By Jennifer Joy-Matthews, David Megginson and Mark SurteesSuccessful implementation of a suitable Human Resource Development programme is crucial to the success of any organization, and to the self-development of its managers and employees. The book takes the reader through the broad range of HRD practices and strategies in use today. It presents fundamental concepts and ideas using the latest research and international case studies. The authors deal with positioning HRD, current leading ideas, the contemporary agenda for learning, organisational learning, diagnosis and evaluation as well as management development. It also includes discussion topics as well as a section of case studies.

Read more on HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT…

The Prime Minister and the Education Secretary have been challenged to explain their reported view that local councils restrict the freedom and funding of schools. The challenge has come from the new chairman of the Local Government Association, Sir Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, ahead of today’s expected announcement of the government’s five-year strategy for education.Head teachers, meanwhile have welcomed the idea that Local Education Authorities could in future have less control over the way schools spend their money. David Hart, General Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, welcomed what he called “the Prime Minister’s vision for education.”

Read more on GOVERNMENT’S VIEW OF EDUCATION FACES CHALLENGE…

Radical solutions are needed to transform Britain’s poorest estates into ‘neighbourhoods of choice’ and, says a leading American authority on regeneration, policies for renewal in disadvantaged areas should aim to do more than create jobs or provide better homes in order to deliver sustainable, long-term improvements.Bruce Katz, Vice-President of the Brookings Institution says such policies need to create ‘neighbourhoods of choice’ which are places that can attract new, higher-earning residents as well as encouraging local people to stay when their own standards of living start to rise.

Read more on US EXPERT WANTS RADICAL POLICIES FOR REGENERATION…