For decades now, critics have viewed educational leadership and administration as sorely lacking in many respects--including as a field of scholarly inquiry. Murphy, Hawley, and Young (2005) cite numerous studies that have "assessed the profession and judged it to be in poor health" (p. 49). Thomas Sergiovanni, another leading scholar,…

Author mourns the accelerating demise of Irish language schools. (Editor/RK)

A discussion of the relationship of the British Council and educational television. (HB)

Author discussed further education as a focus for experiment and innovation and stressed that true implementation of new ideas cannot be taken for granted. (Author/RK)

Discussed a new educational concept presented at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. (RK)

The values, implied in a development ethic based in Euro-American cultural traditions and used as a standard for international aid policies, are questioned with respect to their applicability to Third World needs. (JH)

This statement of criteria and policy for the United States Agency for International Development, AID, is accompanied by proposed areas of educational emphasis: 1) educational economics and analysis, 2) education technology, 3) non formal education, and 4) strengthened higher education for national development. (JH)

Article considered the nomadic existence of Iranian tribes and the efforts of their country to deliver educational services to them. Specifically, a successful experiment in tribal education was discussed. (RK)

Here is a pen-portrait of a new-style tertiary college, North Devon College, Barnstaple. (Editor/RK)

Article compared theory and practice in the area of education in Russia and China as well as how both nations have inculcated education with productive labour. (RK)

The principal should be responsible for the administrative leadership of the school, including leadership of the supervisory program. (Author)

A discussion of the social, political and economic background which led to the establishment of the Hungarian National Centre of Educational Technology and made essential the development of a national network of bases for promoting educational technology. (Author)

This document contains abstracts of 121 completed studies of research and development activities in agricultural education in the United States during the period, July 1, 1976 to June 30, 1977. Twenty-six of the completed studies represent staff research; sixty-one represent master's theses, and thirty-four represent doctoral theses. The abstracts…