Education + Training: Volume 22 Issue 3

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Viewpoint: Time to decimate the tea and sympathy

We ask people ad nauseum to behave in one manner; yet when they do they are punished, or some competing behaviour is rewarded. Witness the case of the salesman who is asked to…

Training the training analyst

R.J. Moore

Despite the pressures over the years to base industrial and commercial training on identified needs, it is still probably true that the majority of training is not the result of…

ENGINEERING THE FUTURE

The Technician Education Council has welcomed the Report of the Finniston Committee on the engineering profession and believes that a number of its proposals, if implemented…

The benefits of charting

Max Taylor

Charting is a method of improving the effectiveness of meetings, by continuously recording the progress of discussion in a form that everyone can read. Typically this means…

If Moses had been an instructor ….

George Newman

A teacher in a technical college had allowed himself to become involved in an argument with an apprentice on day release from our Company Training Workshop. The apprentice quoted…

Careers:: COURSES

Microelectronics and their implications for education and training became a major concern of the Council for Educational Technology during the period covered by the Council's…

Careers:: TOPICS

The National Economic Development Office has sponsored the publication of a Project Pack of Learning Materials for schools — How Britain Earns Its Living — about the vital role of…

Careers:: TRAINING

A new series of educational packages has been introduced for export training, both in‐house and at colleges and schools by, Geoffrey Whitehead, author of Elements of Overseas

DES News Releases

A brief guide to help school and college students who are thinking about going on to higher education has been published by the Department of Education & Science. Entitled Higher

ABEnews

Council has takin into consideration the need for recognition for those students who have passed, or been exempted from, the Part I Certificate examination. By achieving this…

Topics

The Institute of Management Consultants are about to bolt the back door. All applicants for Associate membership will be required to pass a written entrance examination after 1…

Science of the mind — or a mindless science?

Carol Ibbett

It is exactly one hundred years since Wundt founded the first laboratory at the University of Leipzig in an attempt to establish experimental psychology as a separate field of…

The Baltic Exchange

Bill Allen

The primary function of the Baltic is the provision of facilities for the fixing of cargoes for merchant vessels. Of all the City of London's worlds of invisible earners, none is…

Academic administration

Bob Ryan

When I describe myself as an administrator, people immediately ask: But what do you do? Administration, it seems, is all things to all men. A common mistake I find is that people…

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Facing both ways

Gerry Fowler

It was once a common charge that many senior administrators in the British Civil Service had been well educated in the Classics, but knew much less about the modern world and its…

Organisational support for effective time management

Lyndon Jones

There is a growth of interest in effective time management. In the main, material on this subject focuses on the role of the individual in ensuring effective management of his…

Cover of Education + Training

ISSN:

0040-0912

Online date, start – end:

1959

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Martin McCracken