British workers are beginning to acquire qualifications, but it will be many years before Britain′s stock of examined skills …British firms attach more weight to “hands on” experience than to formal qualifications. They manage to cope with lower … already skilled, whereas German employers offer more apprentice training and wider retraining opportunities. In response to …

productivity levels in British industry are 25‐30 per cent lower than in The Netherlands. This is seen to reflect slower investment … in new capital equipment and lower average levels of workforce skills in Britain. The widespread provision of full …‐time vocational education in The Netherlands is said to enable Dutch employers to carry out further training to technician and craft …

the nature of skills supplied by the education sector and the skills demanded by employers. A greater role for youth …

qualifications. Skills required in order to ensure future business prosperity included strategic thinking, and ability to manage … 2001. The project found that there had been significant growth in training and development, and in vocational …

traditional “easy in/easy out” model of recruitment and retention, with high wastage rates during and after training, is being …

Purpose – Nottingham Business School recently validated a suite of generic qualifications based round the theme of …/value – The paper provides a model for evaluating the impacts of education and training interventions that could be employed by …

Establishes the level, range and scope of current management education, training and development (METD) activity in … establishes candidate profile for competence‐based management qualifications.  …