Using actual events, the authors show how vocational students and the community benefit by learning experiences conducted beyond school walls. Lists 20 ideas for energizing advisory councils, and examines a contract that helps ensure success for special needs students in work experience programs. (CT)

Student work experience programs using the facilities and environment of cooperating businesses to provide opportunities for teaching and learning are used at the University of Minnesota Technical College. These experiences include a quarter of work experience in agribusiness, a specialized work experience program, and directed study experiences…

Maintains that many adolescents have rebelled against compulsory school attendance and proposes three alternatives: home-based educational work programs, on-the-job training programs through cooperation of schools and industry, and government sponsored work study programs. (ST)

Describes the Bachelor of Science in Technical Careers at Southern Illinois University--Carbondale. Explains theory of the program, requirements for entry and graduation, learning contract (including a career goal statement and a planned program of study), experience-internship, advisory program, and program philosophy. (CT)

Presents two perspectives on the nature of vocational education: (1) that benefits are "extrinsic," that is, rewards are deferred until after graduation; and (2) that benefits are "intrinsic," that is, vocational education serves to promote full human development by exposing the learner to significant in-class experiences. (DR)

The National Institute of Education recently initiated a three-year effort to encourage implementation of the Experience-Based Career Education program and to study the process by which it occurs. Emphasized are: transferring financial support to States and local systems, developing a network of program sites, and diffusing essential technical…

Discusses the necessity for greater cooperation between the business world and the schools and cites several nationwide examples of places where career education has succeeded. Stresses that United States Chamber of Commerce is commited to breaking down the artificial walls that separate the worlds of work and education. (LAS)

Describes a model for social work educators and social work school officials who are building academic-field linkages. Survey of social workers on the knowledge and skills they need to respond to new directions in these linkages identified a number of themes for staff development and research. (RJM)

The United Kingdom has a low, but rising, rate of postcompulsory participation in education. Reasons for this are suggested. Although market-led vocational training has provided for expansion, the current system lacks coherence. The paper concludes with some suggestions for reform. (Author/KDP)

Describes Work Experience Program, job locator program begun by University of Missouri at Columbia in 1979 and operated jointly by university's financial aid office and career planning and placement center. Explains how work-study program offers students access to wage-paying jobs while providing local employers with steady source of quality…

The AVMB (General Preparation for Society and Career) educational route was developed in the Netherlands for students with little interest in vocational offerings or with too few skills for vocational training. The program aims to equip young people with skills for simple service jobs through experiential and work-based learning. (SLD)

The workplace demands both theoretical knowledge and practical experience. Employer-educator partnerships should focus on workplace skill requirements, give real work experience reinforced through classwork, and provide realistic career awareness activities that eliminate preconceptions and misconceptions about jobs. (SK)

Responding to local businesses' negative comments about area graduates' capabilities, White Plains (New York) Public Schools initiated a pilot work-based-learning program that clearly specified connections between high-school and workplace learning. Five case studies illustrate program goals achieved via individualized apprenticeship plans…

Examines the influence of rotational training and direct hire programs on attrition. Survey of graduates (N=311) reveals that there was no significant difference in the respondents' length of stay with their employers, regardless of the organizations' hiring practices. Voluntary departure from employment was attributable more often to young adult…

A six-week university library intern program sponsored by the Job Training Partnership Act investigated the impact of 12 economically disadvantaged high school students working at Grambling State University (Louisiana). Interns succeeded, learned skills later described on their resumes and job application letters, and gained self-esteem and job…