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FORMING A SOCIETY

Category: Education

Anyone  who  had  chanced  to  glance  into  the  Lower  Fifth  class­room  on  Thursday,  soon  after  the  close  of  the  morning  school,  might  have  supposed  that  a  considerable  portion  of  the  class  was  under­going  some  penalty  in  the  shape  of  extra  work.  A  brief  notice,  how­ever,  written  on  a  half-sheet  of  noteparer,  which  out  of  working  […]



UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

Category: Education

There  are  44  universities  (not  counting  the  Open  University)  in  Britain.  Although  the  Government  is  responsible  for  pro­viding  about  80  per  cent  of  universities’  income  it  does  not  con­trol  their  work  or  teaching  nor  does  it  have  direct  dealings  with  the  universities.  The  grants  are  distributed  by  the  University  Grants  Committee,  a  body  appointed  by  […]



ADMISSION PROCEDURES

Category: Education

Students  are  admitted  to  British  universities  largely  on  the  basis  of  their  performance  in  the  examinations  for  the  General  Certificate  of  Education  at  ordinary  and  advanced  level.  The  selection  procedure  is  rather  complicated.  It  has  been  designed  to  combine  as  much  freedom  as  possible  for  the  universities  to  choose  the  stu­dents  they  want  with  as  […]



THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

Category: Education

If  one  is  walking  in  the  theatre  district  of  London’s  West  End  near  Leicester  Square  and  Piccadilly,  and  wanders  along  Tottenham  >  Court  Road  toward  Euston  Station,  on  the  skyline  one  sees  an  arresting  sight  —  a  towering,  whitish,  blunt-ended  monolith  among  needle-like  church  towers.  It’s  impossible  not  to  stop  and  stare  at  it,  this  […]



COMMUNISM IN THE UNIVERSITIES

Category: Education

The  last  few  years  have  seen  a  considerable  growth  of  Communist  influence  in  the  universities.  That  influence  has  often  been  over­estimated,  particularly  by  the  Right  Wing  Press  after  the  Oxford  motion.  But  none  the  less  it  persists  and  it  is  growing.  It  is  no  long­er  a  phenomenon  that  can  be  dismissed  as  an  outburst  of  […]



REFLECTIONS ON THE COLLEGE PAST

Category: Education

Few  human  institutions  had  a  history  so  continuous,  so  per­sonal,  so  day-to-day.  The  cathedral  schools  of  Milan  and  the  like  have  histories  of  a  kind  which  takes  one  back  to  the  Roman  Empire;  but  they  are  not  histories  like  the  college’s,  of  which  one  could  trace  each  step.  [...] It  had  begun  as  nothing  very  […]



STUDENTS’ LIFE

Category: Education

In  another  fortnight  I  shall  have  finished  my  first  term  at Cam­bridge.  Let  me  tell  you  something  about  undergraduate  life  and  my  impressions  of  it. At  first  it  was  all  so  confusing  and  new.  There  were  new  customs  and  words  to  be  learnt,  and  of  course  new  rules  and  regulations.  But  remembering  that  I  was  not  […]



DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE

Category: Education

To  a  medical  student  the  final  examinations  are  something  like  death:  an  unpleasant  inevitability  to  be  faced  sooner  or  later,  one’s  state  after  which  is  determined  by  the  care  spent  in  preparing  for  the  event. The  examinations  of  the  United  Hospitals  Committee    are  held  twice  a  year  in  a  large  dingy  building  near  Harley  Street.  […]



OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE. THE UNIVERSITIES

Category: Education

England and Wales have at present fifteen universities. Scotland has four, Northern Ireland has one. These twenty bodies are diverse in their origin and traditions, status and methods, but three groups can be distinguished at once. In order of their origin they consist of, first,Oxford and Cambridge; secondly the Scottish universities; and thirdly the English […]



Children of manual workers at school

Category: Education

It is still the exception for the children of manual work­ers, who form 72 per cent of the occupied male popula­tion, to remain at school beyond fifteen. The most recent evidence indicates that only about 3 per cent of children from this social class remain at school until eighteen, where­as 34 per cent of the […]