North Queens Community High School serves approximately 200 students, 16-20 years old, as they strive to reach their personal and academic goals. All students at North Queens have previously been enrolled in high school elsewhere and are over-age and undercredited. Small class sizes, student-centered support, and an accelerated credit acquisition…

Vocational education planning is complex and extensive and requires the proper and adequate involvement of business and industry circles in program development. To rebuild their institutions and replenish adversely affected systems and depleted resources after World War II, industrialized nations have implemented education and training for…

Accomplishments made by the Los Angeles Community College District during its fifth year of independent operation are noted, and 10 projects to receive attention during the coming year are listed. The accomplishments are: (1) increasing and diversifying enrollment, (2) stabilizing and improving the college environment, (3) developing fiscal…

Described an educational program that grants new opportunity for learning through presentation of highly individualized instruction and a wider variety of courses and training programs. (Author/RK)

This article discusses events that have led to recognition of the need for enhanced human rights education; describes aims and projects of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, and the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe; notes establishment of the European Centre for Human Rights Education; and examines possible Nordic…

A February 1973 report of the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education (California) is the source of this study of adult learning needs. (Editor)

Manpower studies carried out in Turkey in the 1980s show some critical shortages in the number of technicians, the so-called middle element. Recent attempts have been made to increase the numbers of the badly needed technical middle elements between engineers and skilled and semiskilled workers as well as those at lower technical levels. Other…

Prior to 1960 vocational and technical education in Singapore received little attention. After Singapore attained self-government in 1959, a policy of diversification to accelerate economic growth through industrialization was adopted. The emphasis then shifted to technical education and training. In 1964 there was a significant move towards the…

Describes the development of a distance education program at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) which will meet several needs: lifelong learning; adult education; service to remote populations; and continuing education for faculty in remote campuses. Provision of large-scale education depends on addressing issues dealing with…

A project focused on further verification and development of a set of previously recommended vocational education indicators. These indicators were employer's satisfaction with the quality of the graduate's work, number of graduates employed in occupations related to program, labor market demand, number of graduates employed, training-related…

Current developments in consumer and homemaking education, vocational home economics, and teacher education have been selected from those presented at the 1969-70 workshops on vocational home economics education sponsored by the Division of Vocational and Technical Education and from home economics personnel in various states. Consumer and…

Discusses factors to be considered by a university in launching an adult/continuing education program. Information covers identification of needs and resources, target groups, anticipation of problems, and program selectivity and specificity. (SH)

Describes Nigeria's present vocational programs in agricultural education at the secondary and postsecondary levels and expresses the need for a more vocationally oriented approach rather than an academically oriented approach in the future development of such programs. (HD)

This document contains the Convention on Technical Education adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). English, French, and Russian versions are provided. Article 1 defines technical and vocational education, specifies its applicability, and states how it shall be applied.…

Based on the premise that a well articulated island-wide program of vocational-technical education at the post secondary level can provide much of the impetus for socio-economic progress in Puerto Rico, this study is devoted to elaborating the master plan for an educational system consisting of 2-year comprehensive community colleges. Following an…