Training Board's progress
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• The RTITB launched three publications on Monday detailing the progress made by the Board in three spheres of its activities.
"Progress and Profit" is a statement of the Board's general progress on training in the last year but unlike the previous report it has gone beyond the presentation of a catalogue of statistics of training activity and has attempted to assess in terms of company profit the value of that activity. Accounts are given of the "obvious" and "not so obvious" facts about training progress in the last year and the Board's efforts to evaluate the profitability of training.
For two years the Board has been developing and validating a system of progressive assessment testing for apprentices. The result of this work is published in a booklet comprising 23 short-duration practical tests which cover training objectives for stage 1 apprentices.
An up-to-date view of the manager's task is the description given by the Board for its booklet "Introductory Notes on Management Development in Transportation". Examples are drawn from real-life management situations in the road transport industry, The booklet reflects the approach to management development which is being adopted by 50 of the large companies in the industry which include almost 10 per cent of total management in road transport.
In presenting these booklets, Mr K. C. Turner the Board chairman, said that they were a practical means of assessing progress; the management development booklet in particular would be used by the Board's staff for setting standards in the larger companies and would also be used as a launching pad for seminars.
It was also stated at the presentatiotthat an expansion of the very successful 'MSC scheme was planned, particularly for operators in Scotland.