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Calls on European Commissioners to rewrite plans for a shake-up of educational and training programs in the European Union. Warning from the European Parliament on guarantees on schemes for young adults; Concerns on vocational guidance for the young; Difficulties in the Socrates and Leonardo programs; Guidelines of the Youth Initiative Project.

Reports on the upgrade of the European Commission's educational wing of the European Commission, the Task Force for Human Resources, Education, Training and Youth to a directorate level. Move reflecting the Commission's economic policy shift to developing human resources; Remarks from Domenico Lenarduzzi, the Task Force's manager of general educational questions.

Reports on the vocational training policy for the European Union proposed by Professor Antonio Ruberti, Commissioner for Education Research and Development. Plans of Dr. Ulrich Haase, deputy director of vocational training in the German Ministry of Education and Science; Dispute on the principle of `acquis communautaire.'

Discusses Great Britain's Economic and Social Research Council's seminar on regionalism and devolution in the European Community (EC). French senatorial report on preserving a European way of life despite competition in manufacturing and services; Examination of the process of job transfer away from France; Central Europe and Asia's cheap labour; Canadian study on the proportion of labour force.