Ideas From Abroad On Management Courses

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30943, 27 December 1965, Page 5

Ideas From Abroad On Management Courses

Because the University of, Canterbury plans a substan- i tial expansion of its intensive ; courses for higher management, the Director of Exten- ' sion Studies (Mr D. W. . Rutherford) will spend two i months overseas early next i year examining such develop- i ments. Mr Rutherford will study ' methods of consultation be- 1 tween university and business | interests on course planning, content, duration; results expected and achieved: selection of trainees; the machinery for scrutiny and academic approval by the university; residen- ; tial accommodation; lecture, discussion, study, and library facilities and equipment; and finance.

Leaving late in January he will visit Stanford University,

i the Ame rican Management Association, Harvard University and Columbia University in the United States; the London Graduate School of Business Administration, the British Institute of Management, the Confederation of British Industry, Ashridge College (Berkhamsted), and the Universities of London, Cambridge, Birmingham, and Glasgow, and Henley Staff College. Visits will also be made in both countries to various training centres run jointly by university and business interests to study such courses as the University of Canterbury proposes. Although the University Council has not yet formally discussed the eventual use of

the permanent buildings on the central site when the remaining departments move to Ham, it has been indicated frequently that they would make an ideal college of extension studies and that a central hostel could be used for residential accommoda tion.