis the local authorities and the central government, from which might stem many of the reforms sought by the interested parties. Also, since the passing of the 1944 Act, the cost of education and the numbers involved in it have both increased dramatically across all sectors. It is now a very big business indeed, costing over £2000 million to run through the cumbersome machinery of local authority control.

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Education + Training, vol. 12 no. 1
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Publication date: 1 June 1969

Roger Beard and Peppy Barlow

‘A good trade union’, says Lord Bowden, ‘would revolutionize British education.’ As principal of Manchester University's Institute of Science and Technology (big sister to the…

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‘A good trade union’, says Lord Bowden, ‘would revolutionize British education.’ As principal of Manchester University's Institute of Science and Technology (big sister to the eight technological universities), he has a point. For nowhere is it clearer than in the present monofaculty separation of the applied sciences in British universities, and in particular in the hiving off of technology into specific foundations. Far from erasing the Snowite two‐culture boundaries, Britain's ex‐CATs inevitably preserve them, and the Platonic tradition that no gentleman ever goes into a work‐shop continues.

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Education + Training, vol. 11 no. 6
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Publication date: 1 September 1969

Roger Beard

Four years ago the University Grants Committee, the Department of Education and Science, and the Scottish Education Department published the Brynmor Jones report on audio‐visual…

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Four years ago the University Grants Committee, the Department of Education and Science, and the Scottish Education Department published the Brynmor Jones report on audio‐visual aids in higher scientific education. It gained Brynmor Jones a knighthood, led to the setting up of the National Council for Educational Technology, stimulated marginal interest, and made no fewer than 56 recommendations. The most important of these, the establishment of a national centre under NCET, has never been implemented. On the other 55 recommendations, progress has depended very largely on the enthusiasm of particular university centres.

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Education + Training, vol. 11 no. 9
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Publication date: 1 October 1969

Roger Beard

That education and party politics are totally linked there is no doubt. At any party's annual conference, educational motions figure extensively on the agenda. Indeed, in the…

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That education and party politics are totally linked there is no doubt. At any party's annual conference, educational motions figure extensively on the agenda. Indeed, in the elections of 1964 and 1966 teachers and lecturers formed one of the largest groups of newly elected Labour Members of Parliament. On the Tory side, with the exception of Esmond Wright, and a few others, the weighting has been consistently towards business and commerce. This difference between the two major parties accounts for the strong contrasts in their educational policies, contrasts that are too sharp for any consensus to survive without direction from Ministers and senior Party personnel.

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Education + Training, vol. 11 no. 10
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