Six papers are presented concerning the trends and issues in interinstitutional cooperation. Topics cover national cooperative trends, case study in starting a consortium; consortia and institutional change, library networks and what to expect, higher education management, financing higher education in Pennsylvania, and making more states more…

The Pennsylvania Task Force on Two-Year Postsecondary Education, whose members represented the public at large and all segments of postsecondary education, was commissioned to recommend a rationale for the orderly development of two-year programs to meet the needs of Commonwealth residents; to identify the most effective means of providing…

Contents of this collection of essays include: challenges and opportunities; financial exigency and the future of the academy (David W. Leslie); promoting management coordination and efficiency (Stephen Finn and William Proctor); the systems approach to educational management (William J. Collard, James Farmer, and John G. Harrison); responding to…

This volume contains 12 articles that illustrate how local authority adult education services in Britain form practical and strategic alliances to enable learning to happen--to create new prospects pragmatically. A "Foreword" (Ursula Howard) and "Introduction" (Bob Powell) appear first. "Participation, Adult Learning and…

This book, which is based on several first-hand studies, provides an overview of professional and continuing education in Hong Kong and examines selected issues in the field. The following chapters are included: "Preface" (Lee Ngok, Agnes Lam); "Introduction" (Lee Ngok, Agnes Lam); "The Role of Government in Human Resource…