Education + Training: Volume 30 Issue 2

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EDITORIAL — BAKER USES HIS LOAF

Derek Bradley

The Education Reform Bill 1987, described by Education Secretary Kenneth Baker as a charter for better education, consists in Part II of provisions relating to higher and further…

EDUCATIONAL WATCHDOGS

Edgar Baker

Our regular contributor Edgar Baker CBE, former Staff HMI in Business Studies, looks at a trio of books covering the maintenance of standards throughout the British educational…

MANAGEMENT EDUCATION SEEKS AN ACT OF FAITH

The fastest growing business school in Britain today, the International Management Centre from Buckingham (IMCB), has deposited its own Private Bill in Parliament seeking…

MANAGEMENT EDUCATION — FUTURE NEEDS: I

It is not too much to say that we are looking to a revolution in management development, education, and training. In the last two years or so there has been a growing realisation…

LCCI TELLS THE GOVERNMENT

The London Chamber of Commerce & Industry has made a critical response to the Government's two Consultative Papers: Admission of Pupils to Maintained Schools and Financial

GRADUATE RECRUITMENT PROCEDURES IN THE ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSION

Richard Taffler, Jane Harvey‐Cook

In 1986 6,200 students entered into training contracts under the aegis of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, of whom nine out of ten were graduates, making…

LEARNING WITHOUT FRONTIERS

The International Education and Training Exhibition, DIDACTA 88, was held in the halls of the Swiss Industries Fair in Basel under the above theme from 2–6 February. This…

LOOKING TO THE USA FOR A NEW PRECEDENT

Humphrey Shaw

The Years of the Great Depression had been characterised by individual countries devaluing their currencies in the foreign exchange market. The rationale behind their thinking was…

THE DESIGNER AS ENTREPRENEUR

Andrew Morris

I represent the typical client — a user of interior and graphic design resources for most of my business life and, today, a promoter of contract design products through our…

MANAGEMENT EDUCATION — FUTURE NEEDS: 2

Philip Sadler

Philip Sadler, Principal of Ashridge Management College, calls for a new co‐ordinating agency for management education in this article originally written for the human resources…

CAREERS

The MSC are to give priority to tackling literacy and numeracy problems among adults, which are thought to affect an estimated one in seven of the labour force — some three…

AUDIO VISUAL AIDS

The first Scottish Young Persons National Video Competition 1988, arranged by the Scottish Council for Educational Technology and the Scottish Community Education Council, will

NEWSBRIEFS

Sixty employing organisations, chosen from 1,143 entrants, became the winners of the first award scheme of its kind.

Cover of Education + Training

ISSN:

0040-0912

Online date, start – end:

1959

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Martin McCracken