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Remembering ISTEL

Training staff also regularly steered through the introduction of new courses
including Essential Senior Programmer Skills, Program Testing Workshop,
Tools & Techniques for Analysts, Jackson Systems Development (JSD), JSP
Workshops, Powerhouse, MUMPS. In parallel with the courses staff also

investigated appropriate methods of testing validation for introduction into
future courses.

Additional trainers joined the team to take over responsibility for
programming skills training as work continued to update all the existing

courses.

Although the courses carried the familiar titles they were by no means the

same courses as first introduced. They expanded to cover the JSP Basics; JSP
Workshop; IBM Computing Fundamentals, JCL (new course, June '86); JSP
Advanced; COBOL Conversion. Following discussions with Senior Managers
work continued on the preparation of new courses and examining teaching

methods and skill standards to be achieved at the end of each course,

Time was also spent developing new important courses such as Appraisal &

Counselling Skills and Recruitment & Selection which supported revisions to
the Company Induction Programme together with the Legal Aspects of
Business and Presentation Skills courses.

Management Training for Senior and Junior Management Programmes were
run at Minster Lovell and Studley. New courses covering negotiation skills and

high level selling and presentation/business speaking programmes were
introduced. New courses were introduced to cover Consultancy Skills, ISTEL
Business Finance and Business Management.

To give further encouragement to all staff to take the opportunity of continuing
their education outside normal working hours the Company had a tuition

refund policy.

This policy defined the circumstances in which the company provides financial

assistance on tuition, examination and registration fees for all employees who
wished to study on ISTEL relevant courses in their own time.

The policy was amended so applicants received payment of any costs incurred

at the onset of approved studies at Colleges, Universities or Open University
Centres.

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