To provide quality vocational education, rural schools must solve five problems that confront all secondary providers: (1) dealing with technological change, (2) cooperating within districts, (3) addressing market demands, (4) conserving resources, and (5) expanding employer input. Solutions include collaboration and special approaches to distance…

Outlines the history of the partnership between career guidance and vocational education. Discusses how the two can save resources by cooperating to serve mutual needs. Lists the outcomes of comprehensive career guidance and stipulations concerning career guidance in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act. (CH)

The author argues that school reform is the major goal of a business-education partnership. He states that the private sector needs a formal, synergistic mechanism through which it can channel its resources into local schools in a systematic manner to promote educational improvement and human resource and economic development. (CH)

Large changes in educational composition of the Netherlands labor force in the past two decades have produced marked changes in the distribution of individuals by education level across job levels. Undereducation has been reduced, and overeducation has been increased. The latter situation does not imply inefficiency because even years of…

The author discusses cooperative education at the postsecondary level. Topics include (1) college credit for work; (2) participant requirements; (3) benefits to students, including a salary and experience; (4) midcareer changes; and (5) benefits to employers. Several examples are provided. (CH)

The Independent Living Project for Deaf-Blind Youth at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind focuses on functional daily living and vocational skills. The project uses a video system to replace direct staff supervision. Most students have made a successful transition into adult living and work. (Author/VW)

Issues involved in effective social work advocacy within the legal system are discussed, and directions for social work educators to take in attempting to fill the "knowledge gap" in social work education are described. Ways are identified for how that gap can be closed. (Author/MH)

This position paper lists nine steps special education needs to take on behalf of adults with learning disabilities, including: initiation of public and professional awareness programs; comprehensive individual assessment; school programs that facilitate transition from secondary to community settings; and development of programs to assist…

Summarizes a study of the effect of the Youth Training Scheme (YTS) on further education (FE) in the United Kingdom. Focuses on colleges' role in YTS, their involvement in the schemes, and the main lessons learned from this involvement. (CH)

Studied employment of counselors with master's degrees in multiservice mental health agencies. Showed that employment of counselors did not differ significantly from the employment of individuals with master's degrees in psychology and social work, that counselors fulfilled various administrative duties, and delivered direct care services…

The article describes the "Certificate of Prevocational Education" (CPVE), designed to provide British students (including special needs students) over age 16 with a one-year modular, full time framework of core and vocational studies to aid transition from school to work. Curriculum areas include personal and career development, social…

Discusses the backgrounds and the work of four men who, working together in the Commissioner of Education's office, developed the model for public vocational education in Massachusetts during the early twentieth century. The men discussed are Charles Allen, Charles Prosser, David Snedden (the Commissioner of Education), and Rufus Stimson. (CH)

Examines the purpose of vocational education at the secondary level and asks if there should be only one purpose. States that (1) educational statistics and polls reveal that preparation for employment is needed, (2) reform reports suggest that courses be broader than narrow job training, and (3) students take vocational courses for a variety of…

The author discusses the current state of secondary vocational education in Wisconsin, where each public secondary school is required to offer vocational education. Topics covered include (1) goals and expectations, (2) curriculum development, and (3) educational equity. (CH)

While many support the general value of liberal education for work in business, too little is known about the experience of college graduates in business and about what companies emphasize when recruiting them. (MSE)