Considers a professional program at a university appropriate if it bridges the gap between professional practice and relevant theoretical knowledge, and includes a general education component. Sees Colleges of Education as failing to achieve this balance. Suggests ways of promoting and developing research at Schools of Education. (DMM)

Provides a "deliberately provocative bird's-eye view" of new directions in thinking among economists concerned with education. Looks at the socialization function of schooling, the use of educational attainment as a hiring criterion, the importance of the "incomplete" employment contract, and labor market segmentation theory. Considers…

Reports on a study of Black and White male workers aged 32 or less, who had established their own residences and had worked full time for 10 years or less. The study explored the relationships among such variables as parental income, educational background, job tenure, and workers' earnings. (PGD)

The European trend toward transition education--programs designed by governments to ease the transition between compulsory education and work--is analyzed, including the variety of programs underway, differences between transition and other school-based education, administrative issues, and assessment of qualifications and certification. (MSE)

Updated vocational agricultural programs and school-based enterprises can help rebuild rural economies. Advantages of vocational agricultural programs include leadership training, a problem-solving approach to the teaching of sciences and mathematics, and strong community support. School-based enterprises combine educational objectives and local…

Reviews relationships between training and formal education, defines computer literacy, and discusses ways education for computer literacy might provide foundations for subsequent training and retraining in an increasingly automated and information-rich environment. Effects of different levels of investment available for motivated training and…

Rate of return studies address the economic benefit realized by persons making individual investments in higher education and the economic benefit realized by society as a whole as a result of making investments in higher education instruction. Data strongly support the public policy of continuing social investment in higher education. (MLW)

Recent changes and emphases in Finnish higher education, research themes, and favored forms of research cooperation are outlined. Exchange of research information and contacts in the areas of instructional methods, educational technology, educational policy and administration, nontraditional education, and higher education and the labor market are…

Two factors have shaped the development of the secondary education system in Berlin during the last 15 years: the demographic fluctuations shifting the pressure from one stage of the school system to another and the lengthened duration of school attendance. (MLW)

The author favors the creation of broad-based local industry-education alliances as the first step in a joint effort aimed at educational reform. A unified effort is necessary to plan and integrate resources effectively for educational reform and economic development. The National Association for Industry-Education Cooperation can assist these…

Recommends student performance be evaluated by professional standards of excellence as preparation for survival at a professional level on the job. Emphasizes that all tasks given to students be as close as possible to those they would be asked to do at work. (EL)

Relies on a study of articles on agronomy and engineering to argue that teachers of technical style need to examine more closely the structures used by technical writers, particularly subordinate clauses that may be a means of distinguishing the "languages" of various technical disciplines. (EL)

Details a corporate advocacy teaching module designed to help business students develop communication skills they can use in the future in defending their corporations when they are attacked in the national media. (FL)

Observing that there is no shortage of work to be done, but rather a shortage of employment, this essay analyzes aspects of youth unemployment in Europe including school effectiveness; alienation and the work ethic; remedies, which include European Community's "social guarantee"; and some considerations for future change. (MJL)

The theory of symbolic violence, a structuralist theory of socialization and reproduction of social inequality, is analyzed and criticized as insinuating a radical stance while hiding its objectivist nature and defeatist assumptions. The central concepts of power, power relations, habitus, and the term "arbitrary" are discussed. (MJL)