Serbia's education system performs well compared to other countries in the Western Balkans. There have been improvements in access to education and Serbia has undertaken major institutional reforms in recent years, such as the introduction of achievement standards at the end of compulsory education, teacher standards and a school evaluation…

A policy-focus Delphi study was conducted to identify the barriers which prohibit handicapped students from entering or completing vocational technical programs in community colleges in Texas and to identify recommendations and tasks relating to the removal of these barriers. A seventy-two member participant group, which included a nineteen member…

This publication presents the results of a survey of 70 service providers and 349 students that examined the level and types of services, the types of accommodations, and policy with respect to postsecondary students with disabilities across Canada. Service providers indicated that the model of service delivery at their institution was highly…

Information is presented from a study by the Council of New Jersey State College Locals to get facts on budgets, enrollments, New Jersey, the nation, and trends over the last decade in order to help the citizens of New Jersey determine what policies will best meet their needs in the 1990s. In June of 1987, the Chancellor submitted a Five-Year…

The development and influence of new structures in European higher education are reviewed as they relate to the equality of educational opportunity. Part One discusses the evaluation of higher education from 1945 to 1975 in three chapters covering general developments in higher education in the post-war period, the quantitative expansion of higher…

Reports on recent developments and problems in the diversification of tertiary education in seven Western European countries are presented by members of the Working Party on the Diversification of Tertiary Education. Policy analysis and evaluation and recommendations for future policy are also provided. As a policy, diversification refers to the…

In 1988, the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges (CCC) employed the Delphi Technique to gather opinions from individuals throughout the CCC system about the major issues confronting community colleges and about possible solutions to these issues. Undertaken to assist the Board of Governors in preparing its 1988-89 Basic…

The present report was developed as a reassessment and revision of the 1974 state plan for completing desegregation of higher education to meet new challenges and problems in the 1980s. Accomplishment of the new goals was targeted for 1985. This report has four chapters. Chapter one summarizes the goals and recommendations of the task force on…

Action is needed now to recruit and keep minorities in graduate education, so that we produce the engineers, scientists, and doctorates we need. Data on minority college and graduate school attendance are provided. (Author/BJV)

This document is one of three publications designed to establish guidelines for the elimination of sex bias and sex stereotyping and the establishment of sex fairness in vocational education programs in Colorado. Intended as a general reference, it provides background information about the problem and supplies a rationale for the institution of…

This report describes a project originally intended to identify demographic patterns among adults with low literacy skills in each Canadian province. The project was carried out between March 2000 and June 2001 under the auspices of Movement for Canadian Literacy (MCL). The project was based on the assumption that demographic information about…