Many public university systems rely on their own institutional research (IR) offices, in addition to the IR offices from their member institutions, to help conduct the work of the university system. In this chapter, the author illustrates the type of work conducted by system-level IR offices using a nontraditional data source that can be used to…

Consumer education's role in business education should attempt to provide students with consumer understandings and skills that will serve them personally both at home and on-the-job. Part of business education classroom activities should then center on consumer rights, needs, and problems. (BP)

This paper presents evidence of the demand for education. The study uses the translog-LES (Linear Expenditure System) indirect utility function to analyze the demand within a multicommunity framework for annual U.S. expenditures for 1958-1982. Taste change has moved toward the consumption of education, and the consumer has suffered because of…

The authors present the hypothesis that the integration of communications technology into a cooperative and comprehensive systems design is the only way a state can realistically meet its continuing obligation to provide increased learning opportunities...without a vast increase in the percentage of tax money spent on public instruction. (Editor)

Chandra applies economic terminology to the field of education, with emphasis on the idea of education as savings''. (SP)

The author discusses a number of current trends which seem likely to shape future developments" in education. (Author/AK)

Discusses the various types of adult religious education that can be offered by a parish depending on what the adult participants want to know. (AN)

Examines the role of organizational processes in generating the demand for qualified personnel. Neo-Weberian theorists point to the importance of contextual features of organizations such as size and national prominence as predictors of educational demand. Neo-Marxist historians examine the role played by credentials. (AM)

Describes how many colleges are overwhelmed by a wave of new students, but that a select few are riding the crest. (EV)

Describes how for-profit education companies see advanced degrees for school teachers as a growth market (EV)

Uses information on educational aspirations collected in early surveys of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to examine postsecondary educational choices and provide new estimates of the democratization and diversion effects of community colleges. Finds, for example, that community colleges increase average educational attainment for…

"Doublespeak," a concept usually attributed to author George Orwell, in which deliberately ambiguous or evasive language is used to disguise or distort actual meaning, is alive and well in the Government's latest policy for adult learning, according to the writer, as exemplified by recommendations of the Leitch report and demand-led…

This report provides an comprehensive analysis of the way recession is impacting upon graduate outcomes. Data used in this report reflects the current level of applications to higher education (HE) for 2010 entry, but, due to data collection timing differences, the employment and training destinations of the graduating cohorts of 2005/06-2008/09.…

Higher education in the market economy is inevitable affected by the higher education market. The tuition of higher education in china had become the personal price performance of higher education in certain degrees and exerts some certain functions of price mechanism. Because the higher education market distortion that tuition pricing cannot…

With the expansion of education, the growth of the middle class and their awareness of the nexus between educational opportunities and socio-economic success, countries have come to perceive parents as stakeholders in, not just the recipients of, education. With the growing stakes involved, the need to have parental agreement on the broad lines of…