A Combined Training in Engineering and Commerce

Abstract

IN GREAT BRITAIN we have been slow enough to start training juveniles in commercial and administrative subjects, but we have been even more tardy in combining a training in engineering with one in commerce. Today, commercial apprenticeship is moving forward, albeit very slowly, but of combined schemes there are no more than a mere handful in the whole country—at a guess round about half a dozen. A feature of the ‘pure commercial’ apprenticeship as it exists at the moment is that it is at technician level — it is a student apprenticeship, if you like — rather than at a level equivalent to craft apprenticeship. What has not emerged yet is some acceptable commercial training scheme at the craft level.

Citation

Wellens, J. (1961), "A Combined Training in Engineering and Commerce", Education + Training, Vol. 3 No. 8, pp. 25-27. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb015016