Adult learning policies, like any other policies, need to be effective: they need to reach their objectives and attain the desired impacts, which should be carefully defined. Understanding the performance of policies allows policy makers to change and improve them. A growing body of research and statistics provides important insights into how…

The telecommunications sector is characterized by massive structural changes due to changes in technology as well as in the regulatory environment. Research and development activities become more and more important for the development of the industry as they determine the competitive position of firms and nations to a large extent. Both the…

Problems facing higher education in India are examined in terms of systems analysis, structural changes, input-output ratios, and critical perspectives of the system itself. Part I (Introduction and Present Position) provides an introduction to the problems, information on the education commission, and planning in education. Part II (Higher…

Summarizes British educational input-output analysis research, highlighting the extension of Michael Rutter's findings in "Fifteen Thousand Hours" (1979) by Steedman (1983) and Hough and Warburton (1986). Smith and Tomlinson's study of 3,000 children in 20 multiracial urban comprehensive schools found important interschool differences in…

A partial survey of the literature on the economics of vocational training reveals three important lessons on how evaluations may be undertaken using data on pay, inputs, and outputs. The first lesson is that social, corporate, and private returns to vocational training in developing countries appear to be high enough to justify expanding training…