Outlines a model business-education program developed to help stop a shortage of competent personnel in the financial services industry. (MD)

Summarizes experience of an analytical chemist in the form of a dialogue, including educational background, teaching-learning practices, research activities, academic contributions, opinion about government support of research studies, and future prospects of the field. (CC)

Factors in the development of relevance in the industrial arts curriculum are greater student participation in educational planning, teachers assuming active roles in development of centers of interest, greater social interaction, increased community participation, and a curriculum that involves more real-life experiences. (MS)

The University of Minnesota Technical College at Waseca opened as a year-round, quarter-system agricultural school in 1971 to make effective use of natural outdoor agricultural laboratories during the summer months. Other advantages are greater seasonal flexibility for students planning work experience programs and assisting with farming at home.…

Research for Better Schools, Inc., a Philadelphia-based laboratory, has instituted a program, Academy for Career Education, as an alternative to the typical high school. The aim of the program is to provide high school students with actual work experience to help them make rational career decisions. (KP)

The Employer-Based Career Education (EBCE) Model derives from: (1) an alternative for young people who would like their education to be more directly related to life outside school; and (2) a merger of the best aspects of the academic and vocational curricula. (KP)

Occupational foundering is a phenomenon occuring when a person enters the labor market without commitment to an occupational goal. A period of effort causing varying degrees of need deprivation and frustration, floundering can be divided into three stages: (1) initial entry into the labor market (2) shopping period (3) mid-career stage. In the…

California State Engineering and Manufacturing Company was formed by the Department of Industrial Studies in order to provide direct experience with and knowledge of the industrial process for teachers finishing their degree requirements in Industrial Studies. (KP)

Article described a project which aims to provide publishing and distribution opportunities for people in Hackney who would never think of themselves as within the traditional framework of commercial publishing. (Author/RK)

Survey results indicated that posthospital employment was meagre and that it was unrelated to urbanization industrialization and local unemployment rates. Variance in vocational adjustment was more importantly accounted for by characteristics of the subject than by labor market characteristics, and was seen as having encouraging implications for…

Common misconceptions and noncompliance of cooperative education programs in regard to the Federal Wage and Hour Law. (Author)

Experience programs are the training and development arm of the program in agribusiness education. The profession must be united in its belief and conviction that supervised experience programs of high quality are necessary if agribusiness education is to meet its future challenges and responsibilities. (KP)

Schools use a variety of new approaches to build future construction craftsmen. (Editor)

Our economic organizations must change rapidly to incorporate the young and to serve as institutions for learning. Education must be reorganized to compensate for recent transitions of families from places of educational resources to the work place as instructor, and to compensate for changing internal structures and policies within the workplace.…

Four allied health workshops were conducted for the purpose of preparing programs of study. (JS)