This Commission of the European Communities' report concerns problems associated with the right of workers to receive study leave in member states. The study focuses on Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. An addendum analyzes the United Kingdom and Denmark. Findings are presented in seven sections.…

An examination of Canadian continuing education in general and in British Columbia, specifically, is presented. The motives of learning, classification of adult learner orientations, and social influences on adults are discussed. A state of the art review analyzes Canadian university populations, emphasizing the fact that the proclivity for…

An annotated bibliography of studies in agricultural education, the edition contains 47 research studies completed during the calendar years 1973 and 1974 in the Pacific region States and submitted by teacher educators. (Some studies completed in 1972 but not previously reported are also included.) The summaries are arranged alphabetically by…

The publication is a collection of articles by graduate students dealing primarily with the issues and concerns of vocational and technical education. The articles and their authors are: A New Wrinkle in Cooperative Education, Donald E. Evans; Characteristics of Mid-Career Changers, Howard Markle; CBE: Panacea or Business as Usual?, Gerald Funk;…

Selections from the recent history texts of 13 foreign countries are contained in this document as an effort to gather the curricular perceptions of other countries about key events or periods in American history related to the U.S. Revolutionary War. The compilation provides American secondary teachers with contemporary source material not…

A landmark document, the out-of-print volume prepared for the first session of the UNESCO general conference, provides a preliminary outline of the proposed plan for fundamental education. Fundamental education is used to indicate a global field of activity that includes and goes beyond mass education, adult literacy, popular education, and…

Opening with a message from president Thomas B. Keehn, the publication presents the reports of four regional representatives for Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America focusing on the following organizational goals: (1) developing and expanding the World Education program of integrating family life planning with functional literacy…

The study examines British public assistance (Supplementary Benefits) and other income maintenance programs for employables. These are viewed as one policy set to analyze their incentives and disincentives to see if the incentive structure is consonant with a goal of promoting work. Sanctions applied to recipients are also analyzed. Relatively…

Economic growth and the welfare state have lengthened initial obligatory education; specialization is postponed; general education widens. Nevertheless, many youths in industrialized Europe leave school for work at 16; losers in the generalized school, they resist further learning. Schools should provide a variety of learning situations, and work…

To investigate and analyze the role played by the industrial sections of the educational, intervening, and employment training systems in meeting manpower needs and to determine output and costs of these systems, interviews were held with employment officials, educators, and recruitment and training officers to obtain information concerning their…

In this selected bibliography many but not all the materials included have been annotated. The table of contents is organized both topically (general social and economic development, foreign aid and general technical assistance, agriculture and development, education and development) and geographically (Africa, Asia, India, Middle East, Latin…

A 130-item bibliography with abstracts of books and articles in English and French provides information on various aspects of education (many of them language-related) in the Maghreb countries of Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. Each entry identifies the country with which it is concerned, and French titles are translated into English.…

These three volumes contain a 600-item (200 apiece) bibliography with English abstracts of Polish books and articles on education published between December 1, 1966 and July 31, 1967. Number 2 covers December 1, 1966-February 28, 1967; number 3, March 1-May 15, 1967; number 4, May 16-July 31, 1967. Major attention in all three is directed toward…

The educational situation of disadvantaged groups in Israel and England is reviewed. The nature of the immigrant and disadvantaged populations, the kind and extent of schooling available, and the positions of local educational authorities and of the two governments are discussed. Also included are descriptions of various programs for disadvantaged…

This 185-item bibliography with English abstracts of books and articles of recent years on various aspects of Indian education includes a special section on women's education. Emphasis is placed on educational psychology, examination and evaluation (teacher and student), policy and planning, teaching methods, and special education. Less extensive…