The term "customized training" has recently been used often when discussing training. Many training development companies and community colleges selling their training programs use it frequently for engaging prospective customers and companies considering purchase of their products. So, what is customized training?

The author discusses the need and the reasons for education for older adults and the assistance that can be offered by vocational education in occupational education, training, and retraining. (EA)

Questions the basic economic and political assumptions behind the push for vocationalism and career education, and presents an overview of the issues considered essential in making viable the relationship between the schoolplace and the workplace. (Editor)

A brief description of a skills training course that used videotapes for research too.'' (Editor/AK)

Assessed was the importance of technical summer jobs for engineering college students. Those who got technical jobs in the summer were found more confident, assertive and motivated for learning than those who did not have such jobs. (PS)

Author describes the three facets of Finland's state personnel training: (1) individual offices and institutions; (2) the State Training Centre; and (3) the Coordination Section of the Ministry of Finance. (CB)

Three of the men most closely involved in the research into interactive skill training, Michael Colbert, Neil Rackman, and Terry Morgan, report on various aspects of its development. (Editor/GB)

Provides some simple principles and an easy to use information format to substantially increase the effectiveness of on-the-job training. (AN)

Article discusses a special training program for disadvantaged workers. (Author)

Training programs for new arbitrators, costs and delays of arbitration, and the federal government's new computerized system to provide current listings of qualified arbitrators are discussed. But labor and management must be responsible for arbitration reforms. (MF)

Describes a program using face-to-face confrontation, role training, and other problem solving activities to equip supervisors for effective communication, counseling, and personal involvement in the training of the hard core unemployed. (LY)

An attempt to analyze job functions an instructional technologist performs in order to develop training programs. (AK)

A brief description of the taping of a surprise emergency drill based on an after-dark plane crash." (Editor/AK)

Article discusses the vast number of educational programs which the Kodak company offers to employees, supervisors, workers in related fields and to the community by way of educational training programs for inner city and underprivileged youth. Discussed are the ways in which Kodak enhances its own position in the industry by keeping its employees…