LECTURES BY RADIO

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29838, 2 June 1962, Page 10

LECTURES BY RADIO

Large Room At • University ; Lectures given in room D ' at the University of Canter- 1 bury will tn future be relayed from a small radio microphone, elipped to the lecturer's tie or hanging around his neck, to a receiver in the comet of the room and amplified The Vice-Chancellor (Dr L L Pownalll said yesterday that room D was used for larg- classes and that the lecture was delivered from the middle of the room, a fact which made lecturing difficult It was the first time the university had used a radio system for lectures. Room D was originally a number of smaller rooms used by the school of engineering but the rooms were amalgamated for use by other departments when the engineering school moved to Ham A fixed microphone was not satisfactory because a lecturer might move around while he was speaking or demonstrating. said Dr Pownall. He said that the set was about the sire of a large packet of cigarettes. An aerial would dangle down.' It would mean that a lecturer was free to move wherever ne wished and even to continue speaking while he was facing the blackboard.

School Entered.— A cabinet containing £8 in cash and some books, mostly magazines were taken from Linwood High School when the school was broken into on , Thursday night The cabinet was later recovered but the , moneV and books are still missing.