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The CANDLE Project ‐ CAMHS and New Directions in Learning Disability and Ethnicity
Authors: Grundy David
Published: November 2014

Significantly more young people who have learning disabilities suffer from mental health problems than the general population for this age group (Borthwick‐Duffy, 1994, Emerson & Hatton, 2007). However, for a number of reasons these mental health problems are not identified early. Tier one staff who support people with learning disabilities are often unaware of the need to promote positive mental health or where to go locally for more advice and support if they are concerned. The CANDLE resource aims to provide accessible material that can be used in a range of ways, across a number of services and settings, to support these young people with their mental health.
Personality disorder and offending in people with learning disabilities
Authors: Torr Jenny
Published: November 2014

This article reviews the literature on personality disorder in offenders with learning disabilities, using Medline, PsychoInfo and CINAHL databases, and search terms ‘offending’, ‘personality disorder and intellectual disabilities’, ‘learning disabilities’ and related terms. Methods of defining offending population, personality disorder and learning disabilities vary greatly, and few studies focus specifically on personality disorder, learning disability and offending. The definition of learning disability often encompasses both borderline learning disability and low average intelligence. Personality disorder, especially anti‐social personality disorder, is prevalent in offenders with learning disabilities, but less than in the general population, and is associated with higher levels of security and poorer outcomes. The study concludes that there is a continuum of offenders with borderline and mild learning disabilities, reflected in learning disability forensic services.
Transition for adolescents and young adults with learning disabilities and mental health problems/challenging behaviours: the parent carers' views
Authors: Unwin Gemma , LeMesurier Nick , Bathia Niyati , Deb Shoumitro
Published: November 2014

The aim of the research was to scope issues of concern at transition for young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems/challenging behaviour from the perspective of parent carers, using a focus group interview consisting of ten participants, including one facilitator and administrative support. The interview was tape‐recorded, transcribed and thematically coded using Microsoft Word and NVivo. Two case vignettes were used to stimulate the discussion. Several themes emerged from analysis of the transcripts: access to information about rights and the services available for their son or daughter, and conflicts between carers and professionals. The experience of parent carers of people with learning disabilities is still not well understood. By understanding the views and experiences of parent carers, transition can be facilitated and concerned parties can work together to achieve better results.
No One Knows: Identifying and supporting prisoners with learning difficulties and learning disabilities: the views of prison staff: Jenny Talbot for the Prison Reform Trust
Authors: O'Brien Gregory
Published: November 2014

No One Knows is a major initiative by the UK Prison Reform Trust which highlights the plight and predicament of prisoners with learning disabilities and of those with less severe degrees of learning difficulties. This major initiative has been sponsored by the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and has yielded a number of pivotal recommendations which are already being explored actively by the Department of Health (England) and the Prison Health Service.
Inter‐relationships between hearing impairment, learning disability services and mental health: are learning disability services ‘deaf’ to hearing impairments?
Authors: Miller Helen , Kiani Reza
Published: November 2014

Prevalence of hearing impairment is quite common in people with learning disabilities (double jeopardy). However, this debilitating co‐morbidity remains largely undetected by carers and professionals due to presence of additional disabilities and complex clinical presentation in this population on the one hand, and lack of specialist hearing impairment service provision and difficulty in accessing generic audiology services on the other hand. This article aims to provide practical guidance on assessment and management of hearing impairment in people with learning disabilities by offering a narrative review of available literature on gaps in service delivery.
Spirituality, mental health and people with learning disabilities
Authors: Ferguson Dave , Scott Jayne
Published: November 2014

Spirituality has started to attract increased interest in the mental health arena over recent years. Indeed, psychiatrists are becoming more interested in spirituality because of the benefits it can bring to the mental health of service users. However, the issue of spirituality and the mental health needs of people who have learning disabilities has not been extensively researched or reported. This article explores the spiritual dimension in mental health care and its relevance to people with learning disabilities. A discussion of the development of a working group to scope the issues in one learning disability service is explored, with practical commentary on the efforts made to gather more information from service providers. The findings from a brief survey are briefly discussed, as well as the developments which have ensued to date. The authors conclude that, although spirituality can mean different things to different people, responding to the diverse spiritual needs of service users must take a person‐centred and flexible approach.
A brief introduction to grey systems theory
Authors: Liu Sifeng , Forrest Jeffrey , Yang Yingjie
Published: November 2014

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the elementary concepts and fundamental principles of grey systems and the main components of grey systems theory. Also to discuss the astonishing progress that grey systems theory has made in the world of learning and its wide‐ranging applications in the entire spectrum of science.

