The UK's dismal training record is compared with those of West Germany, the USA and Japan. The author then looks at certain questions that need to be answered by all companies in…
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The UK's dismal training record is compared with those of West Germany, the USA and Japan. The author then looks at certain questions that need to be answered by all companies in order to assess their commitment to training provision.
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On the 9th July 1981 Geoffrey Holland, Director of Special Programmes, Manpower Services Commission, addressed the Biennial Conference of the Industrial Training Research Unit in…
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On the 9th July 1981 Geoffrey Holland, Director of Special Programmes, Manpower Services Commission, addressed the Biennial Conference of the Industrial Training Research Unit in Cambridge. There follows a verbatim transcription of his speech. The speech is worth studying in detail. In the first place it is the best exposition of MSC policy (Government policy?) to have been publicly presented so far, so much so that it will create a great deal of sympathy and good‐will for what MSC is trying to do and the way they are tackling their task. In its selection of statistics alone, and its sparing though effective use of them, it is an object lesson in communication. But the interest will extend beyond the technical mastery of the subject and how to present it. What marks this speech out from the common rut is the openness which Holland displays which is quite unusual for a civil servant.
The link between training and industrial competitiveness was emphasised in earlier articles by Geoffrey Holland and Jenny Bacon in this journal. This is also the message which…
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The link between training and industrial competitiveness was emphasised in earlier articles by Geoffrey Holland and Jenny Bacon in this journal. This is also the message which underlies current developments on youth training in Britain. From next April the Youth Training Scheme — introduced in 1983 to provide foundation training for school leavers — will be extended to give all 16 and 17 year olds entering the labour market the opportunity to obtain a vocational qualification.
Covent Garden and Les Halles have three things in common: In the sixties they were both dominated by busy wholesale markets, by the seventies the produce markets had moved out…
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Covent Garden and Les Halles have three things in common: In the sixties they were both dominated by busy wholesale markets, by the seventies the produce markets had moved out, and by 1980 both sites had been transformed, but in very different ways. Stephen Wood compares the development of these two exciting ventures in a paper presented to the PTRC Summer Annual Meeting at Warwick.
Nine out of ten companies in Britain have no accurate idea of how much they actually spend on staff training, and a similar figure applies in the public sector. Without knowing…
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Nine out of ten companies in Britain have no accurate idea of how much they actually spend on staff training, and a similar figure applies in the public sector. Without knowing what you are spending on traditional methods, how on earth can you assess the economic benefit of the sort of up‐to‐date training methods which are now available, and which you can really effectively cost and budget?
According to Geoffrey Holland, Director of the Manpower Services Commission, the time has come for major changes in the field of careers education and advice. School‐leavers…
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According to Geoffrey Holland, Director of the Manpower Services Commission, the time has come for major changes in the field of careers education and advice. School‐leavers, faced with a difficult and rapidly changing employment market, will no longer have to decide immediately which specific job to go for. Instead they will be able to choose between staying on in full‐time education or going out to learn. If the latter is chosen, young people will learn not one particular skill but a group. Twelve of these occupational training families, which group together activities with common ingredients, are identified in the MSC's Youth Training Scheme, which aims to provide places for 460,000 youngsters in its first year. This will alter profoundly what careers education does and what the Careers Service does, and require a radical re‐think of what careers information is produced and the way it is handled. It is a key change for parents and their children, because the choices that will face them in the future will be different; and it is important that they understand those choices and the consequences of them. In response, the MSC's Careers & Occupational Information Centre (COIC) would move away from information about narrow job areas and put the accent on choices, self‐help, and the consequences of options.
How the UK Compares with Other Countries In 1981, when the Manpower Services Commission (MSC) launched its New Training Initiative, only 30 per cent — three out of ten—of all…
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How the UK Compares with Other Countries In 1981, when the Manpower Services Commission (MSC) launched its New Training Initiative, only 30 per cent — three out of ten—of all young people in Britain aged 17 were participating in full‐time education or training. The comparable figure for 17 year olds in the United States was 87 per cent, in Japan 87 per cent, and in West Germany (in the “dual” system) 89 per cent. Our participation rate at age 17 was by far the lowest of any developed country.
It is the exception rather than the rule for a firm in this country to treat investment in people on a par with investment in technology, plant or machinery. Technologies in which…
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It is the exception rather than the rule for a firm in this country to treat investment in people on a par with investment in technology, plant or machinery. Technologies in which firms invest can be the same the world over. What marks the difference in a competitive world is the results that people can produce with those technologies, plant, machinery or equipment.
The national priorities for action in adult learning are reviewed. A new structure of vocational qualifications is being established and there is major development in open and…
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The national priorities for action in adult learning are reviewed. A new structure of vocational qualifications is being established and there is major development in open and distance learning. High priority should be given to the development of leaders and managers, and those with technological qualifications. There is a need for more commitment to training from employers, trade unions and individuals.
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The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains…
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The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains features to help the reader to retrieve relevant literature from MCB University Press' considerable output. Each entry within has been indexed according to author(s) and the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus. The latter thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid retrieval. Each article or book is assigned its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. This Volume indexes 29 journals indicating the depth, coverage and expansion of MCB's portfolio.