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The National Vocational Qualification Framework
The Government established the National Council for Vocational Qualifications last October to carry out two main tasks, as set out in the White Paper Working Together — Education…
The Open College
The Open College is an initiative to bring together broadcasters, educationists and industry to provide vocational education and training for a mass audience. The objective is to…
ACAS Annual Report 1986
The competitive challenges of the marketplace, and the pace of industrial and technological change, set the scene for industrial relations in 1986. The constructive control of…
Engineering Education in Scotland
Alex RankinI will define Higher Education as post‐school studies which are set at a standard above English “A”‐level or Scottish “H”‐grade. Using this definition, engineering courses in…
The Prospect for CACGS
Peter Pierce‐PriceIt is usual to divide Computer‐Assisted Guidance Systems (CAGS) into three broad groups. The first are information‐retrieval systems in which the function of the computer is…
Delegating without Losing Control
Brian WilsonSuccessful delegation occurs only when the manager who is delegating feels comfortable in the degree of delegation which he has allowed. One of the myths of participative…
Another Newcomer to Management
Henry Chilver FRSI think we would have to agree that the words materials handling hardly convey the image of the degree of design complexity or managerial skills involved in today's manufacturing…
Secondary School Improvement — The Primary Aim
Edgar Baker CBEThe Curriculum — Croydon Education Authority. Those Having Torches — Suffolk Education Department (£5.50). Appraisal and Target Setting — D. Trethowan (Harper and Row, £7.95)…
Adult Training for Industry
George WaldenI make no apologies for beginning my Address by looking back briefly over the past few years at what has been happening in the relationship between the DES and the so‐called…
The Ulster Scene
Carmel McQuaidCutting their coat… The content of courses for training technicians at the Belfast College of Technology has not kept pace with the rapid changes in skills needed to fix and…
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