The background and development of "capacity planning," the procedure of reconciling social demand with government funding, in non-university-based professional education in the Netherlands is outlined. Issues arising from it are discussed. (MSE)

Factors affecting the development and implementation of education policy for special education in England and Wales is examined in the context of the 1981 Education Act. Factors considered include staff evaluation, the competing definitions of need and good practice, professional and administrative accountability, user rights, politicization, and…

More than enough students are enrolled in journalism courses to replace every professional journalist now employed on an American newspaper. Implications of this fact and evaluations of the quality of journalistic education are discussed with reference to specific cases. (LBH)

Institutional and individual determinants of adult participation in higher education are examined. Using linear regression, the authors predicted the 1970 degree-credit college enrollment of a sample of 57,689 married men and women aged 25 or older living in metropolitan areas. (Editor/LBH)

This paper discusses the growing trend in higher education of treating students as customers. It addresses the traditional views of the student-instructor role and why there is a push toward a customer-oriented paradigm in higher education. Resistance to this movement is also addressed, both from the student and faculty/administrative viewpoints.…

An on-going study is examining a method proposed by S. Goetz and D. Debertin for estimating demand for educational attainment at the county level by using secondary data. The method produces compact information showing the relationship between employment, occupation, and educational attainment, information not available at the county level. The…

Empirical content is given to the concept of an organization set and two related hypotheses are tested on data concerning the competition of colleges and universities for new students. (Author/KM)

Attempts to explore the fiscal relationships underlying the provision of elementary and secondary public education by introducing a simultaneous equation model. The model is essentially a demand and supply equation system for public expenditures on education. It represents a preliminary attempt at providing predictive insight and understanding…

In a discussion of numbers of college applicants and a survey of fall openings, the authors suggest that the majority of the nation's colleges are not facing a crisis in applications and enrollments and that a buyer's market'' does not exist. (Author/BY)

Discusses the problems of who will pay the costs of restraining and how the areas of need'' can be discovered and provided for. (SP)

The article discusses various problems of postsecondary institutions. (MF)

Presents 14 steps to be taken by those communities wishing to develop community education programs. (JH)

Describes the problems posed by the teaching of workers of different nationalities who find themselves in a country whose spoken and written language is unknown to the majority. (Author/ML)

This paper estimates for a given year (1959) both rates of return and present values to taking additional schooling in Puerto Rico, and relates these rates and present values to the increase in schooling per male worker in broad occupational categories over the 20 years, 1940-1960. (Author/RY)