Design/methodology/approach

The characteristics of unascertained systems including incomplete information and inaccuracies in data are analysed and four uncertain theories: probability statistics, fuzzy mathematics, grey system and rough set theory are compared. The scientific principle of simplicity and how precise models suffer from inaccuracies are also shown.

Findings

The four uncertain theories, probability statistics, fuzzy mathematics, grey system and rough set theory are examined with different research objects, different basic sets, different methods and procedures, different data requirements, different emphasis, different objectives and different characteristics.

Practical implications

The scientific principle of simplicity and how precise models suffer from inaccuracies are shown. So, precise models are not necessarily an effective means to deal with complex matters, especially in the case that the available information is incomplete and the collected data inaccurate.

Originality/value

The elementary concepts and fundamental principles of grey systems and the main components of grey systems theory are introduced briefly. The reader is given a general picture of grey systems theory as a new method for studying problems where partial information is known, partial information is unknown; especially for uncertain systems with few data points and poor information.
Attribute reduction and decision‐making model based on gray dual‐information
Authors: Jie Zhang , Jian‐Jun Zhu
Published: November 2014

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to research attribute reduction and decision making by gray dual‐information, taking into account the attribute reduction of attribute decision unknown for the interval gray numbers.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors obtain the attribute weights considering the consistency of experts’ judgment matrixes and the decision matrixes with gray information. They propose some experts’ attribute reduction ideas based on interval gray numbers of rough set. With the help of experts’ decision information, they consider attribute uncertainty ratio and attribute value ratio to reduce attribute. Finally, a numerical example shows its feasibility.

Findings

Some experts’ attribute reduction ideas are proposed based on interval gray numbers of rough set. With the help of experts’ decision information, attribute uncertainty ratio and attribute value ratio to reduce attribute can be considered.

Originality/value

Attribute reduction is keeping classified information systems under the same conditions and deleting redundant and irrelevant or unimportant attributes in order to solve the problem of decision making. This paper considers the attribute reduction based on gray dual‐information.
Multi‐objective location‐routing problem of reverse logistics based on GRA with entropy weight
Authors: Liu Hong , Wang Wenping , Zhang Qishan
Published: November 2014

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to realize a multi‐objective location‐routing network optimization in reverse logistics using particle swarm optimization based on grey relational analysis with entropy weight.

Design/methodology/approach

Real world network design problems are often characterized by multi‐objective in reverse logistics. This has recently been considered as an additional objective for facility location problem or vehicle routing problem in reverse logistics network design. Both of them are shown to be NP‐hard. Hence, location‐routing problem (LRP) with multi‐objective is more complicated integrated problem, and it is NP‐hard too. Due to the fact that NP‐hard model cannot be solved directly, grey relational analysis and entropy weight were added to particle swarm optimization to decision among the objectives. Then, a mathematics model about multi‐objective LRP of reverse logistics has been constructed, and a proposed hybrid particle swarm optimization with grey relational analysis and entropy weight has been developed to resolve it. An example is also computed in the last part of the paper.

Findings

The results are convincing: not only that particle swarm optimization and grey relational analysis can be used to resolve multi‐objective location‐routing model, but also that entropy and grey relational analysis can be combined to decide weights of objectives.

Practical implications

The method exposed in the paper can be used to deal with multi‐objective LRP in reverse logistics, and multi‐objective network optimization result could be helpful for logistics efficiency and practicability.

Originality/value

The paper succeeds in realising both a constructed multi‐objective model about location‐routing of reverse logistics and a multi‐objective solution algorithm about particle swarm optimization and future stage by using one of the newest developed theories: grey relational analysis.
Grey relational evaluation of innovation competency in an aviation industry cluster
Authors: Zhu Yuming , Wang Rongrong , Hipel Keith W.
Published: November 2014

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to propose an evaluation model for evaluating the innovation competency in the Yanliang Aviation Industry Park, which is a typical example of an aviation industry cluster.

Design/methodology/approach

A subjective weighting method based on the order relation is used to determine the index weights, which are utilized in grey incidence analysis to measure the innovation competency of the aviation industry cluster.

Findings

The application of the index methodology to the Yanliang Aviation Industry Park demonstrates that the industry cluster possesses a strong innovation competency, as well as the feasibility and practicability of employing this approach.

Practical implications

The method introduced in the paper can be used to solve practical problems. Moreover, it provides potential support for the development of the aviation industry in the future.

Originality/value

In this paper, the high technology aviation industry, which now plays a strategic industrial role in China, is systematically studied by using a new methodology based on grey systems. Additionally, a subjective weighting sequence model founded upon a grey relational analysis is utilized in place of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP).
A multi‐attribute decision analysis method based on rough sets dealing with uncertain information
Authors: Ming‐li Hu , Fei‐fei Shen , Ya‐huan Chen
Published: November 2014

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to propose a multi‐attribute decision‐making method based on the concept of extended dominance relation and variable precision rough sets.

