Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, this issue of "Data Notes" looks at student developmental education and gateway course outcomes by gender. The data show that more than half of students were referred to developmental math, with female students being more likely to be referred than male students. Females were more…

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol discusses a series of speeches by the Minister of State designed to initiate a "great debate" about British universities. Issues include "more graduates in desirable subjects for less money," manpower planning, the right balance between universities and polytechnics,…

In 1984 Australia's federal government decided to reactivate the Curriculum Development Centre, an agency abandoned in the early 1980's for political and economic reasons. This paper examines the context in which the center currently acts and the operations that it conducts. The paper first considers background issues related to national…

This bulletin focuses on the views of four authors. The first, Daniel R. Davies, describes the rise and fall of local control and local school board policies and predicts how the vacuum will be filled. Specifically, he analyzes the concomitant waning of local control and school board policymaking power and forecasts stages in the transition from…

An appraisal of the Country Educational Policy Reviews conducted during November 1973 to December 1975, is presented. The Internal Report, the substance of which is embodied in five regional reports from the Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Western, and Federal regions, is summarized. The problems and issues in Canadian education identified in the…

In September 1979, representatives of 14 of the 20 member nations of the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development met in Australia to discuss national strategies for curriculum design and development. This report on that conference begins with summaries of the position papers filed by the representatives from the Democratic…

THE FOLLOWING WERE BROUGHT OUT IN THIS COLLECTION OF PAPERS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF AN ADULT EDUCATION SEMINAR HELD AT THE STAFF TRAINING COLLEGE, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA--AT THE TIME OF INDEPENDENCE IN ZAMBIA IN 1964, ADULT EDUCATION FACILITIES EXISTED IN ONLY THREE PROVINCES ON THE RAILROAD LINE, AND OVER 60 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION HAD NO FACILITIES. OF…

Focuses on the changes necessary in Dutch foreign language teaching policies. Cites the need for a greater differentiation of objectives in learning languages. The relevance of the European context to these policies suggests international communication as one essential goal, whether the approach involves multilingualism or a small number of…

Explores three problems emerging since transfer of Canadian English as second language teaching method to People's Republic of China: (1) assumption that teaching methodologies are exportable and acceptable in same way as modern technology, (2) lack of clarity between scientific and educational theories, and (3) assumption that these teaching…

Issues raised in the World Bank's Education Sector Working Paper are examined within the framework of other recent policy papers of donor agencies. (MM)

This volume is the second in a series of comparative studies carried out by EURYDICE (Education Information Network in the European Community) and is intended to provide indepth analyses of specific issues of major interest for policy decision-makers and educational cooperation at the European level. The general introduction of this book sets out…

The author claims that the real operational goal of those who control public education has not been to have good schools, but to have schools that are just good enough. Until now, educators have not made basic policy but they must do so. (Author/AS)

The curriculum development effort that stemmed from Project Head Start's "Strategy for Spanish-Speaking Children," the evaluation results, and policy implications for national efforts in bilingual education are discussed. (Author/LC)

The educational programs of the Great Leap Forward (GLF) represented the first organized attempt by the Chinese government to restructure and align the educational system with the national economy. The educational policies of the GLF ultimately foundered because of patterned inertia within the educational system.(Author)

This article explores some of the conceptual and strategic problems of truly comparative research. Addressing the study of national educational policies, the author considers the uses of theory in defining units of analysis and compares the costs and utility of research strategies based on differing compositions within the research team.…