IS INDUSTRY making full use of the qualifications of men with an HNC? And are the salaries received commensurate with the considerable efforts and sacrifice of leisure involved in…
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IS INDUSTRY making full use of the qualifications of men with an HNC? And are the salaries received commensurate with the considerable efforts and sacrifice of leisure involved in achieving such qualifications? Recent inquiries suggest disturbing answers to both these questions.
How will technical change affect the kind of knowledge and skills required by industry and commerce in ten years' time? And what educational changes are necessary to meet future…
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How will technical change affect the kind of knowledge and skills required by industry and commerce in ten years' time? And what educational changes are necessary to meet future needs ? A recent inquiry by the Department of Labour, Canada provides much‐needed information on these important problems.
Tracing many of this country's lasting difficulties in the field of technical education to deficiencies in our policy‐making machinery, the author suggests a possible way of…
Report Ch XI: PART‐TIME STUDY AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION 510. Our terms of reference relate to full‐time higher education. Our picture of the future pattern would, however, be…
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Report Ch XI: PART‐TIME STUDY AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION 510. Our terms of reference relate to full‐time higher education. Our picture of the future pattern would, however, be incomplete if it did not refer to other forms of higher education. As we showed in Chapter III, a considerable amount of work at degree level is done by part‐time or private study, together with much other work falling within the definition of higher education set out in Chapter I. Some universities afford facilities for part‐time work, but most part‐time study takes place in further education. Other work, sometimes of a high quality, is done by students working alone or under the guidance of the correspondence colleges. Up to the present, part‐time higher education has been growing at the same rate as full‐time education, and we believe that it must continue to grow. As access to full‐time courses becomes easier the rate of growth may sharply diminish, but in the period up to 1980–81 the indications are that total numbers will not fall.
The pursuit of administrative tidiness may be hindering the work of the colleges. The author contends that special treatment for one type of college must be to the disadvantage of…
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The pursuit of administrative tidiness may be hindering the work of the colleges. The author contends that special treatment for one type of college must be to the disadvantage of others, whose contribution to advanced studies is in fact very great.
Stephen Cotgrove and Andrew Duff
The Finniston Committee Report attaches considerable importance to the part played by British culture in the recognition and social standing of the engineer. There is nothing new…
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The Finniston Committee Report attaches considerable importance to the part played by British culture in the recognition and social standing of the engineer. There is nothing new in this, of course. Similar observations have been repeated for at least the last 30 years. If it is indeed so important, it is surprising that so little attention has been paid to encouraging or attempting a more fundamental and extensive analysis of the precise aspects of British culture which are relevant, their sources of support, and the factors which could contribute to change — were this thought to be desirable. The Report is a little more explicit. It draws attention to the absence in Britain of a third culture alongside science and art, which is the value placed on
SOCIOLOGY IS coming of age. Most universities now teach it although some — notably Oxford and Cambridge — still do not offer degrees in it.
BY ITS terms of reference, Robbins was excluded from examining the pattern of part‐time higher education. The Government has now published its Industrial Training Bill, which is…
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BY ITS terms of reference, Robbins was excluded from examining the pattern of part‐time higher education. The Government has now published its Industrial Training Bill, which is clearly preoccupied mainly with artisan training. Yet nearly half the students taking advanced courses in Britain are preparing part‐time and by private study. The current educational debate has almost totally neglected the needs of this ‘half our students’ — if one may adapt the title of the Newsom report in order to describe this group.
HOWARD D. WHITE and BELVER C. GRIFFITH
Interrelations of writings in a complex field such as studies of science, technology and society, turn out to be highly patterned when data on author co‐citations are…
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Interrelations of writings in a complex field such as studies of science, technology and society, turn out to be highly patterned when data on author co‐citations are statistically analysed and mapped. For both authors and specialities, the maps reveal structures of subject matter and intellectual impact, based on the perceptions of hundreds of citers since 1972. A new tool thus is available to historians and others concerned with a field's intellectual development.
To those concerned with challenges and challengers to conventional wisdom, the entirely credible perception of ours as a planet in the midst of a deep environmental crisis offers…
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To those concerned with challenges and challengers to conventional wisdom, the entirely credible perception of ours as a planet in the midst of a deep environmental crisis offers fruitful grounds for analysis. Crises stimulate those who have, in the existence of the crisis, firm proof that the wisdom which girds the status quo is deficient and/or those who apply it are. This is particularly true when the crisis is perceived to be grave and dread‐laden. Skin cancer due to the depletion of the ozone layer is on the increase. Large, at times devastating, climate changes are loose upon the planet. Whether given quasi‐ scientific names like the “greenhouse effect” or lumped together in a melange of “acid rain”, “toxic waste” and “industrial cancers”, the result is the same. Rational citizens of the everyday‐person‐on‐the‐street sort feel threatened. The threat is given shape and substance by the mass media. The environmental crisis is a credible crisis. One need not list radical political activism as one's vocation to list the environmental crisis as one of one's fears as we enter the 1990's.