This is a report of the third meeting of the Mediterranean Comparative Education Society (MESCE) that took place in Malta in May 2008. The full programme can be accessed at: http://www.educ.um.edu.mt/mesce/cprogramme.html. The conference was attended by around 130 people from different countries in the Mediterranean and beyond but concentrated,…

This article focuses on the changing nature of education governance in Europe. It looks at the shifting discourses and policy practices in the ways in which the European Commission has aligned itself to education and discusses the reasons for what is presented as a substantial shift in the tools and resources for governing the European education…

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to analyse critically the youth labour market (YLM) and the YLM policies in Portugal. The analysis covers essentially the period after 1986, when Portugal entered the European Union. Design/methodology/approach: The paper consists of three main sections. In the first the main players dealt with (government,…

In this paper, the author discusses the adoption of the Western Enlightenment paradigm in East European higher education. It is important to note that while postsocialist transition slowed toward the late 1990s, change in East European higher education has been strongly influenced by creating the European higher education area, or the Bologna…

The Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) is a regional tuition-reciprocity agreement that enables students from WICHE (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education) states to enroll in participating two- and four-year public institutions at 150 percent of the enrolling institution's resident tuition. WUE has been operating for more than 20…

A cooperative shows how to multiply library resources by sharing them. (PS)

Provides several guidelines drawn from the successful experiences of the Education Service Center concept in Texas for intermediate service unit involvement in educational planning. (Author/JH)

Text of the agreement between canton superintendents of public instruction; In French with no translation provided. (RT)

A highly structured inexpensive teletype system used by several libraries in western Illinois has resulted in filling about 50 percent of the members' requests for monographs despite a nearly total lack of knowledge of each other's holdings. Recent experimentation with the OCLC interlibrary loan subsystem shows promise under similar conditions.…

This case study illustrates how neighboring counties can cooperate in a multicounty approach to regional park acquisition and system-wide park planning and funding. (JD)

Discusses the future of the Middle East in the wake of the end of the Cold War. Examines the ongoing political reorientation of the region. Suggests that the United States and Europe can foster a political balance in the Middle East by acting as competitive but allied stabilizers. (SG)

With the processes of globalization and localization, the local availability of knowledge and skills, and the transfer of technology and innovation to industry, small and medium-sized enterprises and the wider society have become increasingly important. In recent years, there have been many initiatives across Organization for Economic Cooperation…

The coincident arrival of a European policy space in education and a European Educational Research Association [EERA], and their subsequent relation, will be the subject of this paper. EERA is a hybrid organization--it supports scientific networking, it is a social partner in EU policy, it is a first level social space for networking, and…

This paper summarizes the factors involved in resource sharing for preparation of national bibliographies and establishment of national bibliographic services. The term "resources" is considered in a range of senses including information, as well as commitment and financial resources to be expended on cooperation. Resources required for…