This issue--an international overview of cooperative/work experience education--contains ten case studies and four student viewpoints. It begins with an article discussing types of cooperative/work experience programs, including those focused on in the case studies. A second article previews the Second World Conference on Cooperative Education. These case studies are then provided: (1) Australian Cooperative/Sandwich Education; (2) cooperative education in Brazil; (3) industrial training period at the Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France; (4) Berufsakademie Baden-Wurttenberg, Federal Republic of Germany; (5) Practice School, Birla Institute of Technology, India; (6) sandwich education at Ulster Polytechnic, Northern Ireland; (7) Teaching Company, Ulster Polytechnic, Northern Ireland; (8) cooperative education models in the Netherlands; (9) sandwich courses at Trent Polytechnic, Great Britain; and (10) cooperative education in the United States. The four Northwestern University students' perspectives concern management intern experience, "Northwestern in England" program, engineering experience in Wales, and employer's view of cooperative education. Administration of cooperative education at Northwestern is also considered in three articles. An annotated listing of associations and organizations active in cooperative education and a select bibliography are appended. (YLB)