Following a literature review, this paper examines the economic rationale for choosing nursing training through analyzing the private rate of return to nursing schools in River State, Nigeria. Findings reveal a 146 percent private rate of return ascribable to negative opportunity costs and booster effects on expected income. (21 references) (MLH)

Examines the determinants of state aid and voluntary contributions to higher education institutions. State aid results suggest that quality, demand, equity, and intercollegiate athletics are valid determinants. Voluntary support results are mixed; corporate giving is more influenced by quality and size than alumni giving. Both favor successful…

The teacher supply-demand characteristics at a large urban school district are quantitatively assessed using a set of differential equations based upon the Arrow-Capron model and a 17-year database. Includes five tables. (MD)

The University of Calgary's response to requests from the Canadian Parents for French for a review of bilingual opportunities at the institution is chronicled. The response is analyzed in terms of the financial and pedagogical problems operative on the postsecondary level. (MSE)

Both financial and nonfinancial costs of education, such as time, effort, risk, and social and psychological perceptions are considered as influences on consumer behavior and as elements that an institution can manage in its efforts to maintain or change its position in the market. (MSE)

Education in the United States has expanded over the years in the pursuit of two goals: individual growth and societal development. Pursuing these goals simultaneously creates problems in setting educational standards, identifying objectives, and integrating students from varied backgrounds, but continued efforts to reach both goals must be made.…

The background and development of "capacity planning," the procedure of reconciling social demand with government funding, in non-university-based professional education in the Netherlands is outlined. Issues arising from it are discussed. (MSE)

Factors affecting the development and implementation of education policy for special education in England and Wales is examined in the context of the 1981 Education Act. Factors considered include staff evaluation, the competing definitions of need and good practice, professional and administrative accountability, user rights, politicization, and…

More than enough students are enrolled in journalism courses to replace every professional journalist now employed on an American newspaper. Implications of this fact and evaluations of the quality of journalistic education are discussed with reference to specific cases. (LBH)

Institutional and individual determinants of adult participation in higher education are examined. Using linear regression, the authors predicted the 1970 degree-credit college enrollment of a sample of 57,689 married men and women aged 25 or older living in metropolitan areas. (Editor/LBH)

This paper discusses the growing trend in higher education of treating students as customers. It addresses the traditional views of the student-instructor role and why there is a push toward a customer-oriented paradigm in higher education. Resistance to this movement is also addressed, both from the student and faculty/administrative viewpoints.…

An on-going study is examining a method proposed by S. Goetz and D. Debertin for estimating demand for educational attainment at the county level by using secondary data. The method produces compact information showing the relationship between employment, occupation, and educational attainment, information not available at the county level. The…

Empirical content is given to the concept of an organization set and two related hypotheses are tested on data concerning the competition of colleges and universities for new students. (Author/KM)

Attempts to explore the fiscal relationships underlying the provision of elementary and secondary public education by introducing a simultaneous equation model. The model is essentially a demand and supply equation system for public expenditures on education. It represents a preliminary attempt at providing predictive insight and understanding…

In a discussion of numbers of college applicants and a survey of fall openings, the authors suggest that the majority of the nation's colleges are not facing a crisis in applications and enrollments and that a buyer's market'' does not exist. (Author/BY)