The training of pharmacists in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad/Tobago is described. These countries are recommended as the locations of regional centers for the education and training of all allied health personnel by a recent United Nations Development Program report. (LBH)

One of the main goals of the United States Information Agency (USIA) is to foster understanding between United States citizens and people from other countries. Community colleges, with their experience working with diverse clients and international institutions, can play an important role in USIA programs and activities. The goal of understanding…

This report presents strategies and guidelines to manage and administer homestays and village stays for U.S. students, based on a survey of academic directors and homestay coordinators, with a focus on such activities in Latin America and the Caribbean. It reviews the literature on the role and cost of homestay and village stay programs in…

The Stanford University (California) Overseas Studies Program has offered students the opportunity to study abroad for the past 40 years. In the 1998-99 academic year, the program took its first step toward utilizing technology to offer its students multi-site courses--courses taught by a single faculty member with students participating from…

The purpose of this dissertation is to identify and validate the areas and indicators of quality international education programming in two-year U.S. colleges. Analysis of such indicators will provide colleges seeking to internationalize with a baseline of information from which to work. The validation process involved a review of literature on…

This paper discusses the most common forms of international cooperation between legislative libraries from the perspective of Eastern European legislative libraries. The focus is on experience sharing and on the present place of these libraries in expanded European and world-wide communities, as is represented by the European Centre for…

Standards for teaching, learning, and assessing civics or democratic citizenship should emphasize two centrally important concepts: (1) constitutionalism; and (2) human rights. If students in schools and citizens in the polity fail to know, value, and act in terms of these concepts, then their prospects for building and maintaining liberal…

Highlighted is a new UNICEF all-purpose mobile facility called the "Mobile Creche" which provides a variety of social services including schooling, a health center, adult literacy and vocational training, and social and athletic activities for tens of thousands of unskilled laborers who live and work on the construction sites in New Delhi, India.…

The recently terminated Farmington Plan was a cooperative acquisitions program of American research libraries. Its impact must be evaluated and steps should be taken to insure the availability of foreign materials for American researchers. (5 references) (DH)

Educational programs must be designed to fit the economic and social needs of an area in order to effectively utilize natural and human resources, thereby encouraging progress and development. (JB)

The conclusion of the article of the same title in the previous issue. (MM)

Describes the status of the Universal Availability of Publications (UAP) program in the five Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member nations and discusses the ways in which the UAP program could be developed at the national level in those countries. Two tables, a reference list, and a bibliography are included. (Author/JL)