Chris Fitch, Stu Anderson, Vyvyan Kinross, Lionel Joyce and Drew Cormack
Can mainstream business advice agencies on the high street help people with mental health problems set up their own enterprises? The Business Minds demonstration project in…
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Can mainstream business advice agencies on the high street help people with mental health problems set up their own enterprises? The Business Minds demonstration project in Newcastle aimed to find out. Chris Fitch, Stu Anderson, Vyvyan Kinross, Lionel Joyce and Drew Cormack report.
It is no secret that Britain has failed to keep up with most of its European partners in the quantity and quality of both its public and private sector training. For many years…
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It is no secret that Britain has failed to keep up with most of its European partners in the quantity and quality of both its public and private sector training. For many years now, commentators have not been slow to point out that British firms consistently undervalue their most valuable resource — people. There are clear commercial consequences of this policy failure: most notably a lack of international competitiveness, the inability to maximise available skills, a failure to adapt to change, and a pervasive problem with employee morale.
From this issue onwards all major articles appearing in VINE will include an abstract, and I hope that this will be of use to many readers. I am greatly indebted to Gordon Hynd…
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From this issue onwards all major articles appearing in VINE will include an abstract, and I hope that this will be of use to many readers. I am greatly indebted to Gordon Hynd, Information/Research Assistant in Perth and Kinross District Council's Planning Department for agreeing to undertake the task of preparing the abstracts, often from copy of enormous illegibility and at very short notice.