Design/methodology/approach

First, the definitions of extended dominance relation and variable precision rough sets are introduced in detail. Second, two types of extended dominance rules are obtained from the pairwise comparison table. Third, a scoring function is defined and sorted to score all the objects. Finally, a case about the emergency decision making after an earthquake is discussed to demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of the method.

Findings

It is found that the new method can deal with decision‐making problems with incomplete information. Numerical examples show that the method has good application prospects in public emergency decision making, including an earthquake emergency.

Practical implications

The method shown in the paper can be used for solving decision‐making problems with incomplete information.

Originality/value

The paper develops a novel multi‐attribute decision analysis method dealing with incomplete information based on rough sets theory.
HCL Care: harnessing the out of warranty ICT service market
Authors: Mukherjee Jaydeep
Published: November 2014

Subject area

Marketing strategy, Decision making, After sales servicing.

Study level/applicability

As part of a core marketing course; at post graduate level; marketing strategy courses where competition and co-operation business models are explored.

Case overview

The case focuses on HCL Care, which had the service competence and reach, but no marketing set up for attracting customers to its ICT products service facilities. The case explores the decision choices faced by the company in deciding its market strategy. The main challenge was the out of warranty offer planned by HCL Care. It was aimed at providing a one stop solution for consumers who owned various ICT devices of different brands that could not be serviced at one point. There was no specific validation of whether this proposed, more convenient and comprehensive offer was compelling enough for the consumer to switch from the service offered by the original equipment manufacturer or from the plethora of low priced offers from independent service providers in the Indian marketplace.

Expected learning outcomes

These include: how to organize the different types of market and company information available to segment the market and selecting the target market; developing a positioning platform and developing the market strategy; and choosing between competition versus cooperative business models.

Supplementary materials

Teaching notes are available. Consult the librarian for access.
Implementing strategic stock to improve humanitarian aid response
Authors: Kembro Joakim
Published: November 2014

Subject area

Humanitarian logistics, aid response.

Study level/applicability

Master/advanced level; courses in: humanitarian logistics; port operations and management; supply chain management and logistics.

Case overview

Recently, the humanitarian organization Global Food Aid (GFA) has received criticism for slow response to the on-going drought in East Africa. One of the reasons is the long lead times to transport and distribute food. Therefore, GFA has launched a project called “Strategic stock” where food will be pre-positioned in strategic locations around the world. Because of its importance as a gateway for East Africa, the Port of Mombasa has been selected as the pilot project. Headquarters of GFA has engaged a team of logistics and warehouse experts to plan, run and evaluate the pilot project in Mombasa.

Expected learning outcomes

Through this case, the students (who take on the role of the experts) will gain knowledge in a wide range of areas. First, they will gain a thorough insight to coordinating a port operation in one of the major ports in Africa. Second, the case increases the understanding of working with logistics in a humanitarian aid context. Third, the students will learn how to work with logistics both on a strategic level (planning the implementation of strategic stock) and on an operational level (handling the different events that occur throughout the case). There is also a learning element related to risk management.

Supplementary materials

Teaching notes are available.
AFP Innova: competing in a tender for new affiliates
Authors: Farías Pablo
Published: November 2014

Subject area

The concepts of customer lifetime value (CLV) and customer equity (CE).

Study level/applicability

BA, MBA, MSc courses: customer equity, marketing metrics, marketing plan, marketing research. Because students are asked to complete a customer lifetime value analysis based on a range of financial and non-financial data, students will need at least a modest level of proficiency in dealing with a few basic financial accounting concepts.

Case overview

In Chile, a law passed in 2008 introduced a bidding process to be held every 24 months in the pension industry. The tender mechanism was introduced as part of a reform aimed at reducing the commissions charged by pension fund administrators and at making it easier for new players to enter the market. In early 2009, Daniel Ugarte wondered if it was finally the right time for his firm to enter the pension industry. Ugarte was asked by the board to help chart a direction for the firm. The winning criterion was the lowest management fee (commission) paid by the affiliates. The main focus of the case is a quantitative assignment that asks students to calculate how customer lifetime value (CLV) and customer equity (CE) would be affected by the commission offered.

Expected learning outcomes

These include: understanding the concepts of customer lifetime value (CLV) and customer equity (CE) and the importance of maximizing a customer's lifetime value for the firm by calculating the CLV and the CE based on a combination of financial and non-financial data.

