Describes various types of training programs carried out in the study of microbiology. Indicates that the need for new energy sources and the expansion of medical schools and food industry may lead to an increasing demand for qualified microbiologists. (CC)

Describes the necessity of information processing and dissemination in the present development of scientific knowledge. Indicates that training programs are available at Sheffield and City Universities and Leeds Polytechnic. (CC)

The black graduate student continues to face discrimination at the doctoral level because of widespread belief that black graduates are not research-oriented. (DS)

An all-out effort by the Texas Education Agency and Department of Corrections to bring opportunities for academic education and vocational training to 16,000 inmates of the state prison system. (Editor)

The thesis of this study is that the mechanics' institutes, established throughout the United Kingdom in the years immediately following the founding of the London Mechanics' Institute in 1823, failed to meet the educational needs as well as the economic and social aspirations of the working class. (Author)

The complete text of a statement of policy and proposed action adopted by the Regents of the University of the State of New York; its official title is Minority access to and participation in post-secondary education.'' (JM)

Paper is concerned with the structure of curriculum, a comples branching structure, carefully designed and continually modifiable to maximize the development of a learner's skills and the extension of his conceptual control. (Author/RK)

Rather than have students in high school serve out their senior year, after they had completed all but a few credits for graduation, Midland College established a program, which enabled students to be admitted during their senior year. (RK)

Colleges and universities should abandon the post of affectless aloofness in favor of stimulating direct engagement with ethical, social, and technological problems of society. (Author)

This article is intended to be an illustrative rather than an exhaustive statement of training opportunities in marriage and family counseling in the United States at this time. (Author)

Presents the complexities involved in deciding the need and direction for compulsory education. (RK)

Describes a tri-city program, Project Gifted, which was designed to meet the special needs of gifted and talented elementary children in three Rhode Island school systems. (Author/RK)