In addition to vocational education's role in training workers for jobs, vocational education has an additional role in helping to create jobs for workers by cooperating with industry and with economic development agencies. There are three ways that vocational education helps industry to promote economic development and create jobs. They are (1)…

Intended to provide cable television company owners and operators, managers, supervisors, suppliers, and manufacturers with broad guidelines for the operation of and participation in a local or regional Private Industry Council (PIC), this handbook begins with a description of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA); a brief history…

A SURVEY WAS MADE OF MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, USING DATA OBTAINED FROM 49 CORPORATIONS WITH THE HIGHEST SALES VOLUME IN 1964. IT WAS FOUND THAT THE TRAINING TECHNIQUES MOST EFFECTIVELY USED INCLUDED ON-THE-JOB TRAINING, CONFERENCE AND DISCUSSION GROUPS, AND JOB ROTATION, AND THAT UNIVERSITY COURSES, MANAGEMENT SEMINARS, AND AMERICAN…

PERHAPS THE MAJOR PROBLEM IN TASK ANALYSIS FOR INDUSTRIAL TRAINING IS TO DETERMINE WHAT TO DESCRIBE AND ON WHAT LEVEL OF DETAIL. MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS OF DESCRIPTION MAY BE NEEDED TO ESTIMATE THE COST OF INADEQUATE PERFORMANCE TO A SYSTEM AND THE PROBABILITY OF ADEQUATE PERFORMANCE WITHOUT TRAINING--THE PROBLEM OF IDENTIFYING DIFFICULT COMPONENTS…

PROGRAM INFORMATION FROM 115 ETV STATIONS FOR THE WEEK APRIL 17-23, 1966, GIVES A GENERAL PICTURE OF EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOR THE YEAR 1966, AND TOGETHER WITH SIMILAR INFORMATION COLLECTED IN 1964, REVEALS TRENDS OVER THAT PERIOD. PROGRAMS FOR THE GENERAL AUDIENCE ARE INCREASING RELATIVE TO OTHER KINDS OF PROGRAMS, AND EMPHASIZE THE ARTS, PUBLIC…

This document contains a summary of a survey of 930 companies employing 4,375,665 persons throughout the United States. The survey specifically deals with the companies' experiences with in-plant and outside agency job training programs. Some of the findings were: (1) Respondents feel that there are numerous institutions at work in the community…

The Lincoln Terminal System is described as a device with the capability to deliver technical information, to monitor student performance, and to assure learning in industrial training. The experimental hardware and the lesson material for the system were tested in two mine maintenance schools and the results show that: (1) student users of the…

The report provides an assessment of the six Experimental Manpower Laboratories set up by the Manpower Administration to engage in long-term research concerned with developing improved manpower service-delivery systems. An advisory committee under the auspices of the National Research Council was established to conduct the assessment. The six…

The manual guides an instructor in conducting a training course for first-line supervisors to familiarize them with six aspects relating to the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: (1) requirements of the Act, (2) compliance with its standards, (3) identification of health and safety hazards, (4) correction of adverse conditions, (5) record…

This volume of the International Year-book of Adult Education concentrates on interrelated aspects of university education, research, and adult education. Nine articles, accompanied by abstracts in German, English, and French, deal with adult education research in modern Yougoslavia (since 1950); adult education as a field of study within the…

A new edition of this bibliography (first published in 1967) includes 285 publications in print as of July 1969. Areas covered include: manpower planning, training practice--general works, retraining, training of older workers, operator training, craft training, apprenticeship, training of technicians and technologists, commercial and clerical…

The British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education has included in its register of annotated programed instructional materials: programs available in the United Kingdom; programs dealing with industrial and commercial training and related further education; and information as supplied by the authors or producers of programs. The areas…

This booklet gives details, approved by the British Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, of grants which will be paid by the Printing and Publishing Industry Training Board (PPITB) in the training year 1 August 1969-31 July 1970. General conditions of grant are noted first, followed by a summary of categories and rates of grant.…

This book comprises case studies in the areas where business expertise can be applied in solving urban problems. These include employment, training, social problems, economic development, financial support, maintenance and order, local government modernization, and technological solutions to urban problems. An analytical chapter which follows each…

Surveys of 188 transit properties and on-site visits were conducted to determine the training needs of operators and mechanics in the urban mass transportation industry. The appendices include listings of respondents and sample copies of the survey questionnaires and visit reports. (NTIS)