This study of informal education examines traditional tailors' apprenticeship training in Liberia. The purpose is to compare and contrast a form of informal education with formal schooling. An examination was made of a group of one hundred tailors having all combinations of tailoring experience, from none to thirty years, and schooling, from none…

This monograph provides a perspective to academic institutions, especially the developing institutions, to look at themselves in critical ways in order to: improve their capability in academic planning and development; develop useful techniques that will enable them to allocate limited institutional resources more efficiently into the academic…

The Assistant Secretary for Education discusses in this speech what the Federal Government, under the auspices of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, has done and is doing to meet the special educational needs of American Indians in the United States. The Office of Education has been given broad new authority and commands by the…

The role of higher education is discussed in this essay with regard to the "new mission" of basic learning skills. It is suggested that teaching basic skills should be pressed back on the precollegiate educational units where it belongs, and that colleges must defend the idea that they are institutions for higher studies and advanced intellectual…

Discusses the development of the existing correctional programs in Canada's prisons, some theories of criminality, and two competing views on the best way to reform criminals today. Also gives a short review of penitentiary education programs. (RK)

Presents experts' and politicians' comments on the type of curriculum which would meet students' vocational education needs in Britain. Based on analysis of these comments, proposes a curriculum framework for vocational education in schools and colleges. (Author/AEM)

Jewish studies have split into two camps. The one camp is the ethnic and the other is the academic. The crisis of ethnic studies arose because the ethnics ignored the disciplines of the academy, and because the academy found a way to segregate the ethnics. (MLW)

Reports results of a survey of 51 seniors at Mississippi State University who had taken agricultural courses at a junior college. Students who took courses for technical credit received lower grades but rated the course's quality higher than their peers who took courses with similar content for academic credit. (CH)

Discusses the negative impacts of academic and vocational tracking. Academic consequences include (1) limiting access to knowledge, (2) differing instructional quality, (3) differing student outcomes, and (4) curricula inequality. Suggests new goals and new curricula to improve education for all students. (CH)

Presents a methodology which allows various-sized campuses to measure and communicate student affairs contributions to the educational milieu. (Author/BL)

Describes the Russian academic city'' and its programs for mathematically and scientifically gifted students. (SP)

Eight categories of demands being made by Mexican American students in higher education are discussed, and some leading questions which arise in each category are presented. (NQ)

The development of academic programs focused on alternative modes of inquiry, interdisciplinary problems and value judgments. (Editor)

Guidelines are offered to curb the competition between research and academic education. (HS)