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Roger
Mundy, chemist in the British Timken Laboratory, is serving as a
part-time chemistry teacher at the Northampton Technical High School.
The arrangement, believed to be the first of its kind in England, was
made when the school was unable to find a re-placement for a teacher who
returned to university studies to take a diploma course.
Mr Mundy, who was educated at Northampton Grammar School, is now in his
fifth year as an industrial chemist.
He spends Tuesdays and Wednesdays teaching practical and theoretical
inorganic chemistry to second, third and fourth form students.
Although he has had no teaching experience, Mundy says he is finding
teaching rewarding and has experienced no difficulties. He is a student
himself, attending day and evening classes at Northampton College of
Technology.
B. S. Howard, headmaster of the Technical High School, explains,
"The arrangement is working very well indeed from our point of
view, I think it may be the answer over the whole country for mitigating
staff shortages, especially in regard to science teachers".
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