This study discusses innovation in inservice education and training of teachers (INSET) in the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland. The first section deals with the INSET program in relationship to each country's educational system. Section two describes three case studies. They include INSET during a six-month period at a teacher training…

Though previous decades have witnessed numerous efforts to specify national educational objectives and plans, the effect of past actions of individuals and groups has been minimal. Recent attempts to coordinate the efforts of government and private agencies have also failed to create nation-wide policy formation. In these times of increased…

The document consists of three symposium addresses, pertaining to the provision and use of career information systems. Gerald C. Smith, Department of Labor, opened the symposium with an address on "Occupational Information systems: Uses, Developments, and Issues", which focused on career information systems currently being developed by…

The study has as its purpose the examination and comparison of career education movements in the United States and Great Britain and is perhaps best described as a pilot effort. Specific questions addressed included: (1) How do career education efforts in the two nations compare in terms of national commitment, philosophy, and students served? (2)…

Eight papers on the diagnosis and treatment of handicapped children comprise proceedings of a conference for Directors of Special Education, past and present Regional Resource Center Directors, and the staff of the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped. E. Martin explains the rationale of Regional Resource Centers. A systems analysis of the…

Although minority groups make up 17 percent of the population, they control only a small fraction of the productive resources of the nation. The President's Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise was created to develop a national program to define minority enterprise goals and to design strategies for attaining them. This report presents…

In Scotland, Gaelic has traditionally been associated with social and economic inferiority. When the State school was introduced in the 1800's, school use of Gaelic was prohibited, even though it was widely used in the Western Islands Area. There are now 60 primary schools in this area (4,000 students), 56 schools are located in a rural Gaelic…

The relations of the National Program for Library and Information Services to information literacy and the information industry are discussed. Private sector information resources are identified in several categories. The traditional relations of libraries and with the information industry are described, and examples are given of situations where…

A national conference on accreditation of public postsecondary vocational education programs attended by 109 vocational educators, was held to bridge the gap between the accrediting agencies and vocational educators, provide for understanding of the present state of accreditation, and provide a forum for the identification, discussion, and…

The Department of Extra-Mural Studies of Makerere University College, Uganda, experimented with developing correspondence courses in several subjects which were published in the weekly newspaper "The People" during 1967. Three 30-week courses (Communication, Elements of Government, and Economics) were included in a special supplement to…

This manual is intended for those concerned with planning and organizing programs of adult literacy at national and local levels in African countries, by pointing out certain common problems and showing various methods of resolving them. Contents include: definitions of literacy, motivation, the planning process, legislation and the organizational…

The minutes of a meeting sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is presented. Thirty-one representatives, primarily from the library community, met at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. on July 19, 1974, for an ARL-sponsored meeting to discuss a recently-completed feasibility study of a computer-based system for…

This manual is the first of two to be developed by the Department of Transportation to assist in conducting the 1974 National Transportation Study. This second in the series of biennial studies has been designed to build upon the data base and organizational framework established for the 1972 National Transportation Study as well as to develop…

Proposed and actual constitutional changes made in 1963 and 1965 concerning the status of English in India are discussed in the light of nation-wide sociological implications. The author examines the position of Hindi and English as the official languages of the nation and comments on the continuing importance of English as the language of…

Phase III, Volume I is a progress report of Project NECESSITIES to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The report lists curriculum materials prepared as of June 1970. No provisions were made for distribution of materials at the end of Phase III. Phase IV, which was originally envisioned as having materials distribution and corollary training programs in…