The life of British feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain demonstrates that an attempt to understand the relationship between personal experience and political activities should take account of the following: (1) the centrality of political values in an individual's identity; (2) the individual's life stage and life history; and (3) the individual's…

The history of academic unions in Australia is reviewed, and it is argued that institutional and union leaders are more likely to succeed in stopping decline in higher education by cooperative efforts to influence governments than by the existing pattern of inter-sectoral or employer-employee rivalry. (MSE)

Bad economic times and the election of a staunchly conservative governor have forced Wisconsin university officials and government leaders into controversy over the future of the University of Wisconsin System. (MSE)

The perspective of a legislative staff member regarding the utility of research concerning policy making is presented as well as recommendations about other useful areas of research. (CB)

Discusses leadership and political structure among the five Iroquois Nations--Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca--in the northeastern United States during the eighteenth century. Uses myth, ritual, historical sources, American ethnology, and British social anthropology to describe and analyze political entities and to classify leaders.…

Critically reviews "The Public Interest on Education" (Glazer, 1984), a collection of articles which appeared in "The Public Interest" between 1974 and 1981. States that this work usefully illustrates the neoconservatives' disenchantment with a variety of federally-instigated school reforms. A shortcoming of the book is its failure to focus on the…

The themes and issues arising from Britain's Leverhulme study are examined concerning educational politics, academic standards, and educational finance, along with criticisms of the report's findings and recommendations. The recommendations are found to be uncomfortable for higher education but sound. (MSE)

Canada did not develop strong ties with the Third World until well after World War II. Three factors that have channeled and limited Canada's relationships with developing nations--location, history, and internal political relationships--are discussed. Also examined are patterns of Canadian foreign aid and investment and peace-seeking efforts. (RM)

The two principal approaches of the historian and sociologist, one focusing on change and the other focusing on recurrence or continuity, are reconciled for the teacher of French culture to foreign language students. This is accomplished through an examination of the differential time structures of different social levels, an illustration that the…

In Australia, teachers' accountability has grown less centralized and less bureaucratized as teachers have become more knowledgeable and better trained. Opposing forces are currently battling over whether to increase monitoring. In as multidimensional an administrative field as Australian schooling, a complex, changing monitoring system must…

Radical changes in academe as a result of the Cultural Revolution, many of which are still felt on Chinese campuses, and the desire to rebuild the scholarly structure are discussed. (MSE)

In light of the complexity of the administrative conditions in higher education institutions, academic planners must prepare for the 1980s by increasing their understanding of the institution as a political system and learning to plan under conditions of economic adversity and intense political action. (MSE)

Using political economy as a framework, explores reasons for enormous variability across states in their influence over educational systems. Assesses consequences and significance of divergence among the states, and concludes that increased state influence in education requires more rather than less federal intervention. (CMG)

A discussion of issues and considerations in planning for the opening of distance education institutions in developing and developed nations draws on the experience of recently established institutions and looks at government involvement, the political process, and the role, composition, schedule, and reports of planning committees. (MSE)

The author argues that the primary concern of adult education in developing nations should be to empower adults to be agents of change. He discusses the roles of adult education, adult education as a national instrument, values and adult education, and the purpose of adult education. (CT)