In response to a curriculum problem, a strategy emerged at the University of Sussex that is used to tackle issues and help bring about change. The strategy operates within the departmental structure of the university and involves setting up working parties of members of the Teaching and Learning Support Programme and representatives of the…

Attempts to 1) summarize the data of "Catholic Schools in a Declining Church" relative to the moral support for the schools which exists among the Catholic population; 2) share some personal reflections on action items which this data suggests; and 3) summarize the recommendations of a study group of Catholic educators who met recently…

Six tables provide statistics on educational development in the U.S.S.R.: (1) literacy rates; (2) numbers of recipients of higher and secondary education; (3) various social groups' educational levels; (4) educational levels by Republic; (5) enrollment in various types of educational establishments; and (6) evening shift general educative schools…

"Children and Their Primary Schools" was published ten years ago this week. Here Lady Plowden assesses the impact of the Plowden Report's central recommendations. (Editor)

Discusses the school's and college's roles in helping foster a sense of citizenship and concern for human need. Major areas covered are the school community relationship, social problems, and relating the curriculum to social service and human needs. (SH)

Describes Nigeria's present vocational programs in agricultural education at the secondary and postsecondary levels and expresses the need for a more vocationally oriented approach rather than an academically oriented approach in the future development of such programs. (HD)

Focuses on the relationship between communications technology and the human organizational setting within which it is used. Suggests that program effectiveness is determined more on the basis of how much learner involvement and control exists than on the delivery of a predetermined set of centrally prepared messages to learners. (Editor/RK)

Renewing and democratizing education are central educational problems in developing nations. The author explores types of non-formal alternative education which can effectively be used in conjunction with formal schooling. (Author/DB)

Reviews a 1976 proposal by the Zambian government to create a national system of education and relates the proposal to Zambian and international educational trends since 1964. (Author/DB)

Argues that "we of the middle class must teach and assist the poor to use those techniques of prodding and pressure and persistence that we find essential to getting a decent education. Where the most feasible route points towards making nonwhite schools effective, we should not shun that direction because some fear that it is a return to separate…

Discusses the comprehensive system of adult education in the Hungarian People's Republic in the framework of political, social, and cultural influences. (LAS)

Provides guidelines for systemic change in education. Presents an overview of the change process. Discusses preparing for change; building a core team to lead the design effort; transforming vision into system design; shifting focus from planning to implementation; and implementation, summative evaluation, and closure. (AEF)