Education + Training: Volume 32 Issue 6

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Comedy actors Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith have teamed up with ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) to take the heat out of smoking at work. In Fags they play two smokers talking…

Wells Cathedral school press officers

Emma Fogden, Ruth Frain

One function as School Press Officers is to liaise between the pupils and the member of staff designated to handle the press. We were supplied with calendars from which we picked…

Non‐formal Education: A Proposed Solution for Graduate Unemployment in Nigeria

Macleans A. Geo‐Jaja

The structural links of non‐formal education tothe world of work and graduate unemploymentin Nigeria are examined. The role ofgovernment′s stop‐gap measures and theinadequacies of…

Meeting the Needs of Employers

David Pollitt

A description is given of the Professional,Industrial and Commercial Updating (PICKUP)Europe Unit, operated by a consortiumconsisting of Bradford University, South…

Matching the Curriculum to the Needs of Industry

Michael Nicholson, Dennis Moss

A study has been made of employers′perceptions of the desired skills and values to bedisplayed by secondary school leavers in theBristol area. Five major companies in a…

Careers

Speaking at the Tenth National Conference on Education, Training and Personnel Development, the Education Secretary drew on his impressions of German vocational education after a…

Endeavour in Jamaica: Endeavour Work Project 1989: The Mustard Seed Community, Kingston

Ingrid Cranfield

Endeavour, an educational charity, has twocomplementary sections: a commercial trainingservice offering personal development trainingcourses and programmes, and a voluntary…

A Structured Approach to Residential Workshop Organisation

Gerard McElwee

This article demonstrates how training agenciesand other business institutions could followthe lead of Teesside Business School by reviewingtheir residential seminars and…