This paper is a rebuttal to Garrett Hardin's thesis that long-term survival of human beings can be threatened by environmental devastation caused by brief humanitarian desires to save lives. Discussions include population dynamics, resource distribution, ecological stability, and ethics of developed nations and undeveloped nations relationships.…

The author discusses and describes various educational programs developed in India in three areas: to reorient the education system to enable its product to fit into the available and developing employment patterns; to increase the paid government jobs; and to promote self employment. (Author/BP)

The author discusses problem areas of Indian education: student unrest, educational and economic development of various programs, imbalances of the educational system, and his solutions to these problems. (BP)

Conclusions and recommendations of a study of the effectiveness of nonformal education programs in the SEAMEO region are presented. (AG)

Cuban social system has eliminated discrimination, racism, sexism and unemployment and created equal opportunity for all. Cuba is upheld as model for all forward looking U.S. citizens to study. (Author/AM)

This paper describes the application of the discrete maximum principle to the problem of the introduction of universal primary education. (Available from Plenum Publishing Corporation, 227 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011) (Author)

The author criticizes continuing education courses as being "replicas of the conventional universities catering to the populist degree mania." He advocates designing and offering courses for those who are academically ready and abolishing requiring a degree for entrance. (AG)

The article, an overview, surveys various schools of futures research with reference to futurism's dimensions (methodologies, typologies, and distance in time); planning for alternative futures; orientations; and inner-future orientations (mysticism vs. science). Developing nations are advised to adapt developed nations' learnings selectively, and…

A pilot study of skills and resources in 46 Tanzanian villages is described and presented as an example of participatory research. The educational and motivational benefits derived by the villagers, the organization of the study, background information regarding Tanzania, and basic requirements for participatory research are discussed. (LH)

This article examines the role of the school in France, West Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom in making children sensitive to the Third World and the problems of development. Proposals designed to strengthen the schools' role are included. (DE)

Four major educational problems in Papua New Guinea are identified and examined in some depth: the quantity and quality of the teaching force, the curriculum, the clients, and school leavers and employment. (Editor)

In recent years the economy of the Dominican Republic has experienced rapid growth without reducing urban unemployment. The research project measured the relationship between growth and employment, examining the behavior of factors affecting labor demand and supply. Available from: ILO Publications, International Labour Office, CH-1211, Geneva,…

Deals with an approach to educational reform, attempting to expand on the objectives of education and present some examples which show why innovations in the field of education fail to produce results when introduced within existing structures. (Author/PG)