Arizona Job Colleges, Inc. attempts to ease the transition to nonfarm employment for seasonal farmworkers by motivating entire families to achieve economic self-sufficiency. (MS)

Discusses why modern engineering requires social science and the nature of planning. After these conceptional discussions, 12 practical tools which social science brings to engineering are reviewed. A tested approach to training engineers in these tools is then described. Tools include institutional analysis, policy profiling, and other impact…

Faculty shortages, antiquated laboratory equipment, and precollege preparation have been identified as components on the engineering education crisis. An examination of these and other areas (including salaries and doctoral programs) indicates that it is absurd to ascribe crisis to the problems afflicting engineering education. (Author/JN)

The future of the United States depends on embracing the advantages of the new technologies and responsibilities to those displaced by these advances. The American Defense Education Act can prepare children for this new world. Employed workers can be prepared for the future through a variety of methods, including job retraining. (AM)

The Canadian educational system has tended to reinforce the idea that white-collar jobs are more desirable than blue-collar jobs. A study examined various organizational factors which have implications for industrial training, and indicated that the benefits of industrial training and employment in the skilled trades should be more widely…

Describes a Massachusetts pilot project which matches the state's need for trained technicians with the needs of teachers laid off or dismissed. The computer programer training course and job placement service illustrate a school-business partnership that eases the transition for teachers forced to change careers. (SK)

Discusses a study to determine the extent that Michigan Adult Education Alternative Training (AEAT) providers used selected concepts of systematic planning in developing training programs. Finds that 55.6% of 65 responding AEAT planners utilized the concepts. Suggests that planners should also incorporate political and practical considerations.…

Reviews concepts of aging, and questions models of the relationship between education, work, and leisure in light of profound changes in life cycles. Contrasts the "training-work-retirement" model with the transformation of paid work and new scenarios for leaving the labor market. Discusses the demand for continuing education of aging populations.…

Interviews with former miners and their families in North East England about education and training needs uncovered gender, age, and cultural differences in reactions to changed circumstances and view of the future. Better opportunities for education, training, and employment are needed to rebuild the fabric of community life. (SK)

Driven by restructuring, marketplace competition, and technological change, rural electric co-ops are implementing early retirement and severance packages, instituting staffing changes to reflect changing functions and needed skills, hiring business managers to develop business strategies and marketing plans, providing consumer-choice advocates,…

The challenge of recruiting, retaining, and retraining college and university information technology (IT) staff affects the entire institution. Some issues in the impending IT staff crisis are outlined, particularly trends in demand for technology workers, and steps are suggested for campus IT leaders to take to minimize the effect of staff…

Part-time vocational engineering curricula aim to transform experienced higher technicians into engineering managers. This is done by making use of previous experience in working positions and adding training in new situations. Job training is combined with academic training through courses and activities at an academic institution. Describes ways…

This package contains materials that deal with issues of unemployment and labor adjustment for use in classes in English as a Second Language. The materials are designed to give teachers some ideas of how to raise issues pertaining to unemployment, self-assessment, and retraining. The general approach provides a framework for students to talk…

This report provides a demographic profile of fall 1993 supplemental vocational education students (SVES's) at Miami-Dade Community College, in Florida, or students enrolled in non-credit courses designed to upgrade job skills. The profile is based on registration forms completed by 7,584 SVES's and includes data on student age, ethnicity, gender,…

This document contains the text and a section-by-section analysis of the proposed Reemployment Act of 1994, along with President Clinton's message in transmitting the act to Congress. The document reports that job seekers today have a difficult time getting information about jobs and training. The underlying problem is the lack of a coherent…