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The business of bettering schools
Despite figures showing the growing involvement of business in school management and raising standards, there remains a hard core of under-achievers which two new initiatives aim to help.
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Piling on the pressure
At the fifth national TEC conference, the mood was of a still-young movement maturing and facing the challenges, while a government speakers exhorted them to greater effort.
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BAT Industries - Tackling
the inner city blues
Sir Patrick Sheehy's report for the Home Secretary on the future management of the police force has put the spotlight onto the chairman of BAT Industries, a £19 billion world-wide business employing 200,000 people.
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Employee involvement
Two thirds of employee volunteers (67%) believe it is important that senior management set an example by becoming involved in the community themselves and nearly three quarters (71%) prefer to chose their own area of voluntary activity rather than be led by the company.
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Up to any good in the
community?
June sees the start of the 1993 UK Volunteers Week, as a revamped Employee Involvement Award is launched.
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Pathways to higher
standards
The state of the nation's schools continues to dominate the headlines. A new campaign to get businesses more involved, previewed in the last edition of Community Affairs Briefing, was fully launched in May.
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Glaxo: A decade of growth
A decade ago, few people would have named Glaxo as one of the UK's biggest corporate donors; today it is in the top ten and growing.
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High costs, low standards
As a new survey reveals the cost to industry of sub-standard schooling, another partnership initiative is launched to get business committed to NVQs and education and training targets.
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Demonstrating value for
money
Is it not time companies also devised methods to monitor and evaluate their corporate community involvement programmes?
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Marks & Spencer -
Bucking the trend successfully
Marks and Spencer is one of Britain's most consistently successful businesses, and is one of the biggest corporate donors, but the company follows its own distintive and traditional approach.
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