Discusses points to consider in planning agricultural education programs. (SB)

This article takes a look at some of the key jobs at every level of the cable industry. It discusses winning a franchise, building and running the system, and programing and production. Job descriptions include engineer, market analyst, programers, financial analysts, strand mappers, customer service representatives, access coordinator, and studio…

This guide is designed to assist guidance personnel responsible for planning and implementing career guidance programs through use of a systems approach. The topics focus on employment outlooks, job placement, apprenticeship opportunities, computerized guidance, and laws affecting career guidance. The organization of this handbook parallels the…

Research was initiated to investigate the concept of "network" as it related to the development of an occupational information system in Minnesota. Forty-eight users and producers of occupational information located in a number of Minnesota agencies were interviewed, with primary atention given to those agencies represented on the…

OFFICIALS OF A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF HOSPITALS, BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS, AND MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES IN NEW ENGLAND AND THREE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES WERE INTERVIEWED TO DETERMINE THE NEED FOR TECHNICIANS TO SERVICE AND MAINTAIN EQUIPMENT FOUND IN HOSPITALS AND BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS. RESPONSES INDICATED A NEED FOR…

This manual is designed to facilitate the planning and implementation of an environmental scanning project in Michigan's community colleges. (Environmental scanning is a systematic process for gathering and analyzing information about the external environment and relating it to an organization's internal environment.) This facilitator's guide is…

The Naval Enlisted Professional Development Information System (NEPDIS) was designed to function as a fully computerized information assembly and analysis system to support labor force, personnel, and training management. The NEPDIS comprises separate training development, instructional, training record and evaluation, career development, and…

This manual presents the master lists of 206 job titles of 167 different Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) code numbers which were held by physically handicapped graduates/completers of vocational programs as determined by a business and industry survey and graduate followup. (The project itself is reported in CE 026 163; survey and followup…

This curriculum guide was developed to provide a model plan to help public high schools and area vocational-technical schools to initiate, or evaluate and improve, natural resource occupational preparation programs. It offers a curriculum plan which can be modified to meet particular needs and objectives which are career education oriented. This…

This guide describes Energy Conservation-and-Use Technology (ECUT), identifies job categories for technicians working in the field, and assists planners, administrators, faculty, and industrial and community educators in establishing and conducting relevant training programs. Section 1 defines the ECU technicians, provides a job description, and…

The objective of a project was to make vocational educators aware of the many job titles for which physically handicapped persons are currently employed and to aid in planning vocational programs for them. The project identified a list of occupational titles held by physically handicapped individuals, identified teaching procedures for the various…

The primary purposes of this study were to determine occupational opportunities for ornamental horticulture technicians in Ohio and to propose curriculums for training them. In the first phase, data were collected by questionnaire from 64.8 percent of 962 potential Ohio employers which was a 50 percent random sample of 1900 employers. In the…

The cluster concept in vocational education addresses itself to issues of: job-entry preparation; geographic and occupational mobility; optimum employability for young adults; the processes by which occupational or career decisions are made; worker adaptability in a rapidly changing labor market; and the effects of continuous education on career…

A project was conducted to accomplish the following objectives: (1) to provide a pilot program in the Monroe County (Indiana) Public Library where low-income or unemployed adults can find non-biased, non-stereotyped vocational information, guidance, and referral in the areas of job training, job opportunities, required skills, job descriptions,…

The Council of the European Communities (EC) has passed a number of decisions related to the creation of a labor market for skilled workers and to the facilitation of their free movement in a merging Europe. The establishment of comparability of vocational training qualifications is seen as a first step toward achieving the mutual recognition of…