Internships can help hospitality faculty build industry relationships while also ensuring the best and most current training for their students. Many hospitality organizations have structured faculty internships available or are willing to work with faculty to provide individualized internship opportunities. Career and technical educators in…

Author fears that the needs and interests of young people may or may not be given priority under the new Youth Opportunities Program. (Editor/RK)

The educational program of a communist labor university in South China's Kiangsi Province is described. Classes in agriculture, forestry, accounting, animal husbandry, and farm machinery are offered on a part-work, part-study basis which combines education with productive labor. (SM)

A 1-page description of a high school program conducted by North American Rockwell. (KR)

The article describes a program at the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind in which students have an opportunity for practical experience in 25 on-campus or 8 off-campus work stations. Benefits to the employer and employee are discussed. (CL)

Students in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, are leaving the school to spend as much as a full semester learning about the adult world. (Author)

This report describes California programs which provide alternatives to detention for minors who commit less serious law violations and status offenses. Included are six diversion programs, four youth service bureaus, six home supervision programs, and ten juvenile court work programs. In addition, three detention classification programs and five…

A proposed career education program for learning disabled adolescents in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District (New York) is described. The program is to include the following curriculum areas: motivation for work, school and the working world, self awareness, occupational knowledge, choosing a field, job selection, securing a job, job…

The Internships in Public Policy program, funded by the National Science Foundation and administered by the Massachusetts Internship Office, was a pilot project designed to test whether the emerging professional talents of graduate students in the social science and law can be effectively harnessed to state government operations. Twelve graduate…

The head of the federal vocational training division in Switzerland describes his country's system of vocational education for young people who have completed their compulsory years of schooling. (MF)

Described is the Crisis Intervention Center, a rehabilitation center for the severely developmentally disabled which includes three developmental satellite centers (providing work activity programs, work evaluation, and supervised employment). (CL)

Article described a project which aims to provide publishing and distribution opportunities for people in Hackney who would never think of themselves as within the traditional framework of commercial publishing. (Author/RK)