First paragraph: Based on a three-year empirical investigation of an oil refinery, this chapter analyses organisational learning in terms of structuration theory. Structuration is the dynamic process by which an organisation’s rules and resources constrain individuals, while simultaneously...

The emerging global economic environment has produced a new and critical human resource demand, one that will become even more important in the decades ahead — the international manager. At present, two primary international training approaches exist: organisational and academic. Differences...

The Address given by the chairman of the Construction Industry Training Board to the Conference of the Institute of Municipal Building Management in October. He comments on the need for stability in the policy approach to industrial training and in the funding of it.

To maintain competence and competitiveness faced with the new industrial revolution the MSCs Skillcentre Training Agencies (STA) must embrace new technologies, innovate and provide services customers want and can afford. The introduction of New Technology Access Centres within Skillcentres will...

Course reviews seem to be a standard adjunct of training courses nowadays, out they tend to lack a formal contribution by the visiting lecturers involved. Notes which have been made but not published by lecturers can throw light on otherwise undetected aspects of courses which may require...

The need to develop new techniques of authoring and delivery of open learning material has led to a new generation of open learning workstations, the most recent being the Open Tech Workstation developed by the MSC's Open Tech programme. When fully exploited in an industrial training centre...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relevance of students industrial work experience scheme (SIWES) to real estate education in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – Primary data were collected with the aid of questionnaire served on 182 parts 3 and 4 students of Estate...