Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 5 Issue 3

Business studies in sixth forms: The A level project

JAMES H CLIFFORD

One of the interesting characteristics of British life is the way that various groups in society view each other's roles. How often have we heard people in business described as…

Training managers to take account of recent legislation

BILL WALSH

Realising that the welter of material reported by the popular press on the functionings of the Industrial Relations Act 1971 could leave managements confused and appreciating…

The 10 year plan for education: A critical appraisal

TOM GORE

Planning five years ahead is a hazardous exercise in education. The White Paper — A Framework for Expansion — CMND 5174, takes a decade as the perspective. But it hedges much of…

Programmed learning in the small firm: AN EXPERIMENT IN MANAGEMENT TRAINING

AM BARRATT, CB LUCAS

A problem which seems to occur in almost any discussion about industrial training, is the one of dealing fairly and effectively with the small firms. Almost every industry and…

Training for change in industrial relations

JOHN PURCELL

The Commission on Industrial Relations' (CIR) report on industrial relations training was published on 13 December together with a short practical guide for unions and employers…

Job situation training for supervisors

HUGO J MISSELHORN

I was attending a seminar run by John Wellens in South Africa in April 1972 when he said something which rang a loud bell — not only because it made good sense but because he gave…

A LANGUAGE FOR A PURPOSE: The PLN project

EDWARD G WOODS

In an earlier article in this series, John Atkinson talked about the need for companies and language schools to work together when planning a language course. As he said then, so…

Wot, no blackboard?

MARTIN HIGHAM

Just over 30 years ago I heard an architect denounce blackboards. ‘How’ he asked ‘can you expect a child to transpose white on black to black — or blue‐black — on white without…