This research explores the interrelations of higher education and welfare state models in the USSR of the 1960-1980s and Russia of the 2000-2020s. We first address the extent to which the provision of higher education aligns with the key imperatives of welfare redistribution: eligibility, state-market balance, and equality. Second, we schematize…

Searching for development paths and suitable educational policies, postcolonial governments often turned to the experiences of other countries and sought to adapt these to their own contexts. Research on such processes has largely neglected the resulting entanglements between postcolonial and European socialist countries, and between different…

The paper compares the American and Soviet transformations at Kabul University, Afghanistan, during the 1960s to the 1980s explained in terms of Americanisation and Sovietisation. Using new declassified documents from both American and former Soviet archives, the author reveals that both powers attempted to impose their rival models of university…

This article presents a comparative analysis of pupils' activities dealing with the Cold War in Swedish and Australian history textbooks. By focusing on textbook activities to which pupils respond in relation to their learning of a particular topic, this study identifies knowledge types included in a selection of history textbooks. The study also…

This article engages with the influence of Soviet educational models and Western European contacts, mediated by historical institutional and cultural legacies in producing specifically Eastern educational variants. A first level of analysis will identify the reasons behind the emergence of these variations. A second and higher level of analysis…

University partnerships have been a key dimension of higher education development. Based on documentary analysis and empirical data, this study compares two distinctive models of university partnership experienced by China, first as a "recipient" with the Soviet Union in the 1950s and later as a "provider" with African…

Huge environmental and health crises such as the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions during the military activities against Iraq and the required responses are amongst the fields that Iraqi higher education institutions (HEIs) may have a crucial role. Similar international cases, such as Agent Orange (Vietnam), Three Mile Island (USA) and…

A survey of 247 Soviet and 297 U.S. university business students found significant differences between the two groups. Awareness of the fundamental differences between student attitudes in the United States and the Soviet Union will prepare educators to teach more effectively. (JOW)

The article examines differences between services for learning disabled students in the Soviet Union and North America. Addressed are procedures in evaluation and assessment, (Soviet diagnoses are based on neurophysiological evidence) and placement (Soviet practices place greater emphasis on segregation from the regular school program). (CL)

This report compares the roles and utilization of women in science and technology in the Soviet Union and the United States. Changes in demographic and population data in both countries during this century are examined and compared. Differences in policies and organization of scientific enterprises are also examined and used in comparing the…

Six articles discuss testing and measurement in Soviet schools. Subjects include problems and reliability of psychological testing, methods for improvement, testing of teaching results, and teaching and evaluation of pupils' knowledge. (KC)

Immigrant teachers in Israel--314 from the Soviet Union and 91 from North America--completed questionaires about attitudes toward teaching, perception of status, past training, etc. Responses showed significant differences between the groups reflecting two distinct models of the occupation of teaching and distinct patterns of adjustment to the…

The complete issue is devoted to educational administration in the U.S.S.R. Topics include the Communist Party and the development of public education, Leninist principles of educational administration, ministry of education, legislation, and educational research. (KC)

Too much homework is having a negative effect, both psychologically and physiologically, on students in the USSR. Normalization of the work load should be based on the sound planning and organization of the educational process, starting with the development of curricular schedules and going right through to individual lesson plans. (RM)

Presented is the report of a travel seminar to the Soviet Union in late 1972 by 12 American special educators as part of a reciprocal agreement for an exchange of educators. The eight chapters were written by seminar participants with expertise in the area being considered. The text opens with a general discussion of the administration of…