Total Technology

Series

Series Name

London Line

Issue

Issue No.

515

Date Released

1976

Length of issue (in feet)

382

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Total Technology

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: Engineers and technologists are highly specialised people the world over. There has been a tendency for them to stick to their specialities and to leave to others the economic planning and management of industries. Yet it is essential that both sides of industry, its technology and its management, work smoothly together, particularly as industry develops in the advancing countries. An answer lies in "total technology" in which the engineer himself studies the economics and management of his own technology. Such a course is now available at a British university where London Line visited African technologists who will be the new managers of the future.

Researcher Comments

The featured university is the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. Featured students include: Dr Ayodele Solaja, Andrew Lawson and Babiker Abu Bakr. NB: Information gathered from the Ghanaian version

Keywords

Education and training; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Engineering

Written sources

COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1257/515

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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Film Archive

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