Offered here is a narrative survey of international approaches to training for social welfare. For the purposes of the survey, social welfare tasks have been defined as those which involve the improvement of social functioning and social relationships in meeting social needs at individual, group, or community levels. The study also encompasses…

This report represents the first year record of the Manpower Leadership Education Project. This inaugural effort toward cooperative manpower leadership training between a labor department base and university occupational education base was made possible by a contract between the Michigan Department of Labor, Bureau of Manpower, and the University…

Directed at the manpower counselor, this report describes the project's experiences in teaching job-required behavioral skills to the hardcore through systematically prescribed group counseling interventions. While describing the overall system, it focuses on the detailed presentation of the prescribed group counseling interventions developed, the…

This workbook for work supervisors is designed to be used in conjunction with the training manual. (Author)

In this article I shall first try to review major trends in training in Europe, and, secondly examine in what way the new institutions, structures and policies in Great Britain represent an attempt to deal with problems which Great Britain appears to share with most other European countries. (Author)

A medical curriculum aimed at responsiveness to public health needs of the kingdom is described. Planning focus was on health manpower resources and needs, regional developments, demographic patterns, socioeconomics and cultural factors, general education development plans, vital statistics, and health facilities. (Author/LBH)

The Baltimore Learning Center is designed to provide functionally illiterate adults with the basic skills they need to compete for jobs. The Center's success is largely due to PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations), a computer-aided instruction system that lets the student work at his own pace. (MF)

Gives a brief description of Titles I through VIII of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 and urges teachers to investigate its opportunities. (MF)

Indicates the nature of reforms now being undertaken to mitigate the effects of unemployment among young people in Europe and the accompanying pressures on education systems. (Author/RK)

Delegates from 31 so-called developing countries met with American vocational educators. Country after country identified a distorted sense of social values as the chief deterrent to meeting its needs for vocationally trained manpower. Lack of adequate staff was next. (Editor/HD)

It is proposed that every technical university or other institution of higher technical education should establish a strong office or department responsible for providing courses of continuing education. A summary of the objectives appropriate to continuing education of engineers is presented along with methods of their control and evaluation.…

The Commonwealth Caribbean consists of fifteen English-speaking territories at various stages of development. The intention here is to provide some kind of overview of those developmental issues which impinge on relationships between education and employment. (Author)

With a major focus on manpower legislation's influence on vocational training programs in Wisconsin, this article traces the history and decentralization of manpower legislation from the 1961 Area Redevelopment Act (ARA) to the present federal administration's proposals and indicates that future manpower programs should focus on training youth and…

Since 1974, Panama has instituted a program of educational reform to provide practical skills and knowledge, especially in rural areas. District centers of integrated educational development which identify and meet local economic and social needs have replaced traditional schools. (Author/AV)

The study finds (1) that vocational-technical training taken under the GI Bill raises earning capacity more than does similar training taken under Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) and Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and (2) that the earnings effect of training are significantly greater for blacks. (EM)