This booklet describes how a group of doctoral condidates at Harvard established the Clinical School Collaborative and how they tried to shape their ideal into a reality. The group wanted to form an organization which did a better job in teaching students, training adults, and pursuing research than existing institutions. They held discussions in…

The concept of lifelong education has become a key issue in educational planning. The author, a theorist and practitioner in adult education and a member of the UNESCO Secretariat since 1948, suggests how lifelong education can be promoted and highlights some of the problems it involves. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author tries to…

It was not until the 1960's that the subject of higher education started to disturb governments, or the issue of government policy on higher education became a topic of national debate. Some thoughts on the likely evolution of British higher education to the 1980's and beyond are apparent after looking to: the Robbins Report of 1963, which…

The Harvard University Center for Moral Education is conducting research on Kohlberg's assumption that development of moral thinking and of practical understanding of democratic institutions may be most effective in schools where students judge the moral atmosphere to be just. Students perceptions of three types of school are compared: (1)…

The Ontario university system has undergone two separate transformations, structural and economic, from 1972 to 75. The history of this period is primarily the history of these transformations and the way they have affected university-government relations and the role of the Council of Ontario Universities. Major issues of concern during that…

For four years the California State University and Colleges attempted to encourage new approaches to instruction that would provide students with increased options in their educational programs and opportunities for faculty to test and develop their ideas for improving the quality of instruction. A number of different learning and teaching…

The document presents a portion of a paper by Raja Roy Singh, Director, Regional Office for Education in Asia, entitled "Regional Education Programmes: Asia", which was presented at a regional seminar convened by the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, in July 1975. There are at least two notable features of the implanation of the…

The comprehensive nature of the Total Institutional Project required a diversity of specialities and points of view. An advisory panel was encouraged to investigate any aspect of Austin College's program that it felt was relevant to the overall purposes of the project. The panel was able to gain a great deal of understanding concerning the…

Given are the locations, addresses, objectives, tasks, and some projects of Centers for Tertiary Education in West Germany. The German term for a center of this kind is "Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum." In January 1975 there were 19 such centers in West Germany, mostly at newly-founded universities or at reform universities. (Author/KE)

The focus of this speech is a description of the process by which the National Institute of Education (NIE) will plan its research efforts in the area of teaching and curriculum. The first section of the document argues that the current relationship between funding agencies and researchers could be made more efficient if four essential types of…

Since graduate students in education are expected to direct educational inquiry at the termination of their doctorates, the program to prepare educational inquirers at Indiana University stresses critical understanding as well as mastery of techniques or methods. There are two essential aspects of the Indiana University Program in Educational…

Described is an information package with information on six science programs suitable for use in elementary schools. The programs selected for inclusion in the information unit were Elementary Science Study, Inquiry Development Program, Minnesota Mathematics and Science Teaching Project, Science Curriculum Improvement Study, Conceptually Oriented…

An accounting is made in this report of the work of the Office of the Commissioner of Education during Fiscal Year 1970 and reflects the state of American education today. The Commissioner envisions the Federal role in education to be one of increasing the effectiveness of the human and financial resources of our schools, colleges and…

A questionnaire survey, conducted among the professional staff of the Kansas State Department of Education, identified need studies that had been previously undertaken in conjunction with department activities, and solicited staff opinions concerning educational needs. The staff reported that 25 need studies had been conducted; the staff…

Three speeches and 10 symposium reports are contained in this conference summary. The speeches are entitled: a) "How to Improve Instruction on the Basis of Evaluation"; b) "Evaluation of Instructors: The State of the Art and the Art of the State"; and c) "Apple Pie, Motherhood, and Evaluation." The topics of the 10…