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Ferland, Mario – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1981
Lessons learned from the French experience in integrating continuing education into the universities include these: politically and ideologically, adult and continuing education are different and must be treated thus; autonomy is necessary; the university has no monopoly; and marginalization of adult education is a hazard of this approach. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Comparative Education, Continuing Education

Armstrong, Gregory – Comparative Education Review, 1984
Long-term centralization of Thailand's Adult Education Division resulted in a preponderance of urban-oriented curriculum in a country that was 80 percent rural. Beginning in 1976, the World Bank-Thai government's Nonformal Education Development Project facilitated decentralization by sharply increasing rural staff, offering new career…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Decentralization, Educational Change
Elliott, Judy; Thurlow, Martha – School Administrator, 1999
Out-of-level testing in state and district assessments is becoming more popular under the reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. This practice (and use of different norm-referenced tests) confounds interdistrict comparisons and contributes to inequitable assessment practices. Proper scaling can remedy this situation. (MLH)
Descriptors: Accountability, Comparative Education, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Bhola, Harbans S. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1983
Discussed are four issues of importance to educational planners who want to implement nonformal education programs: (1) definitional and identity issues--what nonformal education is; (2) policy issues--role of nonformal education in the new distribution of goods and power; (3) institutional issues--the delivery process; and (4) curricular issues.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Curriculum, Definitions

Lillis, Kevin M. – Comparative Education Review, 1985
Discusses problems associated with reform of secondary school curricula in Kenya in the period immediately after independence. Follows the course of two innovations--School Mathematics of East Africa (SMEA) and the Africanization of the literature curriculum--and discusses various reasons for their failure and for Kenya's continued dependence on…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Literature, Change Strategies, Colonialism
Psacharopoulos, George – 1987
This paper presents an overview of educational policymaking in several developing countries in Africa by (1) examining the nature of various educational policies in these countries; (2) drawing comparative generalizations from the outcomes of the objectives of these policies; and (3) recommending ways to avoid the failure of educational reforms.…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France). – 1982
This document contains presentations and a summary of ideas generated at a meeting of the Council for Cultural Co-operation to discuss the state of guidance and counseling services in adult education in Europe, particularly in Germany. According to the summary, the following themes emerged from the speeches and discussion of the conference: (1)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Continuing Education, Counseling Services