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Publication date: 1 August 1970

Tyrrell Burgess

Tyrrell Burgess of LSE's Higher Education Unit suggests that we should rethink how the third world can help itself.

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Tyrrell Burgess of LSE's Higher Education Unit suggests that we should rethink how the third world can help itself.

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Education + Training, vol. 12 no. 8
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ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 March 1969

If Edward Short gets a small Education Act through Parliament next session (leaving the task of major reform to his successor) it will include something on secondary…

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If Edward Short gets a small Education Act through Parliament next session (leaving the task of major reform to his successor) it will include something on secondary reorganization, something on taking over mentally handicapped children from Health — and provision for a General Council of Teachers. This last is something Mr Short is known to be keen on, and he is undeterred by the teething troubles of a similar body in Scotland. For the teachers it will presumably represent something of a stride towards professional status, which has hitherto eluded them. They have certainly been asking for it for years.

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Education + Training, vol. 11 no. 3
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Publication date: 1 January 1969

Just think: about half the children in the schools the nation provides leave them at the earliest chance they get. We spend £2000 million a year on education, five per cent of the…

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Just think: about half the children in the schools the nation provides leave them at the earliest chance they get. We spend £2000 million a year on education, five per cent of the gross national product; we bend every effort to provide ‘roofs over heads’ in building programmes of £100 million a time; we take three years to train each new teacher; we debate the need, nay the inevitability, of a new Education Act; there are no fewer than five Ministers in the Department of Education and Science — and every year well over 300 000 boys and girls tell us in the most certain and unequivocal terms what we can do with it all. Of those who stay on, a third can stick it for only one year longer. It is customary in education to seek reasons for this failure in the children, their families, their backgrounds — even their with others, objectives which attracted middling support from the pupils. More important, only 47 per cent of teachers attached importance to helping towards a career and even fewer (33 per cent) to things of direct use to jobs. The report itself reflects the teachers' attitudes by expressing this conflict of view in terms of the ‘short term’ interests of the pupils and the ‘long term’ objectives of teachers. Well, it depends how you look at it, but one cannot get away from the conflict.

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Education + Training, vol. 11 no. 1
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Publication date: 1 November 1972

Post‐James With a predictable fanfare of trumpets, North‐East London Polytechnic has come up with some thought‐provoking proposals on how the Diploma in Higher Education mooted by…

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Post‐James With a predictable fanfare of trumpets, North‐East London Polytechnic has come up with some thought‐provoking proposals on how the Diploma in Higher Education mooted by Lord James could operate. They are the work of a group formed last spring, including Mr Eric Robinson, Deputy Director (Planning) at North‐East London, and the ubiquitous Mr Tyrrell Burgess, who wears a hat at the Polytechnic in its Centre for Institutional Studies.

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Education + Training, vol. 14 no. 11
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Publication date: 1 May 1969

RONALD DEADMAN

Founded in 1960, with Dr Michael Young as its chairman, and Tyrrell Burgess as director, ACE does more than answer questions from worried mums: it publishes books, runs…

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Founded in 1960, with Dr Michael Young as its chairman, and Tyrrell Burgess as director, ACE does more than answer questions from worried mums: it publishes books, runs residential courses, and conducts more than a few educational experiments. Perpetual stirrers, they have recently held a conference on discipline in schools, and no one will be in any doubt why they held it or what side they're on. Largely owing to their constant badgering for the rights of parents, those old signs in primary school corridors reading ‘Parents must not proceed beyond this point’ are disappearing. Streaming — a subject present director Brian Jackson has always felt strongly about — may also owe its abolition in many areas to the force of ACE's arguments — which favour strongly grouping in the primary school, as much individual attention as possible from teachers for slower‐learning children, discovery methods to replace rote learning, creative writing, a new approach to music — creative rather than passive, again — Nuffield Science for juniors and a new deal for nursery toddlers — all have come under ACE's hammer at some time or another. Not content merely to keep reiterating Lady Plowden's recommendations for the primary school, Where has often researched far beyond the immediately obvious educational priority areas and has outlined the needs for deprived groups like gypsy children. Pressurizing for comprehensives doesn't go off the boil when the idea takes root even in High Tory enclaves: with ACE it goes on simmering for more flexible methods of learning and grouping inside such schools.

