Like everyone else in education today, our goal is twofold. First, identify the individual's needs, and, second, provide the best possible means to remediate those needs. This means a constant search for innovative ideas-ones that will assist in providing the most efficient and practical way to motivate and challenge our students to accomplish their goals.Our Learning Skills Program at Cabrillo College, Aptos, California, launched in September 1977, provides diagnostic and instructional services to LD adults enrolled at this two-year community college. Our immediate goal is to develop our students' skills to the point where they can be successfully integrated into the regular college curriculum. Each semester our program serves approximately 150 students, 18 years and older, all of whom have been diagnosed as learning disabled through a comprehensive, individualized assessment process. A number of these young people have secondary learning needs (e.g., visual, hearing, mobility, and/or orthopedic difficulties). They are served by a staff of five LD specialists, as well as counselors, teaching assistants, and tutors. In addition to the Laura C. Moyles, MA, is coordinator of the Learning Skills Program, Cabrillo College,

SummaryThe paper describes the rationale and implementation of anaesthetics teaching in the new 2i-year clinical medical course at Cambridge University. A programme designed to monitor and evaluate the teaching was established, and the results are reported.Signifcant improvements in students' knowiedge of anaesthetics and their experiences of practical procedures were noted, as compared to a control group. It is concluded that the course achieves the dual aims of providing an introduction to the scope and vocabulary of modern anaesthesia and giving students the opportunity to practise a variety of specifed practical skills.