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Viewpoint: Menopause for thought
There is growing recognition that a high proportion of managers and teachers face a mid‐career crisis. It is usually when persons are in the 35 – 45 year age group that they face…
YET ANOTHER PIECE OF CERTIFICATED BUMPH CALLED FOR
An examination to meet the urgent needs of students in the 17+ age group, in schools and colleges, is called for by the Regional Examinations Boards in their report on the…
MANAGERS MUST MAKE THEMSELVES HEARD
British Institute of Management (BIM) is to hold its first‐ever National Convention at the Royal Festival Hall, London on Friday 5 March 1976. Some 2,500 managers will assemble to…
Post‐service careers for ex‐Servicemen: 3. Job opportunities
This is the third and last article in Bill Beer's trilogy, the first two of which appeared in the April 1975 issue of Education & Training.
Manpower planning
Denis Barnes KCBWithout touching on problems of income and industrial relations, which tend to dominate the reporting of labour market affairs, it is still easy to take a pessimistic view of…
Demands on managers: a re‐appraisal
Terry CaseyWhoever is responsible in an organization for the assessment of human resources, and making sure that people are put into responsible and challenging positions at the right time…
Telling them before they go
Frederick CatherwoodThe founder of International Briefing was a missionary, and those who have any contact with the missionary work of the churches will understand why. The missionary, above all…
Directed private study and the docks
Lyndon Jones, John AslettThe port industry frequently receives a bad press as there is a tendency to concentrate on financial crises and industrial relations problems, poor productivity and the like. This…
Vertical training: a new concept
E.P. SayerOver a number of years the Port of London Authority has carried out a great deal of training, especially in its supervisory and management areas. This has largely taken the form…
Careers:: EDUCATION
The Technician Education Council hopes to make an important contribution towards the Government's recently expressed aim of ‘improving the nation's industrial capability’. TEC's…
Careers:: TRAINING
The Manpower Services Commission has just announced special measures to encourage industries to maintain the recruitment of young people into jobs where lengthy training periods…
Topics
The demands of government and rate‐payers for limitations on spending and yet better and more efficient services make an enormous challenge on all of us in local government today…
Overseas topics
Under the matrimonial system found in Minangkabau, West Sumatra, when a baby boy is born he is given a name eg Kasim. When he grows up and marries, he is given an after‐marriage…
Central American visit … 1. Belize
S.F. TrustramSpanish Honduras, a neighbour, was in the news in September 1974 with 9,000 killed and 60,000 homeless from hurricane Fifi. No wonder hurricanes are the main topic of conversation…
Central American visit … 2. Nicaragua
A.G. PeaceIt is perhaps inevitable that the British people hear about distant places like Nicaragua only when something spectacular happens there. During the last three years the papers and…
The great American recession … 1
Our American correspondent reviews a current best‐seller that places a big black question‐mark against the well‐tried US adolescent practice of working one's way thru' college
The great American recession … 2
Catherine AventAmerican educators have plenty to worry them in the higher and further education sector. Discussions with administrators and student personnel workers have highlighted a number of…
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