The Interagency Working Group on U.S. Government-Sponsored International Exchanges and Training (IAWG) was created through Executive Order 13055 in 1997 to recommend to the President measures for improving the coordination, efficiency, and effectiveness of U.S. government-sponsored international exchanges and training. The IAWG's four goals for…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether increased amounts of management training for newspaper editors correlated positively with higher levels of professional commitment. Subjects, 313 (of 500) newspaper editors working at 123 U.S. daily newspapers that were part of the Gannett, Knight-Ridder, or Scripps-Howard chains, responded to a…

To prepare student stage managers for the world of theater outside the university, faculty directors should endow them with full authority. Using the Actors Equity Association rules book as a guide, faculty directors should make stage managers aware of their duties and then leave them to perform them without close supervision. Unfortunately, in…

In light of the huge volume of headline news stories that reflect ethical concerns from a variety of arenas, it is no wonder that ethics training is a hot topic. Research shows that many leading United States companies have written codes of ethics and/or instituted formal ethics training programs. In this paper, certain principles that have become…

The purpose of this text is to offer information, including career development strategies, about sports officiating, an occupation that attracts little attention as a source of employment. The book presents fundamental techniques for building successful careers as qualified sports officials and illustrates how sports officiating can be taken from…

This bibliography cites books dealing with schools and training for translators. The majority of the entries are European and have been published since 1960. (CLK)

Educators are screening candidates more carefully in order to reduce enrollments and cut costs. The screening process developed to screen in park and recreation majors must be carefully developed so that a significant percentage of black and other minority group students will be admitted to curricula. (JA)

This article discusses the meaning of accountability that refers to an educational system that imparts knowledge and skills for intelligent citizenship and a variety of the policy-making and planning professions. (PD)

This article describes a model for designing workshops and laboratories for training people in helping skills. (Author)

The focus of the symposium was on an evaluation of judicial education in Alabama conducted by the University of Alabama Evaluation and Assessment Laboratory (EAL). The papers include: (1) "Design: From Qualitative Study to Grounded Questionnaire" (J. S. Rogers); (2) "Implementation: Conducting the Qualitative Study and the…

Analyzes some of the causes for current skepticism about programs in educational administration and suggests several courses of action. (WM)

In the traditional sense of the word professional, the occupation of trainer does not seem to fit. However, in terms of qualifications and competencies, trainers are moving toward that category. Sheffield Polytechnic is currently developing courses to help trainers improve their competencies through reading material, exercises, projects, and…

Points out that even in the case of many cultural and traditional similarities, there are basic differences in the two social systems of Germany today, thus affecting the kind of preparation necessary to meet the differing communication demands. (RB)

After a brief discussion on the nature of the interpreter's work, a survey is made of the beginnings of interpreting as a profession in 1953 and its growth since then in North America and Europe. Attention is called to the problem of incompetence brought about by the growing number of interpreters; and to the need for professional interpreter…

Speech delivered to Plenary Session on "The Issues at the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges (79th, Houston, Texas, Nov. 1 1968).