This article suggests that any approach to the issue of access to higher education in the United Kingdom not view the approach of the United States in the recent University of Michigan cases as providing appropriate guidance. It is the author's assertion that the United States Supreme Court has failed to recognize the present effects of a long…

The study presented in this article focuses on strategic planning in developing countries, drawing on the author's experiences in a dozen developing countries in Asia and Africa and focus groups in three of those countries: Afghanistan, Madagascar, and South Africa. It looks at the special challenges faced by planners in developing countries and…

Outlines some of the concepts, questions, and solutions for educators who prepare journalists in a legal and social environment that enables, rather than discourages, potential journalists with disabilities. (MG)

The expansion of higher education has become a significant trend in the East Asia region, and Taiwan has proven no exception. The driving forces of higher education expansion in Taiwan include enhancing national competitiveness and human capital, responding to social and industrial needs, and reducing educational inequalities among social groups.…

Computer-assisted teaching and assessment has become a regular feature across many areas of the curriculum in higher education courses around the world in recent years. This development has resulted in the "digital divide" between disabled students and their nondisabled peers regarding their participation in computer-assisted courses. However,…

Identity is central for research on education since, under certain conditions, it may influence school choice, career preferences and classroom behaviour. Identity also determines disposition toward schooling because it may have the capacity to shape and modify the values, beliefs and characteristics that distinguish one person from another, by…

The text of a statement dealing with racial discrimination in higher education, given by Mr. Mitchell, Director of the Washington Bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), before the special subcommittee on education of the House Committee on Education and Labor, September 25, 1974, Washington, D.C. (EH)

Reviews the memoirs of the first women to receive a university education in Germany, pointing out the inconsistency inherent in the promotion of women while limiting access to the professions for which they had trained. (Author/BSR)

This paper is based on 10 firsthand accounts of black women who graduated from historically white institutions. Four of the narratives came from autobiographies, those of educators Fanny Jackson and Lena Beatrice Morton, social activist Mary Church Terrell, and political activist and author Angela Davis. Three of the other accounts were taken from…

Provides a survey instrument designed to gather data that assists in identifying educational barriers to handicapped persons. Notes that the survey identifies perceptions of educational services provided to handicapped persons by various educational agencies. (RS)

Criticizes an earlier article on nursing students with disabilities for eliminating perspectives of the disability community. Uses the social model rather than the medical model to interpret the earlier study's results as demonstrating negative behaviors and discriminatory practices toward students with disabilities. (SK)

This article uses four data sets to assess changes in the relative weights of test- and performance-based merit criteria on college enrollment during the 1980s and 1990s and considers their significance for affirmative action. Our results support the "shifting meritocracy" hypothesis, revealed by selective postsecondary institutions'…

The objectives of excellence and equity in minority teacher education are discussed in terms of recent social realignment. It is argued that, because most institutionalized discrimination has been eliminated, perpetuation of multiple sets of requirements for teacher candidates is not needed. (MT)