Material developed for a national conference of leaders in the applied and theoretical sectors of gerontology, mental health, and nursing home administration is provided in these proceedings. The purposes of the conference were to: develop priorities for populations for whom training would be offered; identify mental health content that is…

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this booklet is the eighth in a series describing current, successful career education practices. A successful career education program is dependent upon professional development. Based on this premise, the monograph: (1)…

The Training Program for Retirees was a program operating during the summer of 1970 that trained persons retired from industry and the military to teach the technical skills that they had learned in their years of working. The courses included in the training program were: Methods of Teaching, Philosophy of Vocational-Technical Adult Education,…

The major objectives of the Pre-Service Teacher Recruitment Program, in operation during the summer of 1969, were: (1) to recruit early retirees from industry and the military who possessed a technical competence to take the necessary courses in the art and science of teaching to prepare for a second career in teaching; and (2) to develop a data…

In recent years it has become apparent that the system of continuing medical education developed in the USSR has reached a high level of achievement. At the invitation of the Ministry of Health of the USSR, an international study tour was organized by the World Health Organization to study the Soviet system. This report presents the findings of…

The Kentucky Right to Read Institute was intended to present Kentucky librarians and other interested citizens with an introduction to the Right to Read concept and to stimulate thinking and discussion on ways in which libraries and schools might serve this important movement. Participants were educators, librarians, government officials, and…

Research was conducted to determine the continuing education needs of clergymen in Michigan, particularly their most crucial ones, and to ascertain which needs might be met by programs of state-supported colleges and universities. Another objective of the study was to have the clergy identify major roles in their profession. From a total of 1,504…

Included in these Proceedings are the papers presented at the 1976 College Industry Education Conference. The collected papers, about half of them by industry representatives, deal with the theme "Engineering and Technology Manpower Requirements for the Next Decade." Topics include the supply and demand of engineers, continuing education and…

This paper outlines the growth and development of teacher centers in England. These centers grew out of a general dissatisfaction on the part of classroom teachers with existing inservice programs. It was the feeling that certain priorities for teachers were being overlooked, such as methods of dealing with learning difficulties, class…

The report examines the needs and methods for administrative self-renewal from several viewpoints--Forbes Bottomly, Terrel Bell, Ralph Nader, Price Cobbs, Malcolm Knowles, Philip Swain, and Edward Brainard. The introduction notes that rates of change in all fields of education are increasing, but the infusion of techniques and ideas via new…

The needs and attitudes of mature professional teachers are different from those of students and beginning teachers. In-service education programs should be structured with this in mind. (JD)

Educational and training functions carried out by AT&T valued at $700 million a year, are described. It is suggested that, at a time when students are clamoring for marketable degrees, academics might learn what corporations are seeking from the colleges and how they are preparing their own work force. (LBH)

Described is the competency project being conducted by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the American Pharmaceutical Association, and its relationship to the development of continuing education programs. The project is attempting to specify standards of competency and develop self-assessment devices to be used by pharmacists.…

The recent history and current situation of efforts to utilize people, time and dollars for continuing education of pharmacists are examined; a look at what people in other professions are doing is presented; and alternatives for developing the resources to meet continuing education needs are explored. (JMD)

During his graduate-study-abroad summer program, the author found that the career education movement in England and Scotland concentrates on the school-leaving age of sixteen, rather than the developmental career education features in this country. He notes some national differences and offers suggestions for learning on both sides. (MF)