The Marine Resources Panel addressed itself to three tasks: describing the current rate of exploration and exploitation of marine resources and the physical, economic, and legal conditions under which they are produced; identifying deterrents to development and efficient utilization of marine resources; and recommending programs that will remove…

The Commission on Student Participation in University Life at Miami University examined many dimensions of student life and university affairs with the objective of providing a framework within which a student may accept greater responsibility for the consequences of his own behavior and for planning his own future. In this statement, the…

A staff paper to the President's Task Force on Communications Policy analyses the use of the electromagnetic spectrum for communications and suggests improvements. The evolution of spectrum use and its present federal management are described together with the problem of achieving efficient use in the areas of electromagnetic congestion. Criticism…

The course is for independent study by jail officers who must learn that, in addition to their rountine tasks, they must be prepared to be well-trained, responsible professionals, making important decisions and avoiding the mistakes and disproven beliefs of the past. The jail administrator must continually wrestle with the problems of conflicting…

A study was made of the aims governments have with respect to computers and what methods they have at their disposal for achieving these aims. The Canadian experience provided an example. In general, throughout the world, governmental objectives with regard to computers come under three headings: (1) to use computers effectively in governmental…

This symposium paper examines policy formation in early childhood education in terms of the functions, consequences, and implications of ideological conflicts. A definition of ideology is presented, and reasons are given in the context of this definition as to why an unreliable data base is the cause for current ideological battles in early…

An annual review, third in a series, covers developments in the field of population and family planning in East Asia. For each of the 10 countries involved (Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Phillipines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and South Vietnam) there is an article written by the agent responsible for the family planning…

This bibliography includes entries for works published up to and including 1972. Australian education has been given a wide interpretation to encompass works published by Australians, in Australia, or about Australian education. Mimeographed as well as printed material have been included. Journals and journal articles, calendars, courses of study,…

The Cable Television Information Center, as part of its overall attempt to provide local governmental policy makers with the information and analytical tools needed for sound decision making, prepared a report to assist public officials who wish to develop technical standards for cable television (CATV) systems in their communities. The report…

In this paper the authors argue that the decision structures of educational institutions are multi-level, multi-decision-maker hierarchies which can be described and analyzed in decision theoretic terms and that these multi-levels, multi-decision-maker hierarchies can be reduced to equivalent one-level, one-decision-maker formulations, which can…

An attempt is made in this paper to characterize, and identify some of the basic issues in library research which require resolution. DeProspo's primary purpose is to suggest some of the reasons which lead to the conclusion that much of the research effort in librarianship, the objective of which has been to influence library policy, has been…

This manual comprises a syllabus containing the directives and materials used by program administrators of the Nebraska State Department Instructional Division in 12-hour training sessions designed to increase management planning skills. The compilation includes those materials supplied to the participants for the sessions, as well as the…

As the fifteenth of a series of national science policy reviews made in diverse countries, the background and the examiner reports on science policies in Iceland are presented in this book to provide information about the political, economic, and structural aspects of national research and development (R and D) goals. Scientific and technological…

This document reports the view and recommendations expressed at the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Group on Scientific and Technical Information of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). It is divided into five sections: (1) Introduction, which advocates that policy for processing and disseminating scientific and technical…

This document provides information for the use of leaders concerned with the development of proposals and recommendations for national policy consideration. The first four sections discuss: the need for continuous education in the later years as a means to improve the circumstances of the older people; long-range goals of educational programs for…