Frederic W. Ness, President of the Association of American Colleges, comments on the position of higher education in national priorities. (Author/PG)

The adult education service must begin to identify the place and role of adult education in the new set-up to begin April 1974, and decide how it can best cooperate and coordinate with the other services. (Editor)

Analyzes a simple model relating environmental pollution to population and per capita income and concludes that no single cause is sufficient to explain.... environmental problems, and that there is little about the pollution problems.... of the next 50 years that is inevitable." (Author/AL)

A statistical look at American Education reveals signal progress in what is now the nation's largest enterprise and indicates some basic future trends. (Editor)

Reviews the problems that have confronted science and government in the past and present. Includes organizational responses, the role of science in industrialization, and the problems of science in a small country. (AL)

Senator Javits cites the need for increased federal aid to education. (GB)

Federal financial assistance to the arts and the sciences, including that provided for higher education, will tend to unite the Two Cultures'' and help direct education from a focus on earning a living'' to total living.'' (AL)

Briefly discusses trends in British government support of science, and suggests that excellent fundamental research, necessarily in university laboratories, can be ensured by attracting excellent students to science degree programs, because British university staffing is increasingly dependent upon courses students select. (AL)

Contrasts the effects of a policy of regulation of pollutant discharge by enforcement of a permit system with the likely consequences of a policy of charging for effluents, thus increasing the cost of discharge. The charge for residuals is favored, and it is suggested that trials of the system be conducted, perhaps with a federal tax on emission…

Authors suggest that most of the criticism of the pool method of financing advanced further education is misdirected. (Editor/MB)

Second of three articles that probe the nature of federal involvement in science. The role of Congress in formulating and implementing science policy is changing to a more activist one. Congress is seetting up mechanisms to interpret the flood of information used in making policy decisions. (Author/TS)

Major bases of concern in biomedical research community are identified, particularly those related to the unexpected year-to-year and institute-to-institute variations in support from NIH. (AL)

Revenue sharing, the keystone of the responsible decentralization objective of the Nixon Administration, is both an economic and a political reform. (Author)