This is the final report of a Unesco meeting held in New Delhi, India in April, 1976. Contents include background information, summaries of the inaugural meeting and the organization of the work at the conference, a summary of the discussions in the commissions, closure, recommendations, and annexes. Topics discussed at this meeting were: (1)…

Reviewed is the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the education and training of professional specialists in the field of environmental health. Particular emphasis is given to the environmental engineer. Cooperation between WHO and Unesco in this field is stressed. The World Health Organization has evolved a comprehensive program…

Rapid and radical changes taking place in the scientific, technological, educational, and societal context are affecting the education and training of engineers. To ensure that engineers keep pace with change, reappraisal and revision of the curricula is considered necessary. Unesco established and sponsored the International Working Group on…

The goal of this Unesco meeting was to offer to training policy-makers, analytical tools that could help them to make the best possible forecast of higher technological manpower needs. This paper is a report of that meeting. It gives an overview of several current methods for the estimation of quantitative and qualitative technological manpower…

The tenth annual survey of the supply and demand for teachers of vocational agriculture describes the nature and degree of the shortage of teachers in the field in 1974. It also identifies changes and trends since 1965. The data were secured from all institutions preparing vocational agriculture teachers as well as State supervisors in…

This document contains the papers presented at the Twenty-Second Annual Broadcast Industry Conference held at California State University, San Francisco, in 1972. The aim of the conference was to develop a better means of communication among nations existing in a world that has grown smaller because of the development of the communications media.…

The conference report focuses on three problem areas: the role and objectives of the employment service in meeting society's needs; Federal, State, and local responsibilities and relationships in public employment service; and financing the public employment service. The report contains workshop reports on each of the three problem areas presented…

This status report on speech research includes 16 essays and extended reports. Included are "Perspectives in Vision: Conception of Perception?""The Perception of Speech,""The Dynamic Use of Prosody in Speech Perception,""Speech and the Problem of Perceptual Constancy,""Coperception,""Dichotic 'Masking' of Voice Onset Time,""The Number Two and the…

Presented are seven child research and development papers delivered at the 1973 American Psychological Association Symposium in Montreal. Described are the beneficial results produced by relevant goal oriented researchers who become directly involved with societal problems. Advocated is the need for psychology to become more historical, empirical,…

Price trends for the major operating expenditures of the Purdue University Libraries are examined. Four years of price data on books and serials purchased for various academic disciplines are presented. Price trend data are also presented for other library expenditures including salaries, wages, equipment, telephone, and supplies. It is concluded…

Presented is the annual report for Resources for the Future, Inc. (RFF) for the year ending September 30, 1973. This organization is dedicated to advancing the development, conservation, and use of natural resources and the improvement of the quality of the environment through programs of research and education. Most of their studies are in the…

Purpose of the conference was to develop a set of priorities for sociolinguistic research on the Chicano community over the next 3 to 5 years. The conference was designed to develop guidelines for such research. Workshops dealt with specific areas of sociolinguistic theory, applied sociolinguistics, and sociolinguistic research policy guidelines.…

In 1972, a Student Advisory Board (composed of high school students) was created in Pennsylvania. Students proposed projects in areas that concerned them, formed small committees, and through interviews with relevant or influential people, fact-finding, and assessment of available material and responses, prepared reports and recommendations. It is…

The reporting booklet is required by the Census Data System (CDS) of the Management Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE); it contains the reporting forms which collect data on school expenditures which are available at the end of the school year, such as expenditures for instructional and supportive services, expenditures by city…

These conference proceedings carry as their major theme the inevitability of conflict. With the emphasis on accepting this as a fact of life, the problem is posed in terms of how to manage conflict constructively: how to use it and grow, and learn from it instead of avoiding it. Conflict is discussed with regard to the following: (1) public…