Education + Training: Volume 28 Issue 5

Viewpoint: End of an era

For some time the need for a new professional body had been apparent to a group of industrialists, educationists and politicians. After British Institute of Management ceased to…

Examination philosophy — or: They shall not pass

Lyndon Jones, Michael Knight, Don Fiddes

It is much easier to get a degree than a professional qualification in business studies. Many factors can contribute to the difference in success rates achieved on these two types…

Review of Vocational Qualifications

A National Council for Vocational Qualifications should be set up by the autumn to provide a sharp national focus for reforming the complex and often confusing system of…

Updating for Business Stressmanship

Open BTEC and Macmillan Education have joined forces to launch a major new training initiative which will break down traditional barriers to the continuing education and training…

Letting the mountain come to Mahomet

David Henderson

Since the present economic depression started with the oil crisis of the early 1970s, managers and employers have been regularly requested by sundry politicians to ensure that…

Careers:: COURSES

A new system of ‘A’‐level grading to resolve the long‐standing problem of the narrow mark range of Grade C will come into force for the Summer 1987 examinations, and according to…

ABE SUPPLEMENT

The Malaysian Institute of Training & Development held their Annual General Meeting on 16 March and elected the following office bearers:

Student section

All students should note that if they have any query on their examination results they are required to quote in all correspondence their examination number, examination centre and…

Careers:: TRAINING

The City & Guilds of London Institute welcomes the Report and Recommendations of the RVQ Working Group as a major contribution to the continuing development of a more rational…

Taking the Assessment Centre road

Robert Sheldon

If a large company is not to become a dinosaur it must foresee the need for change, not least in personnel practices, and must have staff to do this and help bring in new ways.