Supplementary materials

Teaching notes are available. Consult the librarian for access.
Competitive advantage with e‐business: a survey of large American and Swedish firms
Authors: Beheshti Hooshang M. , Salehi‐Sangari Esmail , Engstrom Anne
Published: November 2014

Advances in information and communications technology have allowed for a wide range of electronic business models and applications. These applications are providing a competitive advantage for organizations by creating efficiencies and cost reductions. Electronic business should be part of the overall corporate strategy and be integrated into core business processes. This study provides interesting insights into electronic business applications in large corporations and discusses similarities and differences that exist between Swedish and American corporations.
Competitive factors of semiconductor industry in Malaysia: the managers’ perspectives
Authors: Solucis Santhapparaj A. , Sreenivasan Jayashree , Chong Kuan Loong Jude
Published: November 2014

In an emerging global competitive environment, the Malaysian semiconductor industry is facing threats from low cost countries with limited innovative capabilities. It urges for improvement in competitiveness of the Malaysian semiconductor industry. This study focuses on the perspectives of the managers towards the enhancement of competitiveness. Through a focus group interview and data collected from 200 managers working in semiconductor‐manufacturing units in Malaysia, the study identified twenty‐two competitive factors for the improvement of competitiveness of the semiconductor industry in Malaysia. Since the collected data did not form a normal distribution, nonparametric tests such as Chi‐squire test and Mann‐Whitney U test were used to test the framed hypotheses. Based on the analysis, ten key competitive factors were identified out of the identified twenty‐two competitive factors through focus group interview. Further, the study also highlighted the differences in the opinion of competitive factors of technical and non‐technical job functioning managers.
Utopian Workplaces: The Role of the Computer
Authors: Tapie Rohm C.E. , McInturff Patrick
Published: November 2014

Approaching the twenty‐first century should reinforce the notion that modern managers work in an environment of uncertainty. Contingency analysis has become merely a fact of business decision making. Clearly, the word to describe the modern business world is “change”. For those on the forefront it means challenges and new opportunities. But for the multitude of small and medium‐sized business owners it means risk, uncertainty and threat. Nothing exemplifies this threat of the future and change to the small businessman more than the computer.
Problems of apprenticeship — 1
Authors: Hawkins T.H.
Published: November 2014

The first in a series discussing apprenticeship and its problems, this article attempts a ‘ground‐clearing’ operation before questions of selection and training are dealt with.
The Work of the Careers Master
Authors: Longland C.P.
Published: November 2014

The author draws on his experience to outline the main responsibilities of a careers master and to detail some of the methods he should be able to use.
Co‐operative training in the Sheffield forging industry
Authors: Duncan R.
Published: November 2014

Some years ago many Sheffield steel companies with hammer forges producing a wide range of quality products were becoming anxious about recruitment of young people. With an ageing population it was feared that unless some positive steps were taken to encourage boys to enter the forging industry it would suffer from a lack of young people to carry on the skilled work of forging by powered hammers. Already some hammers had had to stand idle because of shortage of men.
‘Technology and the Academics’
Authors: Thomas D.R.O.
Published: November 2014

Mr Thomas, who is a member of the FBI Education Committee, chairman of the FBI Technical Colleges Committee, member of the BISF Training Committee, and of the West Riding and North Derbyshire Area Training Committee, BISF, discusses two important topics arising in Sir Eric's book: the government of colleges of technology, and the nature of liberal studies.
Laboratory Low Voltage Supply
Authors: Rock Brother D.A.
Published: November 2014

Nowadays there is little need to argue the case for providing a low voltage system in science laboratories — for physics at least. However, there is still much argument about the relative merits of different low voltage systems and it is difficult to choose between them. This article attempts to clarify the problem in three ways: first, it outlines the main features which are desirable in any low voltage system, then it attempts a comparison of some commonly used low voltage systems with respect to these and certain other important criteria, and finally it describes a new unit which seems close to providing a solution to the problem.
MOPIT: OPEN SYSTEM FOR DEVICE AND TECHNOLOGY SIMULATION
Authors: Alexsandrov A.L. , Androsenko P.A. , Bedanov V.M. , Bekesheva A.M. , Dagnan E.E. , Dnitrieva O.E. , Gadiyak G.V. , Ginkin V.P. , Ivanov M.S. , Korobitsina Zh.L. , Lukhanova T.M. , Obrekht M.S. , Shinanskiy A.A. , Schveigert V.A. , Schveigert I.V. , Tishkovsky E.G. , Zhydkov Yu.P.
Published: November 2014

