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Viewpoint: It's time to publish a “Witch Doctor?”
Annually, a substantial number of persons purchase bogus degrees. In some cases, the aim is outright fraud. The buyer believes that the bogus qualification will help him to obtain…
BEC — an agent for change
Kenneth LysonsThe creation of the Technician and Business Education Councils was recommended by the Committee, under the chairmanship of Dr H. L. Haslegrave, appointed by the National Advisory…
Personal organisation for effective time management
Lyndon JonesManagers tend to be victims of their own habit patterns. But with improved personal organisation more effective time management readily ensues. However breaking a bad habit…
ABEnews
CHANGES TO ABE EXAMINATIONS A professional organisation such as ABE has to keep its examination structure under constant review to ensure that holders of the Certificate, Diploma…
Student section
A QUESTION On 1 January 1973 Knight, Bishop and Pawn were in partnership as architects on the following terms:
BEC and the accounting technician
Tony Sainsbury VRDThe Association of Accounting Technicians has a particularly close connection with BEC. It is quite fortuitous that its first President, Mike Lickiss, was also Chairman of the…
The role of work experience in BEC National Awards
This is an edited version of a Report to Centres contained in the Third Annual Review of Standards (1981) issued by the Business Education Council)
Careers:: COURSES
Education‐industry link schemes give teachers and pupils valuable insights into the conditions, problems, opportunities and challenges that arise in the wider working world, said…
Careers:: TOPICS
Pupils from 23 secondary schools in North Yorkshire have taken part in the Design and Make Competition, a contest organised by York & District Schools and Industry Project to…
Careers:: TRAINING
A Manpower Services Commission study of the training currently offered — and its effectiveness — for staff who operate, manage or make use of text processing systems has revealed…
Are they really interested?
Ruth HoldsworthEducational wastage, in respect of students failing successfully to complete their course in the time assigned (either by dropping‐out, failing, or resitting) is a matter of…
Communication failure at undergraduate level
Philip HobshaumThe system of study in Glasgow University is that every student undergoes two years reading in general subjects at a relatively elementary level, something akin to sixth‐form work…
Where to draw the line in business studies
The central focus of business studies courses is the business enterprise. By means of lectures, seminars, case studies, role play and the rest, students are instructed on the…
COMPUTERS IN INDIA
The attainment of independence in 1947 by India was followed by a period of rapid industrialisation aimed at converting an agriculture‐based economy into a highly industrial one…
Business skills for student engineers
Denis RookeEngineers are the agents of technological change in society; and the nation's prosperity depends on the success of their efforts. They help to generate the wealth we need to…
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