The Training of Semi‐Skilled Juveniles —Small and Parkes Limited

IN DEVISING their own scheme for semi‐skilled training Small and Parkes had the considerations summarised on the facing page very much in mind. Mr D. Smith, the Personnel Manager and Mr P. Long, the Personnel and Training Officer, make the point that a company should not enter this field of training without having definite reasons for doing so. We all know of cases where companies have taken up certain forms of training to keep up with the industrial Joneses. The converted country houses maintained by some of the big companies might conceivably come within this category. If semi‐skilled training is adopted with no clear purpose in mind it will almost certainly be a failure. The officials of Small and Parkes maintain that no two companies are alike in their need for semi‐skilled training; believing this, they analysed their own situation in an interesting and unique way.