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Viewpoint: After Rachman's in‐off prelude, who calls the tune?
The availability of private rented housing has been declining for many years. In 1947, for example, about 60 per cent of households lived in privately rented accommodation; by…
Participative quality control — how General Motors adopted a Japanese idea
Lyndon JonesTo‐day, Japan challenges the world as the front‐runner in quality manufactured goods — transistors, television sets, cameras, watches, and what‐have‐you. To the British…
Pre‐empting disaster
Denys PageThose management trainers who have made serious attempts to apply Post‐Course Action Planning (1) to their course participants may have found that they run into difficulties in…
Echoes of the ‘great debate’
Gerry FowlerThese famous lines were of course written by a Hellenistic poet centuries after the death of the philosopher Heraclitus. Strangely I am beginning to get the same nostalgic feeling…
Books
Ruth LancashireBarrie Hopson and John Hayes, together and in combination with others, have already made a considerable contribution to the theory and practice of self‐evaluation and career…
How to study
Edgar BakerWe are all different one from another, and therefore we behave in different ways. Generalisations about human conduct are bound to be open to exceptions, and no absolute rules…
Call for office mechanisation
One of the saddest and least appreciated aspects of Britain's current fight for economic recovery is that the capabilities of possibly half of our 8 million office workers …
Discretionary and mandatory awards
William van Straubenzee MBENo one needs reminding that we are in a grave economic crisis. The rate of inflation continues to rise, and with it the difficulties of low income groups such as students. As part…
Higher Education Finance
A.W. (Sandy) WylieThe first session was taken by Gerry Fowler MP, and I doubt whether a better qualified person could be found to talk on higher education finance. He started by outlining seven…
Careers:: SELECTION
Without doubt, efforts to meet the training needs of industrial transport and distribution met with a very slow response from the starting blocks. The problem in the late 1960s …
Careers:: COURSES
The King's College Workshop is a programme initiated by King's College, London in 1975, broadened and extended by co‐operation with PETT (Project — Engineers & Technologists for…
Personnel's predatory problems
William WalshThe continuation of legislative developments affecting the employment and welfare of people at work is creating a need for a thorough re‐assessment of personnel sections, and…
The Education for employment principle
A.K. WhiteheadEducation is a process which produces or develops skills and abilities of various kinds. These attributes are then capable of being utilised when following different types of…
Education and training of teachers
Frank HarrisWhatever we say today on any of the topics before us comes down in the end to the quality of the teaching profession. It is the individual teacher in his classroom who is going to…
Language teaching on a budget
Colin JonesAt a time when both the education of school children and the training of people for industry are under strict examination, the teaching of languages will also come under the…
Communication — a vital business skill
Desmond EvansTurn to page 58, exercise 3. It's a letter of complaint. I'll want to collect them in by the end of the lesson, so you've got about 25 minutes. Come on, Sandra, you know perfectly…
Minding your Ps and Qs and Es
Bill AllenOnce upon a time a qualified accountant could make some claim to be an expert in most, though perhaps not in all, aspects of accountancy — even if he was not prepared to go as far…
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