The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's efforts to coordinate manpower progrmas at the local level is currently causing a big rush to set up mechanisms to operate a manpower services system. Denver, however, started in mid-1973 reorganizing a bewildering variety of categorical manpower programs along functional lines. (DS)

Instructional Materials designed for junior high students in an attempt to bridge the gap between education and work by helping students develop an understanding of economic processes and the role of work in their lives are assessed. (SM)

Discusses the World Employment Programme's (WEP) development policies that will enable employers to achieve productive employment. (PG)

Career education is not a panacea, the authors admit, but in it they see a step toward a solution to many of the problems and difficulties in today's society and schools. (Editor)

Presents a management system that has been found to bridge the gap between culturally different employees and the positions they should come to hold. (Author)

Reviews assessment centers, their methods, growth and validity studies. Gives an example of a typical two day assessment center and of an assessment center summary report. (RB)

Considers the problem of developing job training programs for discharged Vietnam Medical Corpsmen. (SB)

Describes a program which provided an unexpected opportunity for a group of poor elderly men to earn a decent living for the first time in years. (DM)

Taken from a paper delivered at the Durham meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in September 1970. (IR)

Delivered at 80th annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 2, 1969. (IR)