An observer discusses factors in the choice of medicine as a career, trends in medical school enrollment and student characteristics, problems posed for medicine by those factors and trends, and their sources and solutions in current medical education. (MSE)

One-third of future students will earn baccalaureates intermittently rather than in four straight years. The ways in which colleges can plan for the change are discussed. Demographic realities, why patterns are changing, the emerging norm, and adapting to change are discussed. (MLW)

Assesses the social and economic consequences of lifelong learning, highlighting the fact that most continuing education students are educated and affluent; the possible effects of the institutionalization of learning and experience; the possibility for equity in continuing education through appropriate programming; and lifelong learning's…

Identifies concerns for vocational education revealed in a survey of "School Shop" magazine readers. Concerns include (1) increasing academic requirements, (2) public image, (3) federal attitudes, (4) enrollment patterns, (5) aging of the teaching force, (6) student quality, and (7) modernization of equipment. (CH)

Aspects of West Germany's private elementary and secondary school system are discussed, including its history and role within the overall educational system, increasing popularity, legal situation, finance, and prospects for the future. (MSE)

Describes a 1984 survey of all U.S. colleges and universities which sought to provide an initial database relative to numbers of U.S. colleges and universities with marketing teacher education, undergraduate and graduate marketing education enrollments, full-time equivalent faculty involved with marketing teacher education, accreditation status of…

The techniques used by the Enrollment Management group at Boston College in reviewing enrollment through the year, predicting the attrition rate, and determining the number of new students to admit are outlined, and the data needs and manipulation are discussed. (MSE)

There is growing evidence and informed opinion that the conventional wisdom about the decline in higher education quality is incorrect, and that higher education is neither as bad as many perceive nor likely to degenerate as far as many fear. (MSE)

Enrollment trends in secondary and higher education in Australia are examined for indications of the direction and possible need for redirection of higher education policy and institutional planning. (MSE)

Recent West German experience with still-expanding higher education suggests that the idea of planning must change, from drastic enrollment variation to insights into implementation; from preoccupation with expansion to planning under various external conditions; and from a focus on quantitative measures to consideration of a broader array of…

Relates the experiences and efforts of a two-year college faculty to promote the value of literary study. (HOD)

Chronicles the process used by University of Denver officials as they decided to close the library school as of August 16, 1985, due to overall enrollment declines and financial pressures. Highlights include plans of university's reorganization committee, questioning of library school's quality, and 30-minute defense by library school dean Bernard…

This article studies British students, mainly girls, taking a two-year "social care" course in the nonadvanced sector of further education. Although job opportunities in this field are declining, enrollment is increasing. The view that these students have limited opportunities, due to home life and limited educational ability, is…

This study traces the rationale for the sex equity provisions of the 1976 Vocational Education Act Amendments. Effects on personnel roles and responsibilities, fund expenditures, and enrollment trends are examined. Economic consequences of participation in vocational education are discussed from the perspective of sex equity. (BS)

Presented are enrollment projections for primary and secondary school students in England through the 1980s and beyond in the light of information on the school population and births up to 1981 and of alternative forecasts of births in future years. Projections of the numbers leaving school are also discussed. (Author/IS)