Explains features of this year's revised JOBS contracts and cites implications for organizations and trainees. (Editor)

An overview of manpower development and its problems in South Africa. (AN)

This article contends that where meaningful employment is coupled with education, that retention and successful course completion are much higher. (Editor)

Vocational training conducted by and for industry. (Editor)

This article appears in Manpower Research Visibility, a supplement to American Vocational Journal. (MU)

Study results indicate that male dropout is not likely to return to school, while the female dropout is more likely to return to school and graduate. Counselors need to become more aware of the wide array of training programs available and to communicate this knowledge to potential and actual dropouts. (Author)

Excerpts from text of address at 1971 annual meeting of the American Vocational Association. (Editor/MU)

Manpower programs have not moved large groups of people up the occupational ladder but have placed the disadvantaged into entry level jobs and such government programs as the Manpower Development and Training Act have offered little on the job training. (BC)

A recent pre-job preparation educational program for unemployed adults, conducted in Monongalia County, West Virginia, was distinctive in that it attempted to deal with a wide range of problems faced by job seekers and to use the resources of all agencies in the manpower and social services field. It was also done with existing resources, not…