Historians of English higher education usually consider the "improvement" of the nineteenth century university relative to social-political evolution. This biographic review of William Whewell gives consideration to the intellectual framework of the reactionary side that favored liberal education. (JH)

Part of The Careers Research and Advisory Centre Bull's Eye Series, this career program booklet is to be used as a workbook to assist students with pertinent tips in starting a job. Topics covered are national insurance, wages and deductions, safety, trade unions, job adjustment, further education, and keeping in touch with the careers officer.…

Reviews "The Preparation for Life Curriculum" (Wilcox, Dunn, Lavercombe and Burn, 1984), which is a case study of a British career education curriculum development project in four secondary schools. (JDH)

Part of The Careers Research and Advisory Centre Bull's Eye Series, this career program booklet is to be used as a workbook to assist students in choosing a job. The workbook is concerned mainly with helping a student look at himself and his interests and abilities, see a job as a way of life, and begin thinking about various job possibilities.…

This career program workbook on jobs can provide information for students in the areas of: knowing who can assist them, various job groupings, work environments, job descriptions, personal assessment, job skills, decision-making, job openings, application letters and forms, and job interviews. (EA)

In insulating the student from the hazards of the working world, the schools have neglected to prepare the student for his entry into that world. Work experience programs in secondary schools are proposed as a solution, as British students will shortly be required, by law, to spend an additional year in school. (AG)

Part of The Careers Research and Advisory Centre Bull's Eye Series, this career program booklet is to be used as a workbook to assist students in finding jobs. Topics covered are assessment of individual abilities and interests, ways to find a job, replies to advertisements, filling in application forms, job entrance tests, and job interviews. (EA)

An action research project was designed to test a model for providing integrated guidance and assessment services to adult women in Britain. A network of professional guidance providers were involved in delivering the services. Coordination was separate from delivery but linked into the action research and evaluation. The emphasis throughout…

Sponsored by the Schools Council (an independent national body responsible for curriculum and examinations), the project has been concerned with devising new materials in career education for pupils and teachers. The basic philosophy of careers education is a continuous process that actively involves students in discovering individual…

The experiences of a careers education class, using curriculum materials developed by the Schools Council, Careers Education and Guidance Project, are described. (JH)

The author provides an analysis of the current position of continuing education in Britain and clarifies the aims and intentions for the education of adults as expressed or implied by government, society, and those professionally involved. (CT)

Presents the results of a survey investigating foreign language needs in the legal profession. Questions in the survey focused on the foreign languages most relevant to the profession, entrance requirements regarding the level of knowledge of the foreign language, training requirements in the foreign language, and potential uses of the target…

Analyzes some of the ways in which schools try to help pupils prepare for the individual choices and transitions they will have to make upon leaving school. (CT)

Career education and guidance are being given high priority and substantial funding in Britain. Recent government mandates have led to an integrated academic and career curriculum, better trained staff, intermediate private career-service organizations, work experience for students in 90% of secondary schools, more fully realized career-resource…

Examines reasons for the shift from binary to unitary systems of higher education in Australia and Great Britain, and problems encountered with that change. Argues for retention of the binary system in South Africa and urgent restructuring of the ailing technical college sector as the main focus of a initiative for change in South African higher…