Training the trainer Available to Purchase

The training of the training officer first came to the fore in Britain in 1965. Prior to this date there were no regular or formal provisions for training newcomers to the training profession. There were TWI courses, of course, but these were of very short duration and concentrated solely on the instructor. The Ministry of Labour ran instructor training courses at its staff college in Letchworth but these were restricted to those instructors intended for the Government Training Centres. By 1954 the staff college at Letchworth was taking on its course instructors from outside the GTC service and continued to do so from that date. All this had to do with the training of craft instructors: the trainer, covering all grades and levels of training, was not provided for.