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Points of Law
The role of the lawyer is as fundamental to the success of a company flotation as that of the sponsor, the stockbroker and the accountant. Pinsent & Co, who have been involved in…
Closed‐circuit Conferences
Videoconferencing, which uses live television to permit face‐to‐face business meetings between executives at separate locations, has been brought within the reach of many…
Industrial Training — a Forecast from the United States
This article highlights a survey report published by International Resource Development Inc. of Norwalk, USA which, from the quoted observations, is obviously keeping abreast of…
Design for Need
There can be few greater challenges facing mankind than the elimination of poverty and hunger. Engineers and others will play a key role in meeting that challenge
Information Technology Skills Crisis
This is a summary of a report by the National Computing Centre (NCC) as a prescription for action to overcome an existing crisis, and represents the culmination of a two‐year…
Assessment and Appraisal
Derek BiddleThe quest for effective performance has never been greater, nor the recognition that it is the human resources of an enterprise that make for its survival and success. Managers…
Information Technology in the Classroom
Christopher TurkNow that all schools have at least one microcomputer, and colleges have dozens of them, we may consider in more detail how they are being used to help students and teachers to…
Training for Office Skills
Alfred MarksUK recruitment consultants Alfred Marks are setting up a nationwide chain of High Street Learning Centres with equipment and courseware supplied by ASI (UK) Ltd, one of the…
A Professional Body in a Competitive Environment
Derek A. BoothmanUnderlying the theme the title of this paper is the tension which exists between professionalism on the one hand and commercialism on the other. By professionalism I mean the high…
Call for Privatisation of Management Education
Baroness CoxTwo recent major reports on the state of British management education and development have recently appeared. They were commissioned by the Manpower Services Commission (MSC) and…
CARRERS
MSC has published an Equal Opportunities Code for organisations running YTS schemes which aims to give guidance on avoiding discrimination. Chairman Sir Bryan Nicholson says:
AUDIO‐VISUAL AIDS
Video Arts, Britain's leading producer and distributor of training films, has joined forces with the life assurance company Standard Life to produce Pensions: Your Choice. Written…
Assessing Occupational Competence
Robert WoodThere is a concept called occupational competence to be realised in practice. MSC has said, in the context of YTS, that by competent it means: Performing at the standards expected…
Educational Preparation for Working Life
Edgar Baker CBEThe first two books on the list are case studies conducted in schools; one is an investigation into how 12‐year‐old pupils settle down when they transfer from a Middle to a…
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