This statistical profile establishes baseline information about Pacific schools, from which needs can be identified and against which school improvement can be measured. Data were collected from responses to a questionnaire distributed in December 1986. The following jurisdictions responded: (1) American Samoa; (2) Belau; (3) Commonwealth of the…

This history of the "polytechnic experiment" covers the period from the establishment of a binary British higher education policy in the mid-1960s to the passage in 1992 of the Further and Higher Education Act, which abolished the binary policy and the polytechnic sector, thus enabling the polytechnics in England and Wales to acquire the…