In this paper the MOPIT system for the simulation of devices and manufacturing processes is presented. The MOPIT system is meant for the simulation of the following semiconductor processing : ion implantation of impurities , diffusion , radiation enhanced diffusion , thermal oxidation of silicon , molecular‐beam epitaxy, plasma‐chemical etching and deposition, cross‐sectional profile evolution of trench in plasma‐etching and deposition; as well as the following devices: MOS‐structures , high‐voltage diode, element of memory, charge accumulation in a sub‐gate dielectric.
The Need for Revising Physics Syllabuses
Authors: Badcock A.W.
Published: November 2014

The author examines the reasons why physics is taught in schools and on the basis of his conclusions makes a strong case for the pruning and modernising of school physics syllabuses. There are obvious dangers in ignoring the need for keeping our science syllabuses up to the mark, and the present use of some examinations is also called into question, in this personal statement of view.
PROBLEMS OF APPRENTICESHIP — 3
Authors: Hawkins T.H.
Published: November 2014

Continuing his series, the author queries established views on the nature and structure of apprenticeship, leading on to some thoughts on its modification in length and content. Earlier articles dealt with the problems of definition and selection, and the next, which will continue the subject of the present article, will deal in particular with how training should be carried out, the use of pass‐out tests and the training of instructors.
PROBLEMS OF APPRENTICESHIP — 4
Authors: Hawkins T.H.
Published: November 2014

This article, which completes Mr Hawkins's part of of the series on apprenticeship and its problems, raises some further important issues for industry and education — and for the Government. Following articles will analyse some of the problems raised by Mr Hawkins, discussing tried and untried means of overcoming them, and will go into the question of what happens after apprenticeship.
Planning a Course for the Grammar School Technologist
Authors: Merriman W.G.
Published: November 2014

Continuing the series on technical subjects in secondary schools, the writer describes a course now starting in his school, and the thinking and planning behind it.
TEACHING TOPICS
Authors: Walker W.F.
Published: November 2014

IT HAS BEEN stated many times that jig and tool design is a difficult subject to teach because the design of such equipment rarely has a mathematical basis. Few will disagree with the latter part of the statement, but the implications of the first part must be examined carefully.
The Purposeful Teaching of Chemical Analysis
Authors: Bottle R.T.
Published: November 2014

The author maintains that quantitative chemical analysis can be taught in such a way as to make it interesting, and that it can also be used as a basis for the teaching of other chemical theory. He suggests that the broad teaching of analysis can help to give the student a unified picture of chemistry.
The Design and Operation of a new High Voltage Laboratory
Authors: Briggs B.F.N.
Published: November 2014

The equipment and layout of the high voltage laboratory at Doncaster Technica College's new building are described. Interesting reference is made to the influence which certain limiting factors have had, and the range and type of work done — teachhg, and testing and research in co‐operation with industry are also indicated.
TEACHING TOPICS
Authors: Greenwood S.W.
Published: November 2014

A FACTOR the educationist has to contend with these days is the strong appeal that astronautics has for boys at school. This is greatest in the period when they are aware of the enormous prospects for research and exploration it opens up, and before they have become too engrossed in preparing for and taking their final examinations. This awareness is, on occasion, a source of embarrassment to their teachers, but can be put to good use by those who will take a little trouble to investigate its advantages.
Crowther and the Colleges
Authors: MacLennan A.
Published: November 2014

The research which has gone into the Crowther Report, the high quality of argument, the lack of ambiguity in exposing weaknesses in current thinking and practice, and the level of presentation make it the most significant work on education to have been published in the post‐war years.
Vocational Guidance in France — and Great Britain
Authors: Smart K.F.
Published: November 2014

The importance of vocational guidance, and its problems, are not discussed very much, and the general attitude towards it is one of complacency. The Crowther Report, for instance, which purports to deal with the destinies of 15 to 18 year olds, dedicates only half a dozen scattered and rather woolly paragraphs to this question. Yet “the conditions of modern life, fluctuations in economic life, evolution of techniques, complexity and diversity of vocational training, severity of competition in all sectors of human activity, present families more and more with problems of guidance which it is impossible for them to solve by themselves.”
Fresh Thinking in Mathematics — 2
Authors: Trivett J.V.
Published: November 2014

In the first part of this article the author discussed four themes which he posed as fundamental if any big change for the good is to be made in mathematics teaching. Briefly, these were that mathematics should be continually created by every learner, that children should and can master elementary concepts before dealing with particular examples of them, and that if they are used to this then arithmetic conies more easily. Finally, that books and apparatus often conceal the mathematics which the teacher wants emphasised. This part deals mainly with the Cuisenaire‐Gattegno apparatus and the implied approach which, it is suggested, provides teachers with a complete and satisfactory answer to these four themes.
Crowther, Industry and the County Colleges … 1
Authors: MacLennan A.
Published: November 2014

