In the editorial leader of our previous issue reference was made to the possibility of certain ITBs phasing down their levy‐grant activities. How does an ITB carry out its…
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In the editorial leader of our previous issue reference was made to the possibility of certain ITBs phasing down their levy‐grant activities. How does an ITB carry out its responsibilities without using the levy‐grant machinery as an instrument of pressure? We invited the Electricity Supply ITB to explain how they do so
The author, a member of the Industrial Training Council, analyses the essential purposes of education and training in industry and outlines the main features of a policy which…
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The author, a member of the Industrial Training Council, analyses the essential purposes of education and training in industry and outlines the main features of a policy which would be applicable in any sizeable industrial undertaking. The photographs illustrate industrial and commercial training in the electricity supply industry.
WORDS, the currency of human thought, are easily debased. Frequent repetition can empty them of serious meaning. Rightly used they can, with the brevity and directness of a road…
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WORDS, the currency of human thought, are easily debased. Frequent repetition can empty them of serious meaning. Rightly used they can, with the brevity and directness of a road sign, provide the pith of a subject. Only when they are widely adopted and used as a label to stick on every package do they lose significance.
A special committee has been appointed by the Central Training Council to consider the problems of the recruitment and training of training officers. It is composed partly of…
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A special committee has been appointed by the Central Training Council to consider the problems of the recruitment and training of training officers. It is composed partly of members of the Council and partly of others with special qualifications.
A committee of enquiry to look into the question of stimulating the development of day release from employment of young people under 18 years of age has been set up by the…
The role of the Youth Service in integrating immigrant teenagers into the community is to be examined by a committee of the Youth Service Development Council, set up by Mr Denis…
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The role of the Youth Service in integrating immigrant teenagers into the community is to be examined by a committee of the Youth Service Development Council, set up by Mr Denis Howell, Joint Parliamentary Under‐Secretary of State for Education and Science. The committee — which will consist of Sir John Hunt as Chairman, Mr Stuart Hall of Birmingham University, Dr J. Klein from the University of Sussex, The Rev F. Milson, Westhill College of Education, Birmingham, and Mr P. Stevenson, a youth field worker in Bristol — will be considering how to stimulate the interest of young immigrants in the Youth Service and how to make it more attractive to them. It will try to promote a greater understanding and readier acceptance of the immigrants by present members of youth clubs and organizations.
The theme of the thirty‐fifth Annual Conference of ASLIB, held at Brighton from 28th to 30th September, was ‘Research in Special Library and Information Work’. Because of his…
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The theme of the thirty‐fifth Annual Conference of ASLIB, held at Brighton from 28th to 30th September, was ‘Research in Special Library and Information Work’. Because of his sudden illness Lord Verulam was unfortunately unable to give his Presidential address. In his place, at very short notice, Professor. J. D. Bernal gave a talk on the importance of all library and information centres being organised with the user in mind. The idea of storing information, of collecting publications to preserve thereby the history of scientific knowledge on any subject was not the purpose of the library and information units run by members of ASLIB. Their aim was to be part — and a very valuable part —of the communication system whereby the latest knowledge was fed to the research worker.
Mr Norman Longley, Chairman of the CITB, helped by his two senior assistants, Mr E. F. L. Brech, Chief Executive, and Mr H. B. Verity, Secretary, held a press conference recently…
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Mr Norman Longley, Chairman of the CITB, helped by his two senior assistants, Mr E. F. L. Brech, Chief Executive, and Mr H. B. Verity, Secretary, held a press conference recently for the purpose of presenting a summary of progress, to announce the rate of levy for 1966/67 and to give advance information of the Board's proposals to the Minister for the new grants scheme to take effect as from 1st August 1966. But equally important, said Mr Longley, its purpose was also to enlist the aid of the trade press in putting over to the industry the whole aim and intention behind the Board's work. If the story going the rounds is true, that one of the Board's advisory inspectors, finding the director of the — not so small — firm on whom he had called not available, was asked to leave a sample and call back the following week, there seems to be plenty of room for training at management level.
Central Training Council Members Twenty‐eight members of the Central Training Council were named by the Minister of Labour on 6th May. In addition to Mr Lindley and Mr Longley…
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Central Training Council Members Twenty‐eight members of the Central Training Council were named by the Minister of Labour on 6th May. In addition to Mr Lindley and Mr Longley, four other chairmen of industrial training boards will be appointed to the Council, but the Minister is keeping these seats in hand until boards have been appointed to cover a wider range of industry.
The Education Committee of the TUC in general welcomes the Minister's proposals.