Discusses the importance of employer-sponsored training programs as a way of improving productivity both on a cost-benefit basis and through meaningful employee personal growth. (JOW)

The modular approach to training is a technique applicable to traditional forms of long-range training and the newer short-term training-in-industry. (DS)

The injection of technology into the postal system created the need for a comprehensive training program for installation and maintenance of computer-controlled machines. (DS)

An outline is presented of the carefully formalized method used by the Bois-de-Boulogne College in Montreal for setting up plans, on a consultancy basis, in industrial training for outside organizations. (Author/EC)

Focusing on problems that relate to vocational training, skills development, and the formation of work attitudes, the author traces the historical developments of training programs in Canada and the relationship of achievement to reward by using comparative data from West Germany. (BM)

Bell Canada's plans for future training will be on a centralized basis, using specialists in instructional technology to identify training needs and design courses at both the technical and managerial levels. (DS)

An engineering technology instructor at the College of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, describes how he spent his sabbatical leave in a new coal preparation plant setting up a training program for key employees and at the same time updating himself in his own discipline of mineral technology. (MF)