Having discussed in our February issue those sections of the Crowther Report which deal directly with the technical colleges and their work, the author turns now to the Report's two greatest discussion points: the school‐leaving age and the county colleges. His comments will be of greatest interest to those — particularly in industry — who oppose the raising of the school‐leaving age and who in any case have little faith in day release for general education.
Speaking Foreign Languages
Authors: Newmark P.
Published: November 2014

IN NO FIELD of modern language study is there such wide divergence, both in theories and practices, as in that of speech. A common view, held by many educationists who have authority, prefers oral to written work and favours a modified Direct Method. Its most fervent partisan is perhaps Mrs M. Hodgson, Lecturer at London University Institute of Education, who believes that “language is essentially speech, and should be taught orally”. Some officials tend to judge a language teacher or pupil solely on his rate of fluency or the quality of his accent, to dismiss an awkward, but clear sentence as ‘not French’ or ‘not Russian’, and to insinuate that a person who does not know the German for ‘sparking plug’ or ‘lard’ knows no German — particularly if he has obtained first class honours in the subject. The result of all this is a kind of mania among some linguists about accent: a Russian teacher is condemned as pre‐Revolutionary or Polish, a native French teacher is ‘out of touch’ because she has not been to France for a few years, the music of Chekhov's language can allegedly only be appreciated in the pure idiom, which may or may not be the carefully preserved Moscow Arts accent; the value of an individual and expressive pronunciation that is as much personal as it is national, (one has only to think of Edith Evans or Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau), is generally discounted.
Technological Education in the United States — 2
Authors: Aylward Francis
Published: November 2014

SOME BASIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN TECHNICAL EDUCATION. British commentators on the American educational scene have often commented on the apparent absence of a network of centres corresponding to the London Polytechnics and the provincial technical colleges. Although such comments may be largely correct, the conclusions drawn are not infrequently fallacious.
The Crowther Report and the Secondary Technical School
Authors: Edwards Reese
Published: November 2014

The references in the Crowther Report to the Secondary Technical School are not very numerous, but they are, on the whole, unusually complimentary in character. This is refreshing. These schools have not very many friends in official circles and it is, therefore, particularly pleasing when the characteristics of the secondary technical school, or rather of the technical high school, are clearly recognised, spotlighted and, what is more, commended as sound educational practice.
Electrical Laboratory Work — one third of the time
Authors: Gray B.F.
Published: November 2014

LABORATORY WORK in most technical colleges, at least in the engineering departments, is often regarded as an onerous task — at times by the staff as well as the students. Experience has shown that, where laboratory classes are provided on a voluntary basis, attendance is often poor, and any initial enthusiasm soon disappears. The attitude of mind of the teaching staff is frequently such that the successful termination of a laboratory period merely foreshadows the marking of a number of boring reports. Yet practical demonstration of the theoretical side is a very necessary part of any curriculum of technology, and in most schemes, laboratory work occupies at least one third of the total time spent on a particular subject.
The Diderot Encyclopedia of Science
Authors: Cummings A.D.
Published: November 2014

A newly‐published edition covering manufacturing and the technical arts selected from Diderot's ‘L'Encyclopedie’ (Edited by C. C. Gillispie, Dover Books, Constable & Co Ltd, in two volumes, with 485 sets of plates)
Introducing Photoelasticity — a simulation of circular and elliptical polarisation
Authors: Pallett G. , Greenwood J.D.
Published: November 2014

That there are difficulties in introducing the subject of photoelasticity to engineering students is widely recognised. These difficulties are of two kinds — the student with whom we are concerned seldom has a very deep knowledge of physics, although modern trends in technical education are doing something to rectify that. Secondly the traditional way of teaching strength of materials, with the emphasis on isolated topics (for example: stresses in beams, shear stress distribution, thick cylinders and the rest) makes it difficult for the links between these studies to be fully grasped, and the ‘field approach’ is never developed. The student practically has to relearn his elasticity before he can do any useful work.
Technicians and the HNC
Authors: Cotgrove Stephen
Published: November 2014

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.
The Centre Lathe
Authors: Walker W.F.
Published: November 2014

In our December 1960 issue Mr Walker discussed the functions and equipping of a College machine tool laboratory. He also introduced briefly the subject of the tests and experiments suitable as laboratory work. The present article is the first of a short series giving more detailed suggestions for laboratory work on the various types of machine tool
RADIOCHEMISTRY IN THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE
Authors: Tonge Brian L.
Published: November 2014

