This manual was prepared to provide interested persons with information concerning the standards and administrative guidelines governing apprenticeship programs for electricians in the United States. These standards provide the basis for on-the-job training programs and classroom job related education leading to the graduation of qualified…

Recruiting and training workers to meet the critical shortage of trained health manpower is the major goal of the U.C.L.A. Secondary School Allied Health Project. In order to illustrate how the program combines work experience and classroom activities so that students become aware of the possible careers in the health field, this publication…

After reviewing federal and state child labor legislation in connection with the Career Education Incentive Act of 1977 (PL 95-207), the authors found that most state child labor laws did not provide the flexibility needed to implement PL 95-207 on a broad basis. Some compatibility must be found. (MF)

The article describes the career education program for senior high handicapped students in the Arlington (Virginia) public schools, including curriculum development, delivery activities, student placement, placement site selection, and learner outcome goals. (MF)

The Career Awareness Micro-Internship Program at Augustana College, designed to demonstrate the career potential of liberal arts education to students and prospective employers, places students in job situations with professional sponsors. The internships are also open to faculty to help them update their knowledge about nonacademic careers. (JMD)

The agricultural education curriculum at Njala University College, University of Sierra Leone, is stressing practical farm experience programs on school land for students preparing to teach agriculture. In Illinois also the "land laboratories" concept appears to be effective in providing practical agricultural training. (MF)

Discusses trends and issues in European career education programs observed during the author's visits to educational and industrial sites in six European countries where cooperation between school and industry is a prominent part of education programs. Describes some education and work arrangements and provides a list of references. (MF)

Presents a definition of cooperative education on the college level and outlines some of the advantages a cooperative program offers to the student, the employer, and the university. (HMV)

The author discusses the benefits of supervised occupational experience (S.O.E.) programs in vocational agriculture for jobs requiring less than four-year college degrees. (MF)

Discusses the need for a labor education program which combines vocational preparation and moral training, in accordance with educational needs defined by the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Presents examples of schools throughout the USSR which have involved vocational students in exchanges with local labor collectives.…

Describes four ways to earn college credit: credit through correspondence and independent study, credit by examination, credit for noncollegiate sponsored instruction, and credit for past learning experiences. A list of references identifying other alternatives and degree programs is also included. (BM)

Discusses the need to keep postsecondary programs in vocational and technical agricultural training aligned with current demands from the agricultural industry. Among the approaches are inservice training for teachers and also for industry personnel, a supervised occupational work experience program, and field trips to selected industries. (MF)

Due to increasing urbanization of the area, focus of the vocational agriculture department at Zachary High School, near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has changed from production agriculture to ornamental horticulture. The area supervisor describes the facilities for student instruction and work experience in the school's greenhouses and grounds. (MF)

A high school teacher presents some guidelines for coordinating instructional activities in the classroom with resources in the community. She suggests keeping a resource file of possible activities, speakers, field trips, videotape or cassette tape interviews when trips are not feasible, work education programs, teacher exchange, materials from…

A Wisconsin welding instructor tells how he learned about the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) graduate fellowships in leadership training being offered to vocational personnel, the selection process, and the program of work combined with classes that he experienced in his EPDA year at Colorado State University. (MF)