This article briefly explores the type of vision and methodology necessary for effective educational reform. Leadership responsibilities in funding, setting goals, coping with crises are examined. (JB)

Autonomy, authority and accountability are 3 aspects in higher education that will influence the future functions and operating characteristics of colleges and universities. (Author)

Answers critics of the American educational system who call for the abolition of schools. (JF)

The pressures exerted by the economic, social and demographic realities of our time have brought to the fore the importance of the role of education in contemporary societies and the inadequacy of the existing educational institutions. In this theme issue, lifelong education is discussed as a solution to the needed changes in educational…

Discusses the conflicts involved in traditionally oriented and futuristic teaching. (PG)

Social change will affect adult education in the next years; author lists areas of change and the special organizational requirements'' of adult education development. (SP)

Examines correspondence education in Asia. (RK)

The impossibility of providing one standard, uniform syllabus and curriculum throughout the region and the difficulties of communication by curriculum planners are outlined. (JB)

Preeminent in pure research, the California Institute of Technology attempts to apply some of its skills to society's problems. (Editor)

Argues that the problem with education centers around the fact that large numbers of people are being forced to learn that which other people have decided will be good for them. Contends that the only legitimate educational framework is one that helps people learn whatever it is they may happen to want to find out. (Author/JF)

A successful educational experience for the nontraditional student can be provided if a system of accountability is developed from within the institution. (Ed./HS)

Focuses on what the author terms the education-poverty-industrial complex," wherein educators have been enriching themselves at public expense through sizeable consulting fees, often for work of which there is no record at all, and whereby people and companies have been devoted to reaping profits from the nation's legitimate interest in education…