The Biennial Report presents a selection of UNESCO-UNEVOC's activities during 2014 and 2015. The activities contributed to UNESCO's sectoral priorities and programmatic objectives and assisted Member States to provide equitable, inclusive and quality education and promote lifelong learning for sustainable development. Importantly, the selected…

Developing statistical skills and obtaining credit in statistics courses are common requirements that many college students have to contend with. However, not all students succeed in meeting these requirements--often despite their best effort and that of their instructors. This paper describes an instruction and support program that a university…

The authors describe the multiple benefits a university selling center offers to students, faculty members, administrators, and the general business community. The seven essential steps in first establishing a university selling center are addressed: find a champion, obtain the support of administration, find a white knight, establish a board of…

The Kent County (Mich.) Beltline Skill Center was constructed to meet the job market demands of an advancing economy. Accountability is the key to every phase of its operation. (Editor)

Skill training by way of individualized instruction is offered to adults by the learning centers established by the Arizona MDTA Skill Centers. (DS)

A description of how Southern California Regional Occupation Center at Torrence, California, teaches marketable skills and career training. (HB)

The Village Polytechnic Movement consists of setting up training centers for the purpose of teaching locally-needed skills to primary school dropouts in rural Kenya. In addition to explaining the philosophy of the movement, the author comments upon its organization and future. (AG)

A literature review and a survey indicated that nursing students had difficulty developing psychomotor skills. A British college established a skills center with a structured learning approach to remedy the problem. (SK)

Addressograph Multigraph's training facility brings field personnel in and also creates courses to be sent out. (Author)

Describes an assessment center that not only identifies strong candidates for administrative positions but also helps participants improve weak skills. (Author/JM)

Article 1 reviews literature on psychomotor skill acquisition, finding inconclusive research based on a positivist approach. Article 2 reviews theories of skill acquisition. Both reviews will be used to evaluate a skills center for nurses that is based on a constructivist approach. (SK)

The Camden campus of Rutgers University, currently in its eighth year of operation, has provided numerous men and women from the community with employable skills. (Author/MU)

According to Benjamin Bloom's (1981) concept of of mastery learning, most students--given the appropriate instruction and learning resources, adequate time spent learning, and perseverance--can learn a particular academic skill. Because a classroom often does not provide enough time or resources for developmental students to master necessary basic…

This paper advances the thesis that students should be trained to recognize acceptable and unacceptable performances in basic skill areas and should assume responsibility for attaining proficiency in these areas. Among the topics discussed are the value of having junior high school students check their own assignments, discover their errors, and…