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″Learning Pays″
Christopher BallThis article considers why three in ten of UK 16‐year‐olds drop outof formal education, most never to return. It argues that the issue isof critical importance for economic…
Flexible Management Training Provision in Parcelforce
G.D. MossThe study reports the views of Parcelforce managers who areundertaking training programmes using distance learning strategies. Theprogrammes of study are well received by all of…
Contextualising Standards: Making Competence‐based Systems Work In and For an Organisation
Shirley FletcherWhitbread plc′s cellar service function has overcome the obstacleswhich many organisations feel that the NVQ system presents. Criticismsabout ″bureaucracy″ are often, and perhaps…
″My God, Isn′t This Like Real Life!″: Learning Lessons in the Outdoors
Barclays Bank Graduate Management TraineesThis account of a week‐long outdoor management development courseat Skern Lodge in North Devon was written by the trainees for regionalpublication to their non‐participative…
Enterprise Education Experience: A Manual for School‐based In‐service Training
Judi CottonThe Enterprise Education Experience Manual was developed by DurhamUniversity Business School. It gives practical help and advice to thosewithin schools whose task it is to…
Computer Literacy at the University of Bradford
Lawrence Hamburg, Paul HelmIt would be wrong to assume that incoming undergraduates in the1990s are already in possession of computer skills. The University ofBradford has recognised that all students, no…
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