Education + Training: Volume 22 Issue 5

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Viewpoint: Plateau du jour — food for thought

A high percentage of managers, teachers and administrators are plateaued — they are at a point in their career when the likelihood of additional hierarchical promotion is probably…

Modern languages — a BEC soft option?

Derrick Ferney

The publication of major reports by the British Overseas Trade Board and the Royal Society of Arts last year represents a flurry of official activity at the long dormant interface…

Eliminate the negative and accentuate the positive

Lyndon Jones

There is increased awareness of the importance of improving productivity, and a growing number of organisations are experimenting with behaviour modification programmes. IBM…

Let 'em all learn EFL — 1

Edgar Baker CBE

Should we learn modern languages? If so, why? The answers to these questions would be simple in the minds of those whose mother tongue does not extend beyond the national…

Careers:: TRAINING

No call for further education Manchester fur manufacturer Michael Edelson offered school leavers the opportunity to earn 28 a week while training in the fur trade at his factory…

Careers:: TOPICS

Geordie gondoliers

The steam yacht Gondola has taken to the waters of Lake Coniston for the first time in nearly 20 years, thanks to the efforts of a group of unemployed youngsters from Tyneside…

Careers:: COURSES

The Office of the Future can be simply defined as the bringing together of all means of communications — voice, text, data images and graphics — into one co‐ordinated system…

DES News Releases

Mark Carlisle

The DES recently invited comments on Professor Keohane's recommendation that a Certificate of Extended Education (CEE) should be established for young people with modest…

ABEnews

Tom Coffin

An article on a survey carried out in the USA some years ago indicated the following reasons why businessman “went bust”, “folded up” or “ceased to trade”.

Lloyd's of London

Bill Allen OBE

This famous establishment is unique among the world's insurance organizations. It is an international market whose members cooperate with each other, compete against each other…

Hey Prestel!

Prestel, the Post Office's viewdata service launched in 1979 in London, Birmingham and Nottingham, links TV set, telephone, and computer to provide instant access in home or…

The communication chord — a vital link

William O. Penrose

Anyone who teaches or thinks is communicating. Therefore teachers must find out if they are getting their messages across to their students, and if their students are responding…

The spelling syndrome

Bert Canning

Get half a dozen executives talking together, and it will not be long before the topic of spelling comes up — and in particular how bad the secretarial staff are at it. The title…

Let 'em all learn EFL — 2

Ian Butcher

In a world where an increasingly high proportion of business is conducted in English, it is becoming extremely important for company personnel to be operational in that language…

Uneasy riders

Gerry Fowler

The recent controversy about school transport charges should not be buried and forgotten until we have drawn some conclusions from it. They may be of as much interest to those…

Cover of Education + Training

ISSN:

0040-0912

Online date, start – end:

1959

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Martin McCracken