Training for the small business: An interesting innovation in New Jersey

Abstract

For some years now, Management Studies Departments in polytechnics and technical colleges in Britain have encountered pressures to provide specific courses for the small business. Such pressures emanate from major national studies, such as the Bolton Report, ad hoc inquiries from particular enterprises, occasional contacts from Employers' Associations, and the aspirations of individual members of staff to develop work in that particular field. Moreover regular harangues from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of the Department of Education and Science are levelled at heads of departments through conferences and personal contacts to pay due attention to the needs of small businesses. Within course planning and development, the point is justifiably made that the resources obtained from public money financing the further and higher education sector should flow to small concerns as much as to large public corporations.

Citation

Lowndes, R. (1976), "Training for the small business: An interesting innovation in New Jersey", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 8-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003514