Numerous countries suffer from a shortage of technicians and skilled workers, particularly in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), due to a mismatch between the skills and interests of the students graduating from or leaving the current education system and the needs of the labor market. Often, parents and students…

Research has discussed the benefits of cooperative education experiences for secondary career and technical education students. Yet, in this era of high stakes testing and program accountability, the amount of time that students are permitted to participate in cooperative education has diminished, fearing that time spent out of the classroom would…

Although a multitude of programs in higher education integrate formal pedagogy with practical work experience (e.g., internships, practicum, and cooperative education), their underlying logic is largely the same: to enhance the value of the learning experience through an integration of work and education. To date, however, there appears to be no…

A new model to deliver new services. (Editor)

To serve students more effectively, career counseling, placement, and cooperative education need to be integrated, providing a holistic approach to career development. (JOW)

Describes the Cooperative, Career, and Work Education association of Canada, an umbrella organization for the various provincial and territorial cooperative education associations, work education associations, and career education associations across Canada. (JOW)

Careers Program-Outreach is a project funded by the Vocational Education Act whose purpose is to expand career options for students, particularly the disadvantaged, and to serve as an incentive to school staffs to innovate and implement career development programs. The major emphases of this program are: (1) to assist counselors to develop…

A program that upgrades career education at the university level. (Editor)

The special issue of IMPACT ON INSTRUCTIONAL IMPROVEMENT focuses on career education and presents an editorial and six articles in that area. The issue's theme editorial, Differing Views from Differing Perspectives, is by Laurence Aronstein. The articles included are: Infusing Career Education Concepts in the Curriculum, Albert J. Pautler, Jr.;…

GRADES OR AGES: High School. SUBJECT MATTER: Work experience program. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE/ The introductory material outlines the program philosophy, rationale, and objectives. There are six units, the first two given in detail, the remainder in outline only: a) orientation, b) career development, c) social living and health…

In insulating the student from the hazards of the working world, the schools have neglected to prepare the student for his entry into that world. Work experience programs in secondary schools are proposed as a solution, as British students will shortly be required, by law, to spend an additional year in school. (AG)

Identifies the principles of Career Education which apply to, and offer potential for, cooperative education. Also describes how these principles have been implemented at Schenectady County Community College in New York. (Author/RK)

Schools can give-and are now beginning to give-successful experience in work of increasing responsibility, work appropriate to the talents and interests of the young person, work which is more closely related to adult responsibility than is much of what goes on in traditional schooling. Presentations were given at the IAPPW Convention, Maryland,…

Results of a study of over 1,000 experience-based career education students suggest six ways experiential education staff can improve the learning potential of community experiences. These involve giving the students challenge, responsibility, freedom to explore, hands-on learning, a good relationship with individuals at the work site, and…

In an attempt to correct recent Veterans Administration (VA) regulations restricting benefits for veterans enrolled in cooperative education programs at community colleges, this paper describes the value of cooperative education, both vocational and general, and argues the supporting intent of federal law in Title 38 of the U. S. Code. Many…