Yong Zhao is Foundations Distinguished Professor in the School of Education with an appointment in the School of Business at the University of Kansas. Prior to joining KU, he served as the Presidential Chair, Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education, and Associate Dean in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he…

Modern automobile maintenance, like most skilled-trades jobs, is more than simple nuts and bolts. Today, skilled-trades jobs might mean hydraulics, computerized monitoring equipment, electronic blueprints, even lasers. As chief executive officer of Grainger, a business-to-business maintenance, repair, and operating supplies company that…

The authors profile developments in the globalization of Indian higher education, with an emphasis on emerging globally compatible institutional infrastructures. In recent decades, there has been an enormous amount of brain drain: the exodus of the brightest professionals and students to other countries. The article argues that the implementation…

Innovation theory suggests that distance education is a "killer application" that presents a significant advantage over prevailing technology. Compared with traditional universities, time and space independence gives distance learning a great advantage for students interested primarily in their education, professional training, and credentialing…

Argues that the decline in the competitiveness of American industries arises from a failure to innovate in quality management rather than from a decline in product quality. Discusses the superiority of the U.S. in generating technological innovations and its lag in the commercialization of the fruits of that technology. (HB)

The authors show how human resources can be used as a strategic weapon to give a company a competitive advantage. The authors develop a thrust/target matrix and plug in examples to illustrate how companies have used and can use their human resources to do this. (CT)

Central to the process of innovation is cooperation and competition between research and development activities in universities and business. This may be achieved by increasing the value of intellectual entrepreneurship, exploiting innovations commercially and reinvesting profits in the advancement of knowledge, and generating spinoff enterprises.…

This article is an interview with Tu Hui regarding the relative merits of "returnees" and "indigens". Tu Hui is currently chief products inspector at the Anyi Software company and one of the many indigens engaged in Information Technology. In this article, he states that, "the weakness of the indigens sometimes lies in…

Twenty years ago the average number of individual events offered at an intercollegiate forensics tournament was two. That average has increased steadily over the years until today it is close to 10 events per individual events tournament. However, some of the so-called "new" or "experimental" events are duplicative, causing the…

Donald C. Burr, founder and CEO of PEOPLExpress, discusses the keys to the success of PEOPLExpress from the "peanuts fares" to the humanistic style of management, and the eventual demise of the airline. One area discussed is the role of information systems in business and the result of the airline's lack of an effective computerized…

Traces the growth and modification of competition and its use as an instructional strategy and offers some instructional alternatives which, the author believes, encourage a more compatible value structure to meet the new realities of the 1980s and beyond. (Author)

In the inaugural issue of the "Journal of School Choice," John Merrifield offers an important, insightful, and highly provocative critique of charter schooling in an effort to "get people to think about the issues...and seek additional evidence". In "Charter Laws: Disaster, Detour, Irrelevant, or Reform Tool?" Merrifield maintains that economic…

Technology is moving to integrate communications and information, making it possible to provide a wide variety of services, and the United States must strive to develop a unified national telecommunications policy if it is to keep up with these changes. The United States is only a small part of what is clearly and rapidly becoming a global…

Rural health care can thrive if innovative tactics are used. Four principles can influence health care services: (1) an integrative approach is needed; (2) recognition that competition is a dominant mode; (3) cultural and professional ethnocentricity are counterproductive; and (4) the possibilities are limitless. (Author/MSE)

Examines intended and unintended results of the charter school movement, addressing both sides of the debate and explaining that increased autonomy can heighten inequalities, and choice can sometimes exclude certain members of society. Discusses: autonomy for accountability; autonomy for efficiency; competition; innovation; and choice. Notes that…