This digest summarizes the contents of the more than 50 separate items that were published by the Technical and Further Education (TAFE) National Centre for Research and Development in 1986-87. These items include major research reports, video programs, newsletters, clearinghouse reports and textbooks. The first section provides an overview of the Centre's work and its publications and discusses how to use the digest and other Centre publications. The second through sixth sections summarize the in-house, outside-funded, commissioned, and seed research projects published by the Centre during 1986-87. The seventh and eighth sections contain descriptions of regular Centre publications and all of the Centre's current research and development projects. The following are among the topics covered in the research publications described: teaching in a TAFE college, the continuing education needs of full-time TAFE lecturers, delivery of TAFE services to persons in remote areas, materials for and about small businesses, the TAFE register of educational computing software, student assessment, selection for the trades, educational accountability, cross-sectoral transfer from TAFE to higher education, transferable skills in TAFE, cooperative programs between TAFE and the schools, Australian experiences in providing training and retraining for adults who have lost jobs because of technological advancement, TAFE curricula, evaluation of TAFE programs, Australian sign language as a second language, the demand for laser technicians, computer-integrated manufacture, and some lessons from England on education and training. (MN)