Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 6 Issue 3

The character training industry

Over the past thirty years, organisations like Outward Bound have become an established feature in the training of young people. They have increased in number and widened the…

Progress in evaluation and cost benefit research

JAG JONES, WT ANDERSON

For the last seven years we have been involved in feasibility studies, applying the economist's rigorous cost benefit analysis techniques to training investments and activities…

The work of the Manpower Services Commission

The Employment and Training Act 1973 set up three bodies corporate to coordinate and manage the country's employment and training services. These are: The Manpower Services…

Planning for the future in coalmining

Duncan Rutter

David Jones' article on North Sea Oil rightly stresses that energy planning, with its manpower and training implications, can be done effectively only over the longer term. Recent…

Polytechnics: A triennial reappraisal

TOM GORE

One of the problems bedevilling higher education in the further education system in the sixties was the dispersal of advanced courses with small numbers of students and the…

Training for responsibility

BILL BOLAND

IN THE SAME WAY THAT AN INVALID DOES NOT BUY EVERY medicine in the chemist's shop, it is not necessary to include every item in a syllabus in a course of training. It isn't even…