As scientific advances mature into established techniques, teaching time and laboratory facilities must be adjusted and developed. For one such area of advance — the use of radioisotopes in industry and research — teaching is now firmly established in all the Colleges of Advanced Technology development in a number of Technical Colleges.
The Youth Employment Service … 2
Authors: France Gerald H.
Published: November 2014

WHERE IS the Youth Employment Service going? It is going in the direction of a community advisory and action programme.
MATHEMATICAL REFORMS IN TECHNOLOGY
Authors: Conway D.E.
Published: November 2014

The engineer who fights shy of mathematics — and jettisons as much of it as he decently can when his course is over — is scarcely the thinking technologist one would like to see. But many are like that. The author suggests that the colleges should not wait for school mathematics reforms, but give students a mathematical background and understanding by a more concrete form of teaching straight away. The approach proposed also aims to ensure that future technologists acquire their maths in the form in which they will need it — as a tool, as an integrating factor between the sciences and technologies, as a means of communication, and as a medium for creative thinking.
THE MORSE TEST
Authors: Smith V.B.
Published: November 2014

The determination of IHP by means of the Morse Test is used in most college courses on heat engines and automobile work.
USSR CRAFT AND TECHNICAL TRAINING — 3
Authors: Longden J.
Published: November 2014

Exact duplication of factory conditions in the school — even down to assembly‐line production and a school having its own trademark for its products — these are aspects of the Soviet system which Mr Longden describes in his third article.
TECHNICAL TEACHING — VOCATION OR PROFESSION?
Authors: Hansbury J.
Published: November 2014

According to Nuttall's dictionary a profession is a “vocation, occupation or calling distinct from trade, and such as implies a measure of learning.” The same dictionary describes a vocation as a “designation or destination to a particular state or profession; summons; call; inducement; employment; calling; occupation or trade.”
TEACHING ELECTRICAL MACHINERY THEORY TODAY — 2
Authors: Brosan G.S.
Published: November 2014

In the '80s and '90s our present student electrical engineers will be doing their most useful work. Dr Brosan completes his article on what and how they should be taught
Mechanical Engineering Laboratories —their design, equipment and use
Authors: Hartles R.J.
Published: November 2014

The equipment of mechanical engineering laboratories in almost any college seems to lag behind that of electrical engineering laboratories both in sophistication and freshness of approach. For example, the enormous impact which electronics is having on mechanical engineering is never even drawn to the attention of thousands of future engineers during their student days: this omission can be serious. Forward‐looking students choose forward‐looking subjects. Traditionally — equipped laboratories encourage traditional — minded teaching. However, a lot is being done. Many mechanical engineering laboratories do have a good range of modern instrumentation and have developed or adapted experiments to make the fullest use of it. This work is exemplified in this month's symposium contributions, and, as with last year's electrical engineering laboratories symposium, other symposiasts discuss laboratory layouts and the organisation and writing up of laboratory work. The symposium, which will continue through the next two issues, has already attracted a great deal of attention, and we hope that it will stimulate further helpful discussion
EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS IN COLLEGES OF TECHNOLOGY
Authors: Probert Douglas
Published: November 2014

EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS courses are expected to provide students with:
BIRTH OF A COLLEGE … 4
Authors: Easton W.A.
Published: November 2014

WITHIN THE Southgate area there has been no direct experience of technical education until now apart from the Evening Institute. This fact made it essential to nip in the bud any tendency for the old ‘technical college = night school’ equation — which lingers in so many people's minds — to be applied to this College. Judging from the remarks of visitors since the College was opened, and the attitude of the students, we have largely succeeded.
MANAGERS IN THE MAKING
Authors: Hawkins T.H.
Published: November 2014

SOME THREE YEARS after the publication of the interim report, the Management Development Schemes Committee of the BIM have issued their findings and recommendations in a final report. It is a happy coincidence that the document has arrived in time to set the seal on National Productivity Year. For here is material which, properly used, could help to build the foundations of national productivity and prosperity for many a year to come.
LETTERS & DISCUSSION
Authors: Cowgill Colonel A.W.
Published: November 2014

IN THE interesting article in your December issue on the REME School of Electronic Engineering, John Wellens, commenting on the thoroughness of the training in this particular REME school, asks inter alia whether it is generally recognised in industry and in the Ministry of Labour what is involved in producing good training. I would suggest as far as the Ministry of Labour is concerned that, with the recent appointment of Colonel A. L. Work as Technical Adviser on Industrial Training, the answer to this question must now be ‘yes’.
TEACHING HEAT TRANSFER … 2
Authors: Pallett G.
Published: November 2014

