Accounting internships provide substantial benefits to employers and students alike. However, opportunities for students are not equitable across all populations due to the existing policies that exist for placing interns. This inequity is particularly true for students from community colleges where there is a larger proportion of underrepresented…

This chapter summarizes the information shared in the sourcebook and provides a sense of how study abroad staff might further develop and improve the programs offered to their students.

The development of entrepreneurial skills and knowledge is a priority for governments that want to encourage an innovative and enterprising society. Furthermore, education institutions are becoming increasingly required by employers to produce graduates that have practical, real-world skills. Business plan competitions, although primarily aimed at…

Describes current funding opportunities within the NIE's three program areas: teaching and learning, educational policy and organization, and dissemination and improvement of practice. Each entry includes title, description, contact person, and announcement dates and proposal deadlines where applicable. Eligibility and funding information is also…

Students should have input about the teaching that affects them, but, as faculty often assert, students are not competent judges of a professor's expertise. However, an instrument which elicited students' nonjudgmental descriptions of their teacher's behavior could add valuable information to an evaluation dialogue with the professor concerned.…

The author puts forward a whole range of new approaches to coping with the teacher surplus and using vacant college classrooms that would benefit both colleges of education and school boards. (Editor)