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The manager in fiction
Clive LoveluckIn an article Reading for Managers, (Education & Training July/August 1974), Terry Farnsworth recommended an instant bibliography. He wrote:.. it is doubtful whether more than 10…
Parlez vous die Deutsch?
Peter NewmarkYou cannot start learning a foreign language unless you know what linguistic skill you want to acquire, what topics you want to cover in the language, for what purpose, and how…
The Commissars are coming
John Tresman MATwo hundred and thirteen years ago at the age of 50 Jean‐Jacques Rousseau, a self‐taught music teacher turned prize winning essayist, formulated a theory which ‘taking men as they…
Organizational meteorology
Gordon ReddingPractising managers, particularly those in charge of large numbers of people in one work unit, such as a factory or a department store, are accustomed to talk about ‘morale’ as an…
Total technology in engineering
T.M. HusbandIn the past few years the Science Research Council has encouraged a small number of Universities and Polytechnics to design and launch post‐graduate engineering courses in total…
A mind boggling electronic aid
Our North American correspondent has provided this information on the latest example of audio‐visual recording technology
What's in a qualification?
Keith WhiteheadIn our sophisticated technological age, educational qualifications abound: technical, commercial, academic, occupational, and so forth, tending to increase by type and number in…
Educational television — the colleges have got it taped
Neil BarnesDid you know that staff in eighty per cent of the country's six hundred or so further education colleges used BBC educational television series last year? Before you say ‘So…
Overcoming mental stress
Edgar BakerIn the modern world we are all subjected to stresses and strain. The housewife living with small children in a high tower block, the operative doing the same repetitive job day in…
The makings of a manager
William Walsh ACIS MISMAsk young executives what they think management is, and one is given a vague and somewhat confused answer: linking together the work of a lot of people by such techniques as…
ISM: a force for educational and social change
J. Maxwell TowersBefore someone challenges the implications of the above title, let me ask two questions. One: has it not always been the case that education, whether consciously or not, has been…
Management education around the world
Lyndon JonesIn the 'fifties and 'sixties the education industry mushroomed. Countries, notably America, broke through to a goal of democratised, mass higher education. The golden era had…
Staff development and appraisal in further education
Noel N. DaviesMany colleges are now involved in the implementation of formal staff development policies, and it may be helpful to colleges setting about this task to see how the job has been…
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