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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1988

BUSINESS GRADUATES IN SHORT SUPPLY

THE PRESENT SUPPLY OF LOCALLY TRAINED BUSINESS GRADUATES

FOR MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHORT OF THE SUBSTANTIAL DEMAND BCONOMIC SECTORS, ACCORDING TO A SURVEY.

FALLS

IN

MAJOR

VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL {VTC)

TRAINING FORECAST THE COMMITTEE ON MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISORY MANPOWER SURVEY REPORT IN ITS RECENTLY RELEASED

THAT LOCAL LARGE AND COMMERCE

SERVICES SECTORS INDUSTRIAL,

WOULD COMPANIES IN THE ANNUALLY REQUIRE AN ADDITION OF 5,200 MANAGERS AND SUPERVISORS IN FIELDS (OTHER THAN PRODUCTION) OF MANAGEMENT.

ALL

NOTED

FILLED INSTITUTIONS

BY

TAKING ACCOUNT OF THE RECRUITMENT PATTERN, THE COMMITTEE

ABOUT 2,600, WOULD BE VACANCIES, THAT HALF OF THESE

LOCAL УКТ

TERTIARY EDUCATION BUSINESS GRADUATES; AND COULD ONLY SUPPLY SOME 1,600 GRADUATES A YEAR.

SUPPLY AND DEMAND, THE COMMITTEE IN VIEW OF THE IMBALANCED

AND THE GOVERNMENT RECOMMENDED THAT TERTIARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

STRONG DEMAND AND ATTENTION TO THE

ALLOCATE SHOULD GIVE SPECIAL SUFFICIENT RESOURCES FOR COURSES ON BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT.

ABOUT

THE SURVEY CONDUCTED IN LATE 1986 SHOWED THAT THERE WERE 63,000 MANAGERS, 110,000 SUPERVISORS AND 18,000 OWNER-MANAGERS 1,900 MEDIUM-SIZED, LARGE AND CORPORATE COMPANIES.

IN

THESE THE COMMITTEE CONSIDERED THAT EVEN A SMALL PROPORTION OF

WOULD REPRESENT MANAGERS AND SUPERVISORS WHO NEED UPGRADING TRAINING AN ENORMOUS DEMAND FOR POST-EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT TRAINING.

AND IN THE

THIS WOULD BE SEPARATE FROM THE DEMAND FROM THOSE MANAGERS

COMPANIES NOT COVERED SMALLER SUPERVISORS IN SOME 180,000 SURVEY.

APART

FROM EXPANDING

PROVISIONS BY

EDUCATION

AND

SHORT UPGRADING TRAINING

MANAGEMENT

COURSES THE COMMITTEE BE A MAJOR AND

INSTITUTIONS, CONSIDERED THAT DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMMES COULD EFFECTIVE WAY TO MEET THE VAST DEMAND FOR MANAGEMENT TRAINING.

THE VTC COULD THE MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT CENTRE OF IMPORTANT ROLE IN THIS RESPECT, THE COMMITTEE SAID.

THE

300-PAGE

REPORT CONTAINS

NOW AVAILABLE

PLAY AN

MANY FINDINGS AND DETAILED AND ANALYSIS ON THE MANPOWER SITUATION AND TRAINING NEEDS OF MANAGERS

IS

AT SUPERVISORS. IT

THE GOVERNMENT CENTRE IN CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL, AT $36 A COPY.

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