In 2000, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) launched the programme "Learning Regions--Providing Support for Networks'" in cooperation with the Lander. It was co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF). Some 90 regions were selected and financially supported. After one year, 71 regions continued to build-up…

Clinical advocacy programs offer educational potential to the planning student and service to the community in a context somewhat broader than attending public hearings on issues that have either already been decided or offer no opportunity for meaningful input by planning students. More specifically defined advocate planning strategies have been…

This is a report of the third meeting of the Mediterranean Comparative Education Society (MESCE) that took place in Malta in May 2008. The full programme can be accessed at: http://www.educ.um.edu.mt/mesce/cprogramme.html. The conference was attended by around 130 people from different countries in the Mediterranean and beyond but concentrated,…

This article focuses on the changing nature of education governance in Europe. It looks at the shifting discourses and policy practices in the ways in which the European Commission has aligned itself to education and discusses the reasons for what is presented as a substantial shift in the tools and resources for governing the European education…

American regional accreditation serves two basic functions: quality assurance and quality improvement. Through its public function of quality assurance, accreditation signals to prospective students, parents, employers, and others that the institution meets fundamental standards of quality. Through its private function of quality improvement,…

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to look closely at the development of a European Credit Transfer System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET). The European Commission, together with the member States, are working on it and several pilot projects have been initiated within the Leonardo da Vinci Programme of the European Commission.…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to address the development of a European architecture of vocational education and promote an alternative proposal. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is the result of discussions of researchers in the Institut Technik und Bildung on a European Qualification Framework. Findings: The paper provides an…

In this paper, the author discusses the adoption of the Western Enlightenment paradigm in East European higher education. It is important to note that while postsocialist transition slowed toward the late 1990s, change in East European higher education has been strongly influenced by creating the European higher education area, or the Bologna…

Described a program that attempted to produce a comprehensive plan to distribute educational services for all elements of a regional population. (Author/RK)

The methodology, formation of a specialized thesaurus, and use of a concept coordinator system of retrieval for an urban and regional planning library are explored. (Author/AB)

More than 530 community leaders were interviewed to determine what problems they felt existed in their communities; their attitude toward resource development; how favorably they felt toward counties planning at a multi-county level; and to what persons and groups they referred, or would refer, for information and assistance in planning. (NL)