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Viewpoint: The great training robbery
Training is expensive in terms of both direct and indirect costs; so those sponsoring it might reasonably expect a payoff in terms of improved effectiveness — at least in the long…
Self‐instruction — an approach to staff training
Harry Day MBEThe Cabinet Office (Management and Personnel Office) has had published on its behalf by HM Stationery Office a handbook under the above title, reviewed in this issue (see Texts)…
Diploma Mills — Part 5: The UK operation
Lyndon JonesFor a long time comparatively few diploma mills existed outside the USA. This is no longer the case. Many Americans now operate in overseas countries, while simultaneously other…
Recipe for disaster
The Green Paper Recording and Rental of Audio and Video Material is ill‐conceived, badly thought out, ill‐defined and in its present form would almost certainly mean the end of…
Personal service in the multi‐national company
The 1985 International Training and Personnel Conference for the Hotel and Catering Industry was held in London recently, attended by over 100 delegates. Many aspects of training…
Student section: Examiner Reports — December 1984
Business Communications — Certificate Part I (The May 1985 ABE Supplement gives details of the revised syllabus for December 1985). The results of the December 1984 examination…
Fraud in the training field
Robert SheldonTechnological, economic, social and political changes since the end of World War II have not only forced business and industry to adapt faster and more extensively than ever…
Solving the IT skills shortage
Terence BeckettIn recent years companies who continue to think in terms of old technology have fallen by the wayside, and lengthened the dole‐queues, either through lack of changes or because of…
Careers:: COURSES
The Co‐operative Union's feminist pioneer course on retailing, Women Into Management, has just completed a pilot run with the verdict that it was very worthwhile. The training…
Careers:: TOPICS
Junior Education Minister Peter Brooke, speaking at the Conference of Registrars & Secretaries of UK Universities at Bradford, stressed the Government's firm hope that more young…
Careers:: TRAINING
Under‐Secretary of State for Industry John Butcher has warned British companies that they were failing to provide sufficient training, and cited the West German example as…
Management training — overture or finale?
Don MarkwellAny reflection upon education and training for managers over the last twenty years must, at this point in time, be tinged with more than a small element of cynicism. That the…
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