This report contains proceedings of a United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) international symposium and round table. The main objective of the meeting was to debate long-term goals of education and its role in preparing young people to face the demands of the 21st century. Papers presented include: (1) "Young…

The dramatic changes that occurred in information technology in the 1990s have rendered the curricular offerings of many college and university information systems and computer science programs obselete. This paper identifies some of the most desirable skills in the current technology environment. By being astute innovators with college curricula,…

This paper analyzes the stages of educational development beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, when mass economies began to emerge, immediately after World War II. This essay covers the last 40 years that have been characterized by rapid change and the most fascinating acceleration in the history of humanity. During those four decades, education…

These conference proceedings consist of 15 presentations: "Trends in the Development of Vocational Adult Education" (Heinrich Wenidoppler); "Training Programmes for the Long-Term Unemployed in the Flemish Community in Belgium" (Frederik Geers); "New Technology and Non-Vocational Adult Education in Baden-Wurttemberg,…

This report focuses on several reasons for questioning the appropriateness of the standard measures of returns to education in deciding about education programs and evaluating their comparative advantages vis-a-vis other investments in developing countries. The goal is to provide some guidelines in selecting future research options in the field of…

England has failed to create a stratum of technical school education in the 20th century. It is increasingly being recognized that educational defects have contributed to England's relative decline and laggard economic performance compared with European competitors. Although junior technical schools were founded in the early 1900s and secondary…

This document was prepared to facilitate and guide the discussions of a conference on economic planning in Asia and the Pacific in its deliberations and in the formulation of its recommendations. Organized in such a way as to correspond closely with the organization of the agenda for the Conference, chapter 1 draws attention to the changing…

This report provides updated information (as of 1988) on student mobility between British Commonwealth members, reviews reports from a consultative group examining how student mobility among member countries can be fostered, and provides a comparative analysis of student inflows for member countries. Analyses include student flows between…

The Goals 2000: Educate America Act is designed to improve learning and teaching by providing a national framework for education reform. Its goals also are to promote the research, coordination, and changes needed to ensure equitable educational opportunities for all students. The reauthorization of federal education programs and the establishment…

In Colonial America vocational education remained separate from defined educational settings and was confined to the working classes. Separation of vocational training from the colleges persisted until the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s, at which time increased dependence on technology led educators to acknowledge the…

The public has formed some myths and misconceptions about literacy. No substantive proof supports the grandiose assertion that literacy changes the way humans think and their intelligence. No one who has studied national surveys of adult literacy seriously believes that illiteracy in the United States will be eradicated by 2000. The literacy…

The major focus of the research is to explore how the implementation stage of two local education authorities (LEA) reorganizations initiatives in England was managed at LEA and school levels. The focus is on what must be done at both of these levels to implement central-government-approved reorganization proposals so as to portray how groups at…

This paper discusses general education (GE) programs and compares course requirements at community colleges in the United States. Through a review of the literature, the author presents the rationale for three types of GE programs: (1) core curricula, the most prescribed type of GE, practiced only by 5% of four-year institutions; (2)…

The relationship between resources devoted to education and the economy of developing nations is explored. The research seeks to understand if and how investment in education translates into increased economic growth and labor productivity. Additionally, the function of education in reducing various dimensions of economic inequality is examined.…

These studies of the involvement of women in higher education in China, Nepal, and the Philippines provide a common framework for analysis. Each study is organized around five broad areas: socio-cultural factors, politico-economic factors, ideological factors, legal factors, and infrastructural factors. An analysis of the progress of women's…