The partnership of IBM, located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Meredith College, a small women's college, resulted in the Secretarial Transition Training Program. Hiring constraints had created critical shortages in the secretarial skill field. Additional impetus for the development of a transition training program was provided by…

THIS REPORT DESCRIBES OCCUPATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS AT SECONDARY, POST-SECONDARY, AND ADULT LEVELS. A STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE SURVEY PROVIDED PROJECTIONS OF NEEDS IN VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS FOR COMPARISON WITH 1965-66 ENROLLMENT FIGURES. MOST OF THESE ANTICIPATED NEEDS ARE BEING WELL MET AND OTHERS, SO FAR, ONLY PARTIALLY. CURRICULUM GUIDES, WHICH…

Focusing on adult business education in the public evening school, the monograph first presents a brief history of the educational form and its philosophical foundations for progress and then lists programs of adult business curriculums, both preparatory and supplementary. The broad preparatory programs offer courses to educate adults for entry…

The transformation of Singapore from a stagnating colonial port city in the late 1950s into a newly industrialized city-state in the early 1990s was the outcome of planned adjustments to changing internal and external conditions. Training and retraining programs played a role in these adjustments. Although full employment prevailed in 1979, the…

The federal government's experience with adult retraining programs began in 1962 with the passage of the Manpower Development and Training Act and creation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance program. When the 1973 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act expired in 1982, Congress enacted the Job Training Partnership Act. During the 1980s, states…

This guide is intended to acquaint postsecondary-level administrators, instructors, and counselors with the background, philosophy, components, structure, and use of the OPTIONS program. The first section discusses recent and likely demographic changes that will affect postsecondary education and the work force. It explains the role of the OPTIONS…

This guide is intended to assist adult educators in designing and adapting curricula to conform to technological changes in the workplace and to meet the learning needs of adults. The first part deals with the changing workplace and its effect on postsecondary education and with developing programs that respond to change (responses to…

This issue reproduces articles adapted from country reports presented to a Regional Seminar on Adult Education and Development in Asia and Oceania, Bangkok, November 1980. A summary of adult and nonformal education in the region forms section 1. Highlights of the country articles in section 2 include Afghanistan--national literacy campaign;…

This document proposes an Area Vocational-Technical Institute (AVTI) based model for service delivery to dislocated workers in Minnesota. The need for such a model arises from the consistent duplication of problem-solving measures and service delivery statewide in attempting to solve the problems of various groups of dislocated workers. The model…

This case history describes the Washington State Career Change Program which is designed to respond to the career needs of unemployed residents who have been laid off or unable to continue their jobs as a result of economic, technological, or health factors beyond their control. The career change program assists these individuals in identifying…