Radiation Problems. A great deal of lecture time in this subject must be devoted to radiation configuration factors. As the integral for these quantities is usually exceedingly complex, analogue apparatus for obtaining easy solutions is essential. Figure 9 indicates two areas dA1 and A2 and it can be shown that the projected area S divided by the base circle gives the geometric factor. Figure 10 shows a simple piece of apparatus made at this College for obtaining the geometric factor. When using it and evaluating results, students are forced to think of the equation and its interpretation. Certain rectangular shapes are checked against graphical presentations in textbooks and unusual cases can be dealt with. For instance, to find the geometric factor for a standing person may increase a student's awareness of the variety of uses that exist. Another possible experiment, drawn from the research literature, is the study of furnace geometric factors using light as a heat analogue. A skeleton framework is constructed to the dimensions of the furnace and the furnace is represented by a number of lights behind diffusing sheets of frosted glass. The experiment is carried out in a darkroom — absorbing walls are left free and partially absorbing walls can be simulated by various shades of grey paint. The light incident on a wall is measured by a calibrated photo‐electric cell. In the original paper, cosine law corrections were made to the results, but it has been stated that the results are better without such corrections, and this means that a simpler and more effective demonstration can be made.
DIP. TECH. (ENG) PROJECTS
Authors: Houghton E.L.
Published: November 2014

THE STUDENT PROJECT is not a new phenomenon in education. Teachers have often practised their art by postulating a set task or problem to their students and guiding their crafts, actions and thoughts towards a reasonable solution.
THE TIME‐TABLE MANIPULATOR
Authors: Quinton Allan A.
Published: November 2014

ONE SUBJECT that must absorb a large proportion of the time of a head of department is … the time‐table. College departments vary to a remarkable degree in size and scope, so that solutions to time‐tabling problems found effective in one may be of little use in another. Nevertheless, this is a very mixed department and some of the solutions described here may well be applicable elsewhere.
Electronic and Control Laboratories their design, equipment and use
Authors: GRAY B.F.
Published: November 2014

The average engineering student spends a third of his time in laboratories and workshops. Practical work has always formed an important part of an engineer's training, and the evolution of new branches of engineering of growing complexity has tended to increase its importance. At the same time its purpose has sometimes been a little obscured.
SOME NOTES ON MICROWAVE LABORATORY WORK
Authors: Mayo G.
Published: November 2014

MICROWAVE VALVES and microwave measurements feature in many electrical engineering and physics courses at HNC and HND level. Since the level of theoretical treatment here is somewhat limited, the part played by laboratory work is very important indeed.
A LABORATORY ON A SHOESTRING
Authors: Ray D.H. , Randall W.A.D.
Published: November 2014

IN April 1962 there was an urgent need at Chelmsford for an additional laboratory if work in City and Guilds Electrical and Telecommunications Technicians second and third year courses was not to suffer in the immediate future.
EXPERIMENTS IN CONTROL ENGINEERING
Authors: Kybett J.T.
Published: November 2014

CONTROL ENGINEERING has become, in essence, the application of feedback theory to engineering problems. The subject is not restricted by the usual boundaries between the applied sciences and, at the introductory level discussed in this article, I believe the aim should be to present the subject almost without regard to the source of power or information used in the control system. To achieve this unified approach, elements or complete systems having similar responses may be made the subjects of laboratory experiments.
Industrial relations—tomorrow must be better
Authors: Prentice Reg.
Published: November 2014

This is not intended as a party political message. But it is a ‘politician's eye view’ of industrial relations. I want to set out some of the policies I believe should be followed by the government of this country — any government which wants to make a positive contribution in this field. I shall also give a little advice to managers, trade unionists and educationists — infuriating when it comes from a politician, but very good for them nevertheless.
SELF APPRAISAL ‘VOICE’ AND PERCEPTIONS OF JUSTICE: EXAMINING THE IMPACT AND INTERDEPENDENCE OF INSTRUMENTAL AND VALUE‐EXPRESSIVE EFFECTS
Authors: Geddes Deanna , Merriman Kimberly , Ross Gerald , Dunlap‐Hinkler Denise
Published: November 2014

Individuals in two separate studies participated in a self‐appraisal activity in which they were randomly assigned to three conditions promising different levels of potential influence on the evaluation of a written assignment. Self‐report data regarding perceptions of voice impact, voice appreciation, and procedural and distributive justice were analyzed. Results of MANOVA and regression suggest voice appreciation, measuring value expressive effects, was positively and significantly related to perceptions of justice, while the self appraisal's perceived impact on a valued outcome was not. However, the impact of value expressive effects on perceptions of fairness was reduced somewhat with higher instrumental possibilities for voice among undergraduate students. Implications for ongoing research and practical applications are discussed regarding the use of various forms of self appraisal.