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Viewpoint: Liberty still calls for licensing
There is complete liberty in this country for anyone to set up a teaching institution and run a private school or college, irrespective of any relevant qualification. The State…
Topics
We have been trying to locate this misleadingly‐named institution which, in June 1983, was using a letterheading bearing the addtess 37 Canvedish Street, London WIN 2DR and a…
Information Technology skills shortage
Parry RogersThe focal point of the Information Technology Skills shortage problem has been the Butcher committee, which first met in June of 1984. This Department of Trade & Industry…
Technical training is not enough
David Giles“We need a change of attitude”, I read or hear some Captain of Industry or Managing Director say in a television interview. So I am encouraged to share with those who are…
ABE SUPPLEMENT
A very successful series of revision lectures for the examinations was arranged by ABE at the Polytechnic of Central London in November.
The product life cycle — fact or myth?
Alan MarklewIt would be surprising if anyone connected with marketing — manager, academic or student — was not familiar with the concept of the Product Life Cycle. Thus a brief resumé only is…
Behaviour modelling — a needs based approach
Harm SwierengaThe BEMO‐training model is extracted from clinical psychologists who have been following the lead of Bandura, Wolpe and others in teaching people how to behave adaptively. The…
Careers:: COURSES
Details of a new scheme and qualification for young people, the Certificate of Pre‐Vocational Education (C P VE), were published last month by the Joint Board for Pre‐Vocational…
Careers:: TRAINING
Peter Morrison, Minister of State for Employment, addressing the Engineering Employer's Federation in London, said:
Training unadulterated
Bryan NicholsonBritain will loose its place in world markets and fail to meet the challeges of new technologies unless we train our workforce. That is the message of a major campaign announced…
Standard bearers in the private sector
Donald J. GoldThe Association for the Recognition of Business Schools (ARBS) was established in 1983 following the decision by the Department of Education & Science to discontinue the…
Diploma Mills — Part 1: Origin and growth
Lyndon JonesI have been rather concerned recently to read of the growing number of bogus degrees available in this country. It is difficult to know just how many degree mills there are, as…
Maximising staff resources
Sue BancroftDespite the many modern labour‐saving devices in use today, personnel costs remain the largest single item for most companies. The severe world economic recession has therefore…
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