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Viewpoint: Eventide can provide a glorious glow
Retirement from the world of work is one of the most significant and universal milestones in contemporary life. The last day of one's working life can be the gateway to the Golden…
On stage
There is little further to be gained from focusing on the mere number of pupils in a class: from carrying out a crude measure of achievement, or from attempting to study in…
Management vitality — the future need
Don MarkwellIn some ways the question of Management Development alone can be thought of as a misnomer even in contemporary industrial society, since in most respects business is concerned not…
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT — SOLVING THE MISMATCH
Denis RookeThree priorities are needed to produce a better correlation between education and employment. The first priority is to foster consistent national strategies for economic recovery…
Conspicuous by their absence
Bill WalshThere are about as many definitions of absenteeism as there are suggested causes. What attracts interest is the sort of non‐attendance which tends to be associated with…
ABE news
Tom CoffinThe ABE Space Shuttle Visitors to our offices at 3 Station Parade will be pleased to know that negotiations are well in hand for ABE to take over the first and second floors of…
Careers:: COURSES
A new Bachelor of Education degree in Computers and Industrial Society, validated by the University of Manchester, will be introduced at North Cheshire College, Warrington in…
Careers:: TOPICS
The Manpower Services Commission urges all parties concerned with training to respond to its call for urgent and radical changes in national training arrangements. Its…
Careers:: TRAINING
Staff training — is there a need? This was the question that the Chairman of the National Institute of Fresh Produce posed at a session of the 47th National Convention of the…
Student section
This is the first in a series of regular features in which Education & Training will concentrate on the examination requirements of its numerous student readership. We begin with…
The teacher‐learner continuum
Denys PageMost supervisory and management trainers will already be familiar with the continuum approach to leadership which was introduced by W. Schmidt and R. Tannenbaum in their paper How…
Getting the message across — loud and clear
Janet Elliott, Sue FrickerThe question of effective curriculum dissemination has been in the news in recent months, following the publication in December 1980 by the Further Education Curriculum…
Tackling absenteeism — GM provides a driving force
Lyndon JonesAbsenteeism can be a very expensive business. For example, in 1968 General Motors (GM) estimated the annual cost of a five per cent absenteeism level spread uniformly throughout…
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