This article explores the impact of market metaphors and mechanisms on higher education in Kyrgyzstan. Drawing upon recent anthropological literature on the local meanings of market reforms in post-socialist contexts, as well as work in the field of educational policy that has focused attention on the "local spaces" in which curricular…

This report documents the results of a survey of 1,139 students at the University of Central England (UCE) in Birmingham in regard to their financial circumstances and their views on the funding of higher education. The report also examines the advantages and disadvantages of six specific higher education funding proposals put forth in recent…

The purpose of this compendium is to provide consistent and accurate statistical and graphical information on the Ontario (Canada) university system. The compendium consists of seven sections: (1) Ontario population data with population projections 1986-2021, median income by educational attainment 1985-1994, and unemployment rates by educational…

Brazilian environmental education and training experience is recent but has a concrete base of generating awareness among all levels of the population and also aims to train people to protect, control and manage the use of environmental resources. Several visits were made by the author to organizations, enterprises and institutions from federal,…

Efforts to strengthen faculty involvement in international programs that were undertaken by Cook College, the agricultural and environmental unit of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, are discussed. Reasons for international program activities are identified, including program enrichment, the self-interest of the university, and…

The decision to pursue interdisciplinarity at Ramapo College was based on theory and on the conviction that the traditional departmental approaches were inadequate to provide for the liberal or general educational interests of a broad-based student body. Some of the problems encountered are that: (1) there is not campus-wide agreement about the…

In the Netherlands, freedom of research and teaching are self-evident, but equally self-evident are the government limits set on this freedom through legislation, regulations, and financial constraints imposed. Having begun as restrained advice, government influence has become active control in current circumstances. Mutual survival is now the…

In the early 1970s two experimental universities, one rural (Roskilde) and one urban (Aalborg) were established. Their uniqueness is based on a nontraditional curriculum structure, with an interdisciplinary approach. The two have developed very differently, particularly in stability, autonomy, and distinctiveness. (MSE)

This report examines the financial position of Ontario (Canada) universities, focusing on the effects of declining federal and provincial financial support for higher education. It argues that the provincial government has been underfunding Ontario universities since the 1970s, and that such underfunding is unrelated to general economic conditions…

This report provides a series of tables which track women's participation at all levels within the Ontario (Canada) university system over 10 years, from 1985-86 to 1994-95 and covers applicants, enrollment, degrees awarded, faculty, and staff. Tables provide data on the following: applicants and registered applicants in full-time, first year…

The purpose of this compendium is to provide consistent and accurate statistical and graphic information on the Ontario (Canada) university system. There are four sections which provide: (1) financial data including revenues and expenses with expendable revenue by source, operating revenue by fund, and expenses by object class; (2) student data…

Volume one of the two-volume annual report of the total revenue and expenses of provincially assisted universities of Ontario for the fiscal year ending April 30, 1979 is presented. Information provided in the two-volume document includes, in volume one, coverage of the 21 institutions which reported in 1978-1979 and, in volume two, reports from…

Research suggests that the learner is the only one who knows, intuitively, the relationship between the objectives of the evaluation and his or her actual knowledge at any given time. Experience shows that students use some form of self-assessment in the normal classroom setting. The University of Ottawa's Centre for Second Language Learning…

Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Association for Higher Education 1981 conference are summarized. Authors and the summarized papers are as follows: "Maintaining Quality in Troubled Times: The University Perspective" (George M. Beckmann); "Maintaining Quality in Troubled Times: The Community College Perspective" (Don A. Morgan);…

The traditional European university is now extinct. The conditions in higher education that have succeeded it are highly unstable and therefore transitory, and its eventual replacement is now dimly perceptible on the horizon. The European university is of course an abstraction, meant to approximate the attributes of higher education in Germany,…