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PDF pending restorationCase, Karl E. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1990
In response to Fischer (HE 527 626), the author considers his proposal to simplify and unify the need analysis used in the Pell grant program and other federal need-based student aid to be useful and well designed, avoiding some common political considerations as it improves procedures and increases equity. The alternative cost-saving aspects of…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Equal Education, Federal Programs, Higher Education
Peer reviewedFisher, Glen – Higher Education Policy, 1998
Postapartheid reforms in South Africa's higher education system pose difficult issues of power, authority and consensus, resource allocation, monitoring, and evaluation that directly affect institutional and sectoral interests and the interests of civil society and government. Despite strengths and capacities of the system, deep-seated tensions…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Apartheid, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Download full textSlayton, Tamara – 1994
This study addresses the basic question: What are the factors that influence the academic experience of Mexican children, and, to what extent do these factors result in deficits in student learning and achievement? The study was conducted over the course of 5 weeks throughout Mexico in the regions of Juarez, Chihuahua, Michoacan, Mexico, D.F.,…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Culture, Equal Education, Ethnic Groups
Knupfer, Nancy Nelson; And Others – 1991
An abstract introduces this collection of three papers and two abstracts of papers from a symposium at which experts presented their viewpoints about the social, political, and economic issues surrounding the use of computers in schools. Each of the following five investigations provides an important perspective on such issues: (1) "Educational…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Distance Education, Educational Change
Vavrus, Michael; And Others – 1993
This symposium presentation comprises five papers about the efforts of a consortium of three Iowa liberal arts colleges (Clarke College, Loras College, and the University of Dubuque) to develop a critical social perspective in its teacher preparation curriculum. An introduction by Michael Vavrus defines critical social perspective as a critical…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Dadzie, Stella, Comp. – 1999
This is a handbook to assist European adult educators in teaching in a multicultural society, presenting models of intercultural practice for organizational and staff development in youth and adult education. Section 1 explains the document's purpose and use, discusses the objectives and major activities of the Learning to Live in a Multi-Cultural…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Change Strategies
