Describes a program for unemployed managers that used Action Learning principles. Concludes that the results of the course were impressive, as there was a 50 percent reemployment rate. (NJR)

Suggests that case studies can be used effectively in the education and training of personnel specialists even with students who have little previous work experience. States that, in spite of several problems that must be overcome, case study work is a valuable aid to student learning. (NRJ)

Describes various programs of the British Manpower Services Commission: Special Measures, Training Opportunities Scheme, Open Tech Program, Girl Technician Scheme, Technical and Vocational Education Initiative, Youth Training Scheme, and plans for a management training program. (CT)

Staffordshire Local Education Authority and North Staffordshire Polytechnic have served both individual and joint interests by developing a program for potential head teachers that incorporates lectures and seminars, weekend schools where experts from educational and business administration illustrate good management, and summer schools devoted to…

Describes the Educative Leadership Project, a British program attempting to generate a new synthesis of experience, research, and theory on leadership and to develop complementary inservice and postgraduate learning materials for administrators. Discusses adult learning principles, relevant issues, project phases, and workshop procedures involved.…

Examines trainers' perceptions that head teachers present more problems as learners than other groups of managers. Partly because of professional isolation, secondary head teachers seem to have great difficulty with trainers' authority. Head teachers are frequently judgmental and resistant to experiential learning and personal change processes.…

Briefly discusses traditional management education methods and concludes they cannot adequately fill present need for such education in developing and developed nations. Description of Henley Distance Learning Ltd.'s distance and open learning scheme for management education reviews its curriculum planning and media selection procedures and…

Describes a change program developed for a small manufacturing firm to enable management to cope with organizational change and development. Intervention methods included data collection, anonymous questionnaires, a confrontation meeting, and introduction of change technologies using the organizational analysis approach. Benefits and problems…