If educators and employers operate on the assumption that learning can occur in a variety of settings for different purposes, higher education-business collaboration can extend the resources of both and create new opportunities for learners. Specific FIPSE projects are noted. (MLW)

College seniors graded lecturers on teaching and course effectiveness. After the students had graduated and been working for a year, they rated teaching effectiveness for former lecturers and nominated the best and worst teachers. Increasing maturity and job experience did not significantly alter student evaluations of relative teaching…

This paper poses a research question about how a person's work experience affects his or her earnings and shows how the Cumulative Experience Method (CEM) can provide an answer to the question using all available information in a longitudinal data set. (Author/GDC)

This discussion of the German curriculum project, "Work in an Historical Dimension", includes an analysis of the project's philosophical underpinnings as well as descriptions of its objectives, content (images and global realities of work from the 7th century to the present) and its successful implementation in a comprehensive school.…

Describes and evaluates a program, the Serowe Brigades, which has given many underprivileged high school students in Botswana, Africa basic education and training and has helped them understand the means of production in a developing nation. Concludes that the program has succeeded as a first step in extending technical training on a massive scale…

Focusing on a high school agricultural cooperative education program, the author presents guidelines for supervisory visits and for the selection of good training stations. The benefits of cooperative programs to the student, community, school, and employer are listed. (LRA)

Efforts in Sweden to increase contacts between the university and the rest of society and to build better links between studies and research and the reality of professional life and actual work situations are described. Higher Education Act, teacher development, Lund University experiment, and government experiment with researchers are discussed.…

The author states that education is the primary delivery system for the labor market but that there still exists a need for a comprehensive community-based education-work program. He describes the industry-education council concept providing system-wide linkages between educational and community resources and discusses industry-education council…

Describes the cooperative engineering internship program of the University of Louisville's J. B. Speed Scientific School. The mandatory and highly organized program features preparation in technical communications, and mid-internship evaluations. (WB)

Results of a new study of the extent to which differences in educational attainment, labor force attachment, and work history and on-the-job training account for wage differences between the sexes and races show that, even after extensive adjustments for qualification and attachment measures, White men earn substantially more. (MF)

A survey was conducted to determine state vocational rehabilitation agencies' preferences of employment characteristics for entry-level job applicants against which undergraduate rehabilitation program content and emphasis could be compared. Results indicated a preference for social and rehabilitation service graduates and an emphasis on written…

Disabled persons manage a program in San Diego, California, called "Able-Disabled Advocacy," which offers, with federal aid, work experience, counseling, and placement services to the area's disabled through experience in publishing a monthly magazine promoting opportunities for the disabled and through an on-the-job training project.…

Sources of financial support for 16-18-year-olds in the United Kingdom are summarized. The underlying assumptions of such programs are analyzed and a schematic list of alternative models of financial support is provided, categorized by party-political attitudes, including cost estimates. (Author/JMF)

Shows how schooling and work experience programs are integrated in China. Emphasizes that the socialist work ethic is the basis for all educational activities. Discusses attempts of Chinese educators to find the best formula for combining labor and formal study of academic subjects. (DB)

The cooperative program used at Sycamore High School, Sycamore, Illinois, for 24 years has been integrated with career education to provide student experience in many occupations in a cluster and to permit progression toward a specific occupation and attain salable skills. Grades 9-12 curriculum is based on a series of career orientation and…