The set-up and checking-out of a simulated chemical pilot plant as part of a chemical engineering technology lab is described. (BB)

Due to the decline in occupations in agriculture, South Carolina's Technical Education Center System is providing special school programs to pre-train workers for any industry willing to relocate into the State, or for any expanding industry within the State. (Author/DS)

A public utility has found that audiovisual techniques can shorten on-the-job training time for power plant employees. (MW)

IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, SCHOOLS STILL PROVIDE A BACKGROUND OF GENERAL EDUCATION DURING THE YEARS OF COMPULSORY EDUCATION. A YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE PROVIDES CAREER INFORMATION, VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE, AND PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE. LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITIES HAVE TAKEN OVER THIS FUNCTION IN ABOUT THREE-QUARTERS OF THE SCHOOLS UNDER GRANTS FROM THE…

The Career Advancement Program (CAP) is a joint effort by a 2-year college and industrial firms in its district to expand educational opportunities, to match college programs to local needs, and to help industry meet its present and future technical manpower needs. CAP has worked to attract students, full- or part-time, to technical training.…

This account of the university's founding in 1942 up to the present reflects its primary objective of insuring that its graduates are qualified to obtain employment. New courses and programs are developed by the faculty whenever the demand is sufficient to support the program. (HD)

Outlining the nature of the two operations of the Council for Technical Education and Training for Overseas Countries (TETOC), the article describes the scope of Great Britain's industrial training work in the Seychelles and the Sudan within the two years since its establishment as part of Britain's aid program. (MW)

The Lincoln Terminal System is described as a device with the capability to deliver technical information, to monitor student performance, and to assure learning in industrial training. The experimental hardware and the lesson material for the system were tested in two mine maintenance schools and the results show that: (1) student users of the…

A series of five workshops were held to disseminate, to 39 industrial and college and 61 Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training (BAT) personnel, information about the principles, methods, and effectiveness of Performance Based Training (PBT) in apprentice programs. Following the workshops, 90% of the industrial and 61% of the BAT personnel…

This drafting design curriculum prepares professionals for work in local industry. (Editor)

This annual report of the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) that was established in April 1992 in Singapore begins with the Chairman's Statement (Tay Eng Soon). It describes developments that have taken place to consolidate ITE's training framework: full-time institutional training, apprenticeship, and continuing education and training. The…

This paper summarizes a conference on the development of midlevel technical personnel in Germany and France. The proceedings of the conference were divided into five presentations: (1) an introduction to the subject of the project and the conference; (2) a comparative presentation of the origins and development of educational training routes in…

Hearings were conducted by the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology to discuss the role of community colleges in training technical personnel, with particular emphasis on how the National Advanced Technician Training Act of 1985 (HR 2353) would help community colleges meet this role. This bill creates a…

The article describes China's alternative to Western technical education, a national program of industry-based education for experienced workers called "July 21st Workers Colleges" (from a 1968 statement by Mao). Regular universities and colleges may assist these Workers Colleges, where classes may be full time or part time. (MF)