The Private Industry Council of Southeast Los Angeles County provides such services as coping and financial counseling, child care assistance, relocation assistance, basic and remedial education, English-as-a-Second-Language training, retraining, and job placement assistance. (JOW)

Includes "Laid-Off Workers Turn to Milwaukee's HIRE" (Mateen); "New Beginnings after Andrew" (Tate); "In Wisconsin, Uniroyal Workers Face New Reality" (Mortwedt); and "Washington Timber Workers Retrain for Technical Jobs" (Manspeaker, Krug). (JOW)

Describes aging from physical, cognitive, social, and psychological perspectives; the accommodations needed in retraining older workers; technology issues; and successful corporate retraining programs. (SK)

A shortage of information-technology professionals is leading some companies to recruit and train people from other fields. Some dissenters believe the shortage is an excuse to fill positions with lower-paid foreign nationals and college students. (SK)

For-profit colleges, unlike the rest of higher education, are enjoying a financial boon that is likely to improve in the next couple of years. Enrollments this fall at nine major publicly traded college companies grew at a pace faster than the average annual rate of growth for the past three years, while profit margins for this year are projected…

The purpose of Career Development in Higher Education is to provide a broad and in-depth look at the field of career development as it applies to individuals involved in higher education activities, in a variety of educational and vocational training settings. The book will examine some of the field's major themes, approaches and assumptions using…

This paper is a sequel to Sirgy et al. ("Social Ind. Res." 68(3) (2004) 251), "The Impact of Globalization on a Country's Quality of Life: Toward an Integrated Model" published in "Social Indicators Research." That paper conceptualized globalization in terms of the free flow of four major components: (1) goods and services, (2) people, (3)…

Community colleges have moved from a period of rapid growth to one of retrenchment, in which junior faculty members are often laid off and new faculty members are not being hired. The community colleges now have an experienced faculty, most at the apex of their careers, but who, in many disciplines, do not necessarily fit student enrollment…

FOURTEEN STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, MOST OF THEM EXPERIENCED TEACHERS, ENROLLED IN AN EXPERIMENTAL TRAINING PROGRAM IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION ATTEMPTING TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT SHORT PERIODS OF INDIVIDUALIZED TRAINING OVER A PERIOD OF 5 WEEKS WOULD BE REFLECTED IN PUPILS' READINESS AS MEASURED BY THE METROPOLITAN…

Nineteen chemical operators, aged 38 to 59, were trained in report writing in their plant in order to pass national examinations. There were two training sessions. In the first, the need for clear, accurate statements and appreciation of the difference between the written and spoken word were stressed. The second was practice in writing inductive…

This true-false diagnostic test was used for pretesting of employees at a Veterans Administration Hospital. The test is comprised of 20 items. An alternate test--Classification Questionnaire--was used for testing after remedial training. (For related document, see TM 002 334.) (DB)

Because of lack of knowledge of specific occupations in defense production, assessment of the impact of defense cutbacks on the economy has been difficult. This project was undertaken to determine which skills of industrial workers in missile production are transferable to nondefense industries and to anticipate manpower problems involved in mass…

The District of Columbia 1971 Workshop, sponsored by Project VOICE, dealt with the recruiting and retraining of volunteers in education. Following program excerpts and summaries of two operating programs and a film, the participants were divided into four problem solving groups: elementary schools (two groups), junior high schools, and the…

Reports findings from a study of dislocated workers' (N=233) experiences with retraining after job loss including whether the experience differed as a function of life stage. Findings offered some support for the notion that interpreting a life experience, such as returning to school, is at least partially a function of life stage. (Author/ABL)

The author analyzes the economics of weapons production in respect to the industries and occupations that are most dependent on defense conrating and discusses the problems that different groups of defense industry employees encounter in transferring to the civil sector. (Author/CT)