Across Europe, young adult unemployment remains an important issue. Those who have grown up in contexts of social and educational disadvantage can find it particularly difficult to find work. In response, governments, charitable foundations and in the rare case, researchers, have developed programmes of training and work-based learning to help…

Reports on the design, implementation, and results of a project structured as a means to investigate the potential of long-distance, collaborative student learning on an international basis. Offers an overview of the project's design and conclusions in order to encourage collaborative instruction using the Internet and the World Wide Web. (CMK)

This book is the result of a cooperative project of several European countries--Belgium, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Each country involved provides a chapter outlining a national project or a specific organization presents its own approach and initiatives to teacher education, with particular…