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Publication date: 1 January 1974

Barrie Pettman

The period since the Second World War has been one in which almost all Western countries have accepted the maintenance of a high level of employment as one of the first principles…

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The period since the Second World War has been one in which almost all Western countries have accepted the maintenance of a high level of employment as one of the first principles of economic policy. However, this has generally meant, inter alia, shortages of skilled manpower. Of course, Britain is not the only country to have suffered from such shortages nor the only one to be concerned at the apparent inability of the existing voluntary training arrangements to solve the problem. Severe criticisms of the traditional pattern of industry‐based apprenticeship training as the main method of preparing young people for skilled work have been made in Britain on the grounds that such on‐the‐job training was comparatively inefficient, that there was little form of quality control to ensure a reasonable standard of training, and that it fostered restrictive practices by increasing the barriers between one skilled trade and another. Criticisms were also voiced that too many employers were merely content to ‘poach’ skilled labour rather than carry out the necessary training themselves and that formal apprenticeship agreements were mainly limited to males in certain craft trades which tended to deprive females and males entering other occupations of systematic training.

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International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 1 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0306-8293

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Publication date: 1 February 1969

NANCY MORGANS

So in the present day there is only one Industrial Training Act though there are 28 industrial training boards implementing their 28 different versions of it. This is…

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So in the present day there is only one Industrial Training Act though there are 28 industrial training boards implementing their 28 different versions of it. This is understandable. It is indeed inevitable. The Industrial Training Act 1964 invests each individual board with almost complete autonomy to go about its business in the way it chooses. Further, there are no precedents whatsoever for the training boards to follow. Theirs' is a new venture.

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Industrial and Commercial Training, vol. 1 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0019-7858

Article
Publication date: 1 April 1970

Barrie Pettman

Progress under the Industrial Training Act The Industrial Training Act, 1964, has three main objectives: 1. To ensure an adequate supply of properly trained men and women at all…

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Progress under the Industrial Training Act The Industrial Training Act, 1964, has three main objectives: 1. To ensure an adequate supply of properly trained men and women at all levels in industry. 2. To improve the quality and efficiency of training. 3. To share the cost of training more evenly between firms. To achieve these objectives, the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity is empowered to establish Industrial Training Boards and to give these boards certain responsibilities for the promotion of training in any activities of industry or commerce. The boards have three main ways of helping employers in their industries to meet demands for trained manpower: (a)They have the power to raise a levy from employers and to pay grants to those providing training to approved standards. Table 1 shows the latest estimated levy yields of the boards. (b)They issue guidance to their industries, particularly in the form of training recommendations, on the nature, length, content and standards of training for particular employments and on other related matters. (c)They provide training adviser services to employers and, as may be necessary, special facilities such as training centres or training courses.

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Management Decision, vol. 4 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

Article
Publication date: 1 January 1964

John Wellens

IN THESE WORDS the Government describes the Bill's intention. Of itself, the Bill is no guarantee that provisions for industrial training will be improved. It is an enabling Bill…

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IN THESE WORDS the Government describes the Bill's intention. Of itself, the Bill is no guarantee that provisions for industrial training will be improved. It is an enabling Bill: it creates machinery for inaugurating the industrial training boards and confers certain powers upon these boards. But about the big issues, which remain to be solved — certification, length of apprenticeship, the standard of training, selection methods and so on — it has nothing to say, simply because it is an enabling Bill.

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Education + Training, vol. 6 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

Article
Publication date: 1 June 1977

Brian Jarvis

What's Happening? The industrial training boards, as organised at present, are an example of that peculiarly British trait of thinking of a good idea and then modifying it in the…

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What's Happening? The industrial training boards, as organised at present, are an example of that peculiarly British trait of thinking of a good idea and then modifying it in the interests of “pragmatism” and “individual freedom” so that it becomes ineffective. As a nation we seem to believe that a collection of tactical initiatives added together equal a total strategy. They do not. As conceived, ITBs were intended to ensure an adequate supply of trained personnel at all levels of British industry, to secure an improvement in the standard of industrial training and to share the cost of training more equitably amongst firms. In other words, they were meant to make a very direct contribution to industrial efficiency and economic growth.

