This Rate Training Manual and Nonresident Career Course (RTM/NRCC) form a self-study package that will enable Steelworkers First and Chief to help themselves fulfill the requirements of their rating. (These positions direct and coordinate efforts of individuals and crews in cutting, welding, placing and erecting rigid frame and other…

The references and annotations in this student aid bibliography are organized in seven major categories based on primary content or emphasis: (1) sources of program information; (2) the history, philosophy, and purpose of student aid; (3) financial aid administration, management, and problems; (4) financial aid administration as a profession; (5)…

These units of instructional materials and teaching aids are the first three of a series of 10 designed for use in metropolitan agriculture/horticulture programs for students in grades 9 and 10. Covered in the unit on agricultural occupations are the school program, agriculture and society, and careers in agriculture. Orientation to supervised…

This study investigated the feasibility of developing five vocational education curricula for severely handicapped (i.e., trainable mentally retarded) young people, aged 13 to 21, that would enable them to work in the employment areas of gardening, housekeeping, laundry services, food services, and minor auto maintenance. One goal of the project…

Student skills and employment opportunities for diplomates of Nedlands College of Advanced Education, Western Australia, are surveyed. For diplomates in the fields of teaching, library media, and recreation, an oversupply exists in the labor market. It is suggested that this oversupply will continue for at least two years in the case of library…

Fifteen two-year college, vocational education projects are described, which, in the opinion of New York's Showcase of Excellence Program judges, are worthy of adaptation or replication by other institutions. For each of the projects which were selected from 83 nominations, objectives, activities, project impact, and personnel and material…

Addressed to teachers for use with students, this module contains material developed to encourage high school students to explore nontraditional education courses and become familiar with legal rights in schools and work. Preliminary materials include guidelines for effectively teaching about sex stereotyping, checklists, and list of definitions.…

This thirteenth of 14 curriculum modules in the Family and Community Services Occupational Education Modules series deals with death and dying. It helps the student to be aware of different kinds of death, stages of emotion, and attitudes toward death. Students have opportunities also to express their own feelings. The role of community…

Details of relationships between employment demand and the supply of graduates of various degree fields and degree levels from all types of institutions in Pennsylvania in 1977 are presented. Data on 45,078, or 50.5 percent of the higher education graduates at all degree levels, represents graduates' status five to six months after their…

In 1973 the Harvard School of Public Health contracted with the Bureau of Health Manpower Education to study, modify, and augment the school's educational program and related research and service activities in light of existing public health needs and those likely to arise in the next five to ten years. The model educational program developed as a…

As in kits 1-12, the kits in this bilingual language arts strand offer activities in oral language development and language-experience reading, structured reading, and comprehension and interpretation skills. Basic themes of this unit for Spanish-speaking second graders is the neighborhood. Activities also support subthemes of the child, his needs…

Designed for use with the teacher's guide to unit seven of the social science strand for Spanish-speaking third graders, these support materials include instructional aids for classroom use and worksheets for students which may be reproduced for individual seatwork. Worksheets are to be presented under supervision rather than as independent tasks.…

A study was undertaken to explore the relationship between students' expected competencies at various stages in the public administration baccalaureate program of Medgar Evers College (City University of New York) and agency needs as perceived by administrators, agency heads, and experts in the field. In a survey done in 1970, agency needs were…

Accomplishments of the Navajo Health Authority (NHA) since it began in 1972 are presented in synopsis form in a report of programs underway at Window Rock and Shiprock, along with NHA goals: to promote development of Navajo Health manpower, preventive medicine, health education, and native healing sciences. After a brief review of executive and…

In the first of two studies of the data processing program at Johnson County Community College (Kansas), students enrolled in data processing classes during spring 1978 were surveyed to collect basic demographic data and to obtain opinions about the program. There were approximately as many men as women enrolled and the median age was 25, slightly…