Women education has been a global issue for decades now. It is therefore appropriate to occasionally find out the situation. This study, which is a comparative analysis of the representation of females in the Faculties of Engineering and Law in University of Benin, was therefore meant to address the issue. Relevant literatures were reviewed.…

The tables of this report provide information for comparison of school enrollment figures by county and state. The following tables are presented: (1) a 1-year comparison of total state enrollments in alphabetical order; (2) enrollments for 1994-95 and 1995-96 in descending order by variance; (3) state enrollments for 1994-95 and 1995-96 in…

The purpose of this study was to determine which functions higher education administrators have in common with administrators in school districts and educational agencies and to identfy variables from which differences can be inferred. Results are discussed. (MT)

The validity of the Biglan clusters, guides in classifying or categorizing academic departments among a wide range of colleges and universities, is discussed. Evidence supports the validity by showing how faculty salaries and instructional staffing patterns differ among departments along the dimensions described by Biglan. (Author/MLW)

A Rutgers University (New Jersey) survey of 1,670 students and 54 departments identified differences between faculty and student perceptions of "good" advising. Students relied more on printed information and friends than on academic advisors. Advising sessions usually involved discussions about registration and drop/add problems.…

The reliability, factor structure, and discriminatory power of faculty perceptions of the performance of departmental administrators were investigated, using the Administrator Evaluation Survey (AES) developed at the University of Illinois. Faculty from a major research university in the midwest, a smaller state university in the midwest, and a…

David Clavier advances four arguments for placing administrative control of public relations education programs in the hands of journalism departments: (1) tradition, (2) professional associations, (3) essential skills, and (4) resources. However, there is a trend away from teaching public relations in journalism departments because such curricula…

Results from two tested hypotheses indicate that the predominant form of publication in the physical sciences are articles and books in social sciences. Differences were also found in the relevant dimension of publication between faculties in more or less prestigious departments. Administrative policy implications are discussed. (Author/LBH)

Describes a 1999 benchmarking survey of 15 economics departments in private universities. Reports information gleaned from the survey concerning departmental resources, teaching load, class sizes, and the weight given to research, teaching, and service in salary determination and promotion. (RLH)

This article analyses the impact of national quality audit of Swedish higher education institutions between 1995 and 2002. It also looks at the programme and subject reviews that have succeeded the audits, in order to compare results. It is found that the audits have resulted in the development of policy and structure of institutional quality work…

Central IT organizations under stress often cannot offer a high level of service to groups with above-average support needs. An example of such a group would be a well-funded, research-oriented computer science department. Several factors contribute to the increased demand on IT organizations. Given the availability of relatively…

Governments now expect universities to behave entrepreneurially generating revenues from the commercial exploitation of their intellectual assets ("third stream" income). This study questions whether this is possible for all universities in the UK and for all disciplines, or whether there are differences between institutions, between…

Based on data gathered under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education in 1969, the political science community and its components -- faculty and undergraduate and graduate students -- are compared demographically and professionally with other discipline communities and the general academic population. (JH)

Site visits were conducted at six state departments of vocational education (Texas, Illinois, Utah, South Carolina, Michigan, and Indiana) to assess the level of articulation with related educational dissemination agencies. These states represented a variety of settings which illustrated the effects of geography, population size, levels of past…

This paper deals with the field of library education administration and is based on observation, reflection, and analysis. The author was head of an American graduate library school for nine years, and immediately thereafter, 1967-68, as a Fulbright Professor, headed an Iranian library school for thirteen months. Rather than attempt to compare…