Operation MEDIHC's (Military Experience Directed into Health Careers) program to help veterans trained in health skills while in military service capitalize on those skills when they return to civilian life is examined. The goal of the program was to help find civilian career opportunities and to provide free counseling and vocational guidance to…

The basic goal of the Correlated Curriculum Program (CCP) is to upgrade the education of the "general" or nonacademic student. Since the students have not responded to traditional teaching methods, emphasis is placed on "learning by doing." To attain this objective the students explore career opportunities through skill-tryouts for clusters of…

A real job experience provides insights the vocational teacher cannot gain from laboratory and simulated experiences. Examples are given from a pre-service course at the University of Washington, and tips are offered on getting work experience and on making the most effective use of it in teaching. (Author/AJ)

Reviews research on the relationship between youth employment experience and later employment opportunities. Discusses the effectiveness of subsidized work experience programs and emphasizes the need for evaluation research on such programs in order to determine whether they truly prepare disadvantaged youth for the exigencies of the labor market.…

The Work Experience Program at the American School for the Deaf (Connecticut) involves students with multiple handicaps spending half of their school week in the classroom focusing on language, practical math, social studies, and science, and half their week at jobs, with the teacher serving as job coach and supervisor. (JDD)

As the world economy continues to evolve, businesses and industries must adopt new practices and processes in order to survive. Quality and cost control, work teams and participatory management, and an infusion of technology are transforming the way people work and do business. Employees are now expected to read, write, and communicate…

Purpose: This paper seeks to challenge the view that student part time employment detracts from academic attainment and presents evidence that when linked to formal undergraduate study provides rich learning experiences. It also explores the extent to which formerly accepted pre-requisites for work based learning (WBL) apply in this model and how…

The Finnish vocational education and training system underwent remarkable transformations at the turn of the century. One of the biggest changes was introducing compulsory and guided on-the-job learning periods in all study programmes. In this article students' experiences of on-the-job learning and in particular of integrating school-based and…

Previous research on psychological contracts has focused on whether or not employees feel their employers have fulfilled the promises made to them. Instead, here we examine how perceptions of the external labor market, particularly about whether present psychological contracts could be replicated elsewhere, influence employees' attachment to their…

This report summarizes the First APEID (Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development) Regional Planning Panel Meeting on Work and Vocational Experiences in General Education that focused on the linking of education to the world of work. An introduction gives an overview of the panel's aims, the basic principles and concepts advocated…

This article discusses the findings of a research project which examined the participation in workplace learning of Australian school students in the post-compulsory years. The study was carried out in two States, New South Wales (NSW) and South Australia (SA), in the latter part of 2000. Primarily focusing upon work experience, formal vocational…

In this article the author stresses the importance and need for realistic experiences to augment and develop a true education of the student. (Author)

The work experience and income of male veterans, aged 20 years and over, were compared with that of their nonveteran counterparts for the calendar year 1981. Analysis of the data provided by the Census Bureau showed that a larger percentage of male veterans than of their nonveteran counterparts, 64 percent and 56 percent, respectively, worked…