Estimates the proportion of service and nonservice expenditures within a state aging department. In Massachusetts the ratio was $0.70 to $0.30 (service to nonservice) both for the state's Home Care Programs and for all activities. (JAC)

Article considers the most effective method for instructing trainees and employees. As well, it resolves the significance of program versus medium. (RK)

How to produce instructional series that sell with a minimum of expense. (Editor)

Summarizes the discussions concerning the choice of health-related studies to be undertaken by the Institute of Medicine, including a proposal to determine the cost of education of medical professionals. (AL)

The approach to library planning studied in this paper is the use of accounting models to measure library costs and implement program budgets. A cost-flow model for a university library is developed and tested with historical data from the General Library at the University of California, Berkeley. (4 references) (Author)

Administrators are relying increasingly on computer technology. (Editor)

Updated information of the current status and trends of public residential facilities for mentally retarded persons in the United States is reported for basic demographic data, population movement, resident programs, and administration (including budgeting and staffing). Trends are noted toward admission and readmission to public residential…

Discusses elements of an implementation methodology for the removal of poverty in India. Includes background, methodology, aggregation of demands, economics of the strategy, complementary activities and infrastructure, mechanics of implementation, and monitoring. (CT)

Because of rising costs college students in Great Britain must now pay a fee for medical care despite the existence of the National Health Service. (JD)

Provides guidance on setting fees and fee policies. Stresses the importance of having fees high enough to adequately reward staff and low enough to be affordable to families. Based on an analysis of over 150 fee policies, discusses rates, multichild discounts, charges for absences, payment terms, registration fees and deposits, withdrawals, late…

Compulsory education is the fundamental education for citizens and is the source of state power, which radically determines thought level, political awareness, cultural sense and production ability of the entire nation. Therefore, to popularize compulsory education is the root of a country. This paper explains the meanings of compulsory education,…

This paper presents a standard costing model appropriate for determining real costs of programs which are not entirely self-contained. Central to the model is the concept of allocation pools involving resources which are not attributable to a single program or program component, but whose costs must be shared by any given program which is part of…