This paper presents evidence of the demand for education. The study uses the translog-LES (Linear Expenditure System) indirect utility function to analyze the demand within a multicommunity framework for annual U.S. expenditures for 1958-1982. Taste change has moved toward the consumption of education, and the consumer has suffered because of…

Chandra applies economic terminology to the field of education, with emphasis on the idea of education as savings''. (SP)

Studies on the economics of education in the course of the last ten years, in France and elsewhere, fall into 3 categories which correspond to 3 levels of elaboration of a new ideology of education, the origin of which is also found in the sociological approach upon which the modern economics of education is based. (Authors)

Discusses the recent panic in Great Britain concerning university applications and enrollments. (PG)

A system of elements for matching the supply and demand for workers from higher education is outlined. A portion of the system is exercised to obtain a provisional evaluation of supply and demand levels under assumptions of increased educational upgrading and industrial growth for the Southern region. (Editor/PG)

Are there adult education activities that can claim a right to existence and public subsidy, or is value defined only in terms of consumption? Resolution of this issue necessitates basing practice on theory so that the "why" of education is not excluded by the "how." (SK)

Collective bargaining in public education differs significantly from collective bargaining in private industry. Whereas bargaining tends to be bilateral between employers and employee organizations in the private sector, it tends to be multilateral (more than two groups involved) in education. Economic analysis gives an explanation for this…

Examination of cross-sectional data from 126 relatively homogeneous community colleges for the 1969-70 academic year showed tuition, income of those purchasing the education, proximity of four-year schools, and age of the community college influencing enrollment significantly. Marginally lowered tuition rates could increase community college…

A discussion of portfolio analysis in college planning, a technique of determining the attractiveness and competitiveness of given academic courses, looks at the correctness of the technique and its application in the strategic planning process. Data from a British university illustrate the procedure. (MSE)

Discusses the difficulty of calculating an accurate rate of return for investment in education, focusing in particular on the methods and arguments used by Schultz in his 1961 article, "Education and Economic Growth," and argues that recent overinvestment in American education has lowered its economic efficiency. (JG)

The Rate Support Grant in England is described with focus on the way it is allocated and its consequences for education and for democracy. (Editor/LBH)

Examines universities' present and future role in graduate education and research in light of shifts in doctorate demand and in the level and composition of research support. (Editor/PG)

In this study of the economic process of education, individual activities regarding education are treated as a process of overtime resource allocation. The optimum plan for receiving education is investigated in terms of a mathematical model, and the demand for education is derived by examining the effects of changes in parameters on this optimum…