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Johnson, Jean M.; Regets, Mark C. – SRS Issue Brief, 1998
This Issue Brief reports on the international mobility of scientists and engineers to the United States and discusses student flows into the higher education system, the stay rates of foreign doctoral recipients, and their short and long term employment in United States industry, universities, and government. Information presented in the tables…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Doctoral Degrees, Employment Patterns, Engineers
Bertrand, Olivier – Training & Employment: French Dimensions, 1992
A survey conducted in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom analyzed employment practices and viewpoints of the social partners regarding comparability of qualifications and geographical mobility. Carried out in late 1991 with a limited sampling of respondents (firms, employers' organizations, and unions), the survey focused…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Attainment, Employer Attitudes, Employment Opportunities
Ohlsson, Rolf; Nilsson, Anders – Swedish Research on Higher Education, 1984
The Swedish employment structure and the role of colleges in preparing people for work is being studied by the Swedish Research on Higher Education program. The project is designed to: survey changes in the Swedish economy and employment structure during the postwar period; assess the extent to which business and industry have given priority to…
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Role, Economic Climate, Education Work Relationship
Palumbo, Thomas J.; And Others – Current Population Reports, 1982
This report is the third of a series of reports based on data collected in the 1978 National Sample of Scientists and Engineers survey. Profiled are the characteristics of 29,775 persons represented in the national sample's field of environmental scientists: 24,615 earth scientists, 3,481 atmospheric scientists, and 1,678 oceanographers.…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Educational Background, Employment Experience, Employment Level
Intercultural Development Research Association, San Antonio, TX. – 1988
Five articles from this newsletter of the Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) describe IDRA programs that are part of the organization's family literacy efforts. "The Family English Literacy Project: Promoting Adult Literacy in San Antonio" outlines a program to provide English language literacy for 125 parents of…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Bilingualism, Cooperative Programs, Educational Television
Vocational Training, 1989
The six articles in this journal issue were all designed to provide an objective presentation of the framework within which the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) is charting a course toward establishing a common training policy and creating a single market in 1993. The first article, "Information on…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Education, Electronics, Employment Qualifications
Park, Chung I. – COINT Reports, 1985
New information technologies have begun to help librarians transfer their routine procedures and tasks to nonprofessional staff and library users, which allows them to begin to be relieved from the boredom of glorified clerical work. Developments in information technology also allow librarians to see their work from new and different perspectives.…
Descriptors: Information Science, Information Scientists, Library Automation, Library Education
Renchler, Ron – Urban Superintendents' Sounding Board, 1992
In July 1991, 20 superintendents, who are members of the Urban Superintendents' Network, a coalition of educational leaders sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), participated in a special panel presentation and roundtable discussion entitled "Turnover in the Urban Superintendency:…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Dismissal (Personnel), Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction
Kindler, Anneka L. – Directions in Language and Education, 1995
This report discusses demographic characteristics of migrant students in the United States, their educational needs, the features of federally-funded programs under the Migrant Education Program (MEP) legislation reform, and suggestions for enhancing current migrant student performance. The MEP was established in 1966 and reauthorized in 1994. It…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Mobility, Federal Legislation
CEDEFOP Flash, 1993
During 1992, CEDEFOP (the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training) commissioned two projects to investigate the current situation with regard to databases on vocational qualifications in Member States of the European Community (EC) and possibilities for networking such databases. Results of these two studies were presented and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Database Design, Databases, Employment Qualifications
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Cujba, Andrei, Ed.; Westfried, Stefan, Ed. – Revista de Pedagogie, 1997
These proceedings consist of 62 presentations (21 written in French, 19 in English, 21 in Romanian, 1 in Spanish). The foreword appears in French, English, and Romanian. Papers written in English include the following:"Vocational Guidance and Change of Career: The New Demands" (Graciela Canessa); "Intervention Strategies. Youth…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Career Choice, Career Development
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Current Population Reports, 1985
Designed to provide a ready resource for government, educators, librarians, and the general public, the Index contains demographic information on a wide variety of population-related topics and is the first bibliographic inventory of all Current Populaton Reports. The Index's 20 sections are listed sequentially by subject, series number, year…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Census Figures, Community Size, Demography