This technical summary of the second phase of a four-phase study of Early Childhood Title I (ECT-I) programs, describes and analyzes the nature of early childhood programs currently supported under Title I. The summary is based primarily on information gained from field visits to 10 State Education Agencies (SEAs) and 29 Local Education Agencies…

A nationwide Adult Education Programme (NAEP), with the object of providing adult education to 100 million adults within five years, was inaugurated in India in October, 1978. A conference held in New Delhi in June, 1979, discussed the problems of training enough adult education instructors to implement the program throughout the country,…

An evaluation was undertaken of a National Teaching Improvement Project that was designed to encourage the general improvement of undergraduate teaching. The evaluation also sought to determine the effectiveness of mass distribution as a dissemination device to improve college teaching. During the first two years of the three-year project, four…

This report was developed as a result of a study that was conducted to identify and describe evaluation programs in vocational technical education at the national level, within the state of Wisconsin, and within selected local school districts in Wisconsin. The first of five chapters reviews the procedures used to synthesize evaluation programs.…

The deliberations of representatives from eleven Asian Unesco member countries focus on alternative approaches to identification of needs and resources as a basis for curriculum development, strategies and methodologies adopted in translating the curriculum into teaching learning materials and learning aids, training of teachers, problems involved…

Intended to assist Agency for International Development (AID) officers, advisors, and health officials in incorporating health planning into national plans for economic development, this third of ten manuals in the International Health Planning Methods Series deals with health manpower planning and assessment. It provides a conceptual and…

IN THE 18 MONTHS SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL TRAINING ACT BECAME LAW, NINE INDUSTRIAL TRAINING BOARDS HAVE BEEN SET UP BY THE MINISTRY OF LABOUR TO COVER PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES. THE BOARDS WILL COMPILE A REGISTER OF FIRMS WITHIN EACH INDUSTRY, PREPARE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TYPE AND LENGTH OF TRAINING, AND IMPLEMENT A GRANT AND LEVY SYSTEM TO COVER TRAINING…

CONTENTS OF THE BRITISH INDUSTRIAL YEARBOOK FOR 1967-68 APPEAR IN 12 SECTIONS. SECTION 1 REVIEWS THE PRESENT INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SITUATION, INCLUDING THE AIMS OF THE INDUSTRIAL TRAINING ACT OF 1964. SECTION 2 COVERS THE TRAINING OF OPERATIVES, CRAFTSMEN, TECHNICIANS, TECHNOLOGISTS, COMMERCIAL AND CLERICAL WORKERS, SUPERVISORS AND MANAGERS, AND…

THIS DOCUMENT SUPPLEMENTS REPORT AA 000 157, A STATE-LEVEL OPERATING MANUAL FOR THE NATIONWIDE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (VEIS). IT CONTAINS ALL DOCUMENTATION GENERATED FOR A PILOT DEMONSTRATION OF VEIS IN CALIFORNIA, INCLUDING DATA COLLECTIONS FORMS AND INSTRUCTIONS, FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNICAL FLOW CHARTS, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, AND…

A fundamental worldwide trend of the past few decades has been the remarkable expansion of national systems of formal education. Two competing theories have been adduced to explain how this expansion affects patterns of equality of educational opportunity. The thesis of industrialization holds that educational expansion tends to increase equality…

Critical problems and functions of the Swedish system of higher education in dealing with adult learners are summarized in this workshop publication. Various institutional responses to the growing body of nontraditional students are discussed and it is suggested that the overwhelming reaction of Swedish higher education has been to incorporate…

The major focus of this report is on the Kansas State Department of Education's (KSDE) plan for the expenditure of Title I funds in Kansas. Specific information provided includes: (1) an overview of Title I administration; (2) Federal, State, and local school district reponsibilities for Title I; (3) KSDE's monitoring and enforcement plan; (4) a…

One of a series of sixteen knowledge transformation papers, this paper deals with the nature and extent of use of evaluative data by administrators in vocational education. First, the following conditions which govern the use of the data are described: availability, reliability, credibility, utility, and consistency. Since the legitimacy of most…

The directory lists further education courses in Britain for 1968-69 and is organized in three sections: (1) colleges--institutions by geographical area including codes, names, addresses, and telephone numbers; (2) courses--details of each course and codes referring to colleges and (3) college announcements--further details of a number of…

A program authorized under the Mental Reterdation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963 provides federal funds to help colleges and universities build training facilities for personnel specializing in the field of mental retardation. This document covers the requirements, the scope, and the steps involved in…