Provides an overview of the issues facing community development in Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Discusses possibilities for international cooperation across Europe in the 1990s. (SK)

Reviewed are the roundtable discussions concerning the issues and strategies relevant to the connections between the implementation of programs for population education and the coordinated effort to support "Education for All" among the Asian countries participating in the World Conference on Education for All, organized by UNESCO during…

Development of vocational education in South Pacific island nations has been haphazard. Concerns include the need for a sense of regional community, flexibility, quality, program duplication, and participation. Improvements might include a regional coordination center, higher-quality teaching, standardization, cross-credit, and community training…

This reaction to the contribution by Romano and Kachgal includes the following: (a) a discussion of its strengths, (b) an expansion of their model of collaboration between school counseling and counseling psychology by underscoring the importance of multiculturalism and context in schools, and (c) some future directions and implications for…

Both secondary schools and community colleges are under pressure to increase the technical content of their curricula to produce graduates who can fill highly skilled technician jobs in a changing work force. Technical Preparation (Tech Prep) Programs are partnerships between these two institutional levels that incorporate career counseling and…

The Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 continues a long-standing federal commitment to help disadvantaged persons prepare to obtain employment. The legislation works primarily through a locally based program delivery system to provide remedial education, training, and employment assistance to low-income and long-term unemployed youth and adults.…

This report begins with an outline of key issues in policy development and implementation in technical and vocational education (TVE). It sets forth the bases of policy development and implementation, the purpose of TVE, contextual factors that affect policy development and implementation. The following values significant in policy determination…

Based on a session at a recent National Reading Conference meeting in which researchers shared the dilemmas they faced and the strategies they developed for coping with the complexity of new forms of research, this paper examines some of the ethical dimensions of collaborative research. Following a discussion of the trade-offs in collaborative…

This report provides an Iowa state senator's perspective on developing state policies to foster collaboration at the service delivery level to meet the needs of children and families more effectively. The first chapter provides two case examples of children that the current system fails. It suggests that simply providing more funding or requiring…

This paper provides an overview of current student development programs that include values education and that represent collaborative work between student affairs and academic affairs divisions. It examines a variety of programs, including freshman seminars designed to promote retention, interdisciplinary courses and seminars at all levels, and…

The lecture discussed the following topics: (1) the beginnings in 1948 of the World Federation for Mental Health, a global nongovernmental organization which conceived of mental health in social terms, linking mental health of individuals with that of communities and nations; (2) the limited goal in the late 20th century of citizenship in a world…

A consortium of universities has charged that research money has been concentrated in a small number of states that have already established close ties between higher education and small businesses. Some small-business advocates believe the consortium is trying to win money that has been earmarked for small businesses. (MLW)

Discusses the growing field of continuing professional education, including who the providers are and how they currently interact. Providers are (1) higher education, (2) professional associations, (3) employers, and (4) independent providers. Suggests research on outcomes of collaboration. (CH)

Although it is generally assumed that a visible, successful sports program adds to an institution's financial well-being, most fund raisers and those who have studied the relationship between athletic success and fund raising do not agree. (MSE)

A National Science Foundation project will develop the technology for exchange of scientific documents containing text, images, drawings, charts, graphs, animation, and even voice among dissimilar computers, altering the nature of research collaboration. (MSE)