Education + Training: Volume 33 Issue 1

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Science and Technology Education: A Comparison of British and American Approaches

Ian Abbott

A comparison from the author′s recent visits to a High School forScience and Technology situated in a prosperous area with low level ofunemployment in the USA, and a City…

Making Secondments Work

Wilson Longden

An extract from a guide for tutors in Further Education Colleges ispresented. The guide was produced as a result of a research project onbehalf of the RSA′s Education for…

Education for Wealth Creation

David Sainsbury

The relationship between declining economic performance and thefailures of our educational system has been apparent for over a hundredyears. One key factor which determines a…

Information Technology in Personnel Management: Teaching Computer‐based Training

Richard Holden, John Thackray

An innovative programme to teach postgraduate students studying fora Diploma in Personnel Management the skills of creating computer‐basedtraining material is described. Key…

Staff Induction Scheme: The Portman Inter‐continental Hotel

Dee Cayhill

Current demographics demonstrate clearly that the number of youngpeople entering Britain′s job market will be severely reduced in thenear future. Hoteliers rely very heavily on…

Language Skills: Is Reactive Training Enough?

Derrik Ferney

If business people are to have the language skills to compete inthe Single European Market, these must be taught in further and highereducation, along with business and technical…

BTEC: Sounding from the “Central Engine Room”

Roy Fisher

BTEC courses have not always been accorded the status for which theBusiness and Technician Education Council would have hoped. Aspects ofthe climate into which the precursor BEC…

Cover of Education + Training

ISSN:

0040-0912

Online date, start – end:

1959

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Martin McCracken