Quarterly Notes
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1962.tb01115.x |
| Date | 01 March 1962 |
| Published date | 01 March 1962 |
Institute News
Annual General Meeting and Annual Dinner
This year’s Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, 26th April
at
The County Hall, London,
S.E.1,
and will
be
preceded by a
talk
by
iMr.C.A.French, Chairman
of
the Institute’s Executive Council, on
Nafionalizyd Industry and Local Authority
:
some reflections
on
their administration.
‘The meeting will
be
followed by the Members’ Annual Dinner at which the
Guest
of
Honour will be Sir Roger Makins, Chairman
of
the United
Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Lord Bridges, the Institute’s President,
will preside.
New
Books
Two
recent additions to the Institute’s New Whitehall Series
of‘
books on
the major government departments are
The Department of Scientific and
Industrial Research
by Sir Harry Melville, published in February, and
Her
Majesty’s
Customs
and Excise
by Sir .James Crombie, which appeared in
March.
Th
Department
of
Scientqi and Industrial Research
is priced at
25s.
(Members,
18s.
6d.)
and
Her
Majesty’s Customs and Excise,
30s. (Members
22s.
6d.)
The Institute also published in March,
Managerial and Professional
Sla$
Grading
by Joan Doulton and David Hay. This book describes
a
system of
staff
grading for professional, technical and managerial posts which has
been operated successfully in large public organizations over
a
number
of
years. The retail price
is
17~.6d., but members may obtain copies direct
from the Institute
for
r3.r.6d.
Reading Coderen
ce
The
Stlldy
and Teaching
of
Public Administration
was the subject
of
a two-day
conference held at the University of Reading in December last year, and
organized by the Institute in collaboration with the Local Government
Examinations Board and the Public Administration Committee of the
.Joint Universities Council for Social and Public Administration. The aim
of
the Conference was to consider ways to improve the standards of training
of
public servants and to promote greater co-operation between the public
services and the universities.
Two
of
the papers presented at the Conference,
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