It is argued that educational planners, who have largely concentrated upon statistical techniques, can learn a great deal from the futurologists in terms of the development of a philosophical and historical perspective on planning. (Editor)

Mathematical models can assist educators in the preparation of their educational plans. Administrators and planners of educational systems have found that their ad hoc procedures are no longer adequate to take into account the many variables impinging on their environment. Examines the potential of the Markov Chain, one model capable of predicting…

Personal opinions of the author concerning a report entitled Basic Guidelines for Educational Reform'' are presented in this paper. A summary is given of the report which contains ideas and proposals for general expansion and improvement of school education in Japan. (SM)

Details the attempts to restructure California's Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960. (PG)

Quantitative educational planning includes the quantification of educational demand, the plan of placement and the estimation of cost. (Author)

The Finnish Society for Educational Research invited representatives in the fields of research and instruction, and planners of training programs to a joint seminar in which the parties informed each other of their activities and expectations concerning future cooperation. (CB)

Author describes three approaches to educational planning and examines the Worth Report on educational planning in Canada, finding it generally impressive'' but making two major criticisms. (SP)

Asserts that the control engineer's concept of controllability can be applied to educational systems. (DS)

Makes informal analyses of the method by which decisions in higher education are now made and of how that method compares to the systematic planning procedures so often proposed. Suggests how the systems approach can be applied in higher education and indicates what processes would be involved. Concludes with a discussion of a few of the problems…

Describes specific, emerging leadership processes required from the school administrator as the management of change requires more and more of his time. (Author/JH)

Work and conclusions of one of a series of seminars and the international workshop held in May 1972 in Sweden. (Editor)

If higher education can analyze the new students, the new locations, new content and the variations in length of learning, it will be able to effectively deal with the problems of the decades ahead. (Author/PG)