NOTTINGHAM - TRAINING FOR MANAGEMENT

Series

Series Name
Mining Review 12th Year

Issue

Issue No.
5
Date Released
Jan 1959
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1PREVIEW IN POLAND
  2. 2CORNWALL - PACKAGED COAL
  3. 3Denaby United v. Oldham Athletic
  4. 4NOTTINGHAM - TRAINING FOR MANAGEMENT

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Summary
BFI synopsis: Mining Review interviews men selected for the mining industry’s Directed Practical Trainee Scheme.
NCB Commentary - The training of people to take over managerial and technical posts in the modern coal industry is essential to the future of mining.
This man, Manager of one of the big new collieries now being sunk, was a Directed Practical Trainee. Let’s see how the D. P. T. programme, as it’s called, works. This is one of the coal industry’s management training schemes.
Mining Review called in at a meeting where trainees compare notes on their progress.
Yes, it’s up to them. From men like these will come the colliery managers, the engineers and the techincal specialists which Britain’s mining industry needs, to look after the future.
Researcher Comments
Commentary recorded 8th December 1958.
Keywords
Education and training; Mining
Written sources
British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
Film User   Vol.13 No.150 April 1959, p193.
The National Archives COAL 32   /12 Scripts for Mining Review, 1956-1960
Credits:
Production Co.
Documentary Technicians Alliance
Sponsor
National Coal Board

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