[4] In the 1960s, it worked with the Association of Chief Education Officers[5] Percy Walton, the Secretary, took part in the BBC2 ten-part series Just the Job on Monday 13 January 1969, repeated on BBC1 in July 1969.
[7] In January 1972, the President, Katherine Hall, spoke at a three-day conference of the British Psychological Society, at the University of Warwick, where also Zander Wedderburn of Heriot-Watt University spoke about the effects of shift work, and Hywel Murrell of the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST) spoke; he had invented the term ergonomics in 1949, and founded the organisation which is now The Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors.
In November 1981 the Conservative government proposed the removal of 16 of Britain's 23 industrial training boards.
Connexions was, essentially, a demeaning or trivial view of careers guidance; only people with learning difficulties over the age of 19 could be helped, so it would offer nothing whatsoever to university graduates looking for work.
The Connexions Card launched in June 2002, apparently for 16-19 year olds, barely had any credible effect, and was mostly taken up by more-affluent opportunist teenagers, probably on the make, instead.