This paper presents the views of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean and offers a strategy for how it can promote improvement. The paper attempts to produce an accurate assessment and useful policy implications. The first chapter, "A Mixed Performance," contains a general…

The primary purpose of this publication is to provide impartial measures of the strengths and weaknesses of community college programs from a labor market perspective. Information from surveys and administrative databases focuses on: graduates' employment, earnings and employer-provided benefits; skill sets; and employer satisfaction with…

This comment on the Report of the International Commission on the Development of Education calls for further critical assessment by relating education to other areas of development, specifically economy. Several of the Report's financial remedies and priorities in the area of employment opportunities are analyzed from this viewpoint. (KM)

Interprets the efforts to reduce poverty and socio-cultural disadvantage in the Lesser Slave Lake Region, one of Canada's foremost case studies in rational planning and development. (Author/JM)

Recent work in the economics of education provides some general presumptions, such as those in favour of investing in primary education and opposed to vocational education, but the problem area on which future research ought to focus is the relationship of schooling to the labour market. (Author/JB)

Report on the results of pre-employment training programs being developed in the hopes of reducing some of our present manpower ailments. (Author/MM)

Despite union opposition and noncooperation with the Act, the author concludes it will have a permanent effect on British industrial relations. (Editor)

Perceptions of the official and unofficial proceedings of the Stockholm conference by staff reporters and by two scientists (Berry and Ehrlich) concerning the achievements and disappointments of the attempt to establish a world organization for the preservation of environmental quality. Includes discussion of political divisions and personal…

The conditions of international trade are examined as they prevail now and are likely to develop after the transitional period ending 1975; currency problems are discussed; and economic and consequent political changes are assessed. (Author/JB)

The 1966 Goals for Public Education in Texas are preprinted as a good statement on educational purposes. (MM)