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

Tyrrell Burgess

I sometimes feel that the welfare state exists (like some morality left over from the middle ages) largely to remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour. To assist the poor we…

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I sometimes feel that the welfare state exists (like some morality left over from the middle ages) largely to remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour. To assist the poor we have huge expenditures and labyrinthine administration — yet the poor are always with us. Indeed the effect seems normally to be the reverse of what is intended — and we find Professor Townsend or someone writing to The Times to say that under a Labour Government the poor have been getting relatively poorer. We are familiar with the phenomenon in education. A hundred years after Mr Forster's Education Act, 1870, a researcher like J. W. B. Douglas can note, without surprise, that the middle class child retains almost intact his historic advantages over the working class child — only now he does it at public expense.

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Education + Training, vol. 12 no. 5
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Publication date: 1 January 1968

Tyrrell Burgess

Few educational reforms have owed much to the influence of parents and men in the street. Yet if the country is now curing itself, slowly and painfully, of the lunacy of selection…

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Few educational reforms have owed much to the influence of parents and men in the street. Yet if the country is now curing itself, slowly and painfully, of the lunacy of selection at 11 plus, it is because parents and voters want it to. The only political party which might have opposed it knew that to become the party of the 11 plus was electoral folly. Most of the ‘save our grammar schools’ chaps have become in Cyril Hughes' happy phrase,WAFCEBs — ‘we are for comprehensive education, but …’ If it had not been for parental revulsion, the psychologists, researchers, journalists and socialists would still be bombinating in a void. Bluff commonsense, parental experience and educational theory have all led to the same conclusion — and selective diehards are left with arguments culled from Plato, the 18th century and pure ignorance.

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Education + Training, vol. 10 no. 1
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Publication date: 1 March 1968

Tyrrell Burgess

That there is no defence for the educational cuts announced in January is evident from what Ministers say about them. Education must be cut because every sector of Government…

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That there is no defence for the educational cuts announced in January is evident from what Ministers say about them. Education must be cut because every sector of Government expenditure is being cut, regardless of importance. Mr Gordon Walker keeps saying that there are no cuts — just a “slowing up in the planned rate of growth”. But the children who entered secondary schools this academic year would have had a compulsory school life lasting until 16. Now it is 15. Is that not a cut ? When challenged about the peculiar idiocy of not raising the age Ministers have no answer but to ask for other suggestions. They even claim that picking on the leaving age avoids cuts elsewhere when, as we shall see, it actually causes them. The cuts in education, like the rest of the “package”, rest on no principle or consistency. They are the antithesis of planning, conceived in haste and announced in muddle.

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Education + Training, vol. 10 no. 3
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Publication date: 1 May 1969

Tyrrell Burgess

Higher education lacks the biggest pressure group of all — the electorate. Most voters have been to school: substantial numbers of them are parents and grandparents. So there is…

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Higher education lacks the biggest pressure group of all — the electorate. Most voters have been to school: substantial numbers of them are parents and grandparents. So there is always a certain amount of electoral mileage to be got out of doing something for the schools. The state of school building was an issue in the 1964 election campaign. It rumbled on for a week, which is pretty good going. The end of selection at 11 plus has been a party policy for the last three elections.

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Education + Training, vol. 11 no. 5
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Publication date: 1 October 1969

Tyrrell Burgess

The party conferences in October, they say, may be the last before the next general election. So this is just the time for offering them a policy each for education. Neither the…

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The party conferences in October, they say, may be the last before the next general election. So this is just the time for offering them a policy each for education. Neither the Labour Party nor the Conservatives are likely to evolve anything very coherent if left to themselves, which is sad if understandable. Both will be preoccupied with other things. But it is no good educators sitting back glumly and complaining; we have to chip in and give a hand. Nor is it much good suggesting things which the individual parties can't possibly manage. You might think that Circular 10/65 on secondary reorganization should never have been issued, but telling the Labour Party to withdraw it is not the way to influence in the party. You may believe that streaming is the biggest handicap to educational advance, but there is not much sense in urging the Conservative somehow to abolish it. What we have to do is to see what elements of the traditional attitudes of the parties ought to be encouraged, from the point of view of education, and which diverted.

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Education + Training, vol. 11 no. 10
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ISSN: 0040-0912

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