Papers from the proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society was submitted in two volumes. Volume 1 contains papers submitted at the conference held in Sofia, Bulgaria, June 14-17, 2016. Volume 2 contains papers submitted at the 4th International Partner Conference of the International Research Centre…

The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) organized an assembly on nonformal education (NFE) for the following purposes: share information on the ADEA's internal organization and functioning; exchange information on the activities and organization of the ADEA's 10 national working groups; discuss issues, concerns, and…

A conference on minority rights and training held in Gatwick, England, in April 1997 had the following purposes: (1) to explore training about minority rights and the need to make majorities aware of minority rights and attitudes that improve cooperation between communities; and (2) to look at the need for and possibilities of training relief…

This publication contains two papers from the 1993 National Institute on the Assessment of Experiential Learning. "In Support of Prior Learning Assessment" (Rebecca C. Hull) highlights arguments in opposition to the acceptance of prior learning assessment and the responses that might best counter these arguments. "Outcomes Assessment of Prior…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in cooperation with 15 other agencies making up the Federal Task Force on Environmental Education, sponsored a national conference to foster and support the goal of environmental literacy for young people and adults in schools and communities. This conference report contains an executive summary of…

Community college faculty and administrators from seven states joined in a dialogue on liberal education in the community college in order to identify problems, define terms, and to suggest solutions to further the development of liberal education in the community college. The discussion focused on four issues: education for practical wisdom…

The role of adult education in reducing inequalities and raising levels of professional qualifications and cultural standards is the subject of this series of five reports presented at a symposium on adult education and inequality. Discussions of the role of adult education's threefold perspective of literacy learning and general cultural…

Proceedings presented are from a specialized seminar on adult education held in conjunction with the 22nd Assembly of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP). Statements from three countries are presented relating the seminar theme, "Devising Strategies for the Effective Education of Adults in the…

These proceedings of a UNESCO conference include the following papers: "Foreword," by Anne Fontaine; "Education and the Elderly in the Second Medium-Term Plan of UNESCO (1984-1989)," by Mir Sarfaraz Husain; "Introduction," by Genevieve Vaucher; "Part I: Adult Education and Aging," by Genevieve Vaucher;…

This monograph reports the recommendations developed by a national assembly sponsored by the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges with the aid of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to consider issues and problems affecting lifelong education. An initial paper by Edmund J. Gleazer, Jr., outlines the purposes of the assembly in relation…

Many European governments associate improving literacy with providing development assistance to regions like Africa and Asia from which the majority of the world's 774 million illiterates come. As school attendance is compulsory in the region, it is assumed that the Education for All (EFA) goals have been achieved and literacy is therefore not…

The conference provided a forum where educators, members of public service organizations, and legislators could explore the need for and commitment to citizen education, set citizen education objectives, and generate ideas for creating a citizen education effort. Conference participants explored two major aspects of citizenship…

This report provides the text of panel discussions from a working conference on adult/industry education and training. Four key issues facing North Dakota's education providers are identified: (1) the need for expanded leadership, planning, and a vision for adult and industry education and training; (2) the need for increased financing, both in…

This volume contains a series of papers written for a symposium entitled "Adult Education and Allocation Policy in Sweden." Intended to provide a broader framework for analyzing allocation policy in adult education, the first paper is organized around the assumption that the effects of allocation policy both on participants and society…

This symposium was planned to provide a format for Ph.D. candidates in the Union Graduate School to join with leaders in higher education in open discussion of current issues in urban higher education. This report presents the substance of the presentations as recorded at each of five sessions. In "The Urban Crisis: Higher Education Faces the…