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Training Board; Edward Brech, Construction Industry Training Board; or perhaps Michael Berry of the Steel Industry Training Board; or the formal Principal of Ipswich Technical College, how number two in the Engineering Industrial Training Board and
a member of TETOC.
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Hr. Metalle.
As regards academic sources H.A. Warren who is Head of the South West London Polytechnic and is also a member of TETOC would be very useful indeed, as would be Peter Dudley, Senior HMI dealing with management subjects in the Department of Education and Science in London, Sir Alan Richard at Lanchester (Coventry), J.B. Butterworth, Vice-Chancellor at Warwick, or perhaps someone from the Manchester College of Science and Technology or from the University of Aston in Birmingham.
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On general matters it appeared that a group had been formed based on Sheffield University which could act as consultants on the organisation and administration of Universities (and Polytechnics). Several Universities had employed Management Consultants recently notably Surrey when it was still Battersea
College of Technology.
Press Cover
14.
A short interview on arrival at the airport was recorded
and extracts from it broadcast over the Government TV and radio service several times. An address to a lunch-time meeting of the Hong Kong Management Association was well reported in the principal paper's (South China Morning Post) Business News. A longer interview was held with the Far Eastern Economic Review for later writing up and a slightly more extended radio interview was recorded for broadcast later by the Government radio station. This last is a programme called "At Ease" and is reserved exclusively for local and visiting notabilities.
Further Developments
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It was suggested that a small joint team covering industry and commerce, specialist Government interests and general education and the Polytechnic should visit the UK preferably a little before June 1970. The team might consist of one representative for industry and one for commerce, one from the two Universities, one from the Polytechnic and one from the Government Training Division. In the UK they might profitably concentrate on the Manchester and North Midlands area and visit the Business School at Manchester, the Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, the new Manchester Polytechnic, some of the Industry Training Boards and the new Universities at Bradford and Aston in Birmingham. Time for a session at the Portsmouth Polytechnic and with the British Institute of Management itself would also be important.
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