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Our President Reg Prentice entertained members of Council and their guests at dinner at the House of Commons on Tuesday 8 March. Guests of honour, to whom honorary fellowships were presented, were:

A degree is a title conferred by a school to show that a certain course of study has been successfully completed. A diploma is the actual document or certificate that is given to the students as evidence of the awarding of the degree. Diplomas are also awarded for courses of study that do not result in a degree; as, for example, on completion of a programme in real estate management, air conditioning repair, or youth leadership. This can lead to confusion, often intentional, as in the case of someone who says: I earned my diploma at Harvard; meaning that he or she attended a weekend seminar there, at the end of which a Diploma of Completion was awarded.

The following prize‐winners have been announced:

A very successful series of revision lectures for the examinations was arranged by ABE at the Polytechnic of Central London in November.

It hardly seems possible that I have now been in the secretarial chair for six weeks. I am still busy learning the ropes, but hopefully my response time to your enquiries is improving. We continue to have a steady stream of visitors to our office at 3 Station Parade, which I may say we much enjoy. We also get a large number of letters from overseas on a wide variety of subjects. These again we enjoy, particularly as it helps to widen our horizon from the rather narrow outlook of the office and get us out into the world beyond.

We are going to publish as a regular feature of ABE News a series of Questions & Answers to enable students to see the type of questions set in Parts I, II and III of the examinations. In each issue there will be two questions, together with model answers, so that students will see the manner in which the examiner expects that the question should be answered. In this issue we are dealing with Law. The questions and model answers are reproduced with the permission of B. S. Grewal, a council member of ABE, and are taken from his book General Principles of Business Law — Questions & Answers written in conjunction with J. D. de Freitas and published by Castlevale Printers Limited price £3.95 plus 35p. postage (£1.05 airmail).

The Association of Business Executives (ABE) is honoured to have as its Malaysian Branch Patron The Honourable Dato' Musa Hitam, the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister. Other notable personalities actively associated with the Branch are:

The past year has been one of further growth and increased recognition for the Association. The number of new student enrolments was in excess of 3,000, with slightly more than half from the UK.

A New Year message from the Director General. The beginning of a new calendar year is a good time for any organisation not only to review its achievements during the past year, but to look forward and set goals for the year to come.

There is nothing like a baptism of fire to really find out about an organisation and, in the five months since I become Secretary General, I have certainly been baptised. When I wrote my first message for the April Supplement I little thought that before my next contribution I should have undertaken an extensive tour of the Far East, accompanying the Chairman for part of it, that included Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore and involved 72 meetings in 16 days.