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The Address given by the chairman of the Construction Industry Training Board to the Conference of the Institute of Municipal Building Management in October. He comments on the need for stability in the policy approach to industrial training and in the funding of it.

Since the first Volume of this Bibliography there has been an explosion of literature in all the main areas of business. The researcher and librarian have to be able to uncover specific articles devoted to certain topics. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume III, in addition to the annotated list of articles as the two previous volumes, contains further features to help the reader. Each entry within has been indexed according to the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus and thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid information retrieval. Each article has its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. The first Volume of the Bibliography covered seven journals published by MCB University Press. This Volume now indexes 25 journals, indicating the greater depth, coverage and expansion of the subject areas concerned.

In a world dominated by change and uncertainty, the emphasis in education and training is likely to shift towards helping people to identify and pursue their learning needs, said Dr. Ron Johnson, Manpower Services Com‐mission Director of Training, addressing a conference on Training for Change in the 80s.

Women without skills who want to go back to work after lengthy spells of domestic life are to be given more chances to find out what they can do, and how to go about it, by the Manpower Services Commission. Recent experimental Wider Opportunities for Women courses in Birmingham and Cardiff were highly successful; as a result, further courses are planned from this Autumn at Bath, Birminhgam, Cardiff, Coventry, Harrow, Hendon, Leeds, Oxford, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Stockton/Billingham. During the courses, which lasted from four to six weeks full‐time and eight to twelve weeks part‐time, women were encouraged to identify their own aptitudes by trying out various skills ranging from office work, hairdressing, and canteen work to typewriter repair, carpentry, and capstan lathe operating. Though based mainly at colleges of further education, participants were able to sample various jobs on employers' premises and at MSC skillcentres; this gave them the chance to explore areas of employment and training they might never have thought of before going on the course.

IT took Sir Montague Finniston and his team two years and over £400,000 to come up with a solution to the shortage of and poor status of engineers. This does them no credit at all; and underlines if indeed it were necessary to do so, the objections raised in many quarters of the suggestion that yet another quango should provide that answer.

THE army of young unemployed is a blot on our civilisation. That much would be agreed by all. That nothing very positive is being done about it is also all too evident.

THERE are signs that are only too welcome that the workers of the world, tired of or fearful of continual depression, are at last prepared to take positive steps towards their solution.

IT SEEMS natural that at the commencement of each New Year people look backward and forward. They assess their achievements during the year that is gone and try to make some sort of forecast of the future.

Sir Derek Ezra, Chairman of the National Coal Board, calls for transitional training for school‐leavers.

In setting up training recommendations and introducing new concepts to craft training, the Construction Industry Training Board and its staff fortunately broke with tradition and, armed with a timely survey report of construction occupations by the Building Research Station, courageously by‐passed a maze of committees and organisations to develop a new plan of training for construction operatives. When the plan was presented for adoption in June of 1968 it was received with some dismay and hostility by some Board and Building Committee members but was allowed to proceed on a pilot basis. Original plans were scaled down and the mechanical engineering services course was deferred for a year, but a break‐through had been made and a chance for meaningful change and progress was at hand. The year 1968/69 was to be a crucial one for the future of building craft training.