Descriptor
Source
| Research in Higher Education | 1 |
Author
| Aedo-Richmond, Ruth | 1 |
| Anderson, Mary B. | 1 |
| Brock, Colin | 1 |
| Cammish, Nadine | 1 |
| Dore, Ronald | 1 |
| Mixon, J. Wilson, Jr. | 1 |
| Narayanan, Aparna | 1 |
| Njoroge, Rose | 1 |
| Tapingkae, Amnuay, Ed. | 1 |
| Wan, Weidong | 1 |
Publication Type
| Reports - Research | 2 |
| Books | 1 |
| Information Analyses | 1 |
| Journal Articles | 1 |
| Legal/Legislative/Regulatory… | 1 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
| Reference Materials -… | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
| Policymakers | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewedMixon, J. Wilson, Jr.; Wan, Weidong – Research in Higher Education, 1990
A study of the relationship of population and income in Asian countries and Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members to their demand for American higher education found that both population and income significantly affect demand, but not proportionally. Findings suggest countries meet most change in citizens' demand with…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Demand, Educational Supply, Foreign Countries
Improving Access to Schooling in the Third World: An Overview. BRIDGES Research Report Series No. 1.
Anderson, Mary B. – 1988
Literature on access to education in Africa, Asia, and Latin America is reviewed. Policymakers face the choices and issues raised by limited economic resources. Variables are identified that educational policymakers can manipulate to achieve desired outcomes in access and retention levels. The determinants and contextual conditions that support or…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Developing Nations, Educational Demand, Educational Supply
Download full textTapingkae, Amnuay, Ed. – 1976
This research project, which was originally mounted in five countries--Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam--is concerned with four key questions. They are: (1) What are the social and economic forces that contribute to the rapid expansion of universities in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore? (2) What are the monetary…
Descriptors: Campus Planning, Costs, Developing Nations, Educational Demand
Dore, Ronald – 1976
The aims and motives of schooling are changing, and it is becoming more and more a ritualized process of qualification-earning. The underlying causes of this change are traced through the education histories of Britain, Japan, Sri Lanka, and Kenya. It is illustrated that the competitve scramble for scarce modern jobs has created a "backwash…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Certificates, Educational Demand, Educational History
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Hunger. – 1987
The responsibility of the U.S. House of Representatives Task Force on Hunger is to investigate the causes and dimensions of world hunger and to develop legislative recommendations addressing the issues raised. At this hearing, the issue discussed was of basic education as a crucial link in expanding opportunities for poor and hungry people to…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Economics, Educational Development
Brock, Colin; Cammish, Nadine; Aedo-Richmond, Ruth; Narayanan, Aparna; Njoroge, Rose – 1997
This partially annotated and selected bibliography lists several hundred publications on the topics of gender and gender and education at the global level and in countries located in the following areas: Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central and East Asia, Latin America, and Tropical Island…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies
