Reports results of a study undertaken to determine the willingness of the medical school's part-time clinical staff to express written opinions on the planning of the school's second-year pathology course and to relate some of their specific problems. (Author)

Author describes teaching of educational planning, a program started in the Fall of 1971 at the University of Helsinki. (CB)

Calls for planning, programming, budgeting, and a systems approach in operating school systems to ward off criticisms of school policies. (DS)

Discusses the interface between the various educational organizations, the necessary information base, and planning mechanisms and structures.'' (Editor)

Article examines the organizational aspects of schooling and illustrates future developments in schooling with the intention to stimulate critical thinking on the subject. (Author/RK)

Discusses the objectives of the Council of Adult Education, especially the need to work with a national organization. (SP)

An allocation model is proposed for instructional systems which have instructional programs that can be structured in terms of behavioral objectives, instructional activities, and required achievement levels. The model assumes that the relevant characteristics of students and teachers are known and that the instructional resources needed for an…

A survey of literature regarding production functions or the technical relationships between the inputs and outputs of education. The survey includes the methodology for establishing production functions, the problems associated with establishing such functions, and the application of production functions in educational planning at macro and micro…

Autonomy, authority and accountability are 3 aspects in higher education that will influence the future functions and operating characteristics of colleges and universities. (Author)

Presents a model of the planning process that may serve as a conceptual frame for educational planning. Suggests that a sound model of the educational planning process is needed to generate comparative empirical research needed by planners and students of planning. (Author/JH)

Author suggests that educational planning is a continuing process rather than the drafting of an educational blueprint. (Author/RK)

Develops a taxonomy scheme that classifies the manpower-educational flow models which appear in the literature. The classification scheme shows the similarities and differences of all models classified, and it can be used to pinpoint areas for future research. (Author/DN)