A brief description of a part-time job placement service organized in one school system for students is given in this article. (JC)

Describes the College of the Mainland's "Learn and Earn" program, an educational retraining program through which jobless students learn new skills while they work on campus in jobs related to their current skills. Shows that the program benefits the school, while supplying tuition and living expenses to students. (DMM)

Results of a survey indicated that first-time experience in the labor force during high school affects the development of certain work-related attitudes and personality traits and the acquisition of knowledge about the world of work, but it has little impact on long-range occupational reward values. (MK)

Reports that significantly greater numbers of high school students have jobs now than did in the past, limiting the time student publication staff members can give to their publications. Offers suggestions to advisers with busy staff Members. (GT)

Interviews exploring the work experience of 11 boys and 13 girls in British high schools showed that they exhibited different levels of mature judgment and endowed their experience with different meanings. Most believed the placements' primary function was to prepare them for transition to work. The educative potential of work experience remained…

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth on more than 6,500 adolescents, traditional multivariate models replicated previous findings that adolescent's work intensity was positively related to delinquency, substance use, and problem behaviors. However, these relationships disappeared when observed and unobserved heterogeneity were…

Describes changes in how teenagers spend their summers and at the trends in summer school enrollment. Discusses teens' labor force participation and includes information about types of jobs, hours they work, wages, and teenage workers' rights. (JOW)

Discusses the "student work penalty" that occurs when students earn too much money to remain eligible for federal financial aid and describes some efforts to overturn this denial of eligibility. Community college students, who are likely to work, are particularly vulnerable to this denial of aid. (SLD)

Describes the history and current status of sandwich courses offered by all polytechnics and many colleges and universities in the United Kingdom--in which periods of full-time, academically related employment alternate with periods of formal coursework. Topics include responsibilities for placement, pay, assessment, and international placements.…

A 4-year study of 1,000 high school students found that they work increasingly through high school and for long hours. They move up to more complex work and receive increasing amounts of training. The way they describe their jobs and their subjective reactions suggest the employment provides developmental benefits. (SK)

Discusses advantages of using students in the admission office, including the enhancement of the pool of admission professionals for the future and the benefits to the admission office directly. Contends that paraprofessional programs help to bring both women and minorities into the field of admission and expose students to a number of varied…

A 3-year study of 1,000 adolescents and their parents found that student employment has significant effects on family relationships. It fosters separation and individuation, of which parents approve, and diminished family time did not affect the quality of relationships. Boys' work had more positive effects than did girls' work. (SK)

Founded in 1923, Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes (Kentucky) guarantees tuition to all full-time students accepted from 100 central Appalachian counties. All students work at least 10 hours a week on campus. Fulfilling the college's mission to develop the region's human and intellectual capital, about 70 percent of graduates remain in…

In a cross-sectional sample of 120 nursing students (68% employed in caregiving, the remainder as waitresses, shop clerks, or other positions), 77% reported that their jobs did not affect their classwork; 64% said that it did not affect their clinical experience. Some identified positive effects of part-time work. (SK)

Surveys teenagers employed in three different retail trade settings in North Carolina to examines how experience, gender, work settings, and pace of work are associated with hazard exposures and injury experiences. Discusses evidence that work-place pressure and hazard exposure are associated with types of injury experiences, in light of…