Education + Training: Volume 17 Issue 9

Shop steward training

Lyndon Jones, Joe King

The case for the training of shop stewards has been recognised by a variety of bodies and organisations. For example, it has been supported by the Trades Union Congress, the…

The economics of correspondence tuition

Lyndon Jones

No precise figures are available regarding the number of students enrolled with UK‐based correspondence colleges. Various estimates have been made. Possibly the most accurate is…

Accounting for everybody

L.G. Pepper

Increasing trade union pressure for worker participation in industrial decision‐making, and the growing willingness of employers to concede the point, will have important…

The impact of organisational theory on college administration

Clive Loveluck

The educational administrator has had a difficult life in the last few years. If we consider, for example, the pressures exerted on the Directors of Polytechnics, we can see that…

The Senior Teacher in Scottish further education

Dudley Reeves

The Senior Teacher sounds a lowly educational animal, but is in fact second only to a Head of Department in the hierarchy of Scottish Further Education colleges. His English…

Promoting the right qualities

James Denyer

Too often, promotion from the working level arises merely as the result of being a good worker. There is nothing wrong with this, because a supervisor needs to have a good…

Communication — an essential art

Hugh Probyn

In all courses in further and higher education some attention is paid at the outset to the most basic theory. A course in Philosophy considers the problem of defining philosophy…

Putting them in the picture is not a frame‐up

William Walsh

It has been said that about 90 per cent of new management techniques are old ideas put into new words and given contemporary names like Management by Objectives, Value…

Managing a further education college

Noel H. Davies

The Colleges of Further Education, along with the Polytechnics and the Colleges of Education, form the public sector of the binary system of higher education. These are all Local…