The Michigan Daily-Saturday June 13, 1981-Page 3 Education after graduation By MARK GINDIN Daily-staff writer Although many University graduates vow never to return to school, duce they are established in their careers people find "the hody of knowledge changes," and they need updated inatruction, ac- cording to a University Business School official. Fortunately, the University offers the type of instruction many professionals need to familiarize themselves with new developments. FOR INSTANCE, the School of Business Administration offers ap- proximately 65 to 70 different conferen- ces during the year, according to Al Schrader, the director of the Business School's Division of Management. Education. Since many are repeated, there are perhaps 275 to 300 total con- ferences offered during the year, he said. Other schools and colleges at the University offering continuing education include the Law School, Medical School, Engineering, and many of the smaller schools. No matter what a person's profession, an ap- propriate University-sponsored course can be found. "The School of Law provides con- tinuing education throughout the year," said Rose Mosley, administrative associate in Continuing Legal Instruc- tion. Seminars offered to update professionals MOST CONFERENCES last about a day and are held in various locations throughout the state. Last year more than 12,500 persons attended the University-sponsored conferences, Mosley said. "Very few are held here," said Mosley, because the goal of the CLI of- fice is to(hold a conference within 75 miles of every lawyer in the state. Not all courses offer speakers, Moseley said. Video tape is used to record a live presentation in many cases. The tape is then edited and graphics may be added before being distributed. THE INSTITUTE of Continuing Legal Education is ranked fairly high among activities of its sort, said Mosley, and the feedback has been generally positive. The Office of Continuing Medical Education offers about 35 conferences attended by more than "5000 health care professionals" including allied 'health personnel as well as physicians, according to the director of the office. As a matter of fact, said Dr. David Bruce Youel, the number of physicians attending has been declining lately while the allied health personnel - such as blood bankers and therapists - have been attending in larger numbers. OVERALL, "THERE has been a general decline of participants" at major CME conventions, Youel said. He cites "increased competition of con- ferences" as the major reason for the decline. ,However, Youel said he feels the decline in attendance has "bottomed out" and that attendance will increase in the future. The Continuing Engineering education office has noticed a decline in attendance since the 60s. "Companies are training their own people because it is cheaper," said Joe Taylor, associate director of Engineering Summer Con- ferences. THERE WERE once 40 courses of- fered with 50 people attending each one, while now there are 30 courses with 30 people each, said Taylor. "Dollars speak loud" and it is cheaper for com- panies to train their own personnel, he said. Most courses, taught by Engineering professors, run for about a week while some may go as long as a month, said Taylor. The University's program is better than a company's, Taylor said, but it just costs more to send them here. The business school reporters that "more people have been coming" to their courses. About 7,500 people a year attend the year-round business con- ferences, according to Schrader. MOST OF the 275 to 300 conferences average 25 people each. Three to five days is the usual length, but some con- tinue foras long as four weeks. The $4,000 fee for the intensive four week course is inevitably paid by the com- pany who sends the student, said Schrader. The conferences are run by people from various walks of life. Faculty members from the school as well as other schools - along with government leaders and businessmen - make up the teaching staff, Schrader said. "We are one of the best," he added. The Continuing Medical Education department at the University is also one of the best in the nation, according to its director, Dr. Youel. Founded in 1927, it is one of the oldest and most See 'U' OFFERS, Page5 IRA prisoner elected to Parliament DUBLIN, Ireland (AP)-An Irish Republican Army guerrilla jailed in Northern Ireland was elected to the Irish Parliament yesterday in a propaganda coup by supporters of the nationalist. prisoners' hunger strike campaign in the neighboring British' province. Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey easily -retained his parliamen- tary seat but initial returns showed his ruling Fianna Fail Party losing ground in the republic's general election. The party has ruled the republic all but 10 of the past 49 years. IRA. GUERRILLA Paddy Agnew, serving a 1d-year sentence for bom- bings, attacking British forces and possessing explosives, was elected from his native Louth near the border with Northern Ireland, election officials said. After a fifth vote count, Agnew had 9,841 votes and was first among nine candidates seeking four parliamentary seats in the Louth constituency. None of the candidates reached the required quota of 11,441 votes, but Agnew was deemed a winner because he could not be overtaken under a complicated vote- transfer system that dropped other candidates out of the running. Agnew, 26, a member of the outlawed IRA's Provisional wing, was one of nine prisoners at Belfast's Maze and Ar- magh prisons, including four hunger strikers, whom nationalist supporters entered in the election in districts bor- dering the British province. The hunger strike, in which four prisoners have died, is intended to pressure the British into granting political status to jailed nationalist guerrillas. AGNEW IS not fasting, but election officials said hunger striker Kieran Doherty, 25, received 9,000 first- preference votes and was only a few hundred votes short of election from the neighboring Cavan-Monaghan con- stituency. Irish law allows tlot prisoners to run. Hunger-striker Martin Hurson, 26, also was reported doing well in his race. The nine prisoners running in the election are members of the IRA or the smaller Irish National Liberation Ar- my. The mostly Catholic IRA, which is outlawed here as in Northern Ireland, is fighting to drive the British out of Protestant-dominated Northern Ireland and unite it with the over- whelmingly Catholic republic. The republic's 2.28 million voters, nearly 80 percent of whom voted, were preoccupied with Ireland's economic problems, including an annual inflation rate of 20 percent and an 11 percent unemployment-highest in the 10- nation Common Market. There was less debate in 'the cam- paign over the Northern Ireland issue and Haughey's refusal to back the Maze prisoners' demands. Four of the hunger strikers have died so far and five con- tinue to fast. Final results from Thursday's balloting are not expected until today. Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM srccoeWhat goes up.. ... Must come down. This network of beams and rubble, formerly aparking structure for University staff on Ann St., is clearly on the decline.