Describes the intervention strategies adopted in the Liverpool Priority Project and presents a case for closer relationships between education with the social, economic, and political institutions of the neighborhood in which the community school could form the integrating hub. (Author/JM)

This study attempts to explain the observed distribution of students among university departments. A general model describing the student's initial choice of department is constructed. The decisions made by a sample of students were then explained by multiple regression analysis, where students' socio-economic characteristics are the explanatory…

Excerpts from questionnaire sent in preparation for the World Conference on Adult Education to all member states of Unesco and to international nongovernmental organizations. (MB)

The work of the Vocational Training Branch of the Human Relations Department, International Labour Office (Unesco), is described. The essential purpose is to develop improved practices in vocational training, with a view to progressive establishment of standards at the international level. (JB)

Critique of the format, general philosophy, and some specific components of the Worth report of Alberta's (Canada) Commission on Educational Planning. (Author/JH)

The professional literature contains many definitions and conceptualizations of PPBS, but basically it is a term applied to a set of interrelated organizational activities. (Author)

Innovative program aids counselors to ensure that students' activities are congruent with their professional goals. (CJ)

The author claims that the real operational goal of those who control public education has not been to have good schools, but to have schools that are just good enough. Until now, educators have not made basic policy but they must do so. (Author/AS)

Concern over and programs about the future of our society should be incorporated into more curricula in higher educational institutions. (HS)