Recent enrollment trends in Australia show technical and continuing education to be growing fastest. Reasons for this change in enrollment patterns may include demographic change, change in participation rates, declining demand for school teachers, graduate underemployment, and political influences. This pattern is likely to continue in the near…

The Act of 16th July 1971, which established the right to continuing education, was intended to act as a spur to France's universities. The results achieved are seen as modest, partially because the universities' administrative procedures and methods are not suited to the commercial nature of this activity. (Author/MLW)

The effect of a sharp fall in the birth rate on German universities and the need to identify new target student groups are considered. The implementation of extended education and three matters of significance in promoting it (prospective audience, organization, and use of appropriate distance-study materials) are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Discusses the social causes of the current popularity of private schools and the effect on public education. One scenario of education in the next decade shows private school parents allying to pass tuition tax-credit legislation which permanently alters the entire educational system. Six other possible outcomes are described and evaluated. (AM)

The relationship between demographic changes, higher education enrollment trends, and college-age participation in higher education is discussed. Factors influencing educational demand in 1960-78 and means of measuring participation rates are examined. Enrollment trends until 1996 are discussed. (MSE)

The author demonstrates the utility of marketing concepts and techniques as a total strategy designed to overcome resistance to participation and to involve the hard-to-reach adult in continuing education. (SK)

This is a report on the decrease in enrollment in secondary schools observed in England, and the effect this decrease is likely to have on science education. (BB)

Zaire has one of the highest attrition rates in Africa--about 90 percent of the students who begin seventh grade never receive twelfth grade diplomas. This study demonstrates that administration policy and social environment of schools, as well as student ability and performance, may account for high failure rate. (RW)

Consideration of a specific group, mature women enrolled in degree courses, leads to a wider examination of the role of higher education in Australia. Focus is on the role of education in the life of individuals and in society as a whole. (LBH)

A process for the management of reductions in the number of faculty positions available to a university is described. It considers staffing by projections, the evolution of personnel planning, and the balance of reductions in faculty and administration, along with coping strategies and advice growing out of five years of enrollment decline…

"Elite higher education" is viewed in terms of the mode of education and the level of intensity and complexity at which the subject is pursued. It contrasts with "mass higher education," but must coexist with mass higher education, universal access, and continuing education. (LBH)

Examines the influence of certain opportunity costs (school attendance, educational quality attributes, and household economic status) on the educational demand of Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, and non-Hispanic whites using 1988-89 National Education Longitudinal Study data. Basic results suggest that a school's attendance rate is…