Author stresses the merits of free enterprise to encourage more undergraduate students to enter business professions. (GB)

Article describes results of a study by 3M Company indicating the importance of motivation in training the hard-core unemployable. (Author/MM)

With a focus on abilities rather than disabilities, Project Worker'' is demonstrating that handicapped students can learn marketable skills. (Editor)

Labor unions provide job and training information to servicemen at separation centers and throughout the country. Through Project Transition, pre-apprenticeship training is given to servicemen who may be placed as apprentices after discharge. (MF)

This special issue of Manpower is entitled Making Prison Training Work." (BH)

Summarizes some of the uses that local Private Industry Councils (PICs) have found for their employment generating resources from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. Includes suggestions on how local leaders can involve PICs in the solution of employment and development problems. (SK)

Reviews the utilization of community colleges as partners with CETA as exemplified by several California community college districts. The California experience indicates that the linkage is productive and can provide models. The system provides a testing ground about what works and what fails. (JOW)

Suggests that the European Community's LEONARDO and SOCRATES programs do not go far enough in ensuring women equal opportunities and access to education and training. (SK)

A British project identified key factors for successful transition to work of people with learning difficulties: manager support, employment as a realistic goal, individualized training packages, and matching of learner interests and employment opportunities. Limited funding for transitional programs made partnerships and strategic planning…

Describes employment policies and programs, incentive plans, and job creation programs to aid disabled young job seekers in Japan, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, and the United States. (Author/JOW)

Reviews youth employment and training programs since 1962. Concludes that successful programs share the following characteristics: (1) a focus on chronic unemployment; (2) comprehensive remedial programs and human services; (3) early intervention; and (4) connections to mainstream institutions. (FMW)

The Swedish government guarantees young people jobs under two programs: Youth Opportunities and Youth Teams. Both rely largely on local authorities as employers of last resort. Smaller-scale schemes that offer incentives to employers who provide jobs to unemployed youth have also been tried. These programs have resulted in a marked decline in…

Provides background on the labor market problems motivating the Clinton-Reich initiatives on training and schooling and briefly summarizes the proposed strategies. It also considers evidence supporting or contradicting the plan's assumptions. (GLR)

Discusses the problems related to the retraining of laid-off workers: the scarcity of jobs, the belief that retraining does not help, failure of government retraining programs, and lack of employer participation in retraining programs. Suggests that one solution is continuous retraining of workers on the job--before they are laid off. (JOW)