This volume provides an extensive compendium of information about the changes occurring in higher education that are expanding the opportunities through which individuals can learn and gain recognition for that learning. The first section of the report is concerned with programs that were operational by fall 1972 while the second section focuses…

Article describes the role of Extension Education in the current movement toward external degrees. London University, The Open University, Empire State, and Goddard are some of the examples used as programs for non-traditional degrees. (GB)

Statistics bear out the futility of the overemphasis of collegiate preparation at the elementary and secondary levels. To meet the challenge of relevance and utility, the role of formal vocational training has enjoyed increasing attention within the educational system in the past decade. Yet even with this, half of our nation's students are not…

This is a brief review of the development of the external degree program in New York State and in England. The author suggests that American universities may wish to consider the external degree as a device for taking higher education out to new markets. (Editor)

A general examination of the assumptions of educational technology as a body of knowledge. (HB)

Considered the development and merits of the Open University as well as its need for reexamination. (RK)

Discusses A Choice of Futures,'' a report released by the Alberta Commission on Educational Planning, which covers proposals for reorganizing education. (Author/PG)

Article examined the reasons for students, administrators, and faculty to be interested in external degrees. (RK)

The status of external degree programs in traditional institutions is examined. Basing evaluation on the guidelines set forth by the Carnegie Commission for Non-Traditional Study (l973); it is suggested that external programs have not adequately been integrated into the academic mainstream. (Author/MLW)

The new British University began teaching in January, 1971, is financed by the Department of Education and Science, is open to all 21 and over, has no academic entry requirements. Using multimedia, having no restrictions on time used to build course credits toward degrees, it will build to an undergraduate population of over 40,000 part time…

Place is material, conceptual and symbolic. Physically, the Library at Townsville College of Advanced Education was central, visible and distinctive. Internally, it provided a dramatically different environment from other college buildings. It functioned as the (metaphorical) "hub" of the external studies programme and, when the college…

The Nova University doctoral program emphasizes a national context, practicums, clusters, and education leadership appraisal in its preparation of school administrators. (Author/DW)

One response to the new climate in higher education has been a proliferation of what has come to be termed "nontraditional" studies. These studies include time-shortened degree programs, credits and/or degrees by examination, extended campus programs, special programs for adults, and secondary school-higher education coordination. Presents the…

Analyzes the social and economic factors which in a two- or three-year period moved the education of older students, awarding credit by examination, off-campus study, and nonresidential degree programs from a nether world of low status and funding. Notes positive benefits but warns against uncritical acceptance of this latest vogue. (JT)