Engineering Education and Industry in Greece: towards a long overdue convergence

Engineering education has a long and satisfactory developmental history in Greece. On the other hand, industrial development, which is the product of systematic government policy of the post-war period, presents mixed results. It is a fact that engineering education, at least to the extent represented by formal, structured university curricula, has not been associated in any direct way with industry, for a variety of reasons—structural, economic, and administrative, originating both in industry and university. The scene appears to be changing in recent years, under pressure from many sides. It remains to be seen whether the long overdue convergence of the two systems will materialise in the near future.     

The Skilled Counselor Training Model: Skills Acquisition,Self‐Assessment,and Cognitive Complexity

The authors evaluated the effectiveness of the Skilled Counselor Training Model (SCTM; M. H. Smaby, C. D. Maddux, E. Torres‐Rivera, & R. Zimmick, 1999) in teaching counseling skills and in fostering counselor cognitive complexity. Counselor trainees who completed the SCTM had better counseling skills and higher levels of cognitive complexity than did counselor trainees who did not receive the training. Before training, both experimental and control group participants overestimated their skills performance. The control group persisted in this overestimation after training, whereas students who completed the SCTM had a much more accurate self‐assessment. Results suggest that skills‐based training may improve counseling skills and cognitive complexity in counselor trainees.