Age trends in 5-year career stability and change were examined in an approximately one-in-a-thousand sample of 21- to 70-year-old men and women workers. Data on current occupation and occupation five years earlier were collected by the Census Bureau and reorganized for this study using Holland's occupational classification. Career stability…

This paper is concerned with faculty members in higher education and the organizations in which they work. The research on which it is based involved an examination of the ways in which discrete work activities that were identified as part of the faculty role might be reaggregated on the basis of faculty preferences, replacing the present role…

The author analyzes the development of continuing training legislation in West Germany since 1969, especially the Labor Promotion Act Arbeitsfoerderungsgesetz (AFG). Issues discussed include: occupational mobility in relation to skills, trainee demographic characteristics, AFG funding changes, and the social consequences of unemployment and…

It is argued that the court test requiring that anti-union bias be the dominant motive in employment decisions is mandated by the legislative history of the National Labor Relations Act. This argument is applied to the Doyle case, which involved a public school teacher and burden of proof of discriminatory discharge. (LBH)

Vocational education should now enter the area of job creation. The author discusses urban renewal, economic decentralization, the "bootstrap" school, and part-time job creation. (MF)

Indicates the major problems that still exist in Nigeria's developing journalism education programs. (RL)

The article describes China's alternative to Western technical education, a national program of industry-based education for experienced workers called "July 21st Workers Colleges" (from a 1968 statement by Mao). Regular universities and colleges may assist these Workers Colleges, where classes may be full time or part time. (MF)

The new Greek law (309/1976) extends compulsory schooling from six to nine years, with full effect from school year 1980-81. The author traces the probable major economic implications of this legislation. (Author/RK)

Economic concepts and methods useful to a firm considering the allocation of resources to training workers are presented, with applicability where appropriate for industrial education teachers. The discussion includes goals of investment in training, determining human capital requirements, the training decision, and efficiency in training. (MF)

Corporations have become a significant part of the nation's educational system, the author states, and regard their education and training activities as necessary business functions. Employer-sponsored education, both in-house and at outside institutions, trains new employees, but most programs are for upgrading present personnel. (MF)

Discusses materials that teachers of English as a second language (ESL) can make use of to help their students compete effectively in the job market. (CFM)

Attempts to document how the women's movement has affected secretaries in the last several years. Organizations, persons involved in various movements, and statistical information are included. (WL)

A horticulture instructor outlines various methods of getting information from the horticulture industry for use in planning instructional programs to fill industry needs. He suggests that student learning packets to implement the program could be developed with the assistance of industry. (MF)

The nature of the responsibility for continuing education for environmental professionals that rests upon five groups is discussed. These groups are environmental health workers, educational institutions, public health agencies, governments, and professional associations. (MR)

Because of a shrinking demand for physical education teachers, students majoring in this subject at the University of Delaware are required to participate in activities to relate physical activities with other elements of the child's curriculum. (JD)