The author reports on the trend for manufacturing companies to spend heavily on retraining and retaining employees whose jobs have been abolished or dramatically changed. Employers have found retraining current employees to be more cost effective than hiring new workers. He describes a California state program that helps finance such training…

Before committing itself to new career programs, a higher education institution should answer some basic questions about their implications for faculty development. Early programs to help faculty adjust to the new career curricula will lead to their more successful integration on campus. (Author/MSE)

The authors report on a partnership among American Motors Corporation, United Auto Workers, and Gateway Technical College designed to recall and retrain 1,200 auto workers. The impact on American Motors Corporation and the state of Wisconsin is described. (CH)

The article highlights some innovative and important approaches to employee training and retraining in anticipation of and in response to technological change. These include both collectively bargained arrangements and new state initiatives that are suggestive for future developments. (CH)

Describes a partnership between the Licking County Joint Vocational School in Newark, Ohio, and General Motors Corporation. The school houses a remote training center for General Motors automotive technicians that also trains the school's instructors. (CH)

Private organizations and state governments are increasingly seeking out businesses with training needs they cannot fulfill themselves and finding community colleges willing to set up flexible retraining programs quickly. (MSE)

Data from Bureau of Labor Statistics research projects indicate that the pace of technological advancement varies significantly from industry to industry and few employees have been laid off as a result of these changes. Implications for industry concern productivity and retraining. (CH)

Employees (40 years of age and older) of the U.S. Geological Survey were given questionnaires in order to gather information concerning training in technical jobs, impact of retirement age removal, need for retention of older workers, need for expertise of older workers, and advantages of retraining older workers. (CT)

A number of school systems are using innovative strategies to recruit the teachers they need. (MLF)

Organizational pre-retirement planning increases stress in middle-aged employees, but programs in pre-retirement education initiated by community colleges in cooperation with local companies can be very successful. (MS)

For over ninety years the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training has been concerned with the rehabilitation of displaced adults and has further extended its priorities in developing manpower for vocational shortages throughout the world. (RK)

Discusses the problems of who will pay the costs of restraining and how the areas of need'' can be discovered and provided for. (SP)

An entirely different approach is needed to manage America's aging work force. Human resource management and acceleration of skill levels are significantly more important as the structure of the economy changes. (SK)

Many postsecondary technical education programs are facing obsolescence and need more than another course or piece of equipment to be effective. Educational institutions must restructure their programs, redesign their laboratories, and retrain their faculty. The business and industrial community is the direct beneficiary of a strong vocational…

The shortage of qualified science and mathematics teachers is expected to increase. Among the remedies are incentive pay (despite unions' reactions against it), increasing funds for teacher training, and retraining and recertification programs that offer financial incentives. (MLF)