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RANSPORT MANAGEMENT COURSES: , LOCAL AND A NATIONAL FUNCTION-1
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`HE appointment of the members of the Road Transport Training Board has naturally refocused attention on the )blem of management training, since this aspect will eventually im a good deal of the Board's attention. The semblance of a .tern is apparent in the present provision. Road transport onagers are becoming increasingly selective about which courses :3/ attend personally and the courses to which they will send :jr assistants. Consequently the number of agencies considering promotion of these courses is being whittled down and only ew are likely to emerge as having sufficient expertise to sustain a )gramme of management courses.
Road transport management education must of necessity have lumber of different aims and it is best to separate three main ands—(a) the training of junior management and supervisory If; (b) keeping transport managers abreast of new techniques; (c) outlining the importance of good distribution to executives i marketing and production directors of firms which organize :ir own transport.
What type of organizations are the best providers of these urses? The training of junior management and young men -marked as future management potential is probably best .anged through Local Education Authority technical and mmercial colleges, normally through their business studies departments, providing they have full-time lecturers in a road transport specialism. The demand for this type of course is usually over a regional area. It is true that most local colleges are usually only geared to the needs of their immediate neighbourhood but increasing rationalization between colleges in a region is taking place so that such courses can appeal over the whole regional area.
Keeping transport managers informed of current developments and outline courses for business executives requireg a national approach. Local colleges are not the best unit for this type of provision. The numbers involved are much smaller and for such courses to be really satisfactory a wide range of firms and expertise is required. There is no simple answer as to who are the most appropriate sponsors for these aspects of transport management. The Traders' Road Transport Association is at the moment anxiously examining this very problem as it feels it is important to give members a lead. Currently the answer seems to lie in the private sector with an organization with national interests and transport expertise over a wide range.
These three strands of transport management must be kept separate; otherwise confusion can so easily reign and the quality of management training will be debased.