Guidelines on incorporating outside training into a management training program. Two references and a checklist are included. (LY)

More and more companies are contracting their inhouse training programs out to organizations skilled in training the disadvantaged. The Education and Training Group of the Singer Company is one of more than 100 organizations offering such services. (NL)

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to examine the ways in which Australian companies can achieve high quality apprenticeship and traineeship systems in a time of labour shortage through close attention to the recruitment and development of apprentices and trainees. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on six qualitative case studies…

Three of the men most closely involved in the research into interactive skill training, Michael Colbert, Neil Rackman, and Terry Morgan, report on various aspects of its development. (Editor/GB)

Describes methods of providing presupervisory training to new or potential supervisors, including inhouse training and public supervisory seminars. (TA)

Purpose: This paper will examine the two year modern apprenticeship undertaken by trainees in the English professional football industry. Design/methodology/approach: Representatives of seven clubs were interviewed in the summer of 2005; all of them were responsible for youth development in their club. These interviews were the first of what will…

While much is known about the economics of training in the developed world, studies of issues associated with training in less-developed countries are rarely found. Based on a survey conducted in China, the present study attempts to fill this gap. Job characteristics and firm background were found to play key roles in determining training…

Provides answers to queries about why custodial training courses flop, how better training programs can be set up, and what kind of training is appropriate. (MF)

Economist says industrial training boards offer potentially successful model for the U.S. (Editor)

Describes how a number of nonteaching jobs can provide practical benefits to the teacher unable to land a teaching job. (DD)

A comparison of German vocational students receiving company-based and noncompany-based training found that noncompany-based trainees had relatively poor employment prospects. Possible causes were lack of real-world work experience, differences in occupational structure of training and trainees' entrance qualifications, and employer reluctance to…

Interviews with 32 apprentices, 21 employers, and 6 teachers in technical and further education and on-the-job learning environments showed that groups had different perceptions of the complementarity of on- and off-job learning. Learning was complicated by movement among different communities of practice with sometimes contradictory messages.…

Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth show that 38% of young adults received training during 1986-91. Whites and men were more likely to receive company training; nonwhites and women were more highly represented in off-the-job training programs. (Author)