Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 8 Issue 2

Integrating the company with the community

ANN SKEY, MAGGIE BAXTER

The Action Resource Centre was conceived within the Public Affairs Department of IBM. John Hargreaves, its director, had been a founder member of The Trident Trust, an educational…

Improving pensions communications

J STUART IRVINE

Although a recent survey carried out by the Institute of Manpower Studies for Noble Lowndes into employees' knowledge of their pension schemes emphasised the need to improve the…

A case for active social marketing

This study was undertaken by William Keyser and Tim Sharpe of Metra Oxford Consulting Limited with the Oxford Centre for Management Studies, supported by the Midland Bank Limited…

Continuing education on the San Diego freeway

Richard Lowndes

South of Los Angeles, California, lies Orange County, skirting the Pacific Ocean. Its spine is the great San Diego Freeway. Within the county is the Coast Community College…

TEC policy‐a reply

R DIXON, PJ GALLAGHER

The recent article by Beaumont and Taylor entitled ‘Some Implications Arising from Technician Education Council Policy’ has introduced some of the more contentious aspects of the…

Experiential learning: A view from the inside

DAVID ALLNER, JOHN TEIRE

The first article in this series described the events of an In‐Company Training Course from Sunday evening to late Tuesday afternoon. John Teire and David Allner of Simulon find…

Can you understand what you are reading?

DAVID OWEN

When you read an article in ICT, can you easily understand what the writer is saying? Or do you have to struggle through it, wringing the meaning out of each complex sentence, one…

Where are the young technologists?

Alec M Hughes

PETT is the new acronym for what has formerly been known to those involved as the Interdepartmental Committee for Publicity on Engineering and Technology. This committee…