The move from a rural village environment to a newly‐built industrial urban community must have been a traumatic experience for children in the early years of the first industrial revolution. A life passed in the country‐side, working on the land, or tending livestock on the common, changed...

‘Manpower is a key resource, perhaps the country's most valuable asset, and it should be in the forefront of Government, industry and company strategy and policy, and not treated as a residual factor as so often happens at present. ‘It would be wrong to suppose that there is some magic list...

Next we have a reaction to the NTI Proposals from the Director of the RUBBER AND PLASTICS PROCESSING ITB, front runner in the issue of providing a new deal for the 16–18 year olds. He entitles his contribution indicating that it is also a reaction to the PHOENIX Proposals put forward by this...

BUSINESS planning is undertaken to assist companies grow, while management development concerns planning an individual's growth in a company. Obviously these two kinds of growth are interdependent. As management development becomes more scientific, it must do more than keep up with change; it...