Publisher's Synopsis
The idea that colleges, polytechnics and universities should devote time and attention to developing their relations with "business" is not a new idea, but a combination of pressures has now given a new urgency to finding effective ways of business and education working together. This includes continuing financial exigency, the demands of an increasingly knowledge-based economy, greater stress on the importance of competition, and actual and impending skill shortages in the workforce. As a result, there is now hardly a higher education institution in the country without some involvement in collaborative research and development, consultancy and post-experience training.;This booklet is designed for those in senior positions in higher education institutions who are seeking to develop within those institutions a clear sense of direction and purpose which will guide working relationships with industry and commerce. It is one of a series on collaboration between business and higher education which has the joint support of the Department of Trade and Industry and the Council for Industry and Higher Education.
