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Viewpoint: Profit is not without honour, save in our own country
In many Western nations unemployment is much higher than official statistics indicate. Many who would work if the opportunities were there do not register as unemployed…
BEC is on course
Janet ElliottThe past year has seen a major change in business education courses in more than 350 colleges and polytechnics throughout the country, with the introduction of new BEC courses…
Books
Ruth HoldsworthPerspectives on Academic Gaming and Simulation is the series title of the proceedings at the annual conferences of SAGSET (The Society for Academic Gaming and Simulation in…
ABEnews
We have great pleasure in announcing the appointment — for a two‐year period — of Professor Gerry Fowler as President of ABE. As a former Minister of State at the Department of…
The role of BEC in post — experience business education
This article is based on the formal response of the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education to a consultative Paper issued by the Business Education Council earlier…
Business education campaign
Bernard C. FisherBusiness (industry and commerce) creates our real national wealth. The more wealth it creates, the stronger it becomes. As we have seen, when too many people reject this principle…
The foundry industry
Brian CaveMany young people are either totally unaware of, or have outdated ideas about, the foundry industry. Like all other industries, it needs to attract people both of the right…
Careers:: COURSES
Women without skills who want to go back to work after lengthy spells of domestic life are to be given more chances to find out what they can do, and how to go about it, by the…
Careers:: TRAINING
A new Lex Service Group Training Centre opened in Banbury, Oxon is designed to provide a base for the company's central training operation, and will be available for use by…
Careers:: TOPICS
A major shift in the policy and work of the Schools Council has been presented to the Council's Convocation by the Chairman, John Tomlinson. New skills and knowledge are needed…
DES News Releases
Rhodes BoysonI was a schoolmaster for 23 years and regard teaching as a great profession; but it would be wrong for us to ignore tendencies in the opposite direction which have harmed and can…
Topics
Kodak Ltd, in association with the Science Museum, is staging a major exhibition at the Museum in South Kensington, London SW7 The Photography of Walter Nurnbergan Image of…
Fleecing the foreigners
Gerry FowlerThis month sees another swingeing increase in the fees for overseas students attending British institutions of further and higher education: an increase of nearly one‐third. Of…
Up & frontism
David Gilbert‐SmithLeadership to many people is an emotive word with militaristic, autocratic, authoritarian overtones. To some it conjures up an elitism of leaders over the led, of strong dominant…
BEC General Diploma course
R.E. OwenThe Department of Business and Management Studies at Dewsbury and Batley Technical and Art College is perhaps an average‐sized department in an averaged‐sized college. It has a…
Effective management of employee attendance
Lyndon JonesIn the development of a strategy to reduce absenteeism one must focus on attendance. Factors related to absenteeism, which become high turnover, are shown in Figure II.
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