A project was designed to develop and implement a cooperative inservice training program between Manchester Community College and Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Group, to explore the possibilities of similar contractual agreements, to evaluate inservice training programs for potential awarding of college credit, to identify business and industries…

Nonformal adult education in Tanzania includes literacy classes, rural extension, community development, training within industry (TWI), civil service inservice training courses, correspondence and evening courses, residential adult education (Kivukoni College,) and women's groups other than literacy classes. Provisions for nonformal education…

DURING A 19-MONTH SPAN OF TIME, MIDDLESEX COUNTY COLLEGE (NEW JERSEY) ATTEMPTED TO (1) IDENTIFY QUALIFIED YOUTH WITH EXCEPTIONAL FINANCIAL NEED AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO COMPLETE SECONDARY SCHOOL AND UNDERTAKE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL TRAINING WITHIN A COMMUNITY COLLEGE, (2) PUBLICLY EXHIBIT FORMS OF FINANCIAL AID FURNISHED THROUGH FEDERAL, STATE,…

This study investigated the extent to which the Analytic Trouble Shooting Program (ATS) trained troubleshooters in an automobile assembly plant (1) to use information about a problem to determine the cause of that problem and (2) to anticipate and prevent problems. Troubleshooters in two specific departments were general foremen, foremen, process…

One of 33 self-paced instructional modules categorized under 13 major headings, which have been prepared for training industry services leaders to provide guidance in the performance of industry service tasks, this module is an introduction for those who need basic information about the concepts and activities of industry services programs.…

This is a report on the work of the ERFA-industry, an informal association in the Federal Republic of Germany for the exchange of information on language laboratory teaching in commerce and industry. Learning conditions in schools are contrasted to those in industrial courses, as are learning objectives and teaching materials and methods. The use…

An empirical study of minority business enterprise in construction, the paper is based on interviews with 340 general and specialty contractors (out of 1,275 identified minority contractors) in Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, and San Francisco-Oakland, as well as 300 other individuals including civil rights officials, and other knowledgeable…

The manual is the third of six student manuals for use in a course on occupational health and safety for supervisory personnel. The manual contains lessons 6 and 7 of the 15 consecutively-numbered lessons, each of which contains study questions (and answers) interwoven with the text and review questions at the end of each section. Lesson 6 covers…

This yearbook is designed as a comprehensive guide to British Industrial Training. Section 1 describes existing resources, information, and obligations in the light of the Industrial Training Act of 1964. Sections 2-6 cover the scope of training; the Department of Education and Productivity and the Central Training Council; the 30 Industrial…

Fifteen industrial organizations were surveyed for their use of instructional television (ITV) in their educational programs for employees. The firms surveys included Xerox Corporation, RCA Corporation, General Electric Company, International Telephone and Telegraph, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation, etc.…

Designed as a ready reference source on training practices and theories in work organizations, this annotated bibliography cites 109 items on general aspects of training (including the historical development of training and the identification of needs), followed by eleven bibliographies and by over 600 other works on manual and clerical skill…

This preliminary essay was designed to raise issues for discussion in the International Workshop on Occupational Education and Training for Development held at Stanford University, August 1967, and participants were asked to test and challenge all propositions. The essay offers a conceptual framework and a rational procedure for the planning of…

Taken from the annual conference (May 12-16, 1969) of the American Society for Training and Development, these papers concentrate on sociological and related trends affecting manpower development and utilization. Such topics as new training and educational resources for industrial trainers, current social change and upheaval on and off college…

This booklet explains what training grants are offered by the Furniture and Timber Training Board of Great Britain, indicates how to claim them, and outlines the Board's training philosophy. Foldouts present conditions which apply in whole or in part to the Training Grants Scheme, followed by guidelines for completing forms. The main section…

Eighteen papers were presented at the conference by practitioners, academic researchers, labor representatives and members of government. Summaries of papers are grouped under the headings: Apprenticeship as a Training Process; Lessons from Followup Studies of Journeymen and Apprentices; Minorities in Apprenticeship; Apprenticeship Training in…