Reviews the Robbins Report, considering today's educational issues from its perspective. Concentrating mainly on the university component of British higher education, Moser concludes that many of its themes are relevant today. Argues for less educational specialization, total financial review, and continued support of higher education for those…

This paper is a preliminary report on a four-year project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council which studied the origins, implementation, and initial effects of England's Assisted Places Scheme. The Assisted Places Scheme is intended as a "scholarship ladder" for financially eligible and academically able students.…

Discusses the durability of the university, the university's maintenance of emphasis on integrity in study, the specialization of knowledge, the need for enlarging the educational opportunities of our society, and the importance of good teachers. (CT)

Inequality of educational opportunity, as indicated by the effect of father's occupational status on years of schooling completed, is greater in France than in the U.S. the difference is accounted for by school structural variables, indicating the importance of structure for inequality of opportunity. (Author)

Comments based on the contribution of the author as chairman of the UNESCO symposium held in Paris, December 1975, on conditions calculated to assist the access of workers to education and measures to be taken to ensure their effective participation in the definition and implementation of educational activities of concern to them. (Author/JT)

Students with disabilities have made great strides in the classroom over the past three decades, sparked by the passage of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)." This revolutionary law paved the way for children with disabilities to enjoy full access to educational opportunities. Another revolutionary law, the "No…

This report presents Tidewater Community College's (TCC's) (Virginia) 1998 graduate survey study. Approximately half of the graduates attended another college or university prior to enrolling at TCC. A small portion enrolled directly from high school. Almost three-fourths of the graduates were working either full- or part-time while enrolled, and…

This paper explores accountability issues at the district level by focusing on school-district features that might influence school achievement. It examines the effect of input variables on student performance, over a period of four years, and takes these into account when considering school performance. For its theoretical framework, the study…

This booklet presents the 2000 Facts and Impacts report to the Tri-Cities community served by Columbia Basin College (CBC). It provides a snapshot of the college in the late 1990s. Following a message from CBC's president and a list of the members of the Board of Trustees, legislators (District 8), legislators (District 16), president, vice…

Presents an overview of major programs in higher education directed at helping the disadvantaged, makes a critical assessment of each, makes recommendations for looking into the future, and emphasizes the notion that the educational system is a reflection of the wider social system and conditions that exist. (Author/CJ)

Described a program, HEAP, which attempted to humanize and personalize the junior college program for freshmen at Laredo Junior College in Texas. (Author/RK)

Discussed the materials necessary for students in a learning center stressing an individualized, team teaching project. (Author/RK)

The extent to which one may be confident of Jencks' analysis of data in Inequality'' is examined. (Author/KM)

This paper considers several opportunities for research on the means of relating investment in higher education more closely to widely expressed desires for faster economic growth and for greater equity in educational opportunity. It does this against a background of policy issues related to growth and equity among income groups common to the…

Author considered board members, administrators, faculty and others offering training and education to veterans. (Author/RK)