Careers Guidance

Those responsible for professional development in public and private-sector organizations have long had to deal with an uncomfortable reality. Bill...

Selling is a skill that should not be limited to sales staff. Customer service, or other support staff, could all benefit from developing an awaren...

Business educators everywhere are looking for opportunities where students can gain experiences through study or work in an international context. ...

Assessment and Development Centres offer a detailed and objective way of assessing your people's potential, whether you are trying to: ¢ establish...

The coaching/mentoring approach is probably the most effective way of helping others to achieve optimum performance in the workplace. Dr MacLennan...

In the light of changes the government has launched as part of its welfare to work initiatives, this text explores apprenticeship. The authors set ...

Assessment and Development Centres offer a detailed and objective way of assessing your people's potential, whether you are trying to: ¢ establish...

Learning is increasingly seen as crucial to the success of organisations but many studies of the subject offer very little empirical evidence to su...

Most of the activities in Martin Orridge’s book require little in the way of either expertise or equipment. Yet they provide a powerful way of sti...

Education is becoming more competitive - choice in education is now a key issue. This book will help parents, schools, colleges, universities and p...

This book describes in vivid detail how a newly independent nation with neither a history of technical education nor industry, developed in a short...

Contrary to what students, and society, are conditioned to think, obtaining a college degree does not automatically result in a job, let alone a dr...

There has been much international effort to improve or transform Vocational and Technical Education (VTE). However, the outcomes often remain elusi...

Check It Off! Pave Your Way through College to Career is an excellent resource for high-school students entering college and a great read for paren...

This book describes in vivid detail how a newly independent nation with neither a history of technical education nor industry, developed in a short...

In this collection of original essays, contributors critically examine the pedagogical, administrative, financial, economic, and cultural contexts ...

Opened in 1873, in buildings constructed by Charles II to house retired sailors, the Royal Naval College was founded with the aim of providing offi...

Too often students automatically think that an internship is not for them. They seem to believe that internships are just for those students who ar...

′Delivering Employability Skills′ is an optional unit of the teacher training qualifications. This easy-to-read and accessible text is aimed at tra...

Business education is a critical ingredient in establishing a viable middle class of managers in transitioning and developing economies. Compiled i...

The book addresses a crucial issue for all involved in education and training: the transfer of learning to new and different contexts. Educators, e...

Throughout the world, people understand the meaning of 'apprenticeship'. As a model of learning and skill formation, apprenticeship has adapted ove...

This book explores how changes in the new world economy are affecting the education of male and female workers. Authors from Australia, Africa, Bra...

Thousands of students graduate from university each year. The lucky few have the rest of their lives mapped out in perfect detail – but for most, t...