Education + Training: Volume 23 Issue 2

Improving the selection interview

Ruth Holdsworth

Whether interviewers are selecting students for courses, or applicants for jobs, they are likely to find themselves in the paradoxical situation of being fairly confident in a…

Behavioural modelling — training by demonstration

Lyndon Jones

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a demonstration by a model is probably worth several thousand. For example, take the man who visits a Chinese restaurant and is unable to…

Bank management

Geoffrey License

So you want to be a bank manager. Well, why not? but why do you want to be a bank manager?

Designing courses for horses in the student stakes

Ian Butcher

If you are not a teacher who likes to run through a course‐book like a railway timetable, generating about the same amount of interest from your students, and if you don't have to…

Undervaluing the engineering profession

Stephen Cotgrove, Andrew Duff

The Finniston Committee Report attaches considerable importance to the part played by British culture in the recognition and social standing of the engineer. There is nothing new…

Cost‐effective communication

Ronnie Roter

Historians are well aware that adversity concentrates the mind most wonderfully. In the current business climate the best managers are finding that recession is having the same…

The job impact of information technology in the office

Bill Allen OBE

The project was designed to examine the impact which new microprocessor‐based office technologies would have on staff. Despite the rapid growth in office employment to…