Presented is a brief account of the activities of the Southeast Asian regional branch of the International Council on Archives. (SJ)

The coincident arrival of a European policy space in education and a European Educational Research Association [EERA], and their subsequent relation, will be the subject of this paper. EERA is a hybrid organization--it supports scientific networking, it is a social partner in EU policy, it is a first level social space for networking, and…

With the processes of globalization and localization, the local availability of knowledge and skills, and the transfer of technology and innovation to industry, small and medium-sized enterprises and the wider society have become increasingly important. In recent years, there have been many initiatives across Organization for Economic Cooperation…

The use of central facility to solve diversified local educational problems is discussed. (CK)

"The problems of pre-testing the impact of this successful series." (Editor)

The Bologna process is a comprehensive concept for European higher education reforms of the 20th and 21st centuries. However, it means something else in Central European countries than it does in the rest of Europe. It has been combined in Central Europe with a major social change referred to as the "political transformation" (Johnson…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the role that the University of Toronto has had in helping to establish a Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) on Education for Sustainable Development in Toronto, Canada. The way in which the RCE initiative has helped to move forward the university's own five-year plan will also be discussed.…

Traces the history of the National Central Library (NCL), which merged with the National Lending Library for Science and Technology in 1973 to form the British Library Lending Division (BLLD), including the central organization, start of the NCL, regional offices, voluntary cooperation, specialized material, and NLLST. (VT)

A task force of Massachusetts corporation executives and managers evaluates and comments on business practices in that State's public school system. (JF)