The study gathered information concerning motives of postbaccalaureate adults for engaging in continuing professional education. Results indicate that for the majority (about 75 percent), career or job-related factors influence motives for returning to school, although impact varies according to gender or age. (CH)

Reports a consensus among surveyed Fortune 500 executives that effective communication skills are more important now than ever before for success in business. Makes curricular recommendations. (MS)

Presents a formula for teaching the basic principles of the communication process to the businessperson and the student who is struggling with theory. The STAMP formula emphasizes situation, tone, audience, medium, purpose. (SRT)

Expresses general agreement with Shapiro's "Scholarly Concerns of a Faculty of Education" and its position on schools of education as part of the larger university; the need of interdepartmental cooperation; and the importance of general education to teacher training. Describes the University of Calgary's joint General Studies/Elementary…

Presents an economic model of the relationship among educational effort, ability, employment qualifications, and productivity. Suggests that occupational competency requirements may encourage applicants to restrict their investments in education to the minimum necessary to obtain certification, rather than striving for competency levels that would…

The U.S. cannot have an economy based on high levels of expertise without a labor force that is expert and broadly enough educated to move easily from challenge to challenge, from one area of expertise to another. A labor force is needed that is creative, knowledgeable, and flexible. (MLW)

The theory that implies that the purpose of education is to enable people to continually adapt to an ever-changing labor market is examined. It is suggested that education designed to help people understand the present is the way to change the future. (MLW)

Presents eight writing assignments designed to help students write reports and letters for their future jobs. (HTH)

Investigates the relationships among schooling, experience, job status, and earnings in a large, private company in India. Results indicate that job status rises monotonically with experience and channels the transmission effects of schooling and experience onto earnings. Marginal productivity theory and the weak version of the screening…

A survey of the 76 graduates of Kent State's applied sociology masters program, designed to prepare students for employment outside academe, found one graduate employed outside her field, four who continued their education and became practicing sociologists, and a majority who used their training as human service practitioners. (MSE)

Presents a literature review which confirms the positive benefits of higher education for knowledge acquisition, and for intellectual, social, personal, and career development. (JAC)

Describes one teacher's experience in an internship as a technical writer and editor and how it sharpened her awareness of what she must teach to emulate the workplace in the classroom and truly prepare technical writing students for communication in business and industry. (HTH)

Five articles focus on school-to-work transition issues from the perspectives of administrators, consultants, and parents of visually handicapped and multiply impaired/blind students. Programs described include community-based training, state-sponsored vocational training, one-day training seminars, and a job readiness clinic. (Author/CL)

A Life-Planning Program addresses the transitional needs of secondary-aged learning disabled students via a process of problem solving, goal settings, and goal implementation. Among seven guiding principles of the program is that life planning is taught as a cognitive process, the program is student managed, and instruction is limited to short…

Discusses mobilization of support for current school reforms in the primary and secondary general education school in the USSR, including the vocational and technical education system. (RM)