Provided are suggestions for developing museum/aquarium internship programs. These include writing detailed job descriptions, advertising, designing application forms asking all the information needed, supervising the interns, interviewing applicants as they were applying for a paid position, and others. (JN)

There are various obstacles and opportunities in the delivery of rural health education. Resource networking can be an effective strategy for extending the health educator's expertise to the rural population. Examples of network structures are offered. (DF)

School districts in Dallas, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, successfully encouraged corporations to play an active part in education by adopting schools. The characteristics and benefits of the two programs are briefly described, and some steps to ensure smooth cooperation between school and business personnel are suggested. (PGD)

As federal support has declined, corporations have played a more active role in education. But business, schools, policymakers, and students often disagree on the purpose and desired content of education. Cooperative programs have been developed to resolve this communication gap, but many concerned remain skeptical about the corporation-school…

The Community Learning Program in a Florissant, Missouri, high school provides hands-on career exploration experiences supervised by community sponsors. The program is described here and students' positive responses to an evaluation questionnaire are outlined. (MJL)

One component of the National Leadership Grants (NLG) program of the Institution of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is to promote collaboration between museums and libraries. This research assesses NLG program potential and gathers insights to help IMLS facilitate library/museum partnerships. The research: provides an estimate of the percentage…

This document announces the winners of the 2000 National Award for Museum Service. The award winners demonstrate the kind of influence and impact museums can bring to community life. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York) enjoys an international reputation for its collection of modern and contemporary art and its innovative special…

This report to identifies techniques for designing and maintaining effective multi-institutional collaborative projects that also encourage the success of each individual institution. To discover these techniques, 17 people from colleges and universities, center, foundations, consulting organizations, and higher education programs that had been…

Founded in 1964 as the people-to-people component of the Alliance for Progress, Partners of the Americas works to build understanding on both sides of the border through self-help projects in health, education, agriculture, rehabilitation, community development, emergency relief, and cultural exchanges. (Author)

A look at how the program committee of the European Broadcasting Union developed an international production program for educational television. (HB)

A look at how several European countries pooled their resources in order to have more media programs with better quality. (HB)

Describes the training and practical techniques taught to students involved in a sandwich course at the Tissue Culture and Cytogenetics Unit of the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation, Surrey, England. Students spend a minimum of six months involved in the sandwich course before returning to university for a final academic year. (JR)

The relationship between factories and schools in Chinese education is discussed. According to Chairman Mao's revolutionary line, factories and schools should work together to deepen understandings of the educational revolution--cooperating to cultivate successors for the revolutionary task of the proletariat. (SM)

A look at the major objectives of a project which is to provide a facility which will allow the active co-operation of research workers throughout Canada in the development and evaluation of computer-aided learning systems to meet Canadian requirements. (Author)