Open tech moves ahead in east anglia

Abstract

Since 1975 an organisation has grown up in East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Northeast London) to develop a co‐ordinated approach by the engineering industry in its area to meet its manpower needs for the future. It has grown from 12 sponsoring organisations in 1975 to 78 within the past seven years and now covers 95 per cent of the engineering companies and associated organisations concerned with education and training for the key industry in the area. The organisation has a title which varies year by year in the sense that in 1975 it was called ENGINEERING '75; today, according to this system, it is called ENGINEERING '81. Today ENGINEERING '81 is the biggest and the most vigorous of the grass roots organisations in Britain in this field. It recently formed a Working Party to put forward proposals for an Open Learning System Pilot Scheme in East Anglia. This Working Party published its recommendations in August 1981. Here are critical extracts from it. The full report is freely available from the organisers.

Citation

(1981), "Open tech moves ahead in east anglia", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 13 No. 8, pp. 256-259. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003843