To help with plans for developing all the health services personnel necessary to alleviate shortages of help for doctors and hospitals, this study has been undertaken. Veterans Administration hospitals were asked to report their potential for health services manpower training, taking advantage of the Manpower Development and Training Act and…

Panelists at this Montreal conference presented a trade union view of technological change and manpower policy; an account of a program of vocational retraining and upgrading undertaken in Windsor, Ontario, to forestall mass unemployment; and a discussion of principles of manpower development and management development in large businesses. Working…

A questionnaire to study company education programs was devised and sent to Florida companies employing at least 200 people. Training programs were conducted in 55% of the firms, with an additional 12% expecting to develop such programs within three years. Training directors were employed in more than half of the firms but they were more often…

Government statistics reveal nearly 2.5 million students leave schools yearly without adequate work preparation. Support for career education, as a renewal force, is needed to redirect educational emphasis from academic elitism to open access for occupational preparation. Vocational school graduates choose advanced education almost as often as…

The study of the economic benefits and costs of training courses in Michigan was intended as an evaluation of the impact of the federal training program on the national product, the disposable income of trainees, and the expenditures and receipts of the government. It was confined to the institutional, occupationally oriented courses conducted…

This section of the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Winter Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association consists of three papers on aspects of manpower education. A Boston study on training of tool and die makers sought to ascertain which of several identifiable training paths was most productive in terms of worker performance. It found…

A project involving the cooperative effort of the Ling-Temco-Vought Corporation and governmental agencies relocated 684 South Texans to metropolitan areas for work as aircraft assemblers after a four-week training program in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. About 90% of these relocatees were Mexican Americans. Sixteen months after the first families…

This study of prevocational training and family service counseling in Philadelphia is based on the premise that the long term unemployed male needs preparation on how to become a worker before he can successfully be trained for, or accept and handle, unemployment. It is also asserted that there are social and psychological factors, chiefly lack of…

The report is concerned with educational facilities which provide services on a regional basis and are located within or near the Greater Lowell area. These generally include facilities for vocational and technical education and for higher education. The report also deals with training of high school and postgraduate students, training and…

This conference enabled operators of training programs for separating servicemen to "talk shop" among themselves and with outside supporting agencies and organizations, both public and private. Panel discussions and speeches dealt with such matters as local administration of the TRANSITION Program; counseling and placement (including the…

Through the use of mailed and personal interview questionnaires, the study attempted to determine the extent of formal, organized training programs in Wisconsin sponsored by business, industry, labor, and government. Information was sought concerning the areas of training presently provided, the amount of training in terms of number of trainees,…

The annotated bibliography was compiled to alert educators to literature discussing vocational education for the handicapped. Limited to documents cited in Research in Education (RIE), the bibliography consists of items which had Career Education, Job Training, Manpower Development, Vocational Education, or Vocational Retraining as one of there…

This 2-part annotated bibliography contains references that should be useful to individuals planning health careers projects and activities, those concerned with the development of health occupations programs, and persons involved in attracting and retaining minority group representatives in the health field. The first part of the bibliography…

This report offers a fine example of a community college responding to a community need. Virginia Highlands Community College (Virginia) proposes establishment of a job-preparedness center at Saltville, Virginia (a small company town), to provide training that will equip approximately 600 workers for new jobs in the area after the existing…

These five research reviews should be useful to educators concerned with developing and improving vocational education programs. Reviews include: (1) Four longitudinal studies of labor market experience conducted by The Ohio State University Center for Human Resource Research, concerning young men 14-24, young women 14-24, men 45-59, and women…