The Soviet Union has established industry-based higher technical schools to fulfill the political principle of integrating education and productive labor, to increase efficiency and productivity, and to socialize students. (MSE)

Discusses the need for innovation in online learning and suggests that online learning in universities and corporate training should focus on problem solving. Recommends the implementation of problem and domain-specific problem architectures in online delivery packages and describes two possible examples of such architectures. (LRW)

Suggests that today's engineering schools are not preparing their graduates as well as they might for useful practice in the 21st century. (Author/MM)

This paper is an introductory discussion of industrial training, artificial intelligence (AI), and AI applications in training, prepared in the context of the United Kingdom Training Commission (TC) program. Following an outline of the activities and aims of the program, individual sections describe perspectives on: (1) training needs, including…

Notes several options for keeping practicing engineers abreast of the state of the art, including university seminars, videotape courses, and instruction via satellite. Also cites the need for engineers to be encouraged to pursue life-long professional education. (DH)

This working paper is one in a series of policy statements on the relationship between liberal education and careers in business; it covers a seminar discussing ethics and the teaching of morality. Papers given by seven professionals in the corporate and academic world are included. After an introduction to the seminar and a statement on corporate…

The open-systems model of instructional development (ID) proposed for use in both educational and non-educational organizations is based on an extensive examination of ID, the systems and communication/consulting literature, and the results of a nationwide survey of 750 currently active ID professionals in both higher education and…

The philosophical justification for private industry involvement in specialized training is that these needs are of such magnitude as to require the best efforts of all who can contribute. The practical justification stems from the realization by industry that it must provide specialized manpower training to meet its own need for effective…

Article presents the NCET Research on the need to collate and disseminate information on innovations in industrial training and the related fields of further and higher education in the United Kingdom. (Author)

IBM's advanced terminal computer-based education has as a primary function the training and education of its 260,000 employees. (PG)

Presents a challenge to industry to put pressure on chemical departments for more rigorous safety training during college. (CS)

Illinois manufacturing firms were surveyed concerning communication training for first-line managers. Responses indicate that formal training programs exist in less than one-third of the installations; but when such training is provided it frequently includes communication concepts and skills which are practical in orientation and which are based…

Identifies communication skills needed in industry and suggests that communication curricula be expanded to prepare students for careers in industrial training. (PD)

Since the early nineties the Civil Engineering Faculty of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland has been involved in three Tempus projects, aimed at modernizing the Faculty educational system and its adjustment to European Union standards. The first and second projects were directed at creating new specialties: City Regeneration…

A community college dean claims that the two-year school of higher education is a much overlooked, but potentially valuable, resource for the company director. (Author)