Describes graduate training geared specifically to prepare students for work in industry. Reports on schools offering such a program, and outlines the major characteristics of each school's curriculum. (GS)

This article relates different ideas that park and recreation centers should consider when given federal funds for recreation. (MK)

Asserts that the Minority Schools Bio-medical Support Program, begun by the General Research Support Branch, Division of Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, on December 1, 1971 has made it possible for men and women from ethnic minority groups to pursue careers in the biomedical and health sciences, it is stated. (Author/JM)

A successful course at the University of Delaware teaches German literature in translation. Sample paper topics and class projects are noted, and it is argued that translation courses do not weaken a language program, but often stimulate students to study the language itself. (CHK)

This article describes employee assistance programs in business and industry which offer social work the opportunity to intervene in the world of work. They present a challenge to develop a social service network and a new field in which to deliver services. (Author)

Deals with some of the lessons considered to have been learned from the studies of licensing and certification of the Center for Occupational and Professional Assessment, ETS, New Jersey, when one considers what educators can learn from testing in and for noneducational occupations. (Author/JM)

This overview traces the development of thought from the Plowden Report through Halsey's work on educational priority areas to the author's own research on the use of playgroups in a council estate, concluding that schools, by themselves, cannot compensate for the ravages of deprivation. (Author/JM)

Proposes that doctoral education should be subsidized to the extent that it produces externality or public benefits. Among suggested fields that should be subsidized least are those that have the largest proportion in profit making non-Research and Development. (Author/AM)

Suggests that given the current weaknesses in empirical bases for specifying competencies and the problems with assessment, the first rule of individuals and groups with power or influence in education would be not to legislate competencies or objectives and not to legislate competency based education. (Author/AM)

The test of a speech presented by Senator Charles Mathias, Jr. to the National Rehabilitation Association discusses Federal legislation, including The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the 1974 amendments; State Federal rehabilitation programs; vocational rehabilitation; research; funding and organizational problems; and The Innovation and Expansion…

Describes two career decision-making programs. One enrolls students in a professional curriculum and in an independent study course in which the student reads about careers and interviews people off campus. The other involves a contract method to allow students in a school-without-walls to train for and explore specific careers. (SE)

The program, through a variety of flexible arrangements, enabled nursing students to enroll for full-time study at a fixed time and place to earn their master's degree in a more convenient and individualized manner. (Author)