Initiatives in Technical and Further Education. Numbers 3 and 4.

Overview & Synopsis

These two issues contain abstracts of 127 and 118 documents, respectively, related to the field of technical and further education that are available through the Australian Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Clearinghouse system. These types of materials are included: research reports/technical reports, evaluation studies, curriculum materials of an innovative nature (syllabus documents; student materials, including textbooks; teachers' guides; audiovisual materials; materials for TAFE teacher education; tests), questionnaires, feasibility studies, catalogs of instructional materials, and bibliographies. Each document entry provides this information: TAFE document accession number; state of origin of document; state clearinghouse accession number; author(s); title; publisher, date of publication, and pagination; format; availability (source); price; descriptors; identifiers; and abstract. Subject and author indexes are appended. Representative topics in number 3 are: access to education, adult education, apprenticeships, community education, course evaluation, educational finance, educational needs, educational planning, higher education, literacy, occupational surveys, program evaluation, technical education, trade and industrial education, vocational education, youth employment, and youth programs. Representative topics in number 4 are: access to education, adult education, apprenticeships, Australian aboriginal education, course evaluation, curriculum development, occupational courses, and occupational information. (YLB)