Traces the alternative career paths that four minority individuals followed to professional journalism. Includes a potential doctoral candidate in 17th century poetry, a future aeronautical engineer, a jazz musician, and possible pharmacist. Contends that minorities must often approach the profession through alternative routes in order to succeed.…

Presents the Competitive Employment through Vocational Experiences (CETVE) model of transition from school to work for youth with mild disabilities. Discusses identification and screening of participants, placement in work experience, training, and follow-up. Also covers such issues as interagency cooperation, transportation, liability, and…

Examines recent changes, and the motives behind them, in teacher education in England and Wales. Recent years have seen a move toward reducing the role of higher education and creating school-based systems of training reminiscent of apprenticeships. Motives behind this reform trend appear to be primarily political. (SLD)

A survey of 182 Nigerian vocational teacher trainees and their employers who provided unpaid work experience received 122 and 148 usable responses respectively. Students were generally positive about the experience, and over 60% of employers rated students highly on willingness and ability to learn. Many Nigerian employers cannot provide paid work…

An ethnographic study examined trainees' experiences in their practicum placements during a Youth Training caregivers course in English hospitals. The narratives raised issues regarding trainee supervision, communication between instructors and supervisors, and communication between trainees and workplace colleagues that affected meaningful…

A pharmacist chronicles his 50 years in the study and practice of pharmacy, recounting significant events of the undergraduate and graduate experiences and the evolution of a career in the emerging field of biopharmaceutical research, clinical practice, and academic pharmacy. A 68-item bibliography is included. (MSE)

This article describes the Summer Work Experience Program developed by 3 agencies in Dallas, Texas, for students (ages 14-18) with visual impairments. The article describes student training; expectations for employees; attitudes of students, parents, and employers; and problems encountered. (JDD)

Describes a study which analyzed think-aloud protocols of four expert and four novice instructional designers working on a design problem in physics instruction. Differences between novices and experts in problem interpretation, problem analysis, problem representation, solution generation, the solution, internal resources, external resources, and…

Studies behaviors that characterize effective curriculum consultants. Focuses on strategies reported by six experienced and six inexperienced consultants. Data organized into consultation model: initiation, planning, delivery, followup. Overt strategies, not the crude quantitative data (such as time spent), make significant differences. Work…

Outlines the efforts of the Scottish School of Further Education to use distance teaching methods in providing work-based learning for vocational education teachers through three programs: education studies, theories of instruction process, and educational methods and curriculum development. (SK)

Development of college and university degree programs based entirely on workplace learning is increasing and is characterized by responsiveness to employee educational needs, employer demand, restricted government funding for higher education, and institutions' need to appeal to wider markets. These newer approaches cause considerable tension in…

Analysis of data from cooperative education students revealed a high probability that students would participate in co-op work tasks that develop general education skills in communication, visual literacy, and critical thinking. The ability to use these skills in practice is a significant outcome of cooperative education. (SK)

The Schools without Walls program helps University of Surrey management students develop managerial skills by serving as mentor-managers to secondary students. Freedom to reflect and have hands-on management experience facilitated skill development. However, the program worked better for affective skills than cognitive skills. (SK)

The Rover Group, a British auto manufacturer, supports work-related curriculum through partnership centers at its major plants and school-based facilities, annual awards, and learning agreements for students in work experience programs. Quality, long-term commitment, and promotion of lifelong learning remain relevant but elusive goals. (SK)

Reviews evidence of British employers' difficulties in recruiting qualified employees. Considers how employment-based intermediate skills training could be more closely integrated with higher education courses to expand the supply of intermediate skills while recognizing the desire and ability of people to graduate. (Contains 31 references.) (JOW)