In an ideal world, review and changes to computing curricula should be driven solely by academic concerns for the needs of students. The process should be informed by industry accreditation processes and international best practice (Hurst et al., 2001). However, Australian computing curricular review is often driven by the need for financial…

We are at a point in time when practical realism must prevail over theory and philosophy. Career education, that which prepares individuals for satisfying, lasting careers, is the practical solution to our educational problems and essential to the world of work and our economy. (Author/AG)

Foreign investors have developed enterprises in China largely with imported expertise. Chinese educational institutions have been criticized for failure to provide expertise for economic growth. Reforms in higher vocational education are needed to cope with the challenges of the future. (SK)

The Conception of the Modernization of Russian Education has as its objective that of ensuring the anticipatory development of the training of highly qualified workers in the primary and secondary link. This article describes the efforts of the Russian government to improve the quality, accessibility, and effectiveness of professional education…

In Spring 2007, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded funds to the Philadelphia Youth Network (PYN) to undertake an analysis of Career and Technical Education (CTE) in Philadelphia, and to make recommendations on how CTE and other forms of career-connected education could better align with Philadelphia standards for college and career…

One of the most vehemently discussed questions in the process of restructuring traditional long study programmes according to the Bachelor/Master model is how to develop first cycle curricula and degrees which are a meaningful preparation for a following Master programme as well as for the labour market--as stressed in the Bologna Declaration. It…

Austria has gone through two cycles of university reforms since the 1960s. The first aimed to open the universities to social and labour market demand and to make their structures more democratic and flexible. The second reform cycle dealt with glitches in the overly close relationship between universities and state bureaucracy. Bureaucrats still…

In its recent report, the Governor's Committee on Education Excellence proposes a major restructuring of California's school finance system, replacing most of the separate programs through which revenue now flows from the state to local school districts with a base program and a targeted program. The base program would serve the educational needs…

Engineering schools have been interacting, more and more, with society in a very intensive way in order to deal with its necessities, integrating them in these courses and, as a consequence, preparing professionals with an adequate profile. This paper shows the author's vision about the interactions between market and communities, and which are…

Examines the research findings about English educational reforms related to markets in education and discusses several mechanisms intended to bring demand and supply into equilibrium. The English examples clarify the limitations of quasi-markets introduced under current conditions. Discusses implications for the design of policy around strong…

The latest teaching reform in Brazil includes music at the various levels at public schools, and also takes account of its social, cultural and economic contexts. Moreover, the educational process is understood in terms that go beyond the school, opening varied possibilities for new labour markets for musicians and teachers. This diversity and the…

Several high-level committees have concluded that current domestic and global trends are threatening America's global science and engineering (S&E) preeminence. Of the challenges discussed, few are thought to be as serious as the purported decline in the supply of high quality students from the beginning to the end of the S&E pipeline--a decline…

In Europe a very intensive discussion is in full swing as to whether vocational schools should in future be guided and monitored by the state or whether they should be freed from state dependency. Within the framework of a number of pilot projects in German-speaking countries, vocational school centers are currently testing their autonomy. This…

This paper summarizes research on evaluating the distributional consequences of social programs, presenting the evaluation problem for an economy with two sectors (e.g., schooled and unschooled) where agents select or are selected into treatment (one of the two sectors). It considers policies affecting choices of treatment but not potential…

Discusses how the job market will change by the year 2000 and how the schools will have to adapt to meet its needs. (JOW)