Source:Public Administration and Development
(1983)
In spite of their contribution to employment and value‐added of the economies of West African countries, the future of small enterprises depends on their financial viability. To this management efficiency makes a crucial contribution and available empirical evidence surveyed in this article shows ma…
Source:Research in Science & Technological Education
(1983)
This paper reports an analysis of factors associated with entry to skilled trades through the Australian apprenticeship system. It is based on data collected from a sample of nearly 2500 17-year-old males in 1978. The results suggest that: (a) young males whose fathers were tradesmen were more likel…
Government policy to increase substantially the amount of vocational training and education available to school-leavers in this country raises the issue of how much and what kind of training is provided elsewhere. This article describes the training given in Britain and Germany in five of the more p…
Source:Higher Education Research & Development
(1983)
Although there is an extensive literature available on individualised instruction and self-paced learning, much of it concerns particular methods and systems. This review looks at the development of individualised instruction, identifies issues and problems common to all variants and assesses the ev…
There is currently much concern that young people are not only facing declining opportunities in the labour market, but also have limited access to full-time voca tional training (which might be seen as a more useful social option to unemployment). This paper represents an examination of the vocatio…
Important and controversial changes have recently taken place in industrial training in the United Kingdom. Training is a complex policy area — industrial, economic, educational and social objectives may be pursued through it. For the most part it has been policy formation which has been dominated b…
