Vocational education in Greece has been slow to develop due to a labor market favoring low-skilled labor and a culture encouraging university education. Lack of continuity in national policy and low state financing have resulted in a system unable to deal with such crucial issues as unemployment and new technologies. (SK)

Article consists of a speech given by President Reagan at a 1982 meeting of Black college presidents, a Presidential memorandum on Black colleges delivered to the heads of executive departments and agencies, and a review of Reagan administration actions and policies affecting Black colleges and universities. (GC)

As a summary piece, this essay describes more fully the wider globalizing context in which both students and institutions of higher education are now located. It explores three transitions that signal this new configuration: the creation of new information and media technologies; the transformation of time and space; and the expansion of the…

The DfESs "Five-year strategy for children and learners" sets out the intentions of the Labour Government for its third term. Where necessary, its provisions will be subject to legislation in 2005. This article argues that the "Five-year strategy", like much education policy since 1997, ignores important reasons for inequality of educational…

Priorities for the British national task force on credit accumulation and transfer are a taxonomy of credit schemes, reform of academic structures and regulations, a national credit framework, and development of a credit-based resource methodology. (SK)

In September 1979, representatives of 14 of the 20 member nations of the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development met in Australia to discuss national strategies for curriculum design and development. This report on that conference begins with summaries of the position papers filed by the representatives from the Democratic…

Presents information from a research project that investigated advantages and disadvantages of the diversity of school management interests in Northern Ireland and the effects of direct rule on framing and implementing educational policy. The effect of direct rule on the power of English and Welsh local education authorities is also discussed. (SM)

Recent educational policy developments in Finland include (1) emphasis on continuing education; (2) the "youth school" for postcompulsory education; (3) vocational education in higher education institutions; (4) experiments in adult education; and (5) decentralized educational administration. (SK)

Discusses (1) public policy concerning the selection of Black superintendents; (2) attacks against public education programs designed according to public policy; (3) educational impact of particular public policies under Reagan; and (4) future requirements for progress--including changing the status quo, partially through political education, and…

Examines the background and specific interests of seven Black women who have influenced educational policy at the federal level. Also discusses political and administrative problems these women have encountered and the strategies thay have used to deal with such problems. Finally, evaluates the women's impact on policy outcomes. (Author/GC)

Attitudes and policies toward bilingualism in the United States have always been affected by political considerations. Although controversy over bilingualism is political in principle, it is a particular kind of political controversy, that is, a manifestation of a new stage in the history of an even larger controversy over the meaning of…

Presents a brief overview of the development of Israel's heavy dependency on residential placement for child welfare. Recent trends reflect heavier reliance on community-based servcies for disadvantaged youth, but efforts to coordinate and improve such services are only beginning. (KH)

Illiteracy is a social and economic problem in South Carolina. In 1980, 445,202 persons in the state, 25 years of age or older, had less than an elementary school education. In relation to other states, South Carolina is ranked second according to the percentage of the adult population with less than high school completion. Statistics show that…

The Education Commission of the States' annual meeting was characterized by divergent opinions on almost any issue, but there appeared to be less consensus and more impatience on issues relating to higher education than on those concerning public schools. (MSE)

This paper identifies issues currently arising in efforts to coordinate public policy concerning competing sectors of postsecondary education in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Countries (OECD). It is presented as a result of the OECD's advisement that these industrialized countries need to further strengthen education…