Mr Terence Miller, Director of the Polytechnic of North London, is something of a military man. He used to be a Territorial Army officer. He has the draft of a book he has written…
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Mr Terence Miller, Director of the Polytechnic of North London, is something of a military man. He used to be a Territorial Army officer. He has the draft of a book he has written on ‘sub‐conventional warfare’ (fighting guerilla uprisings and that sort of thing) tucked away in a drawer. Studying military history and geography is his favourite hobby.
As a case study in the development of higher and further education, the proposed North London Polytechnic may be a good example of what not to do. A shotgun marriage between two…
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As a case study in the development of higher and further education, the proposed North London Polytechnic may be a good example of what not to do. A shotgun marriage between two unwilling and basically incompatible partners (the Northern and Northwestern Polytechnics), an academic structure that has not been even remotely worked out and at times open hostility between students and the administration are just a few of the major problems that will land in the lap of Professor Terence Miller when he takes up his controversial appointment as director of the proposed polytechnic this month. But Professor Miller's biggest problem may be his own lack of knowledge and working experience of the binary system, a fact which has been seized firmly by students at both institutions, and which is being used effectively as a stick with which to beat the governing bodies.
The suspension of a North London Polytechnic head of department, Mr W. J. P. Jenkins, at the end of last term is thought likely to cause more trouble when staff and students…
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The suspension of a North London Polytechnic head of department, Mr W. J. P. Jenkins, at the end of last term is thought likely to cause more trouble when staff and students return this month. Relations between the student union—with the support of certain members of staff — and the polytechnic director, Mr Terence Miller, have never been good, and this latest incident is bound to be explosive. Mr Jenkins is very popular with students in his department of business studies.
Greater co‐operation between schools and colleges in the provision of educational opportunities for the 16–19 age group is urged in the recently published report of the London and…
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Greater co‐operation between schools and colleges in the provision of educational opportunities for the 16–19 age group is urged in the recently published report of the London and Home Counties Regional Advisory Council for Technological Education.
Two assistant directors of North East London Polytechnic were appointed recently. One is only 33, and the other is a woman who started her working life as a post office counter…
After the scenes during the Queen's visit to Stirling University, those redoubtable spokesmen for the educational establishment, Lord Annan and Bill van Straubenzee, called upon…
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After the scenes during the Queen's visit to Stirling University, those redoubtable spokesmen for the educational establishment, Lord Annan and Bill van Straubenzee, called upon NUS President Digby Jacks to speak out against the students' ‘discourtesy’. It was a clear invitation to be ‘statesmanlike’ and to play the establishment's game, and one that might have been accepted by the NUS leadership some five years ago. But, as Mr Jacks's political supporters pointed out, had he breathed a word of public criticism of the Stirling events, he would have been torn apart by his members.
Maureen O'Connor considers the threat to the universities from the polytechnics.
Students at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in London, in two separate and unconnected cases, have discovered that their courses do not lead to the professional qualifications…
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Students at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in London, in two separate and unconnected cases, have discovered that their courses do not lead to the professional qualifications which were offered in the college prospectus. The first case involves about a dozen students who joined the four‐year Diploma in Mechanical Engineering course in its final year, holding HND qualifications from other colleges. Over 50 students are involved in the other case concerning the HND in civil engineering at the College. They have discovered that, contrary to their expectations, they can no longer assume that they will be sponsored by a professional institute. Both cases have serious implications for the students affected because their career opportunities are jeopardised if they are not able to become chartered engineers and members of the Institutes.
With three credited scriptwriters and five credited directors, the 1967 release of Casino Royale saw a gang of multifaceted James Bond 007s facing off against an army of…
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With three credited scriptwriters and five credited directors, the 1967 release of Casino Royale saw a gang of multifaceted James Bond 007s facing off against an army of beautiful, hypersexualised, personality-less female spies, headed by the real James Bond’s neurotic, insecure, American nephew Jimmy. Perhaps this wasn’t Fleming’s intended storyline for Bond’s first outing at Casino Royale, but the resulting parodic outing absorbed and commented upon some of the inherent gendered archetypes of Fleming’s work. What the 1967 Casino Royale accomplishes is a narrative which contrasts varieties of masculinity which are segmented forms of the masculinity defined by Fleming’s Bond. This chapter compares the masculinity of Bond developed in Fleming’s novel, before examining the representations of masculinity inherent within the four key male characters: Sir James Bond (David Niven), Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers), Cooper (Terence Cooper) and Dr Noah/Jimmy Bond (Woody Allen). By showing the depictions of masculine elements each of these characters embodies, along with the metanarrative elements of each performer’s persona, this chapter aims to identify how the 1967 Casino Royale both faithfully depicts the masculine elements of Bond while at the same time satirizing Bond’s particular brand of masculinity. This examination ultimately argues that this segmentation of Bondian masculinity is the core point of cohesion in a deeply incoherent, parodic film adaptation of Fleming’s novel.
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Economists usually try to avoid making moral judgements, at least in their professional capacity. Positive economics is seen as a way of analysing economic problems, in as…
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Economists usually try to avoid making moral judgements, at least in their professional capacity. Positive economics is seen as a way of analysing economic problems, in as scientific a manner as is possible in human sciences. Economists are often reluctant to be prescriptive, most seeing their task as presenting information on the various options, but leaving the final choice, to the political decision taker. The view of many economists is that politicians can be held responsible for the morality of their actions when making decisions on economic matters, unlike unelected economic advisors, and therefore the latter should limit their role.