The cause of continuing education has gained significant strides in China after the advent of Reform and Opening Up, but it is still the weakest link in the current system of education. The "National Medium- and Long-Term Educational Reform and Development Guideline (2010-20)" (hereafter abbreviated as the "Guideline") has…

Head Start has long focused on assessing and improving program quality to ensure that the children served receive the best possible preparation for school and life. Most research has been focused inside the classroom--the classroom environment, teacher qualifications, and teacher interactions. Of course, the classroom is important because that is…

The "Global Inventory of Regional and National Qualifications Frameworks," the result of collaborative work between the European Training Foundation (ETF), the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop), UNESCO [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization] and UIL [UNESCO Institute for…

Labour's outgoing education minister reflects on his administration's mistakes and sets guidelines for future educational planning in Great Britain. (BH)

For some time now Dutch universities have been involved in development problems and development cooperation. Describes the Program for University Projects of Development Cooperation, initiated in 1969, and its contribution to developing countries. (Author/RK)

The Ohio Career Development Program was evaluated and students were tested in order to carry out that evaluation. (RK)

Author addressed the nascent issue of damage suits brought by nonlearners against the schools. He discussed the legal issues relating to such suits and argues that if the courts recognize school liability at all they would apply the negligence rule. (Editor/RK)

About ten years ago the author made a statement that was incorrectly interpreted as predicting the demise of independent schools. Here he corrects that misinterpretation, checks his prediction against 10 years' passage of time, and makes some practical suggestions for the survival of the independent school. (Author/RK)

Discusses the development of the system of postgraduate and supplementary professional education in Russia. Focuses on such topics as the strategic guidelines in the implementation of the system and the strategic goals for education (theoretical fundamentalism, cognitive integrality, humanization, methodologism, and pluralism). (CMK)

Article discussed the research efforts headed by an educational leader, John I. Goodlad, who attempted to influence educational change by providing a structure within which each school is helped to bring about the changes it wants to effect. (Author/RK)

Describes how to conduct systematic planning for technology use. The components of an effective technology use plan, derived from a comprehensive study of school-based technology, are given. Planning development, implementation, and evaluation steps are provided. Ten planning resource books are listed. (Contains five references.) (KRN)

This study develops guidelines for the use of television in nonformal education in developing countries. Its recommendations are based on analysis of three cases of television usage: in the formal educational system in El Salvador, community development in village Alaska, and in nonformal education for parenthood in Bogota, Colombia. A selective…

Educational television has not yet reached its full potential for supporting the social studies in American public schools. The most effective roles for television have not yet been defined, nor have social studies educators developed the production thrust that can enable television to fill a major role in social studies education. This document…

The concept of needs and educational assessment is a blending of community participation and evaluation. There are four primary steps in this concept: goal definition, program assessment, needs identification, and decision making. This document offers a guideline model aimed at a simple, economical method of needs and educational assessment. It…

Guidelines for planning in higher education (which might have an application in Colombia) are described. Chapter 1 provides an expanded definition of higher education that includes noncollege channels to lifelong education and embraces all viable postsecondary education. Chapter 2 addresses current problems facing higher education, such as lack of…