Explores how the collapse of dot-coms has produced an increase in applications to business schools. Students previously interested in start-up companies, along with recruiters previously interested in young, non-traditionally educated employees, are rethinking the value of a business degree. (EV)

Examines research on organizational and industry decline and provides survival guidelines for organizations within declining industries. Demonstrates how an organization can use the guidelines by examining a single-sex boarding school facing such a dilemma. (EV)

Examines the relationship between three key state policy variables and enrollments in private higher education. Finds that institutional density and low public tuition prices negatively affect enrollments in large, moderately selective private institutions and that state student-aid funding adversely affects enrollments in small, low-selective…

Undergraduate applications to civil engineering courses have been declining at an alarming rate despite the industry's healthy economic activity. Concerns abound as to the long-term impact of this decline as the sector is already suffering skills shortages across virtually all of its occupations. This paper investigates the likely future trends in…

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…

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…

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…

Technological advancement in Russia has resulted in a need for specialists with higher education. This article discusses the problems met in trying to determine the need for engineers and economists and in attempting to recover training costs. (Author/RM)

Regarding the future of American education, although there have been problems in the past, the experience with Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 demonstrates that schools can, albeit slowly, devise new programs and new ways of working with disadvantaged children. (Author/JA)

A system of elements for matching the supply and demand for workers from higher education is outlined. A portion of the system is exercised to obtain a provisional evaluation of supply and demand levels under assumptions of increased educational upgrading and industrial growth for the Southern region. (Editor/PG)

During the past five years the college's career programs have been growing steadily. Each year this growth has been noted mainly by comparison with the previous year. The present report shows how career programs have been growing in the longer term. A five-year time frame has been selected for comparison. The number of students enrolling in career…

Two linear workload models of the University of California have been developed which can be used to forecast the university's demand for faculty. Both utilize a matrix of faculty input coefficients to transform a vector of student enrollment projections into a forecast of required faculty members. The purpose of the present investigation was…

Higher Education is charged by its critics with increased irrelevance and continuing inflexibility. Defenders of tradition, on the other hand, often see the university as a shambles of innovation and disorder. The perspective offered by the graphic tables in this document of enrollment trends and patterns over several decades offers some middle…

The purpose of the study was to consider the viability of expanding the medical school within existing resources such as personnel, hospitals and clinics, in North Dakota. Questionnaires were used to obtain information about existing health education programs, the facilities for training physicians, and the willingness of area physicians to teach…