Education + Training: Volume 27 Issue 8

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Viewpoint: They went thataways

Those wishing to study but unable to attend a full‐time, sandwich, or block release course have a number of options open to them. They may study in a part‐time day release course…

Training the Counsellors — 2. Stress management

Margaret Parkinson

The Employee Assistance Service is a counselling and referral service established by the Department of Education, Queensland, for all employees with personal problems. A training…

Diploma Mills — Part 7: Government action and inaction

Lyndon Jones

Diploma Mills are not new. Certainly they have been around for 150 years. The earliest recorded operation known to the writer was Richmond College, a US‐based outfit established…

ABE SUPPLEMENT: Report of the Council for 1984

The past year has been one of further growth and increased recognition for the Association. The number of new student enrolments was in excess of 3,000, with slightly more than…

Student section: Examiners' Reports—December 1984

For space reasons it is not possible to include the examiner's report on all questions. The following extracts cover the answers to those questions where major problems occurred.

Careers:: COURSES

For anyone about to enter the higher education maze, a new publication from the Careers & Occupational Information Centre (COIC), is essential reading. Sponsorships 1986 (28pp A4…

Careers:: TRAINING

Learning is as easy as A‐B‐C with a new training programme produced by the Hotel & Catering Industry Training Board for use in training anyone whose job involves helping others to…

The wasted expenditure

Arnold Kransdorff

When a medium‐sized UK finance house started to feel the pinch of competition, it decided to spend some money on a computer. It wanted to cut its administration costs as well as…

Getting with IT

The Editor introduces a round‐up of news items on the current implications of Information Technology on the business environment.

Quality improvement through Activity Analysis

Paul L. Brown

Improving the quality of products and services has become a major goal of most sophisticated companies and organisations in the 1980s. The challenge of competition from the…

Cover of Education + Training

ISSN:

0040-0912

Online date, start – end:

1959

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Martin McCracken