This study identifies the responsibilities of the bodies and institutions involved in the implementation of the Bologna Process. They include the levels of Europe, nations, higher education institutions, departments, degree programmes, teachers and students. The future planning is analysed using the Balanced Scorecard approach designed for the…

This qualitative research investigated the effect of a homework model designed to develop students' problem solving behaviors by advancing their ownership of understanding and responsibility. Students were expected to be active learners by isolating and communicating points of homework confusion. The teachers in this study provided feedback…

The purpose of this book is to bring back to public attention seven thinkers who wrote about what they believed to be vital in higher education. Each chapter examines a particularly "key text," in which that thinker considers the nature of higher education. The background for the occasion of the delivery of that text as a speech or…

Four opinions are presented concerning the controversy over state/federal government responsibility for higher education. (Editor/PG)

The most critical issue that the US must face is whether people of all races can work together and create a society in which equal opportunity genuinely exists for all. The racism practiced throughout the US has produced potentially destructive forces that could lead to a second civil war between outraged minority groups and the rest of society.…

To meet the needs of society today, universities must balance their traditional specialty education with interdisciplinary approaches based on a problem-solving orientation. Utilizing this viewpoint, some of the issues and/or problems facing universities in promoting interdisciplinary education are analyzed in this speech. Issues which may retard…

This report deals with the problem of encouraging colleges to engage in educational research. More specifically, it concerns itself with questions such as: What is the present role of the small college? What roles can small colleges most effectively play in the continuum of research needs? What resources are necessary for playing these research…

WHETHER A COLLEGE STANDS IN RELATION TO ITS STUDENTS AS A PARENT TO A CHILD (IN LOCO PARENTIS) OR AS A PHYSICIAN TO HIS PATIENT (IN LOCO DOCTORIS) CAN BE VALIDATED BY STUDENT PERSONNEL WORKERS BY ANSWERING THE QUESTION, "IS THIS RELATIONSHIP NECESSARY AND DESIRABLE IN ORDER FOR THE COLLEGE TO PERFORM ITS MISSION, WHICH IS LEGALLY THAT OF…

A survey of the nature of values with a brief examination of the problem of relativism precedes a discussion of intellectual and moral values education as an appropriate responsibility for higher education. Higher education's opportunity to serve the needs of democratic society with its moral dilemmas is also demonstrated. (JMD)

Discusses the responsibility of the university to research and teach about uses of language by doctors, lawyers, government bureaucrats, and others in order to control rather than communicate. (DD)

If we continue to educate too narrowly, too technically, too reductively, or continue to ignore a student's character, the skills and values of adaptability, and the contextuality of survival problems, then our college deserve not to survive as liberally educating institutions. (Author)

Eleven books and journal articles are annotated in this brief review of the status of instruction in morals and moral behavior. Included are references to values clarification, teacher role, critical assessment, teaching strategies, program implementation, curriculum evaluation, and bicultural classrooms. (LBH)

Recognizes the fact that an elaboration of a particular theory of education and of the position film studies occupy within the educational system will determine system strategies and understanding. (MH)

A Maine state senator's 17-day tour of educational facilities in Poland and Romania gave him unexpected insights, especially in the relationship between education and work. (Editor/LBH)

Suggests that editing courses serve a campus-wide need for fostering better student-writers, and that editing skills provide non-English majors workaday and executive-level writing habits for jobs in commerce, industry, and the professions. Asserts that English departments should also develop internship programs for student editors. (MM)