This paper describes the organisation, preparation and delivery of a major project, namely, a national roundtable conference on assessment, in the context of a wider project involving the development and application of a model of collaboration between tertiary institutions based on a distributive leadership framework. It analyses feedback received…

This article examines the approaches that Hong Kong and Singapore have adopted in trying to develop themselves as regional hubs of higher education through their developments of transnational higher education. Hong Kong and Singapore compete for this market share of global higher education because it can be a lucrative business. Adapting a model…

In a rapidly changing society like Botswana, the competition for employment, training and progression on the job has become very high. The development of skills is therefore a crucial and integral part of nation building, which needs a direct link to a training programme to continuously help staff to cope with the different needs they meet in the…

It's winter! While it is frosty outside, one can at least think warm thoughts by starting now to plan ahead for summer information literacy programs. This article is designed to provide some ideas for planning next summer's reading, sleuthing, and research programs. It features a variety of programs organized by academic librarians this past…

This supplement to the final report (ED 040 693) presents research summaries of member institutions of the Oklahoma Consortium on Research Development--an organization which seeks, as one of its objectives, the development of viable, ongoing research programs. The summaries contain information on: (1) institutional involvement in the Consortium;…

A taxonomy was devised for describing and classifying organizational characteristics that have set the pattern for the coordinating mechanisms in 41 states. The information assembled covers a period of years dating back to the beginnings of coordination in each state so that historic trends can be seen. The significant emerging trends are: (1) The…

The introduction to this paper overviews the project which was designed to provide the institute with contemporary, direct, and continuing feedback about basic issues and problems in teacher education for the disadvantaged. One page of information (gathered from proposals and from interim and final reports) is devoted to each of the 25 inter- and…

Primary aspects of the educational administrative internship are described, based upon preliminary findings of a Ford Foundation interuniversity internship program conducted at Cornell University, Syracuse University, the University of Rochester, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. The program's rationale is defined, the historical…

This study was undertaken to answer questions about the growing movement toward interinstitutional cooperation in higher education. After a brief discussion of the recent history of and rationale behind the growth of consortia, data on the 1,017 consortia under consideration are presented. Information is included on institutional size and control,…

Volume one of the two-volume report on the operation of the Educational Information Network (EIN) gives the background, development, and results of the EIN project from its inception in July 1968 to December 1971. EIN attempted to promote the sharing of computing resources at colleges, universities, and educational service institutions across the…

Volume two of the two-volume report on the operations of the Educational Information Network (EIN) is made up of a miscellany of the publications of EIN. It includes the draft edition of the Documentation Standards Handbook, various articles, memos, forms, and so forth, presented in strictly chronological order. EIN was designed to coordinate the…

Analysis of interorganizational relationships in a rural county show that the number of volunteers is a particularly useful predictor of interorganizational participation, besides degree of autonomy from parent organization, complexity, size, and auspices. (Author/KR)

Discusses the new technologies that have come about in the Information Age. Stresses the importance of maintaining our technological superiority through continued cooperation among business, education, government, and community agencies. (JOW)

The article tells how disruption and confrontation in a school was averted through a visit to a student presentation in another school. (MM)