Day 20 November 2025

The Training Officer 1980s magazine snippets

Training Officer magazine front cover from 1984

From youth training schemes and battles for women in engineering to microcomputers in the classroom, 1980s Training Officer pages show L&D wrestling with technology, equity and unemployment, while trying to keep learning human, practical and hopeful in the face of…

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The Training Officer 1968 magazine snippets

Training Officer Magazine 1968 snippets

From critical path diagrams and formal standards to televised training and overseas schemes, The Training Officer in 1968 shows an L&D profession preoccupied with order, technology and status. Through today’s lens, its worries about credibility, media hype and meaningful impact…

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The Training Officer March 1968

The Training Officer March 1968 front cover

In March 1968, The Training Officer captured a profession coming of age. Between log books, training boards and debates about education’s purpose, the issue reveals how industrial-era concerns about standards, governance and real performance improvement still echo through today’s learning…

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The leadership imperative: Shaping AI culture from the top

AI leadership pyramid and workforce hierarchy with human oversight in modern organization

Vishaal Gupta argues that building an AI-ready workforce is less about technology and more about culture. From transparent leadership to continuous learning, this feature lays out how organisations can move beyond hype to action, bridging people readiness gaps, reducing risk,…

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