Purpose: Vocational education and training (VET) in Finland takes place more and more at workplaces. Hence, the teachers' cooperation with companies has become important. Little research has been done on the teacher's activities in business cooperation and the factors affecting business cooperation. The teacher's decisions and choices are made…

Kosovo's education system has two different vocational education and training schools: professional schools and centres of competence. The local authorities-municipal directorates of education manage the professional schools, while the centres of competence are managed at the national level by agency for vocational education and training and adult…

Vocational schools which were opened to raise intermediate staff for the sector must update their functions to fulfill the intermediate staff need emerging as a result of the developments and changes in the sector through the time. Considering the needs of the sector, updating content of the courses and opening new lessons or programs will fulfill…

Surveys of academic and vocational faculty at Lewis-Clark State College (Idaho) showed that academic faculty viewed vocational faculty more positively than was commonly assumed. The shift in attitudes signals the potential for the cooperation and teamwork essential for the success of tech prep. (SK)

Institutional barriers that hinder the collaborative process must be removed for an integrated program such as tech prep to work. A foundation for program development is laid if teachers are made aware of the benefits of integration. (SK)

A study examined the amount and types of cooperation that are occurring between vocational agriculture teachers and county extension agents in North Carolina. The research sample consisted of 194 (49.74 percent) of the state's vocational agriculture teachers and 80 (80 percent) of the state's county extension chairpersons. Sixty-eight percent of…

During 1990, a model of general education in which academic studies were challenged by a new vision of vocational preparation was pilot tested. Anticipated outcomes were a renovation of academic and vocational education through the interaction of collaborating teachers and an enriched form of vocational education. The pilot testing involved seven…

Potential for articulating students between Missouri institutions offering vocational-technical education at the secondary, postsecondary, and adult levels was investigated. To determine the attitudes of administrators and instructors toward articulation, a survey was mailed to four- and two-year institutions, Area Vo-Tech Schools, and…

Recognizing the need for competency-based teacher education to become more closely coordinated with the field of experience of teachers, the study focuses on identifying professional competencies which majors in agriculture and natural resources education should have developed prior to student teaching. Based on interviews with four supervising…

Interaction between United Kingdom colleges of further education and employers was examined, and factors promoting and inhibiting successful interaction were identified. The study was based primarily on interviews conducted with 102 college staff, 20 student discussion groups, 75 employers, representatives of 5 training and enterprise councils…

During a study examining vocational trends and priorities in Missouri, separate survey instruments were sent to 1,471 employers, 843 teachers, and 2,108 students in order to gather data on the following topics: the performance of vocational education, its priorities, collaboration between vocational education and the world of work, and indicators…

The role of small enterprise in Australian school students' workplace learning was examined. First, the literature on structured workplace learning in Australia, Europe, and North America was reviewed. Next, four structured learning programs in South Australia and four in New South Wales were studied. Interviews were conducted with a total of 41…

The experiences of schools and sixth form and further education colleges in the United Kingdom in implementing Curriculum 2000 in the 18 months since the introduction of Qualifying for Success reforms were tracked. The key issues for implementing the curriculum in 2001-2002 that were identified by 10 case study schools and post-16 institutions…

These proceedings contain the following papers: "Linking Industry Training with Language and Literacy" (Cassandra Parkinson); "Numeracy: Essential and a Priority? An ANT's (Adult Numeracy Teacher's) Journey" (Dave Tout); "Teaching, Learning and Assessment: An Essential Symbiosis" (David Clarke); "The Politics of…

A study was undertaken to identify (1) the number and types of cooperative vocational education programs offered by postsecondary institutions to students in Colorado and (2) the variables that affect these programs. A two-part survey was conducted at forty-four postsecondary public institutions which included community-junior colleges, area…