The Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Salford: links with France

The University of Salford is one of the most recent of Britain's new universities, having received its Royal Charter in 1967. However, Salford has an academic tradition dating from 1896 when the Royal Technical Institute was founded. Students have been following degree courses at Salford since the 1920's.     

THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE CENTRAL AGENCIES

Central agencies for Jewish education were developed along the model of the American public school system. They were to fulfill the same functions, in their unique settings, as the public schools board of education. The central agencies were assigned duties and tasks that could not be performed by single schools such as teacher certification, setting educational standards and teacher training.     

The Unit Approach in College Teaching

“We feel that an improved library does indeed have a very decided effect upon the quality of teaching done on a college campus” declare the authors of the following article which reports on use of A.L.A. Standards in developing a junior college library. Mr. Tanis (A.B., Calvin College; M.A.L.S., M.A., Michigan) is librarian and Dr. Jacobs (B.A., Central Michigan; M.A., Michigan; Ed.D., Wayne State) is instructor in political science and chairman of faculty library committee at Henry Ford Community College.     

The Student-Teaching Dilemma

In the following article, recent research in motivation is drawn upon to show how students' choice of courses may be more simply understood than might first be imagined. The author (A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Michigan) is associate professor in the psychology department of the University of Michigan. He contributed an earlier article to this journal, and is editor of a current volume on neuropsychology published by Harper &; Row.