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Viewpoint: Skiving — top job of the future
Whether predictions of the future can be made on the basis of extrapolation is a matter for conjecture. But if one assumes a linear evolution, change will continue apace; and by…
Outside the UK, we are foreigners
Shirley WilliamsCurrent needs for the teaching of modern languages are greater than ever before because of the importance of direct communications with other countries, and the fact that we still…
English — a heritage worth preserving
Edgar BakerThe way we use English matters. That is the proposition this article seeks to show. Language and thought are intertwined, and although we can think without language — animals do…
What comes next?
Gerry FowlerI sat at my typewriter on the last day of November, 1973 and hammered out the best piece of prognostication for which I shall ever claim credit. It was an article for Education &…
Effective management of the joining‐up process
Lyndon JonesInitial Training — Introduction to the Store Objective: To introduce the new Sales Assistant to the store and give her an outline of the training programme which she will follow.
Talking points
John TurnbullIn any career, changing circumstances and changing methods bring a need for periodic retraining. In some areas though, the added impact of a rapidly evolving technology…
Careers:: COURSES
Business Studies, a completely revised publication emphasising the more advanced courses of study, replaces Office and Business Studies in this year's DES Choose Your Course…
Careers:: TRAINING
Every motor vehicle which is produced will have been subjected to testing at some stage, normally both during production and on completion. In addition almost every component…
Parsing thoughts
James M. CharltonA national newspaper reported recently that of a sample of university students one quarter failed basic tests in English. The report stated that professors were worried that some…
Personnel management
Bill WalshHow the personnel function is organised in any form of enterprise can vary enormously. Like any other kind of management, that of personnel is not an exact science; and although…
Improve the medium, speed the message
Bert CanningEach working day the Post Office handles 32 million letters and packets. It is estimated that half of these are bills, invoices, leaflets, advertisements, pools entries and the…
The great all‐American literary scene
Saul GellermanI have been wondering why, whenever I cross the Atlantic, so many European friends make it a point to ask for the latest American trends in the training and behavioural fields…
Getting down to business by behaving yourself
Paul Brown, Marlene CaseleyThe scene is a classroom. Students are seated in several small groups, five or six to a table. They are discussing a problem. As the instructor walks from table to table…
The Open College is halfway here
John RobinsonDiscussions about an Open College — a system of flexible learning opportunities for those aiming at ends other than degrees and diplomas — have gathered strength and subsided many…
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