Like adult education, the field of volunteer management shows increasing movement toward professionalization. The establishment of standards--both for the profession of volunteer management and for volunteer service itself--is generating debates similar to adult educators' debates over purposes and objectives. The types of learning that occur in…

Article evaluated programs for the elderly and the need for their improvement based on research indicating that people over 65 have creative ability and interests previously misjudged. A program for the elderly developed at the University of South Carolina's Center for Arts and Humanities was described. (Author/RK)

Discussed is the Career Opportunities Program (COP), a nationwide work-study training model designed to improve the educational opportunities of children from the low-income families by employing community residents as teacher aides while preparing for teacher certification. (NQ)

The Institute for Educational Leadership works with a volatile combination--legislators and educators--and with results that show both the better for it. (Editor)

Programs designed to benefit handicapped children and youth with the support of the Bureau of Education for the handicapped were described with an accompanying chart listing BEH priorities correlated with different types of handicaps. (RK)

Author tackled the controversial subject of compulsory school attendance and based upon our educational history supplied his reasons for extending it upwards to the age of 18. (RK)

Described Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC), opened around the country for the purpose of helping students who are faced with educational and career decisions. (Author/RK)

In Germany, the vocational education and training system has traditionally been regarded as stable and efficient and also well esteemed because it produces highly valued and nationally recognised vocational qualifications. The so-called Dual System still attracts the majority of school-leavers with non-academic aspirations or talents. However, in…

The extent to which economic factors can explain private decisions about staying on at school beyond minimum school leaving age and about going on to higher education is considered. A pattern of continuing education by age and by class is described. (Editor/PG)

This issue of Emphasis addresses the educator's role in confronting adolescent pregnancy by presenting articles on educational programs for adolescents which have been developed and/or implemented by Planned Parenthood affiliates. Programs are presented which attempt to provide information to adolescents or to the community; to change attitudes,…

A study was conducted to: depict the current types of research assistantships in universities; ascertain students' perceptions of their assistantship experiences; depict the specific activities of research assistants; determine whether today's assistantships provide a genuine research apprenticeship; and compare today's assistantships with those…

Hispanic women earn less, own fewer businesses, and are less represented in politics than almost any other population segment, and their history of low educational attainment is a key factor for each of these realities. In 1981, while 69% of the total population completed four or more years of high school, only 42% of the Hispanic females reached…

Author challenges the British to live up to their reputation for tolerance and fair play by making special educational provision for immigrants. (Editor/RK)

The North Carolina Internship Office has an operational objective to establish a network of programs which extend opportunities for service-learning to students enrolled in the 45 senior public and private colleges in the state. (Editor)

Discusses central issues concerning the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO): meeting individual students' needs; educational opportunity; standards; AACRAO's financial resources; access; international programs; new learning patterns; management; and professional growth. (PG)