Comprehensive manpower planning at the national level to meet manpower needs is impossible because there is no single agency authorized to affect such a planning effort. (SB)

Team planning in Kentucky provides the curriculum materials specialist with competent assistance. (Editor)

Articulation is possible but the vocational objective of the student must be paramount, the means of achieving articulation secondary. (Editor)

How vocational educators in one state contrived to win recognition for occupational programs in the master plan for higher education. (Editor)

The Vocational Education Personnel Development sessions at the American Vocational Association's 1975 Convention focused on professional development issues. Two presentations are summarized. The first speaker assessed higher education's capacity to train professional personnel for vocational personnel and found it wanting; the second speaker…

A critical view of vocational education as a productive system. (Editor)

Vocational education is built into a county system which includes a first-rate community college. (Editor)

Presents a framework from which recommendations can be made for the orchestration of vocational education with industrial training. Principles and practices of industry training are outlined which in many cases are radically different from those of vocational education schools programs. (HD)

The authors describe the Missouri Training Plan Guide used by teacher-coordinators in negotiating with employers to develop a plan for cooperative distributive education students' school and work experiences. Students may participate in completing the plan, which is also used for evaluation. (MF)

Cites the necessity of involving students in their own career decisions and shows how to accomplish articulation based on this philosophy. (SB)

This article can be used by teachers and administrators to survey agencies that make their clinical facilities available to health occupations programs. (Editor/HD)