Presents a model for evaluating performance-based instruction that is intended for use by human resource development/performance technology professionals. Highlights include goal setting; program design and implementation; evaluating the use and impact of training; instructional tasks, including sequencing; quality of student products; and…

Discusses the changing role and responsibilities of middle managers and department heads in large research libraries. Skills and abilities required for effective management and the need for continuing leadership training are outlined. (10 references) (EA)

Argues that (1) vocational education and job training must be responsive to market forces to influence economic development; (2) national policies must encourage links between training and market forces and a balance between public and private training; and (3) strategies must incorporate the social and political contexts. (SK)

Describes derivation and use of an index representing mothers' attachment to workforce, based on proportion of time the mother worked since her first child was born. Examines relationships with the mother's work status and with demographic characteristics. More education and smaller family distinguished between women's high versus low work…

The new emphasis on hands-on training to bolster America's competitiveness in the international market represents both an opportunity to move higher education closer to the top of the American agenda but also threatens some core values of the academic community. Successfully blending liberal and vocational education is the ideal. (Author/MSE)

Describes the role of Francois Laurent in shaping the educational system of Ghent (Belgium), an early industrialized city, during the late 1800s. Discusses the social and educational issues that resulted from industrialization, the creation of a working class, and the needs of working class children. (CFR)

Maintains that adult education is expanding at an ever-increasing rate in industrialized nations. Argues that this growth will have repercussions on all national educational systems. Concludes that a new dialog on the interrelationship between initial education and continuing adult education must begin. (CFR)

Describes a museum exhibit that portrays the role of Chinese immigrants in the growth of the U.S. west during the latter part of the 1800s. Discusses the growth of Chinatowns and their cultural attributes and the agricultural and industrial significance of Chinese immigrant workers during that period. (CFR)

This article profiles Han Dongfang of China, winner of the 1993 George Meany Human Rights Award given by the AFL-CIO. An organizer of the first democratic labor organization in the People's Republic of China and advocate of individual freedom, Dongfang has faced persecution in China and remains a stateless person. (SLD)

Identifies factors that inhibit the recruitment and retention of minority students in gifted education programs including screening and identification issues (definitions and instrumentation); educational issues (quality of students' education); and personnel issues (lack of teacher training in gifted and urban education, low teacher referral).…

Examines North Carolina's measurable outcomes of workforce development and the economic impact of attending a community college in the state. Focuses on the performance reporting system and includes a discussion about using the data to inform policy. (VWC)

Fifteen reasons are offered for limiting the length of college trustees' terms. They focus on safeguarding integrity, fairness, enhancement of productivity and performance, increasing diversity of trustee qualifications and perspectives, limiting personal relationships between board members and staff, promotion of renewal and continuing trustee…

Outlines the Community College of Vermont's (CCV) mission as dedicating itself to accessibility, flexibility, and affordability through its decentralized organization. Describes CCV's "virtual campus," an integrated voice/data wide-area network that fosters schoolwide communication. Notes that transfer agreements with four-year…

Describes the 12 Community-Technical Colleges of Connecticut, their governance and finances, and their mission to make educational excellence and the opportunity for lifelong learning affordable and accessible to all Connecticut citizens. States that the system supports the economic growth of the state and its citizens through programs that supply…

Describes a computational method used to predict faculty needs and distribution at the University of Nairobi (Kenya). The model is a function of the number of students taught, the hours taught, the manner in which students are grouped for lectures, and an adopted student-faculty ratio. (MSE)