Scotland and England now have systems of work-related higher education which differ from each other in important respects. While Scotland embarks on a process of modernising its existing system of Higher National Certificates and Diplomas, in England there has been a decisive shift away from this form of provision towards Foundation Degrees.…

The publication is intended to encourage states and localities to give further consideration to the development and utilization of training agreements in the conduct of cooperative vocational education programs. Training agreements assure the integrity of the continuing educational experiences that occur outside the classroom. It is with this…

Describes the employers participating in a large university co-op program. Provides information about the interaction of certain employer characteristics with aspects of their co-op participation, based upon a survey of all employers of co-op students at the University of Waterloo. (JOW)

Discusses the research that has been conducted in cooperative education and the benefits that have been derived from that research. Includes needs for future research. (JOW)

This study sought to identify, quantify, and analyze the benefits to faculty resulting from involvement in cooperative education and to determine how faculty and cooperative education directors perceived the importance of that involvement. (JOW)

Focuses on the Work-Learn and Career Planning and Placement Center at the University of California--Davis as an example of a successful cooperative education program at a major public research university. Indicates that similar programs will fare well only if founded in strong academic values while reflecting their home institution and faculty.…

Presents a retrospective, summary view of cooperative education together with some descriptive case studies. They examine the concept of cooperative education, its history, and how cooperative education programs have fared at Northeastern University, LaGuardia Community College, Drake University, the State of New Jersey, and the New York City…

A student discusses his one-year cooperative education internship and its benefits to him economically, experientially, socially, and emotionally. (CT)

Discusses how particular leitmotifs emerged from the research concerning identity and groups, the resonance of landscape, collective and childhood memory and the particularity of site-specific theatre. Draws on two years of qualitative research of a many-layered theater education project taking place, annually, in Cornwall, England. Deconstructs…

Reviews the status of cooperative education research; presents an analytical discussion on issues related to the evolution of cooperative education research (dissemination, graduate programs, co-op practitioners); and offers suggestions for enhancing research in cooperative education. (JOW)