For over a century, American education's mission has centered on preparing future workers to enter the marketplace. Just as the Industrial Age ended slave labor, the Information Age will end mass wage labor, freeing up millions for shortened work weeks and/or work in the civil society or nonprofit sector. Service learning helps by creating social…

This examination of fundamental educational questions serves as an excellent introduction to the philosophy of education. It includes persuasive arguments for severing the consideration of education from how well it prepares citizens for the marketplace and focusing on what education does for us as human beings. (SLD)

Notes that business changes today foretell changes in education. Offers suggestions for building effective collaboration between academic institutions and industry to create an innovative, flexible, and advanced continuing education curriculum in technical communication that includes management and leadership training. (SR)

Agrees with Jeremy Rifkin that "human labor is being systematically eliminated from the economic process" and deplores educators' slowness to recognize implications. Since individuals must create their own work, educational programs should stress entrepreneurship and self-employment skills, not job-seeking behaviors. African American…

Describes Norwalk Community College's (Connecticut) continuing workplace education courses, which are linked to industry certification requirements, particularly in information technology. Asserts that skills certification gives students portable and marketable assets, serves business needs for skilled workers, and provides colleges with…

Contrasts two models of interaction between higher education and the labor market: (1) development of general employability skills, which can be narrow and limited without context; and (2) professional education. Both the professions and discipline-based higher education are organized around and draw their distinctiveness from specific contexts.…

Discusses whether liberal arts is a costly, elitist program or excellent preparation for the future's flexible knowledge-based economy, examining: pressures on today's college students; dissatisfaction with a system that does not emphasize general education; new conversations about liberal learning's role in today's changing world; Carnegie…

Discusses three main ways New England's institutions of higher education can help secure the region's strong position in the "new economy": (1) educating a skilled workforce for the twenty-first century; (2) capturing and effectively utilizing research and development funding; and (3) helping provide economic opportunity for all…

Examines how Australia and France are preparing youth for successful transition to employment in a rapidly changing world. Traces the historical development of technical/vocational education and general/liberal education. Highlights how Australia has tackled the problem of high and low status educational pathways and how the French Baccalaureat…

Demonstrates the formulation and computation of major benefit and cost items included in an evaluation of social rates of return to foreign study. Considers incidence of measured effects between sending, host, and third countries, focusing on south/north flow of postgraduate students, specifically Fiji students studying at Australian universities.…

Investigates determinants behind the spectacular higher education enrollment growth in Belgium since 1953, using a demand model that integrates consumption and investment aspects and empirically tests time-series data specifications between 1953 and 1992. Income and foregone earnings are driving enrollments. Income, opportunity costs, and the wage…

Proposes inclusion of case studies to instructional design courses to better prepare students for employment in instructional positions in corporate and educational settings. Discusses benefits of case studies and their application in instructional design, presents a conceptual rationale for their use, outlines the design and integration of case…

Studied whether school-to-work programs facilitate postsecondary education by examining records for all applicants (more than 1,000, from 1990 through December 31, 1998) from a single inner-city school district at a comprehensive urban university. Findings suggest that students from career academies have higher academic achievement, less need for…

Finnish young adults (n=250) were surveyed at vocational school and 8 and 18 months after graduation. Those who emphasized work-related goals and progressed in achieving them were more likely to find relevant jobs. Those whose work was commensurate with their education thought their goals increasingly achievable and associated with positive…

Examines the educational system in Nordic countries as it regulates passage of age cohorts from home through school to the labor market. States that formal education is failing to close the skills gap. Advocates delinking vocational training from formal schooling and reorganizing working life in terms of production of practical know-how through…