Education + Training: Volume 34 Issue 7

Enterprise Education and Training: Dimensions of Course Design

Edwin G. Nelson

Presents a case study and a model for course design in enterpriseeducation and training. The model features three main stages (context orenvironment appraisal, commitment to…

Achieving Quality Standards for Open Learning: BS 5750 at Wolsey Hall

Peter Newell

Briefly reviews the BS 5750 quality standard as applied to anorganization, emphasizing the importance of internal (departmental) aswell as external customers. Emphasizes also that…

Women Managers – The Way Forward?

Lesley Whittaker

Discusses the barriers to women′s advancement, identifying the“male equals management” paradigm as a constraint. Alsoconsiders the implications of women′s role in the family…

Implementing Training and Development Standards: Part 2: Gaining Centre Approval

Maureen Scholefield

The second in a series of articles. Sets out the seven key areas oforganizational competence described in the City and Guilds CentreApproval and Monitoring Guidelines for…

Infusing Management Training into Education: The Young Manager Programme

Malcolm Hewitt, Kate Phillips

Describes the Young Manager Programme, and the approach of aleading company, Safeway Stores plc, for using this to increase itseducation links. Addresses the need for…

Personal Development Portfolios: A Mechanism for Integrating Quality in Business Education

Gerard McElwee, Adrian Evans

Control of quality is being shifted from academics to otheragencies, particularly employers and Government. Suggests that the roleof students is changing as expectations of, for…

Preparing for the New Europe: An Education/Industry Initiative

Andy Wilkinson

Reviews Industrial Society education/industry initiatives, focusedon their “Challenge of Europe” conference, to encouragesixth‐formers, in particular, to find out more about…