Traced the flow of foreign news from two U.S. wire services into 11 Indiana small dailies. Concluded, among other findings, that small newspapers used foreign news items in proportion to the number of items they received from the wire services. (PD)

Reviews criteria for assessment of appropriate information technology, comparing characteristics of modern information technology developed and applied in industrialized developed societies with constraints for information utilization in developing countries. Options for information technology are suggested. Four references are provided. (EJS)

Presents the results of a study of the integration of the sciences in relation to the demands such integration places on discipline-oriented information services and the ability of information services to meet those demands. The research methodology is described. Five data tables and a reference list accompany the text. (JL)

Focuses on the news coverage of the International Program for the Development of Communications (IPDC) Conference held in Mexico, January 1982. However, the IPDC is also analyzed in relation to the evolution of the international communication debate. (PD)

Comparisons are made between environmental inservice training programs for United States' governmental personnel and similar programs conducted in four Western European countries. The programs, in general, were found to lack an emphasis on environmental training and environmental considerations and values. (DC)

Examining literacy and adult education in the United Kingdom (U.K.), this issue is divided into four parts: (1) Introductory Survey, which discusses the U.K. experience in adult literacy; (2) The Provider, which presents agencies involved in adult education; (3) Resources, which describes the Adult Literacy Resource Agency; and (4) Learning…

Considers differences between and among nations according to their access to information and their ability to use it. Concludes that world populations may soon be divided into the information elite and the information ignorant. Discusses the increasingly important role of computers in technological advancement for developing nations. (DB)

Evaluates the rhetoric and reality of educational opportunity in Western Europe. Information is presented on educational research findings regarding educational opportunity, social mobility, social status, schools and the social structure, and the growing pressure for democratization of education. (Author/DB)

Noting that economic conditions in developed and developing nations create vastly different environmental problems, the author looks at the directions environmental education is taking in the Third World and at efforts in industrialized nations to develop a global perspective in environmental education. (SJL)

Explores the antecedents of the emerging field of comparative educational administration. Arguing that the time is overdue for such study, the author presents an agenda of problems common to developed and developing nations. (Author/IRT)

The specific characteristics of unemployment among the population under 25 in industrialized societies are described along with unemployment's relation to education and training programs. (JMF)

Includes 346 annotated citations arranged as follows: general and theoretical aspects, Africa, Arab States, Asia and Oceania, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America. (JEG)

Considers the implications of the technological innovation literature for possible national strategies for innovation. Sketches highly generalized innovation strategies for nations at various levels of technological development. (Author/IRT)

Discusses how, through several colleges in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, three powers--the United States, Turkey, and Russia--seek to influence the course of Central Asia. (EV)

Reports on a comparison of the poverty rates of families with children in six industrial countries. Discusses income and poverty, poverty among children, family poverty rates before and after taxes and income transfers, and conclusions. States that the poverty of children may affect long-term competitiveness with other countries. (RT)