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Because competency-based orientation programs meet Individual learning needs, they create a practical and cost-effective transition to the practice setting. The model for Initiating competency-based orientation presented here will guide staff development educators who wish to Implement such a program at their hospitals. © Lippincott-Raven Publishers.

We evaluate here the experiences of doctors, pedagogues and vocational advisers in 2 years work with the Regulations of 5th August 1977 concerning aplication for apprenticeship and the General Directive of 5th August 1977 concerning regulations concerning application for apprenticeship. Timely checking of health requirements for a choice of career is shown to be advantageous for long term orientated careers, advised as early as in the 6th class, by the youth doctor. The form 'medical indications concerning choice of career' serves as an application document; it is completed by the youth doctor after a school-leaving medical examination in the 9th class. The appropriateness of the career is certified in this form by the relevant doctor. Experience shows that the choosing of a career proceeds without much problem where there is achieved a high level in the coordination of work between the child- and youth-health service, employment health service, school and the appropriate department of vocational training and vocational advice. This is especially the case for career advice to physically and psychologically disadvantaged school leavers, who require special support from society.

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This article describes a process model for design and development of curricula. The model is based on learning theories of competency-based education. It is suggested that curricula so designed will, in conjunction with accreditation and credentialing, provide an additional mechanism for ensuring quality in professional practice.

This article explores the acquisition of a wide variety of skills by low income Kenya Africans, outside the scope of government and voluntary agency programmes. Many thousands of such (mostly young) Africans arrange types of unofficial fee-paying apprenticeships for themselves at the feet of older, often illiterate craftsmen. The process represents an indigenisation in Kenya of important elements of East African Indian craft training—not least in the product types and the innovative re-use of scrap materials. It appears to have important implications for the success of the government's official formal sector apprenticeship schemes, but indicates considerable difficulties for any attempt to identify this informal world as an autonomous sector of Kenya's larger economy. © 1975, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

This article was written in an effort to stimulate greater interest and active involvement in vocational and career education on the part of school psychological services. Several functions for the school psychologist were proposed, including assistance in the selection of students for vocational programs designed for the handicapped and disadvantaged, teacher consultation, and consultation in the development of career education programs. © 1975.

Industrial training in Great Britain has been analysed in an article in the previous issue of this journal[l ]. Here we would like to concentrate on the training of the individual and the Government's role in assisting this training over the period 1917 to 1973. © 1974, MCB UP Limited. All rights reserved.

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The organization of postgraduate medical education and training is needed: firstly, to relieve the university medical schools from the present necessity of attempting to teach undergraduates to the level of competence of an independently practising doctor; secondly, to assist the young doctor to obtain relevant vocational training to equip him or her for the career of his or her choice; thirdly, to ensure that provision is made for the continuing education of practising doctors so that they can keep abreast of the rapid advances being made in medical knowledge and skills. These points are examined in detail.