Recent reform of initial teacher education has changed the balance of school-based training of students and has increased teachers' responsibility for training them in schools. This article reports on a preliminary study of primary undergraduate student teachers' perceptions of their experience in schools on their second year and final teaching practices. Through questionnaires and structured interviews we sought students' views of the effectiveness of university-based courses in preparing them to teach the arts and their perceptions of the support given to them by teachers in trainingthem to teach art, dance, drama and music in schools. The findings raised concerns about the quality of experience currently being offered to students by teachers. Indications were that the number of students able to learn from the teachers about the four subjects was significantly low. The students' comments suggested that existing teacher expertise in these subjects was lacking and this raises issues regarding school-based initial teacher education as well as in-service training for teachers.

Fact‐based decision making is changing job functions within organizations more than any other technology. Analytics, once the purview of the data scientist, is now spread throughout organizations. No longer is there a single job title, job function, or set of required skills and credentials for an analytics career. Companies have moved away from seeking applicants with a specific degree to now recruiting analytics talent based on required skill sets. For more than a decade, business schools have been developing new programs in analytics in response to industry's needs. However, in developing meaningful career‐ready professionals, business programs must understand the skills required across different analytics job functions. In this article, the authors present a comprehensive assessment of the skills sought by employers when considering a candidate for an entry‐level analytics position. The authors describe the demand for various types of analytics professionals, identify the job titles and functions with the most significant demand, and then draw a comparison of the job requirements of hard skills, soft skills, software skills, and credentials between three of the most sought‐after analytics areas: data science, data analytics, and business analytics. The authors conclude by providing faculty and administrators with recommendations on how to adapt their courses and programs to provide students with the fundamental preparation necessary for careers in data science, data analytics, and business analytics.

Building "Brand Me": Creating a Personal Brand stateMent angela d'auria stanton and Wilbur W. stantonEngaging students in a principles of marketing course can prove challenging but also provides instructors with an opportunity to link course concepts using a real-world orientation. This paper describes the use of a personal brand statement assignment as a way to integrate the key marketing concepts of branding and brand positioning into a broader understanding of marketing. The assignment requires the students to successfully apply analytical reasoning and critical thinking skills in a way that expands marketing knowledge and is directly relevant to their career development efforts.

Coalition formation is one of the most widely researched group processes. A coalition can be defined as &dquo;a subset of a group in a negotiable mixed-motive conflict situation, which explicitly agrees to coordinate its efforts in the joint use of resources&dquo; (Rapoport & Kahan, 1976, p. 253). Mixed motive refers to a situation requiring a combination of competition-and cooperation-oriented behaviors. Gamson (1961, p. 373) explains that coalitions are temporary, means-oriented alliances among individuals or groups differing in goals, that coalition members usually demonstrate little value consensus, and that they effectively agree to tacit neutrality on issues beyond the immediate purpose or object of the coalition.Despite the extensive theoretical and empirical contributions from a variety of disciplines concerning coalition formation, there is a relative shortage of accepted methodologies for identifying and measuring coalitions. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the potential of multidimensional scaling (MDS) in identifying coalitions within the context of overall group structure. An example of an application of this

An important component of corporate training is executive education. A sample of 90 open enrollment executive education programs in the areas of management development and leadership was reviewed to better understand the structure of the offerings. In today's marketplace, the majority of executive education offerings are of the traditional face‐to‐face classroom‐style format. More recently, the impact of rapid technological advancements is becoming more apparent in the executive education market as online learning becomes more prevalent. There is no lack of participants for either traditional or online executive education programs, which has expanded the market. While both types of program offerings are viable, the future of executive education may be a merger of the two whereby traditional programs incorporate online components to reduce students’ time away from the job and capitalize on technology to enhance their interpersonal interactions. There is no doubt that executive education will survive and thrive as its future will be the nexus of traditional and online delivery that combines the key advantages of both approaches using a hybrid model that is beginning to be more widely deployed.