Abstract
Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) were announced in the December 1988 White Paper Employment Policy for the 1990s and launched by the Prime Minister in March 1989. The Policy Review Section of the previous issue of Regional Studies set out the wider economic development background to the development of TECs. The first TECs were launched in 1989. They are a major government initiative to turn over to private sector led councils a number of major Training Agency programmes, such as Youth Training (YTS) and Employment Training (ET), to give major new local flexibility to areas to fine-tune training provision to needs and, in the longer term, also to co-ordinate with many existing business-education links. In Scotland, the TECs will also include many of the existing functions of the Scottish Development Agency. An LSE team has been monitoring how TECs are developing and the problems they will encounter. Their results were presented at a conference at LSE on 20 April 1989 of 180 participants convened by ...
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