Examination of recent reforms at three Mexican public universities suggests that university administrators have had little will or power to regulate expansion in the face of growing social demand for higher education. Discusses "populist" and "modernist" conceptions of university reform, which focus on social needs and economic…

The status of higher education as a field of study in Canada is examined and compared with the United States. The factor seen as most limiting the field's development is not low demand or limited employment opportunities, but reluctance to allocate resources because of low prestige and support outside academe. (Author/MSE)

A discussion of Dutch higher vocational education (HVE) looks at the place of HVE in the overall postsecondary system, its system of governance, its role in the reorganization of higher education, and efforts at innovation. Part-time programs are seen as a likely way to serve needs and cut costs. (MSE)

Extends Feldstein's notion of wealth neutrality to embrace fiscal neutrality, using a representative consumer context. Employs an "ideal" demand system to model school district expenditures in a general equilibrium framework. Rejects constant price and income elasticity demand models. Supports the fiscally neutral elasticity model…

The description and summary of a large-scale French study of the future and directions of French-language teaching for special purposes looks at instructional efforts currently under way and at three aspects of the study: the publics addressed, the areas of specialization targeted, and the methods used. (MSE)

Discusses challenges facing educational management in India resulting from demographic change, social demand for education, economic need for trained manpower. Attempts to develop social model for year 2000, reflecting concerns for strength of India's democracy and secularization. Educational managers will be challenged to achieve universalization…

Government policy and student pressures are focused on future employability and appear intent on forcing higher education to be more transparently relevant to the workplace. This trend is threat to a broader view of education and the development of inquiring, innovative, critical thinkers, who are supposed to be in demand by employers. (SK)

Examines the interdependence of two of China's major social initiatives: the move from a command economy closer to a free market economy and the liberalization of the country's educational system. Highlights needs for and the contributions that community colleges might make in the context of these initiatives. (27 citations) (MAB)

Recent Canadian opinion surveys indicate that the public has great faith in Canadian educational institutions, is much more inclined to want student-centered educational services restored to previous levels than to want any major structural changes, is concerned about rising tuition costs for postsecondary education, and expresses strong demand…

In October through December 2001 the authors of this article carried out a sociological survey that studied the interconnection between the market of educational services and the labor market in the Urals Federal District. The structure of basic tendencies of the development of the market of educational services were studied, and the labor market…

The focus of this study was to empirically investigate how virtual teams operate in an online MBA program. Building knowledge and skills required for a successful career is a central component of higher education, especially in business schools. Importantly, virtual teaming has been considered a useful method in meeting this educational demand.…

In an effort to determine the current occupational outlook and resulting implications for education and training, the City College of San Francisco (CCSF), in California, undertook a study of current trends in the travel and tourism industry. This report provides findings from the project, which involved consultation with local and national…

A growing concern is that our nation is failing to provide a technology infrastructure for K-12 education that will enable graduates to compete in the information-based economy of the 21st century. The Living Textbook project is designed to deliver real-time, multimedia information on demand for use in classroom instruction. Three pilot schools in…

The current discourse about access can be changed by using three adjectives: old, wide, and deep. Regarding the first, since the 1870s, when the professionalization and specialization of knowledge took off in so many fields, inequalities in education have actually increased where it matters most--who knows how much of what is available to be…

This paper reports on the development and testing of a system dynamics model of the departmental deployment of instructional resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A model was developed using the Stella II computer software package. The model describes describes how departments keep student enrollments, number of course sections, and…