Compares matched samples of precision engineering plants in Britain and The Netherlands. Suggests that labour … levels more quickly and cost‐effectively. Although British engineering companies are devoting more resources to initial and …

The occupational profile of the engineering industry has changed radically in recent years. Employment of craftsmen has …

and procedures in the engineering industry in Northern Ireland since the possibility of ew fair employment legislation was …

Britain’s New Labour Government has radically shifted its policy aims away from securing traditional full employment … an intense phase of policy development and experimentation and outlines the immediate impact they have had. The …

became an interesting test of the general policy of using market variables to influence what many regard as essentially a …

Gives some definitions of training and training policy, before discussing how policy is made and its relationship to … context, including stakeholders and the range of policy instruments. Suggests that the role of theory is to structure policy … case studies: TECs, where major policy decisions have little to do with conventional economic analysis; and public …