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anagement training becomes top UK priority

21st February 1969
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Road Transport Industry Training is putting management training as its riority and is making some real proin this direction. Its new Multi-Occutat Training and Education Centre at Ercall near Shrewsbury will be includtanagement training and there is a :r of new possibilities along the whole urn of management training.

s interesting to note that in Northern 3, which has a separate RTITB, this : is also looked upon as the most :. If management training and educaroad transport is backward in Great 1, the position is worse over there. ig the most of its advantages of having ;ntral powers in an area smaller than of Great Britain's regions, the em Ireland RTITB is reshaping the pattern of management training in lustry.

position of management training is critical in the road haulage sector such training is essentially a :oncept. The bus industry has had background of training in this field as bus and Belfast Corporation are, with exceptions, the only two stage caroperators. Management training has long way to go in the bus industry but ;t it is not a case of starting completely ;cratch. Road haulage, moreover, is faced with complex issues arising from the Northern Ireland Transport Act which has given complete freedom for operators to engage in haulage, whether public hauliers or basically own-account operators. Provided there have been no convictions, licences are granted as of right in direct contrast to the long period of tight nationalized control which has existed since 1935.

I had the pleasure of addressing the first haulage management course in Belfast last month and I was greatly struck by the obvious keenness of those present, who, in the main, represented the large operators. Indeed there was a great wish to "professionalize" transport management and, perhaps somewhat curiously from the standpoint of many Great Britain operators, these Northern Ireland operators would like to see quality licensing introduced in their home territory. They see quality licensing, and especially the transport manager's licence, as a means of greatly improving the whole structure and status of the industry.

One of the most interesting developments in Northen Ireland has been the direct provision by the Board of evening courses for road transport management. Mr. Geoffrey Toplis, manager of development training, has set up a number of these evening courses and has been greatly encouraged by their success not only in Belfast but elsewhere. Most important, these evening activities qualify for full grant in the same way as a day-time course. Indeed, all evening courses, whether professional or management training, qualify under the same arrangements.

The classification of evening courses as off-the-job training to qualify for grant in the same way as daytime courses is a step I have always advocated for the RTITB of Great Britain. The arguments against are that this procedure is against the general intentions of the Industrial Training Act and that there must be incentives to encourage day-time work so that the evening class can be a feature of the past.

In the short term there does seem to be a special case for looking at the problem again until there can be a more realistic switch to day-time work. It is as well to remember that so much professional work is concentrated in the evenings and in road transport the dividing line between management and professional training is not by any means clear-cut. Until the gaining of professional qualifications becomes the normal pattern for all management trainees, current management training must contain a high proportion of professional training.


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