The mobile laboratories operated by Project MODEL are designed for disadvantaged and handicapped students. The vans offer a full array of diagnostic and career exploratory programs plus actual training that results in placement. (Author/BP)

The author discusses the influence of government, employees, management staff, trade unions, colleges and their Advisory Boards, in-company training staff, students, training officers, and lecturers on the ideas and progress of training. His recommendation is to improve communications between college staff and industry in developing training…

Reports on the development of various university-based training programs for community school directors, arising from the rapid expansion of community education programs and realization of the need for specially trained personnel. (DW)

Equipped with two multi-purpose fishing vessels, the Caribbean Fishery Development Institute has begun training 45 persons in an 11-month course ranging from navigation to seamanship, from engineering to biology, law, andeconomics. The program description provided by the article is supplemented by figures offering specific curricular and…

Noting that placement of graduating speech communication students is an important measure of the success of career programs, and that faculty and department heads who are presently developing, recommending, or supervising career programs may be interested in useful career attitudes and placement activities, a study was conducted to determine what…

A cost-benefit study was conducted to determine the economic viability of continuing to offer training sessions for seafood processors through the College of the Mainland in Texas. Data for the study were collected from both primary and secondary sources, including the college and local company participating in the program, federal and state…

Eight documents of representative types and three journal articles are included in this self-instructional training workbook for abstractor/indexers. Introductory materials provide an overview of informative and indicative abstracting styles and the principles of indexing utilized by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). Detailed…

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…