Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present empirical evidence outlining the ways in which small businesses orientate themselves towards the training market. The primary aim is to illuminate the factors influencing small firms' (non-) participation in formal, externally-provided training. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected via…

In North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), one of the German states, catchment areas for part-time vocational schools were abolished in 2008. With the intention to foster competition between schools in order to improve school quality, training companies now may freely choose the school of their choice. NRW is the first German state to take this step. In the…

Guidelines on incorporating outside training into a management training program. Two references and a checklist are included. (LY)

More and more companies are contracting their inhouse training programs out to organizations skilled in training the disadvantaged. The Education and Training Group of the Singer Company is one of more than 100 organizations offering such services. (NL)

Three of the men most closely involved in the research into interactive skill training, Michael Colbert, Neil Rackman, and Terry Morgan, report on various aspects of its development. (Editor/GB)

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to examine the ways in which Australian companies can achieve high quality apprenticeship and traineeship systems in a time of labour shortage through close attention to the recruitment and development of apprentices and trainees. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on six qualitative case studies…

Describes methods of providing presupervisory training to new or potential supervisors, including inhouse training and public supervisory seminars. (TA)

Provides answers to queries about why custodial training courses flop, how better training programs can be set up, and what kind of training is appropriate. (MF)

Economist says industrial training boards offer potentially successful model for the U.S. (Editor)

Describes how a number of nonteaching jobs can provide practical benefits to the teacher unable to land a teaching job. (DD)

A comparison of German vocational students receiving company-based and noncompany-based training found that noncompany-based trainees had relatively poor employment prospects. Possible causes were lack of real-world work experience, differences in occupational structure of training and trainees' entrance qualifications, and employer reluctance to…

Interviews with 32 apprentices, 21 employers, and 6 teachers in technical and further education and on-the-job learning environments showed that groups had different perceptions of the complementarity of on- and off-job learning. Learning was complicated by movement among different communities of practice with sometimes contradictory messages.…

Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth show that 38% of young adults received training during 1986-91. Whites and men were more likely to receive company training; nonwhites and women were more highly represented in off-the-job training programs. (Author)