The role of education-focused university-industry collaboration (UIC) in facilitating higher education quality has been increasingly documented by empirical studies in the last decade, and yet existing systematic reviews of UIC are all focused on other non-education related aspects of collaboration, such as joint research, technology transfer,…

At a British university, a postgraduate workshop prepared preservice teachers to work with parents by interviewing parents at the cooperating school on their perceptions of education and parents' role in schooling. (SK)

Asserting that the position of England's universities in teacher training is growing less certain, the author suggests that University Schools of Education define a new role for themselves in the pursuit and dissemination of practice-oriented educational research. (Part of a theme issue on teacher education for the 1990s.) (SJL)