Career educators appear to be developing an approach to schooling rooted in at least four questionable assumptions about the learning process. Unless these interrelated assumptions are critically examined and rectified, then the most beneficial intended outcomes of career education will be subverted. (Authors)

Both the physician and the patients he serves have a crucial stake in questions of specialty choice. (HS)

Authors describe the changing nature of educational planning and administration, and attempt to clarify some of the semantic confusion surrounding these activities. (Author/MM)

The British secondary school curriculum is so overloaded with specializations for preparing students to pass the college admissions examination that general education is in jeopardy. (IR)

Discusses an area program in Georgia where 20 specialists, working with local vocational agriculture teachers, taught 378 courses with 5,636 farmers enrolled. (DM)

Paper presented at the Council of Academic Societies Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2-5, 1968.

This study suggests that student's choice of undergraduate major depends on various factors. Allowing for recent trends toward accounting and business administration, results indicate that earnings differentials and differences in the rate of change in earnings are among important factors in the student's decision. (Author/LC)

A 2-year fellowship program providing training in clinical drug research and drug development methodology for pharmacists with clinical experience is described. Industry, university, and hospital research facilities are used as training laboratories. (Author/MSE)

Employers from 13 different health care settings in Illinois responded to a questionnaire to identify major issues affecting health occupations education. The five major concerns of employers were the need for improved communication between educational and service institutions, improved understanding of roles, overspecialization, lack of regional…

Investigated classifying graduate students into worker function codes. Results support the proposition that, at least for psychology, worker functions provide a useful differentiation of intraoccupational groups. Students of different worker function profiles revealed interests and self-rated competence that agreed with their assigned codes. (JAC)

Presents data showing a 42-percent increase between 1974 and 1979 in the number of licensed psychologists. Attributes the increase to: 1) increased production of doctorates; 2) shift in orientation toward clinical/professional psychology; 3) increased interest in licensing; and, 4) the fact that relatively few psychologists are leaving the…

Two areas of concern for strategic planning are outlined: general education, and fragmentation in society with a goal of unity within diversity for the preservation and renewal of democratic institutions. It is speculated that both these areas will probably be included in 21st century thinking in higher education. (Author/GK)

Data gathered from a sample of 179 students at the College of Library and Information Science, University of Maryland, supported hypotheses relating field dependence/field independence to functional and institutional preferences and to undergraduate majors. (RBF)