Correspondence education is a tested, flexible, and viable addition to the training and development arsenal of learning tools. Although a comparatively recent development in the professions, properly integrated within the training plan, correspondence study supports any trainer's effort and closes most fundamental learning gaps. (Author/DS)

Article from TRAINING TECHNOLOGY, v9 n9 pS24-S28, Sep 1969, a supplement to EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.

For the first time in the history of Japanese theatre, a training program has been developed to prepare young men outside the kabuki families for careers in this very rigorous and demanding form of theatre. (Author)

The increasing worldwide use of the metric system is leading the United States into abandoning the English system of measurement and undertaking the monumental task of converting to the metric system. Great Britain offers valuable training experience to the United States with their seven year lead into metrication. (DS)

The British Gas Corporation has formulated and refined the incident process of training into their own method, which they call developing case study. Sales trainees learn indoor and outdoor sales techniques for selling central heating through self-taught case studies. (DS)

The author looks at some of the myths floating around about whether and how a company should use films in its training programs. (Author)

A discussion of how engineers are trained to work at the BBC in Great Britain. (HB)

The Knitting, Lace and Net Industry Training Board has developed a training innovation called fault diagnosis training. The entire training process concentrates on teaching based on the experiences of troubleshooters or any other employees whose main tasks involve fault diagnosis and rectification. (Author/DS)

The benefits of a formal induction program are frequently ignored. Step-by-step procedures are outlined. (MS)

Training needs analysis, training program planning, pilot sessions and their evaluation, and follow through sessions on a continuing basis are examined, using an approach applicable to an outside or inside trainer. (LH)

Contemporary training programs should be free of false assumptions and focus on individual growth and those functions that support every training effort: manpower development with planned direction, relevant training tied to a career path determining real needs through pretraining research, and performance measurement. (Author/BP)

Described are the procedures being employed by the Army in its attempt to employ systems concepts in all of its training programs. (LS)

The performance of individuals is the chief factor in the performance of data processing installations. Training can close the gap between rapidly changing tasks and the skills they require. The article views types of training available and discusses a survey of attitudes toward data processing training. (Author/AJ)