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Road transport option for Diploma in Management Studies
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GENERAL MANAGEMENT education is very much a product of the last decade in this country. At a high level the past five years has seen the emergence of the two business schools in London and Manchester with others being established very recently.
Management education in road transport is only now beginning to evolve. It has taken various forms and something resembling a coherent pattern is beginning to come into focus. Linked one-day courses, residential courses often combined with single day activities, and courses for several weeks on a particular day each week form the basis of an emerging plan. What has been missing is a special management award with particular applicability to road transport.
The Department of Education and Science has recently instigated a Diploma in Management Studies, intended for graduates, holders of the Higher National Diploma (or Certificate), and those with high qualifications of a professional body. Applicants have to be selected by interview and special arrangements can be made for those over 27 years with responsible managerial experience.
The diploma is arranged on a block release basis and not less than 720 hours full-time instruction must be undertaken. In many ways the diploma is a block-release equivalent of the full-time one-year higher degrees in management studies at universities. Realizing that the general management course does not fit the needs of most industries, the diploma course is being arranged with special business options to fit particular industries.
At the instigation of the Road Transport Industry Training Board, together with some six colleges in Great Britain, a road transport option to this diploma is being established in the coming 1970/71 session. This marks an important milestone in formalizing a great deal of work in this field at various colleges and giving recognition with a specific management award in road transport.
No one can be left in much doubt that a stiff course is envisaged. I have just been examining one of the schemes of study for a course due to begin next January. The course has four objectives, -to make transport management aware of technical and operational change. .. to learn modern management techniques and principles. . . to increase the overall efficiency of management in the road transport industry. . . and to provide an understanding of the general and functional management tasks in the industry".
This is a tall order to be achieved in three blocks of six weeks' study, especially when the studies not only take a broad sweep but review a number of aspects in some depth. Clearly, there is a great need for much prior preparation by those undertaking the course and a good deal of study is required between the various "'blocks" of six weeks.
The first part of the course covers the basic tools of management techniques including finance and accounts, the economics of business management and quantitative techniques for managerial decision-making. Success in the examination at the end of this section is required before Part II can be tackled in which full attention is given to road transport management.
In Part ll there is the important choice between road passenger and road goods and each of the subjects—planning and control, ' operation, legal requirements and industrial relations—is applied to one side or the other. In addition, a special paper is taken from a wide choice and a small individual project is also undertaken which will be part of the examination.
A difficult but most interesting course, and its progress will be watched with the greatest interest.