Thoughts on Engineer Training and the Annual Flow of Engineering Graduates seen in Relation to Industrial Development

France and several other industrial countries are currently affected by a period of economic recession. There has been suggestions in the media and from government agencies that the cause lies mainly in the lack of engineers. This proposition is analysed in terms of the French system and engineering courses are examined. This analysis yields highly interesting comparisons between the current curricula of six industrialized countries.     

Improved Career Decision Making: Integration Into Counselor Education

The Improved Career Decision Making program, developed by the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, is a comprehensive program to introduce counselors to the use of career information in the counseling process.     

Reading Comprehension and Search Skills in the Subject Areas

Every school should have an organised policy for language across the curriculum establishing every teachers' involvement in language and reading development throughout the years of schooling. Language for Life     

SAVANT: How to Help Engineers to Learn New Concepts

The increasing demand for engineers in fast-changing specialities requires new ways of teaching technical subjects in higher engineering education; but introducing computers as ordinarly learning tools is far from being simple. For the past 10 years, we have been exploring original ways of using new technologies to help students learn new concepts. The solutions which were experimented with in Telecom Paris by engineering students include an hypertext encyclopaedia, a multimedia network system and an intelligent tutoring system which tries to sustain ‘natural’ conversations with students. All these systems were designed for the same specific purpose: to help the students learn new technical concepts by themselves.     

Changes in Counselor Education Admissions Criteria

This study summarizes recent changes in admissions requirements and procedures obtained in a survey of 61 counselor education programs in the western states region.     

Video Packaging: Integrating Simulation Techniques and Systematic Skill Training

Procedures for developing a videotaped counselor skill training package are outlined. Eleven steps describe the plan for integrating simulation techniques and a systematic training paradigm for the video package. The steps range from a pretest to posttest assessment, with each step highlighting which training aspects are to be taped in the video sequence.     

The Relationship Between Client Reluctance and Counseling Effectiveness

The effect of client reluctance, resistance to professional assistance, has received little attention in the research on counseling effectiveness. In a short-term college counseling situation, it was found that intake measures of client-reluctance were: (a) negatively correlated with client-perceived satisfaction and improvement, (b) negatively related to degree of congruence between perceived problem and perceived emphasis of the agency, and (c) positively correlated with premature termination in counseling. No differences were found between vocational and personal problem groups on measures of client reluctance, satisfaction, or improvement. Client reluctance was shown to be directly related to counseling outcome. Implications for these findings on counselor education and training are discussed.     

Equalizing Opportunity: Training Indigenous Personnel as Mental Health Counselors

Traditional counseling and clinical programs have been reluctant to train lay counselors. The innovative program described in this article was designed to assist disadvantaged adults in obtaining credentials to qualify for a professional position. Unlike traditional students, TIP (Training Indigenous Persons) students were admitted to graduate level courses in mental health counseling on criteria other than their past academic record. Results supported the recent focus on variables related to candidates' success as counselors, rather than on their previous academic performances.