This background paper, prepared for the Council of Europe on the problem of equivalence in professional qualifications and academic studies among the European countries, contains eleven proposals to set up a system that would interpret information on equivalence. (JH)

This report describes the overall work of the project and the first 10 months of its current demonstration phase, Phase IV. It presents an overview of the project's history and objectives, a description of the methodologies involved, the steps taken in applying the methodologies in task analysis and curriculum design, the approach to…

This document summarizes the 48 responses from faculty and various groups and institutions to a block transfer discussion paper. The Block Transfer Project grew out of statements in Charting a New Course that assigned to the British Columbia (BC) Council on Admission and Transfer the responsibility for implementing a system of block transfer for…

Articulation is possible but the vocational objective of the student must be paramount, the means of achieving articulation secondary. (Editor)

How vocational educators in one state contrived to win recognition for occupational programs in the master plan for higher education. (Editor)

The way the Dutch system sifts out those permitted to participate in the most prestigious types of education is outlined. The admission policies for higher education are identified and a description of the structural changes in universities enacted by Parliament in January 1981 is provided. (Author/MLW)

Data are presented on a study related to the geographic constraints of women in America who hold Ph.D.'s. Career advancement data are included. It is concluded that academic women do not behave similarly to academic men in the labor market. (SA)

Formulates two models for the process of occupational achievement over time. Both include the effects of changes in education on changes in occupational achievement. There is a slight increase in rates of change for both education and occupation over time and the higher the level of one's education, the greater the gain in occupational status.…

The Oklahoma City Vocational School of Practical Nursing has developed a program whereby potential students may challenge up to two or three terms of the curriculum. (LH)

An attempt to explain radical student activism as a distinct function of potential downward mobility in the lives of student activists, who, coming largely from higher status backgrounds, face and fear the possibility of "skidding", thus culminating in a revolt of the priviledged against the system. (EH)

The extent to which university prestige accounted for migration to the major American universities in 1963 is indicated. It was shown that prestige only accounts for a modest proportion of the variation in interstate migration of students. (Author)

It is concluded from a review of available literature on international educational mobility and the recognition of degrees, diplomas, and studies that there is substantial general information on equivalence and mobility but too little written about solution of daily policy and decision-making questions. (MSE)

Data from the 1970 Brazilian Census are used to explore the effects of parents' investments in their children's education on the pattern of future income distribution and on the intergenerational transmission of inequality, using a simulation model. Appended are 21 references. (Author)

This study determines the efficiency of a system containing aptitude, achievement, and noncognitive data, and a measure of college performance in predicting the long-range educational-vocational decisions of engineering students. Noncognitive data best predicts between intellectually homogeneous student groupings whereas first-semester grade point…

States that liberals fail to acknowledge data which show that black Americans have made significant progress in moving into the middle class. (DM)