Discusses the problems of who will pay the costs of restraining and how the areas of need'' can be discovered and provided for. (SP)

The formal retraining of experienced teachers from one field or level of specialization to another is one response to problems created by changing job markets within the teaching profession. (JD)

This is a three-day refresher course. Its intended audience is composed of personnel active in aerospace related fields, but who may not have a degree in aerospace engineering, and aerospace engineers who want to review the fundamentals of flight and gain a historical perspective. (BB)

A survey of 225 primarily female participants in a 2-week physical therapy refresher course received 182 responses indicating that 75 percent sought knowledge updating and 25 percent prepared for licensing. Refresher courses were considered appropriate for addressing labor shortages and enabling inactive professionals, often women, to reenter…

Twenty-two school psychologists participated in a year long institute designed to test the use of a multiplier effect in the continuing professional development of school psychologists in Michigan. Results indicated that 550 school psychologists attended two in-service meetings with generally favorable reactions. (Author)

This report is the reply to instructions to develop an outline of a curriculum for Nursing Refresher programs in British Columbia, to collate available instructor and student resource materials and correlate them with the objectives, and to identify gaps in resource materials. Chapter I is an introduction. Chapter II presents an overview of the…

Vocational education at the elementary, secondary, postsecondary, and continuing education levels in the Netherlands, receiving particular emphasis in response to needs expressed in educational policy making, is described in this article. (JH)

Two groups of 15 Administrative Specialists, 7lL Military Occupational Speciality (MOS), participated in four job-task refresher training sessions designed to enhance the typewriting of military correspondence. One group performed under a study training method which allowed use of a Correspondence Manual while arranging materials into the correct…

A feasibility study explored the use of the telelecture technique for continuing nursing education in the state of West Virginia. Telelecture is a two-way amplified communications system designed to bring together individuals and/or groups by means of a regular telephone network. The results of the study showed that it is an effective technique…

The Advanced Diploma in Chemical Sciences is a new course being offered at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. It is billed as a refresher course in modern organic chemistry for senior industrial scientists and is aimed at Ph.D.'s out of school for at least ten years. (Author/BB)

Using data from various studies, the author considers the effectiveness of mandatory continuing education as a means of strengthening the relicensure process. The article focuses on the mandatory continuing education movement in the health professions. (Author/CH)

The teaching performance of faculty who taught a 63-hour family medicine review course providing continuing medical education credit was evaluated, along with syllabus material. The relationship between the quality of teaching and subsequent changes in the physicians' patient-management plans was assessed. (SW)

Data derived from a six-page questionnaire focus on the interrelationships of participation in continuing education programs, professional attitudes, and competence to practice pharmacy. The relationships are complex, but the data tend to support the argument for mandatory continuing education. (LBH)

Described is the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' program of continuing education. Included are comparisons between continuing education programs as offered by universities, industry, and professional societies. (SL)

Presented is the view that professional societies should not sponsor professional continuing education courses. (SL)