Word: learnership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another of Spedan Lewis' pioneering ideas was "learnership," a plan to recruit university graduates for executive training. Says the official company history: "Mr. John Lewis objected to these elegant imports almost as strongly as he objected to young women with red hair, and it became necessary when he made his periodical visitations at Oxford Street for all red-haired girls to keep out of sight and all young men with incurable Oxford accents to put on their hats and walk about pretending to be customers." But the practice survived, and the chain's present chairman, scholarly Sir Bernard...
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