Careers:: SELECTION

Abstract

Without doubt, efforts to meet the training needs of industrial transport and distribution met with a very slow response from the starting blocks. The problem in the late 1960s — and into the early 1970s — was that transport was still regarded as a Cinderella function within companies; and a lot of work was needed before trade and industry generally accepted the importance, and even the necessity, of the training course. At the turn of the decade the Freight Transport Association, which looks after the interests of trade and industry, commissioned a training adviser to review the training needs of the industry mainly, at that time, centred on transport and distribution and to make recommendations upon the needs of member companies and the form that help should take. At that time the FTA had already staged two pilot courses, and had recognised that training was to be an important part of the future. Six years later, its own training centre was opened in May 1976. Now the training facilities are geared to the needs of management and executive staff with residential courses on transport management, industrial transport, labour relations aspects of transport and distribution, engineering management, and management in transport and distribution. In addition it stages ‘in company’ teach‐ins on a variety of subjects. The training centre is located adjacent to its headquarters at Hermes House, Tunbridge Wells.

Citation

(1977), "Careers:: SELECTION", Education + Training, Vol. 19 No. 4, pp. 109-110. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016503