In all OECD countries secretarial occupations constitute a substantial part of all women's employment, are heavily female-dominated and subject to rapid and far-reaching technical change. They are also transversal to all sectors and organisations. The report examines how the secretary's role is...

Abstract Nationale Rahmenbedingungen, zu denen das Ausbildungssystem zu rechnen ist, wirken sich auf die Leistungsfähigkeit der jeweiligen Wirtschaft aus. Die Unternehmen beider Länder sind im ITBereich mit sehr ähnlichen Herausforderungen konfrontiert. Diese Studie untersucht, wie deutsche...

Government has promised that Britain will build a vocational route based on apprenticeship to match that found in the rest of Europe. However, judged on the first five years of Modern Apprenticeship, every important aspect of apprenticeship in Britain will need to be strengthened and improved if...

The (1990) regulations for Youth Training (YT) combined with the introduction of assessment to NVQ standards have led to a significant reduction in the amount of mathematics taught to young building trainees compared both to the previous City and Guilds qualification and compared to what is...

The emphasis placed in Germany on vocational training and education was explored in previous studies by the Institute. These drew attention to: the greater numbers with vocational qualifications there than in Britain; the generally broader scope of German training, leading to greater...

This article presents the second of a series of comparisons of vocational training for selected occupations in France and Britain; it follows an earlier study comparing training for the building trades in the two countries (National Institute Economic Review, no. 116, May 1986). It draws...

Previous international comparisons of workforce skills by the National Institute have focussed on the relative shortage of craft skills in Britain. The present study is concerned with the next higher level of supervisory and technician skills; on the basis of visits to factories and technical...

This study compares samples of matched plants in Britain and Germany engaged in the manufacture of women's outerwear; it follows earlier matched plant studies, also published in the National Institute Economic Review, which examined matched plants in metalworking and furniture manufacture in...