Vocational and nonvocational continuing education needs of vocational school graduates and other industrial workers are evaluated, along with the special needs of union representatives. (LY)

This address reviews successes achieved during the 1960s in several areas of British industrial training. It then discusses problems and opportunities relating to levy and grant policies, training methods, retraining, commercial training, and industrial relations training. (LY)

While voicing industry's general support for the Industrial Training Act, the chairman of the Education and Training Committee of the Confederation of British Industry points out several shortcomings relating to administrative costs, the levy and grant system, and other operational aspects. (LY)

The City Librarian of the Manchester Public Libraries, England, evaluates management's approach to training. Generally speaking, management is concerned with production and profits, and views training (especially the training boards and their levy schemes) as merelya hindrance to organizational progress. (Editor/LY)

Describes the training programs that IBM offers its staff and its customers. (IRT)

The author gives five impressions on the state of evaluation of training programs in industry. He takes the position that evaluation is given short shrift. (IRT)

Discusses the relationship between learning and knowledge management in corporate training which forms the framework for the development of an effective learning management system (LMS). Highlights include a theoretical analysis; examples of how training issues are connected to other processes; corporate universities; and the functionalities that…

Examines Internet use in trade union education in Europe as seen through the participation of trade union confederations and worker education organizations in the ETUE-net II (European Trade Union Education Network). Discusses the Internet as a topic of training, for delivering training, and in the mediation of changing relationships between union…

Purpose: Utilising data from 18 in-depth case studies, this study seeks to explore training, development and human resource development (HRD) practices in European call centres. It aims to argue that the complexity and diversity of training, development and HRD practices is best understood by studying the multilayered contexts within which call…