A successful series of workshops was planned and implemented in a rural area of Michigan where travel distances and lack of financial support from health care agencies were barriers to continuing education. Data obtained from a survey of 150 nurses identified priority subject areas and resource persons. (MS)

This article provides information on how program directors can apply for Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) funds for meeting personnel expenses. (CM)

Describes the evolution of a state-wide "TV College" system in Connecticut, including centralized administrative development, course selection and evaluation, scheduling, promotion and advertising, fee structures, and budgeting processes. (RT)

Reviews results of a study conducted at the University of Iowa to determine how federal regulations and policies affect university operations. The cost to the university of federal impact is reviewed in detail. (SL)

An elementary school shop program was suggested as an idea solution for teaching values and developing student self-concept. (Author/RK)

Training people to become self-sufficient doers instead of remaining passive watchers is the aim of the Environmental Learning Center in Minnesota's far north woods. (Editor)

Presents a rationale and operational guidelines for determining comparable costs for two-year college occupational and technical programs, using production costs of student credit hours and cost center components (e.g., teaching costs, administrative personnel costs, general institutional expenses, federal funds, gifts, grants, and unique program…

Provides worksheet that can be used to calculate the costs of a complete training intervention, a needs assessment, an evaluation of a specific program, media production, or job aids. Developed in response to the General Motors Great Job Aid Contest, this aid includes a glossary of terms. (LRW)

Describes the benefits, design procedures, costs, and effectiveness of a computer-based training program to provide distance learning for the employees of British Gas. (SK)

Recounts how careful planning and coordination, hard work, and a bit of theatrics helped secure line item funding in the Vermont state budget for parent child centers. (Author/BB)

Reports on the cost effectiveness of supported competitive employment of 214 moderately or severely retarded persons over an eight-year period. Results showed that for every $1 of public tax money, consumers earned an average $1.24. Results also showed a taxpayer benefit-cost index of less than $1 during the first two years and close to $3 the…

Extended programs are likely to reduce the quality and quantity of teachers and probably will not improve teacher performance. Because the risks of extended programs are great and the benefits uncertain, other strategies for improving teacher education should be explored more aggressively. (Author/LHW)

Critiques the position that extended teacher preparation programs are likely to reduce the quality and quantity of teachers and unlikely to improve teacher performance. That position is driven entirely by cost consideration at the expense of any discussion about value. (LHW)

Describes residential conference centers, types of center programming, staffing and organization, financial operation of the centers, physical facilities, how technology and electronics have changed the centers, and the effect of competition. (CT)

Current economic conditions have produced a resurgence of concern among health professions educational institutions about the costs of accreditation. Appropriate methods of cost determination must be established and widely applied. This report describes a methodology that was successfully applied in one school and may serve as a model for other…