The Delors report remains a timely and challenging agenda for shaping education from the earliest years. This article reviews the status of basic education, defined as a passport to life in the report. Despite progress toward universal primary education and gender parity, countries are still far from education targets adopted in 2000. Lack of care…

This report provides an comprehensive analysis of the way recession is impacting upon graduate outcomes. Data used in this report reflects the current level of applications to higher education (HE) for 2010 entry, but, due to data collection timing differences, the employment and training destinations of the graduating cohorts of 2005/06-2008/09.…

The demand for competent translators is at an all-time high. Translators work with written language, and generally work either in-house for a business, translation agency, or other institution, or as free-lancers. Leading employers of translators in the United States are the federal government, domestic and multinational corporations and…

As a national support organization for parents of twins and higher order multiples, the National Organization of Mothers of Twins Clubs, Inc. (NOMOTC) has as its purpose the education of parents, teachers and other individuals having direct responsibility and interest in the special aspects of child development which relate to multiple birth…

In a very brief response to "A Nation at Risk," the final report by the National Commission on Excellence in America, the author states that Americans have been charged with the task of restoring excellence to education in this country. Change and reform must stem from local, state, and federal levels. In addition, partnerships between…

Author considered what could be done to foster the need for thinking and acting internationally. (Author/RK)

Summaries of Russian educational problems in higher education discussed include: ways to improve the interrelationships between education system and the production system; the population's need for higher education; the location of universities in Russia; and improving instruction in economics. (Author/RM)

The author discusses ways to improve the training of economists at the university level. (Author/RM)

Reviews a study designed to provide information about the "market" of one information agency and assess the value of its publications in meeting the educational needs of its readership. (RB)

The study was designed to establish, on a regional basis, the validity of a set of measures of social handicap as predictive of educational backwardness and to identify the characteristics of those schools which are most compensatory in adverse social conditions. (Editor)

An informational and attitudinal survey of delinquent boys revealed a serious lack of basic information regarding commonly used drugs, the body's reaction to drugs, the functioning of the body, as well as fairly strong pro-drug attitudes. The school was viewed as the best place to focus on these problems. (Author/PC)

Author believes that the curricula of schools should be derived from theoretical considerations rather than ad hoc necessity, and focuses on an article by R. C. Whitfield and his views of the nature of curriculum planning. (Author/RK)

Education in Norway's far northlands is wonderfully diverse, even though local schools are governed by a national ministry of education. This article should shatter the myth that central control means bland homogenization. (Editor)

The cotton and Allied Textiles Industrial Training Board believes that training in marketing and sales is still vital to the prosperity of the industry. It hopes to identify the more specific needs of companies, paying special attention to the needs of smaller companies and ensuring that training meets these needs. (Author)