Irish public policy strongly promotes greater flexibility in higher education. This review paper examines Irish policy conceptualisations of flexible learning. The review finds that the promotion of flexible learning is positioned within strongly economistic discourses of lifelong learning, and primarily in human capital terms of meeting the…

Variable Modular Scheduling Via Computer, a scheduling program which focuses on allocating a school's resources according to the school's overall purposes, is designed to allow schools to adapt organizational patterns to whatever teaching and learning patterns they define as necessary in meeting their educational goals. The system's rationale,…

Author offers suggestions for broadening the scope of education and educator. (RK)

School scheduling can be improved to express many of the intangibles of a school, which give the institution its heart, says this writer. He describes a good master scheduler and makes several recommendations. (Editor)

The guide, part of a series of committee reports relating to school band performance, organization, and equipment needs, is intended to assist band directors as they develop band music schedules. Major objectives of the handbook are to present attitudes of band directors and administrators toward scheduling and to offer scheduling suggestions. The…

Article discussed instructional organization with the focus on the characteristics and implications of four alternatives to the traditional pattern of concurrent courses. (Author/RK)

Several methods for formulating secondary school capacity are outlined. Consideration of the relationship between educational program and pupil capacity is emphasized. (MD)

In this article experiments, ideas and organisational principles are discussed by the headmaster of an all-through comprehensive school. (Author/RK)

Schools can achieve humanistic goals, assert these writers, by providing students more options and therby meeting their diverse needs. Showing how widespread the mini-concept is, they report in this article a three-state survey that indicates how principals feel about their programs. (Editor)

Argues against the unity principle of time and space in terms of objectives of the educational system: enhancement of learning, sociability, and autonomy; socialization to the labor force; propagation of social norms; and concept of identity. Suggests that declining impact of these in Western society necessitates new schooling structure that…

Recent reform in Finnish elementary-level schools is affecting secondary and higher education as well. The five articles in this Bulletin describe some of the changes. "The Goals of School Democracy Reform" is a statement of educational goals: a democratic citizenry, educational planning coincident with national goals, the guarantee of…

This article describes curriculum and organizational changes carried out during a three-year period at a college of further education. (Editor)

In Cobb County, Georgia, children start in first grade to think about jobs and what they want to do with their hands and minds and lives. (Editor)

A recent team-teaching experiment at Redhill Technical College is described presenting the problems, aims, results, and some reflections on the future. (MW)

This report of the Temple City, California, differentiated staffing project contains several articles describing progress made in the first three years of operation. The major article traces the history and development of the project, outlines the financial plan and schedule through 1972, and describes several characteristics of the model: (1)…