Identifies lessons learned from the State Systems Change Initiative on Transition for Youth with Disabilities, such as: (1) the need for such initiatives to recognize political, economic, and social factors; (2) the need for systems change to be a dynamic and continuous improvement process; and (3) the value of using federal legislative mandates…

Seventy peer-reviewed reports on innovative approaches to medical education are presented. Four groups of reports are organized around criteria based on the Association of American Medical Schools' Medical School Objectives Project (MSOP), which defines four desirable physician attributes: that physicians must be altruistic, knowledgeable,…

Graduate programs designed to prepare students for college teaching are a relatively new phenomenon, and little is known about their impact. However, enough is known to issue two challenges to traditional forms of graduate preparation: (1) all prospective college teachers should have access to such a program; and (2) all departments offering…

Analyzes the changing links between higher education and the labor market, including conceptions of higher education's capacity to reduce social inequities and channel graduates into more prestigious forms of employment. Suggests that in general, higher education does not reduce inequities but may reinforce them, and it no longer guarantees more…

Reports on the evolution of General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQs), enrollment and delivery patterns, and their policy implications. Discusses results that indicate a link for only a minority of students between GNVQ choice of subject and later employment. (AIM)

Examines challenges faced by female students at Nairobi universities and postsecondary training institutions, using questionnaires administered to students of both sexes and interviews of male and female education officers. All groups named financial constraints, strict teenage pregnancy policies, inadequate girls' school resources, low…

Describes Simonton Windows' (Ritchie County, West Virginia) corporate giving program, which focuses on advancing education, improving the physical environment, and assisting those who are physically or mentally disabled. Its recent $50,000 gift to four area school systems was used for science equipment, computer-related programs, work-based…

Outlines an industrial chemistry course aimed at bridging the academe-industry gap by identifying two major threads: the way industry functions and the way industrial chemists should act in order to be most effective. Contains 39 references. (DDR)

Discusses the issues of socialization and acculturation of interns into the workplace, motivation of student employees, and the relationship between education and training/workplace and academy by using an established university level internship program. Reveals the significance of these issues for positive experiential learning. (SG)

A study examined self-definition in 11 adolescents with and without disabilities. Variation depended on sense of self, vision of the future, and access and use of supports to cope with difficulties as they prepared to graduate. Students with disabilities were most likely to have low self-definition and experience high struggle. (Contains…

States that as a new institution, Klamath Mission Community College in Oregon (KCC) sought to develop an academically sound and conceptually viable curriculum in the context of emerging societal and workforce needs by examining issues of mission, service area, basic skills requirements, academic credit hours, degree programs, non-credit courses,…

Issues in European vocational education in the last two decades are examined, including diminishing resources, changing locus of decision making, youth unemployment, and technology-driven change. An international technical assistance project to reform the Albanian vocational education system is then described, and the influence of reforms in five…

Examines gender differences in college attendance decisions, employing National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data. Uses a human-capital model stressing family characteristics and expected future earnings differential between college and high school graduates. The higher the college wage premium, the more likely men are to attend college. Women's…

Considers the variation in wage differentials by educational attainment level in Japan. Although Japanese wage structure is moving in a comparatively steady manner, the wage differential between college and junior college graduates among male workers has become wider since 1976. This phenomenon is explained mainly by changes in labor supply. (MLH)

An alternative high school program operates at a shopping center in Northern Virginia. Landmark Career Academy is a partnership between the Fairfax County Schools, a private organization that helps fund school-to-work programs, and Landmark Mall. So far, academy students are earning better grades than they did in their traditional high school…