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Journal of European Industrial Training, vol. 1 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0590

Article
Publication date: 1 October 1970

JT YOUNG

The appearance of a memorandum prepared by the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions, together with the Association of Principals of Technical Institutions, on…

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The appearance of a memorandum prepared by the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions, together with the Association of Principals of Technical Institutions, on relations between colleges and the representatives of Industry Training Boards, gives public recognition, at least by implication if not by direct statement, to difficulties which have for some time existed in the working of the 1964 Industrial Training Act. A year ago, W. M. MacQueen referred to evidence which suggested that … the Industrial Training Act is being misinterpreted to the detriment of our technical education service and consequently of our industry, and more recently, EDUCATION, the official journal of the Association of Education Committees, commented that Resentment against the training officers attached to industry training boards has been steadily hotting up in colleges of further education. Some of them, the technical teachers say privately, are butting in like self‐styled HMIs, and presuming too far to tell the teachers their business. And some local authorities, the teachers allege, instead of defending the teachers, have been turning a blind eye to the interference because of the undeniable financial benefits which accrue to the education service from investment by industry.

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Industrial and Commercial Training, vol. 2 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0019-7858

Article
Publication date: 1 October 1973

An Act to establish public authorities concerned with arrangements for persons to obtain employment and with arrangements for training for employment and to make provision as to…

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An Act to establish public authorities concerned with arrangements for persons to obtain employment and with arrangements for training for employment and to make provision as to the functions of the authorities; to authorise the Secretary of State to provide temporary employment for unemployed persons; to amend the Industrial Training Act 1964 and the law relating to the provision by education authorities of services relating to employment; and for purposes connected with those matters. [25th July 1973]

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Managerial Law, vol. 15 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0558

Article
Publication date: 1 March 1968

In the course of the Commons debate on manpower training for industry, the Minister of Labour, Mr Ray Gunter, said that in the three and a half years since the first training

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In the course of the Commons debate on manpower training for industry, the Minister of Labour, Mr Ray Gunter, said that in the three and a half years since the first training boards were set up under the Industrial Training Act, there had been unprecedented progress in the development of industrial training. A total of 21 Boards had now been established. Plans to set up another five Boards during 1968 were well advanced. By the end of this year 16 million work‐people would be covered by Boards, out of the 18 million that were estimated to be within the scope of the Act.

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Education + Training, vol. 10 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

Article
Publication date: 1 July 1970

AC WISE

Group training for clerical workers the concept in practice The Upper Thames Area Committee of BACIE set up a working party on clerical training in the summer of 1967 to examine…

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Group training for clerical workers the concept in practice The Upper Thames Area Committee of BACIE set up a working party on clerical training in the summer of 1967 to examine the provisions made for the training of clerical staff within the industrial, commercial and public service organisations in the Upper Thames Area, and to make suggestions and recommendations on clerical training to BACIE and other interested bodies. The working party members were training officers from 16 industrial, commercial and research institutions, and representatives of the six local colleges. Later a training officer from BACIE and a training officer from the EITB joined the working party. First a questionnaire was sent out to 172 organisations in the area asking for information about commercial and clerical training provided during the academic year 1966–67. From the 80 replies received a detailed analysis of commercial and clerical training in the area was prepared and published.

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Industrial and Commercial Training, vol. 2 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0019-7858

Article
Publication date: 1 January 1982

PETER LOMAX

It is in the belief that the Secretary of State for Employment's call for new thinking about industrial training needs to include the views and experience of professional…

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It is in the belief that the Secretary of State for Employment's call for new thinking about industrial training needs to include the views and experience of professional industrial trainers that this article has been prepared. The object of the article is to broaden the scope of the debate and to set out constructive ideas about: • The principles and objectives of industrial training • Methods of achieving these objectives • Establishing national training standards

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Industrial and Commercial Training, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0019-7858

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