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Viewpoint: Charity begins — and ends — at home
Some 250 delegates comprising Education Ministers and senior professional educationists from 43 Commonwealth countries recently concluded a one‐week conference in Sri Lanka…
Starkly unrelieved dilemmas
Gerry FowlerProfessor Don Morgan of the University of Minnesota has written, it seems, an account of the American education system which:
The City's financial future
Bill Allen OBEThe working party represented more than the heights of respectability. Eight members under the chairmanship of R. R. St. J. Barkshire of Mercantile House Holdings Ltd. represented…
Preparing for the world of work: 1. The British pattern
A. RobertsIn December 1977 an international comparison of the arithmetical abilities of 14–15 old school children was released by the National Foundation for Educational Research. England…
NEBBS looked ahead with super vision
Lionel BaxterQuestion: To ask the Secretary of State for Education & Science whether arrangements will be made for foremanship examinations when the British Institute of Management ceases to…
Supervisory management
L.M. MacRaeThe Institute of Supervisory Management is unusual among Britain's important professional bodies, in that its headquarters are not in London but in the Midlands. This central…
Careers:: COURSES
The Further Education Curriculum Review and Development Unit (FEU) has now formally recommended the public adoption of the proposals for one‐year full‐time pre‐employment courses…
Careers:: TOPICS
The Long Term (22 mins( is a new Careers Service film about the longterm process of helping teenagers make the right career choice. Aimed at parents, it features the hopes…
Careers:: TRAINING
A secure future and better professional standards for hairdressers in the 1980s are the aims set out by the Hairdressing Industry's Joint Training Council in a policy statement…
on stage
A most enjoyable evening was had by all. This aptly sums up a packed house on the third night of the revival in London's The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, which takes place in the late…
DES News Releases
Mark CarlisleOne can allow pupils and teachers to taste life in an industrial setting, and come into contact with some of the problems facing those in the productive sector of the economy …
ABEnews
Nigel StricklandIt hardly seems possible that I have now been in the secretarial chair for six weeks. I am still busy learning the ropes, but hopefully my response time to your enquiries is…
Never mind equality — feel the quantity
Moss MurrayAn idea that was originally the brainchild of Britain's most successful businesswoman is now encouraging hundreds of young women from all parts of the world to come to London and…
Improving supervisory performance
Lyndon JonesMany supervisors feel that they are stuck with an impossible job, with insufficient authority. Simultaneously, management does not believe supervision is accomplishing as much as…
Self‐inflicted third degree
Squardon Leader G.Just before the outbreak of World War II I had been sent to RAF Cosford as a technical instructor. When war broke out I was posted to Blackpool to help with the trade training of…
Preparing for the world of work: 2. The American pattern
Clifton CampbellHistorically, schools in the United States of America have zealously assumed the task of equipping people with the scholastic abilities to cope with life. Indeed, it is generally…
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