The findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the Consultation of World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centers in Europe are presented in this report. The consultation was held in accordance with Health for All (HFA) targets 36 ("Planning Education, and Use of All Health Personnel for Health for All") and 37 ("Education…

Most developing countries have been debt ridden since the mid-1970s. This continuing debt burden has resulted in increasing prices and inflation, growing unemployment, and daily life difficulties. This problem has been acute for the Sudan. Sudan received help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1978 and negotiated new credit terms. By…

The Attleboro (Massachusetts) Workplace Education Program, a partnership of four area companies and Bristol Community College, is intended to provide workers with education that will improve the quality of their lives and their work. Housed in a corporate office building in the Attleboro Industrial Park, the program offers classes in English as a…

This document contains four papers from a symposium on technology in human resource development (HRD). "COBRA, an Electronic Performance Support System for the Analysis of Jobs and Tasks" (Theo J. Bastiaens) is described as an integrated computerized environment that provides tools, information, advice, and training to help employees do…

This document contains four papers from a symposium on the human resource development (HRD) function in organizations. In "Comparing Quality Profiles of Training Organizations--A Multi-Level Approach" (Martin Mulder), analysis of over 1,300 training projects indicates that variation in quality is almost entirely explained by the…

Global technological and demographic changes have established the need for vocational training and labor force development. The problems begin in defining the type of training needed, its effectiveness, how to fund it, and how to ensure benefits for the trainee, the employer, the national economy, and society. Four pitfalls to training should be…

Noting that medical schools had led the way in the management of human disease, the author contends that they must now help lead the way in the management of human health. This will require a broadening of medical education to prepare physicians to accept broader responsibilities as members of society. (JT)

Notes the turbulence of the environments in which administrators must operate, presents an assessment model for identifying and developing administrators with the necessary capabilities for coping effectively with turbulent field environments, and suggests applications for and further investigations of the model. (Author/IRT)

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA) cooperative relationship regarding the development of environmental manpower programs on a State and local level is discussed. Environmental programs resulting from CETA aid are described and EPA statistics given, stating that such programs are…

Three studies conducted by the National Air Pollution Manpower Development Advisory Committee concluded there is a crisis in air pollution manpower development within the United States today. The studies investigated the existing federal manpower program, air pollution educational requirements and the quality of graduate level university programs.…

The author discusses three aspects of manpower resources in farming: the size and trends of the labor force in relation to capital and farm productivity, science of man management, and the recruitment and training of workers in the farm industry. (Author/BP)

Today the totality of Canada's labor market programs--manpower, unemployment insurance, and regional expansion--attempt to provide continuity of employment or of income, to enhance new skills and higher productivity, and to selectively create new jobs in regions or for persons where the need seems greatest. (Author)

The author discusses the tradition of educational innovation and contemporary trends in the United States. Emphasis is placed on the innovation of alternating periods of classroom learning and paid work experience related to the student's field of study. The advantages of cooperative education to both the university and community are explored. (DE)

The four conditions of ergonomics, a new technology that has emerged to investigate and improve man's relationship with his working environment, are discussed. Its main task is adapting work to fit the needs of man. (Author/BP)

The article presents an analysis of the success of training programs based on examination of longitudinal data on one cohort of trainees who participated in classroom training under the Manpower Development and Training Act. (MW)