Debates about access and success are currently vigorous in higher education. There is much greater equity in terms of access but success in higher education continues to be racially patterned and far too few students graduate. This article argues for a more selective approach to access that is driven more deliberately by the need for increased…

Suggests an instructional approach for preparing working secretaries for the Certified Professional Secretary (CPS) examination. (TA)

Management education in East Central Europe exists in a context of rapid evolution, the need to establish credibility, and contradictory demand. Programs must deal with the transition to a market economy, social versus profit orientation, lack of qualified faculty, and the need for textbooks and case material. (SK)

Addresses the growing demand for access to higher education and the conditions under which this is leading to a worldwide market through transnational education and the export of educational services. Discusses extension of the General Agreement on Trade in Services to higher education, and the adequacy of Europe's Bologna Process as a response to…

Discusses factors at play in the tremendous growth in for-profit institutions of higher education, including non-traditional students, emphasis on employment, hands-on teaching methods, and convenient scheduling. (EV)

Using data from National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972, this paper presents estimates of the price elasticity of the decision to apply to college. Calculations incorporating this price effect into earlier enrollment elasticity estimates suggest that true elasticity may be double the size reported in the literature. Includes…

Describes market segmentation and how the principles of segmentation can be applied to the adult education market. Indicates that applying segmentation techniques to adult education programs results in programs that are educationally and financially satisfying and serve an appropriate population. (JOW)

Cross-curriculum comparisons help open up new perspectives on old issues. The flight from physics by students is one such issue. Here a comparison is made with music education and language education. Where these comparisons provide useful insights they can also warn against knee-jerk panaceas. It is suggested we need to understand how and why…

"Demand" in the education system has traditionally been articulated almost entirely in terms of access to more, better, and higher-status opportunities within the traditional public school system, rather than for alternatives to the standardised, highly-regulated opportunities provided by the state. This is changing, in the U.S. and…

Much of the writing on higher education in recent years has tended to assume that the new management push in higher education is both universal and irreversible. This paper, however, presents evidence from Portugal to challenge that assumption. While elements of the new managerialism are clearly evident in the perceptions and attitudes of…

Teacher centers in America can provide the vehicle for the improvement of education through a) the professionalization of educators, b) the education of the public, and c) the repoliticization of education. Teacher centers can serve as the point of input for the knowledge necessary for the professionalization of educators and can function as the…