Maturity models have been introduced over the last five decades as guides and references for information system (IS) management in organizations from different sectors. In the education sector, maturity models have also been used to evaluate higher education institutions (HEIs) across several dimensions, such as information and communication…

This is a translation of Chapter 8 of "Narodnoe obrazovanie v SSSR, 1917-1967 ("Public Education in the USSR, 1917-1967 ), edited by M.A. Prokof'ev et al. and published by Prosveshchenie Press, Moscow, 1967.

The Research Institute of Evening Schools in Leningrad is experimenting with a variety of forms of teaching and scheduling to meet students' particular needs: accelerated programs, differentiated training, or short sessions of full-time study combined with correspondence courses. (MF)

Discusses outreach education, or education designed for students who are not normally reached in regular daytime campus credit work. (Author)

It is necessary to intensify mass cultural work by the evening and correspondence school in the countryside and to make the school the cultural center for rural workers. (Author)

A catalog of the computer-stored data and the SIRE microfiche series relating to the Second Conference of Ministers of Education of European Member States, held in Bucharest in 1973, is presented. Twenty-eight reports on the theme "Higher Education in Europe" are included in the catalog. The broad topics of correspondence courses,…

A general discussion is given concerning revisions in hours and schedules for evening and correspondence school students engaged in higher technical education. The teaching plan for the evening system consists of two parts: one for instruction in the first three years, and the other for the next three. The plan for correspondence study provides…

Suggests combination of the summer session, correspondence study, and an empirical rather than historical attitude by the university toward campus residence requirements, to serve as a new channel for degree-seeking persons. (MF)

This article contains a comparative analysis of the cost of training specialists in Russia through evening programs, day programs, and correspondence courses. (Author/RM)

This booklet gives details, approved by the British Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, of grants which will be paid by the Knitting, Lace, and Net Industry Board for training and further education during the training year, 1 August 1969-31 July 1970. Two categories are stressed: (1) day, block, release, and full time courses and…

The author examines how adult education in Finland is being affected by legislation. She discusses the Finnish school system. Several forms of adult education are described, including evening courses, independent study, training of the unemployed, on-the-job training, continuation courses, and correspondence training. The funding of adult training…

The Knights of Columbus is primarily and essentially a fraternal society, but the order has never permitted itself to be circumscribed within the narrow limits of insurance benefits and selfish social interests. A new page of that history has been written. The story of the educational work in which the order engaged during the past four years is…

The 1929-41 period brought economic hardship and struggle for National University Extension Association institutions as well as for retraining and industrial programs for war-time production. Popular issues were extension credit, standards, non-credit instruction, correspondence study, educational radio, audiovisual instruction, evening…

Notes the importance of comparing economic effectiveness of different forms of instruction in higher education in the Soviet Union. Stresses the importance of correspondence and evening courses in raising workers' competence. (Author/DB)