Training in British Industry

Abstract

NO INDUSTRIAL FIRM large or small can afford to be without personnel skilled in the properties and uses of materials and in the tools and techniques of manufacture. Such personnel are the lifeblood of industry; yet in a large number of firms the need for broad training in these fundamental matters is scarcely recognised, and reliance is placed on processes, techniques and designs which, though they may have served adequately in the past, are unlikely to suffice in the highly industrialised, and increasingly competitive, world of the future. It is only by increasing the scale and quality of the further education and practical training of the recruits to industry that we shall be able to improve the material basis of life in this country, strengthen our economic position in world markets, and fulfil our many obligations abroad.

Citation

Jackson, W. (1959), "Training in British Industry", Education + Training, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 5-6. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001538