Considers problems and practices in career programing for part-time students in terms of law enforcement, fire protection, banking, and real estate programs. Suggests identifying programs with many part-time students and assessing student needs and interests in comparison with institutional practices in order to generate maximum revenues at…

Four types of Master's of Business Administration (MBA) offered at the University of Bath (England) are (1) full-time program; (2) executive MBA, to prepare working managers for promotion; (3) Malaysian executive MBA, in collaboration with the Malaysian Institute of Management; and (4) British Airways open MBA, an evening program for airline…

A report on New York State's Aid for Part-Time Study Program (APTS) for the 1985-1986 academic year is presented. APTS was created as a campus-based award program where recipients and award amounts are determined locally by the participating institution. The program provides up to $2,000 in annual awards to part-time undergraduate students…

The increase in part-time, working college students in Italy corresponds to a trend toward a less stable, fragmented student life style in which none of the student's activities is primary and study is only one of many part-time roles. (MSE)

This report presents information about enrollment at public and private institutions of higher education in Connecticut. Total enrollment at Connecticut's colleges and universities reached an all-time record of 170,227 in fall 2002, an increase of 5,550 students (3.4%) over fall 2001. This year also was an all-time record in full-time enrollment,…

Profiles the differences between commuter students and students at traditional resident schools and the special career-related needs of commuter students that college career centers must address. Topics discussed are the different needs of commuter students, student communication vehicles, and faculty and community communication. (SNR)

Discusses the needs of the new majority of students, i.e., part-time students over 25 with job and/or family responsibilities. A pilot project at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, called the Interactive Learning Community, that lends computers with modems to students to supplement in-class activities is described. (five…

This report provides data on New York State's Aid for Part-Time Study (APTS) Program for the 1995-96 academic year. First authorized by the state legislature in 1984, the APTS program provides tuition awards to part-time students enrolled in a program leading to an undergraduate degree or certificate. Twelve tables provide data by institution type…

This report presents results of a visit of vocational education practitioners from the United Kingdom to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to study the spread of career development education. An introduction describes vocational education and training in the FRG and the activities of the three groups of specialists in the visiting party who…

This manuscript was written by Grayson N. Kefauver, a part-time specialist, and Victor H. Noll and C. Elwood Drake, full-time specialists engaged on the National Survey of Secondary Education. It deals with pupils who attended the part-time continuation school's four or more hours a week and also with those who attended evening high schools. It…

At Loyola University of Chicago a needs assessment procedure was used to decide whether to establish a master's degree program in public administration that would serve many part-time students. It required the analysis of potential participants, the university, faculty, competing programs, and potential employers. (CT)

Describes a system of external depository libraries that receive, control, and circulate a varied and changing collection of course related materials for the off campus student. Laurentian University serves 3,000 part-time students enrolled in 70 courses at 15 outside centers spread across an area 400 miles in diameter. (RAA)

Feature articles include the following: "Engaging with Guidance: Twenty Years of Educational Guidance for Adults" (Eagleson); "What Is Educational Guidance?" (Brown); "Guidance and Unemployment in Canada" (Edwards); "The Great Training Debate: Let's Have One!" (Imeson); "Educational Guidance and…

Both public and private higher education institutions say the recession is prompting increased enrollment in part-time training programs as adults prepare for new jobs. A danger is seen in institutions relegating continuing education to the role of surplus revenue generation. Greatest growth is in computer training, human-resource management,…

The success of Great Britain's Open University has become a model for distance education in the United States. The Open University is nonselective in admissions and designs its courses for part-time students and working adults. It plans to begin enrolling American students in a new sister institution, the United States Open University. (MSE)