Discusses manpower requirements' relationship to higher education. (PG)

A national study of enrollment growth rates in community colleges, conducted by the Arkansas State Department of Higher Education, found it most commonly exceeded expectations, especially in urban areas. (NF)

In the coming decades, schools will change from closed teaching systems to open learning systems. Compulsory attendance, grades, and degrees will tend to disappear. Learning will be more future oriented, less retrospective. Survival in a changing world will mean that man must learn, unlearn, and learn again. (Author)

Describes UNESCO program experiments which relate literacy to the needs of the people in their everyday life. (DM)

Third article in series of three, all in this issue, discussing how placement field will be affected in the '70s by more students, less counseling, small staffs, and student attitudes. (Author)

Argues that current public disinterest in sociology is due to the unscientific way the subject is presented in introductory college courses. After comparing course content in introductory science and sociology courses, the authors conclude that only introductory demography courses would meet the criteria for a scientific approach to sociological…

The growing trend in "lifelong learning" demands that professional associations assume a leadership role in the design and development of adult education programs in health, physical education, and recreation. (LH)

Examines policy issues surrounding the accommodation of increased Israeli demand for higher education, comparing the country with Canada, which has also been considering whether to permit private higher education institutions. Concludes that academic colleges in Israel have been successful in absorbing a huge increase in enrollment, while…

Part of cost of participating in higher education is foregone employment. An increase in unemployment rate is expected to decrease full cost of postsecondary education, causing increase in demand. This paper reexamines this expectation, in the face of the Alchian-Allen effect (changes in fixed costs), once the public/private school distinction has…

In 1984 "Economics of Education Review" paper, E. Bell indicates that, when capital markets are imperfect in a certain sense, demand for education may not always be directly related with present net value of education. This study shows Bell's paradox is possible under the alternative definitions of capital market imperfections and…

Uses time-series data to estimate empirical enrollment functions for three Puerto Rico university systems. Measures opportunity cost and benefits to education as expected wage rates and tests a market segmentation process. Results show that the universities are not substitutes for one another. To cope with continuing revenue shortfalls,…

Examines the global trend towards increased tuition and fees in public institutions of higher education. Despite histories of free or very low tuition and student protests, most observers see higher tuition and fees (and financial aid programs for needy students) as invitable. Notes increased demand, enrollment surges, and collapsing systems of…

Discusses how UNext, a provider of online business courses, seems to have the academic and financial capital to be a dot-com survivor, but that customers aren't flocking to buy. (EV)

Discusses how summer session programs increasingly make sense for students seeking early graduation, as well as for colleges with growing enrollments,. (EV)