The author discusses both future demands on higher education and the need to formulate educational policies now that we recognize the need for profound changes in the system. (AA)

Reviews the prospects of success of the latest efforts to reform Britain's national examination system. (DM)

Advocates of teaching black history are primarily interested in instilling racial pride and identification in Negroes, whereas those who wish to teach Negro history are concerned with promoting interracial harmony. (CK)

Facing declining enrollment, higher education must try to find a new clientele while resisting the temptation to cater to the distorted set of national priorities currently being sold the American public by well-organized and economically powerful but short-sighted special interest groups. (Author/PGD)

Discusses a new study which found that even as the number of high school graduates fell over the past 20 years, competition for college applicants increased. (EV)

A theoretical model of educational demand is provided and the model is tested employing both time series and cross-sectional data. Cross-sectional findings employing the Zellner SUR technique are presented. Policy implications are offered. (Author/MLW)

Proposes a second, noncommodified sector in which citizens receive wages for socially essential activities. Suggests that those completing two years in the second sector would acquire vouchers for vocational training and further education. (SK)

Responses from 923 of 3,203 International Technology Education Association members showed the majority had access to computers and the Internet; most were interested in online continuing education; topics included technology teaching activities, new technologies, and teaching using the Internet; and misconceptions about online courses and where to…

Strategic interactions of subsidies and tuitions in public higher education are described in a differentiated-product setting where legislatures first determine subsidies and then governing boards of universities set tuition. When revenue of the university is important relative to students' welfare in legislative preferences, commitment to the…

This study examines the question of how much households are willing to pay for improvements in the quality of local public education in two areas of a rural school district in Pennsylvania. The study uses the contingent valuation technique to obtain micro-data by personal interview on demand for improved public school quality. Estimates of…

This article discusses the export of post-secondary education, together with the educational models and methodologies, by Canada to meet considerable international demands. In addition, their post-secondary institutions actively market their services overseas to attract international students to Canadian campuses. In the developed and developing…

When the subject of scientific analysis is learning, the research needs to be anchored in various nonmonolithic pillars. Several disciplines require a common ground of convergence. An objective observer of the domain can easily conclude that semantic e-learning brings together the three different worlds of learners, pedagogues and technologists.…

In Spain, the exercise of choice by parents of a suitable school for their children is not practised by all families in the same way. The evidence shows that an increasing social polarisation and a substantial disequilibrium in schooling are taking place in compulsory education. There is a high concentration of immigrant students in public schools…

The purpose of this paper is to use an historical approach to examine the changing nature, size and diversification of education and training in New Zealand. In particular, attention will be concentrated on the impact of the introduction of competition into the New Zealand tertiary education industry since 1989. It will examine the relationship…