This commentary on the discussion between the Department of Education and Science and the Scottish Education Department criticizes the enrollment projections and discusses these projections as they relate to postgraduates, overseas students, mature students, and young home entrants. (JMD)

Attempts to define the most crucial forces impinging on educational systems that will be affecting all educational enterprises until close to the opening of the 21st century. (Author/RK)

Discusses problems, conflicts, and opportunities concerned with providing adult education as a result of the prospective and dramatic decrease in the projected number of high school students between 1977 and 1984. (TA)

Discusses problems public schools will encounter as a result of the decline in school enrollment and suggests some practical strategies and techniques that will help school administrators solve these problems. (Author/MLF)

If two-year colleges wish to sustain a steady state or achieve growth, there must be a continued shift of resources and emphasis from accommodating the traditional full-time 18-to-24-year-old student to the new majority, the adult part-time student. (DC)

The use of a faculty flow model is expanded to include simulation of the indirect effects on a university's faculty of institutional policies that directly affect enrollments. Based on data from the University of Minnesota, the results have implications for faculty size and personnel policy. (Editor/LBH)

College administrators faced with declining enrollments must take a realistic approach and recognize the effect of any planned actions. Some financial warning signals are listed, and guidelines are offered to adjust management practices and philosophies to the enrollment trends. (Author)

A discussion of recent declining enrollment in Polish higher education looks at the underlying demographic, economic, social, and policy factors causing changes in higher education in general, in specific institutions and faculties, and in women's participation. (MSE)

Two perspectives on decline are identified: environmental constraints and organizational process and choice. Each perspective is described, identified, and tested on a sample of small-to-medium size universities and colleges. The results indicate that organizational responses to decline are shaped by how members perceive decline. (Author/MLW)

In times of decreasing enrollments, the ROTC provides partnership opportunities to academe through scholarships and programs designed to attract young adults. ROTC enrollments, academic rigor of military science, academic credentials of ROTC faculty, etc., are discussed. (MLW)

The 1980s college enrollment crisis never materialized because demographics are not the sole determinant of enrollment trends. The actual employment and earnings experiences of graduates will heavily influence the economic well-being of most postsecondary institutions. If private investment in postsecondary education remains high, enrollments will…

Discusses some problems experienced by doctoral degree foreign language graduates in seeking fulfilling career positions and suggests some aspects of the employment market and position search process that the graduate should consider when seeking a position. (CB)

Discusses a study conducted to determine how 69 community colleges coped with declining enrollments and to assess the effectiveness of their actions in reducing, halting, or turning around the decline. Reveals that the majority of respondents coped with declines through reductions in staff/administrators or part-time faculty, or curriculum…

Summarizes the expansion of education in the West Germany up to 1980. Examines the progress of the 1980s in view of unemployment and growing difficulties on entering a profession. Among the findings are a decline in enrollment of 20-24 year olds and a growth in opportunities for the children of immigrants. (Author/GEA)

Although growth in West Germany higher education has been less rapid than anticipated, it has encouraged regional planning and more even geographic distribution of institutions. The concept of geographically balanced distribution will be seriously tested after 1990 when enrollment declines are expected and institutions must stand on their own…