This guide provides an overview of technical backstopping opportunities for development projects and programmes. It focuses on support services for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and skills development. Agencies for International Cooperation have different approaches, methodologies, planning horizons, communication levels,…

During the spring of 2004, the College of Staten Island (CSI) undertook an exciting project to connect our campus in New York City with three international partners in China, Turkey and South Africa using internet based videoconferencing. Based on a model developed by East Carolina University and funded by the State Department, the plan was to…

This is a summary of the American Association of Community College's (AACC) Strategic Action Areas and corresponding initiatives. Strategies for Action Area I (National and International Recognition and Advocacy for Community Colleges) focus primarily on the creation of task forces to address key legislative issues in higher education. Examples…

This report from the Asia-Pacific World Heritage Youth Forum (sponsored by UNESCO) describes the main features and events of the meeting in Beijing from September 15-27, 1997, shedding light on the concept of world heritage and world heritage education, and presenting the students' and teachers' proposals for future action. The report seeks to…

International exchange agreements potentially serve to facilitate the free access to official materials from abroad, similar to depository programs for national official publications collections and with corresponding issues of collecting and archiving electronic publications. In this connection, it is necessary to distinguish between exchange…

Experiential educators can prepare students and clients for living in the global society of the new millennium through international experiences, both short- and long-term. The elements of experiential education--risk/challenge, direct experience, processing and reflection--can be important aspects of the international experience. Historically,…

This paper lists some of the reactions from professionals all around the world to the publication of FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) by IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions), including suggested changes, pedagogical issues, experiments in implementation, and other achievements inspired by…

This report details initial findings and issues facing researchers working at the University of Central England on an IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) education and training project. This project explores LIS (Library and Information Science) education standards worldwide and the potential for increased…

This paper describes the participation of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) in the virtual university component of the Digital Communities Project in Japan. It examines the characteristics of an experimental, international, distance-learning collaboration and explores the politics and practicalities related to international…

An assessment of coproductions made by the Netherlands and Belgium. (Author)

Discussed international cooperation and the best way governments can achieve it. Focused on technical and personal links which could create a basis for other joint work in applied research and on improved material productivity. (Author/RK)

Unesco clubs, Associated Schools Programs, and National Commissions report on exchange projects, new materials, and curricular innovations, as well as requests for interaction with others interested in active learning from an international perspective. (JH)

Four specialists analyze the multiple functions of the United Nations in the field of human population. (Editor/JR)

The president of the World Bank Group outlines the great need for developed and developing countries to make greater efforts to rescue poorer nations and other impoverished areas from their continuing poverty. (Author/RK)

The seminar, held in Washington, DC from November 6 to 17, 1972, was focussed on the: (a) present situation of the centers and their potential information transfer capacity, (b) improvement of current services, (c) development of an integrated plan, and (d) bases of a national policy for coordinated services. (Author/SM)