What sort of programmes does BBC Television provide for secondary schools and for young people continuing their education part-time at technical colleges? Today's programmes are two examples of the twenty-seven transmissions directed to schools and technical colleges each week of term time.

12.15 Engineering Science: 4: Work, Energy, and Power
A series designed for students in technical colleges.
Presented by Gordon Severn.
First shown in October 1962

12.35 Looking at the United States: New York
A series specially shot in the U.S.A. by the BBC School Film Unit.

In 1626 Dutch settlers bought Manhattan Island-today the heart of New York-from an Indian tribe for eight pounds' worth of trinkets. They little knew that they had made one of the biggest bargains in history.
First shown in January 1962

(to 12.55)