This paper discusses curriculum reform in Italy. Teachers should offer a global approach to education while teaching civic education to students. Referred to as "making culture," civic education should contain content that satisfies the criteria of validity, significance, interest, and student learning. Schools should create new…

Elements of a successful proposal for the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program are identified, based on a 1981 experience in Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as a 1983 Peru trip. A successful proposal and application should cover: assessing the institution, institutional involvement in identifying world areas, research on previous programs,…

This collection of conference papers examines some of the broad issues as well as specific institutional approaches to postbaccalaureate certificate programs. The first paper, "A Survey of Graduate Certificate Policies, Procedures, and Programs" (Wayne Patterson), reports on a survey of the members of the Council of Graduate Schools…

Hong Kong has always been proud of its economic achievement of the past decades. However, the economic turmoil that swept over East Asia has revealed the weakness in its economy, which, in turn, urges Hong Kong to reform its education system to meet the challenge of this era of information technology. There are many problems in Hong Kong's…

Skills.net is a 3-year program providing free or affordable Internet access and training to local Victorian (Australia) communities. It is especially aimed at those who would normally miss out on such access, such as the unemployed, women, people with disabilities, people from non-English speaking backgrounds, Aboriginals, and communities in…

Pursuant to a mandate and funding from the Ontario Ministry of Education, the Board of Education for the City of London, Ontario developed the London Project in which they implemented the philosophy of "invitational education" (Purkey and Novak, 1984) to address the problem of secondary school students dropping out before graduation.…

This paper overviews a proposal for implementing an adult literacy program in a small tribal community in northern Alberta (Canada). The program would enhance participants' ability to manage change affecting the community's economic, social, and educational circumstances. Recent data indicate that 24 percent of Native Americans in northern Alberta…