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Viewpoint: Sweet charity?
Tim Renton MP, Parliamentary Under‐Secretary for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs, spoke in February this year to the London Conference on Overseas Students about Government Policy…
Erratum
This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb016884. When citing the article, please…
Diploma Mills — Part 8: Government action and inaction (continued)
Lyndon JonesDuring the early 1970s the author was instrumental in interesting a number of Members of Parliament in the subject of diploma mills, and the matter reached the floor of the House…
Business Communications
Robert SheldonI was glad when ABE Chairman Lyndon Jones suggested that I should write this series. Within and between business organisations, communications are the integrating force which…
Student section
Examiners Reports — June 1985 Business Communications — Certificate Part I Q. 1 Using your own words write a summary of the following passage. Try to do so in not more than 120…
Beyond the classroom
John RoseA report from Deliotte Haskins and Sells warns independent schools to take PR advice on future management policies if they are to survive against the maintained sector of…
Careers:: COURSES
The Engineering Council's recently published policy Standards and routes to registration for qualified engineers is a major step in the process of upgrading the profession as a…
Careers:: TOPICS
Behavioural consistency Biodata, a relatively new system of screening job applications, was recommended at the Standing Conference of Employers of Graduates (SCOEG) held in…
Careers:: TRAINING
The training division of the Institute of Marketing is being restructured under the title of IM Marketing Training to provide a comprehensive range of training services to meet…
Learning to write right
Edgar CBE BakerEnglish grammar compared to that of other European languages is simple, but some of this simplicity can be deceptive. In the 1920s two Cambridge scholars, I. A. Richards and C. K…
Management in action
Peter LawrenceBusiness and management undergraduates expect to join an administrative machine and become its systems monitors. The textbooks lead them to expect this. But it is not what…
Organising yourself to communicate
Robert SheldonAll aspects of business life necessitate organisation, and communication is no exception. Self‐organisation implies thinking out how best to accomplish one's tasks, and then doing…
Training — the way ahead
This report appeared recently in The Financial Times and suggests that a future hope now exists that the great divide between technological and technician qualifications may yet…
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