The purpose of this guideline is to furnish an explanation and example of how one university faced the changing concept of manpower. Traditionally, the university has been a leader in technological revolutions in agriculture and science, and now it finds itself with the even more important challenge of change in the development of human resources.…

This report concerning the policy and planning of education in France is a description of the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the development of education in an endeavor to show how each aspect influences the other. Book I of the report recalls the importance of the educational explosion of the last fifteen years and examines the budgetary…

This 3-year study attempted to design a program that would provide the optimum conditions necessary for schools, universities, and other agencies to try new practices and study their quality through research and evaluation; and in which creative, innovative teachers would be supported rather than frustrated. Innovations were introduced as…

The preliminary plan for the proposed National Institute of Education (NIE) is outlined. The author discusses a conflict of interests and pressure between Congress and the educational community which seriously hampered confidence in the Office of Education's R&D program, and suggests that the NIE, to avoid this problem, must establish…

Written as an abridged companion volume to the seven-volume series, Ontario's Educative Society, this book shares the objective of exploring the development of education in Ontario since World War II. The material is presented within an historical framework and uses a broad definition of education which includes organizations and activities beyond…

The purpose of this report is to examine the role of vocational education in Florida in providing services for the handicapped. Included are descriptions of vocational education policies for these services, the target populations, their special training needs, successful vocational education programs for the handicapped, and the role in…

The purpose of this report is to examine the expectations and satisfactions of students at the secondary and post-secondary levels in traditional public schools, vocational centers, and in a community college. Differences in expectations and satisfactions are noted among and within these groups: (1) students enrolled at different schools, (2)…

Educational development requires management, which is basically decision-making based upon information. Information must be processed, involving movement from its source, analysis, transmission, storage, retrieval, summarization, transformation, and reporting. The regulation of this process is the purview of the information management system…

The advanced technology of modern communications has created a condition in which the contradictions of complex social orders, the atrocities of interpersonal, intertribal, and international conflicts, the inequities inherent in practically all of our social systems, as well as the richness of our cultural and technical accomplishments constantly…

The present report is the result of the study on human resources and educational planning carried out in 1964 by the National Planning Institute (INP) in co-operation with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The main purpose of the report is to help integrate Peru's educational development and process of general…

This volume contains 20 case study profiles of educational RDD&E projects and, as such, constitutes the data base for the Oregon Studies. This part (Part 2) of Volume IV contains profiles of seven development projects along with information that describes the development of the profiles, explains how to read the profiles, and includes a glossary…

A history of the development of higher adult education in the United States and Canada is presented. The point is made that higher education in North America includes a variety of post-high school institutions, including universities, senior colleges, junior colleges, community colleges, technical institutes and professional schools. A study of…

Rural development is a far more complex, long term proposition than has been generally admitted, for it involves a fundamental transformation across social, political, and economic lines. While the learning needs of rural populations vary considerably, educational planning for all rural areas should incorporate the concept of learning as a…

This annotated bibliography of institutional research is the eighth in a series published by the Association for Institutional Research (AIR). Abstracts on institutional research of special interest are submitted by members of AIR. Topics covered are: goals of higher education; community development goals; spatial environments of higher education;…

Analyzes the current state of education in the United States and calls for a new wave of educational reforms. Advocates an expansion of early childhood education, programs for potential dropouts, the retraining of unemployed workers, and changes in school structure and the teacher's role. Stresses the need for technological and scientific…