A survey of 70 professional women returning to work after updating courses found that their jobs were not necessarily commensurate with qualifications, experience, or professional area. However, 58% still considered their careers had progressed, and many attributed successful reentry to the updating course. Flexibility was an important factor in…

Describes the development of job profiles for equal opportunity officers and advisers in Spain and recognition of these occupations in the National Classification of Occupations. Discusses standardized training for these positions and the development of a certificate of occupational proficiency. (SK)

Interviews with 80 social workers, lawyers, adult educators, and nurses who had participated in continuing education suggested that professionals made meaning as they moved between continuing education and professional practice. Each profession framed meaning making through understanding of the nature of its professional work. (Contains 42…

In 2004, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) surveyed higher education governing boards in the United States regarding board composition and selected polices and practices. This report summarizes the data and examines trends for independent college and university governing boards, based on surveys completed by…

Global mobility for psychologists is rapidly improving because of an emerging consensus on recognition standards, the demand for cross-border mobility both internal and external to the profession, and the efforts of membership, credentialing, and regional organizations to promote mobility. In the United States, multiple credentialing organizations…

The economic reforms that are being carried out in Russia have brought to the forefront a number of problems that have to do with the development of the social and structural transformation of society, with changes in the position of particular groups and strata of the population. It is in structures of production that local labor markets are…

This article puts forward the idea that in order to sufficiently meet the needs of very young children and thereby develop quality provision, early years practitioners must develop a professional approach that combines personal awareness with theoretical knowledge. It argues that the development of such abilities is enabled in process-oriented…

Expressing the desire that geography should be a more challenging subject that helps pupils to become better learners, a group of academic geographers and geography teachers from northeast England developed teaching strategies to stimulate pupils to think through geography. Teachers in England and the Netherlands report that these strategies are…

Authors presented contrasting views about the effects of the women's movement on professionalism in art education. (Editor/RK)

Professional and vocational licensing and registration information is presented for the New York State fiscal years 1977-78 through 1986-87. For each fiscal year, the total number of new licenses, certificates or registrations, and total number of licensees registered to practice in the state, and the current registration period are provided for…

This paper explored attitudes toward death and dying revealed through interviews with members of the clergy, the medical profession, funeral directors, nursing home residents, and selected others. The sampling was small and results are not intended to be representative of the groups to which these people belong. Rather, the study may be used as a…

Notes increasing influence of government over pharmacy practice and reports results of a survey undertaken to locate as many pharmacist-lawyers as possible. Presents a profile of the group (estimated at 200) including education, work activities, factors influencing entry into law school, and perceptions of problems facing pharmacy. (JT)

Questionnaires were sent to 306 public relations counselors in Texas to discover if professionalism is a contributory cause of social responsibility in public relations, if the presence or absence of professionalism increases the likelihood that social responsibility will occur, and the conditions, if any, under which professionalism contributes…

From the perspective of contemporary human ecology, this paper presents a descriptive analysis of sexual differentiation in professional occupations, using data provided for the large metropolitan labor forces of the United States in 1970. Aggregate profile characteristics of the total metropolitan labor force [the combined professional work…