The eight studies reported involve manpower research with immediate relevance for administrators and practitioners involved in all aspects of occupational and practical arts education. Topics covered include: (1) Effects of Training on Labor Experience, (2) Upgrading Workers' Job Skills, (3) Breakthrough for Disadvantaged Youth, (4) Negro High…

Most Manpower educators will be attracted to the last paragraph where the author offers an evaluation model on request. (Editor)

Vocational training conducted by and for industry. (Editor)

This article appears in Manpower Research Visibility, a supplement to American Vocational Journal. (MU)

Excerpts from text of address at 1971 annual meeting of the American Vocational Association. (Editor/MU)

Skill training by way of individualized instruction is offered to adults by the learning centers established by the Arizona MDTA Skill Centers. (DS)

Vocational student organizations are providing an indispensable element in manpower training, and if vocational educators can't see it, industry can. (Editor)

A summary is presented of the issues and concerns discussed and the recommendations made by the American Vocational Association's (AVA) Manpower Division Policy Committee during its meeting at the 1975 AVA Convention. (AJ)

In view of the trend at the national level for vocational education to be handled by non-educational agencies, the author recommends a stronger concreted effort for many State Manpower Development Training Act and vocational education laws that ensure people-centered programs rather than politically-centered programs. (Author/EA)

Discusses the developmental activities in the field of education of the International Labor Organization. (SB)