Initiatives in Technical and Further Education. Numbers 11 and 12.

Overview & Synopsis

These issues contain abstracts of research reports, literature reviews, conference proceedings, directories, project reports, and other documents describing work being done in the field of technical and further education in Australia. The issues contain 127 and 172 entries, respectively. Each entry contains the following information: a Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Clearinghouse accession number; the state from which the document originated; a state clearinghouse accession number; author, title, and publisher information; a format type; price and availability information; descriptors selected from the "Australian Thesaurus of Educational Terms" and "Glossary of TAFE Terms"; identifiers; and an abstract. Author and subject indexes are also provided. The following are among the subjects covered by the documents abstracted in the booklets: academic achievement, Aboriginal education, apprenticeships, business education, clerical occupations, communication skills, computers, computer science education, construction industry, course descriptions, course evaluation, curriculum development, daily living skills, dropout research, educational technology, educationally disadvantaged, employer attitudes, English (second language); equal education, fitting and machining, grievance procedures, job skills, motor vehicles, occupational safety and health, the Participation and Equity Program, prevocational education, questionnaires, TAFE, trade courses, and transition programs. (MN)