PSYCHOLOGY IN EDUCATION

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27112, 7 August 1953, Page 8

PSYCHOLOGY IN EDUCATION

LONDON PROFESSOR’S VISIT UNIVERSITY LECTURE PROGRAMME Professor P. E. Vernon, who hold the chair of educational psychology s the Institute of Education at the University of London, will arrive } Christchurch tomorrow afternoon ti give a series of lectures at Canterbury University College. Tomorrow evening Professor Vernon will give a semi-public lectured interview techniques and mass obw vation in relation to personnel selection. Next Monday and Tuesday bl will lecture to students in the depart ments of education and psychology, After a visit south, Professor Verna will give another lecture in Christchurch on August 25 on the contn> differences in marking English composition. Professor Vernon, who holds doctor ates in both philosophy and science studies at St. John’s College, Can bridge, Yale and Harvard Universitin He has wide interests. In 1925 he woi the John Stewart of Rannock scholarship in sacred music, and in the next two years took first-class honours ii the natural science tripos and in ths moral science tripos at Cambridp Then followed two years on a Strathcona research studentship. From 1929 till 1931 Professor Vernon was in America on a Laurn Spd man Rockefeller Fellowship in Sow Sciences. Then for three years he heM a fellowship of St. John’s College m Cambridge University. During the length of a Pinsent-Darwin Studentship in Mental Pathology in 1933-» Professor Vernon was psychologist J the London County Council at the Maudsley Hospital Child Guidance Clinic. _ In 1935 he became head of the psychology department of the Jordaniuii Training Centre. Glasgow, for'three years, and from 1938 until 1947 he w# head of the psychology departments the University of Glasgow. In the latter part of the Second World War, Professor Vernon psychological research adviser tciJJ the Admiralty and the War Office Since 1947 he has been a member® the British Civil Service Commit® Publications by Professor vernro include studies in expressive movement. the structure and measuremej of abilities, and personal selection b the British forces.