Article analyzes the impetus for alternative schools' development, their present status, and reactions to their development. (Editor)

A concise description of a study directed at exploring the question of whether systems analysis could be applied to educational problems. (HB)

Author cites five areas of educational technology where progress has been and is being made. These are: clarifying the process, increasing labor specialization, improving educational evaluation, clarifying systems intentions and shifting the factors of production. Article concludes with a comparison of the educational technology approach with the…

Discusses the impact of Dr. Ivan Illich's recent trip to India on the Indian higher education community. (PG)

The community junior college clearly has a potential for making uniquely important contributions to the reconstruction, rehabilitation, and economic development of Vietnam. (Author)

Concern for the educational preparation of a technologically sophisticated work-force is of interest to all developed nations. (Editor/CB)

Presents an analysis of the Soviet Union's educational system and suggests the continuing need for a rise in the level of education based on the premise that society's income from raising the skill level of workers outweighs considerably for expenditures on securing this rise. (Author/RK)

Author believes that an understanding of the history of Catholic higher education is essential if one wishes to understand the university movement today, and to understand where Catholic higher education is going and what challenges it faces. (Author/CB)

Discusses problems that make the development of education in the developing countries very difficult, if not impossible.'' (Author)

A summary of impressions gathered from a symposium on educational alternatives and reform. (JF)

The factors contributing to the need for educational change in the direction of lifelong learning are discussed: global phenomena (economic change and demographic trends); scientific and technological developments (obsolescence of knowledge, development of human sciences, the application of technological progress to education); and social dynamics…

Discusses the part played by various organizations, libraries, media, and folk high schools in Finland. (SP)

Presents some educational principles, which are intended to ensure conditions indispensable for the all-round development of each individual, and suggests those principles as a basis for modernizing the present educational system and adult education. (Author/RK)

The development of Africa depends on educational programs which encompass a humanist-socialist element, retaining cultural context and building on the needs of an individualist area rather than on ways of the Western World. (Author/JB)

Describes attempts in several countries to reorganize higher vocational, technical education and university studay into a unified system of tertiary education. (Author)