The International Baccalaureate, an internationally oriented upper secondary curriculum, has a terminal examination which is now recognized as a valid qualification for university entrance on a world-wide scale. Here is a report on the second world conference consisting of delegations from 32 countries with observers present from the EEC, Unesco…

Explores the organizational participation of school teachers, focusing especially on activity in their own interest organization and on the correlates of such activity. Also considers more generally teachers' activity in public life and voluntary organizations. (Author/RK)

The introduction of sex education into the French school curriculum has had reverberations beyond more curricular reform. Indeed, the changes of 1973/74 constitute a fascinating case-study both of the dynamics of curricular change in a centralized system and of the impact of external social pressures on schools. (Author/RK)

Examines innovation in Scotland from the standpoint of structural change and investigates some of the medium term changes in the relationship between secondary and post-secondary education over the past ten years or so. (Author/RK)

Concerns itself with the degree to which the nucleus of new leadership, the present generation of Botswana university students, feels committed towards their nations' desire for the creation of a unified, self-reliant, non-racial democracy which will provide economic and social justice for all. (Author/RK)

Examines the use of the concept "community" for describing experiments in education. Looks at the very different concepts which the Chinese use in discussing what they are doing, and at the experiments themselves, hoping that this will stimulate further critical discussion of the relation between concepts employed and educational practice.…

How free are developing countries to develop systems of education tailored to their own individual needs? Considers the need for relevance in educational policy, the effect of colonial educational practice upon developing nations trying to create policies appropriate for their educational and political development, and the influence of the…

Compares and contrasts the teacher supply problems confronting educational planners in Britain and Ghana. Ghana, a developing country, had the unpleasant experience of using the British example as a model for planning its teacher supply and it is against this background that the present comparison is made. (Author/RK)

In a world increasingly attentive to the educational needs of preschool children, the French "ecole maternelle" occupies a position of special eminence. This research compares preschool provision in England and France and simultaneously examines the degree that the "ecole maternelle" is open and informal in its ethos. (Author/RK)

In both Sweden and Ontario the attempt to create a comprehensive school system, during the 1960s especially at the secondary level, was the occasion for disputes between the governments and their respective opponents. Asks some relevant questions in studying the movement toward comprehensivization. (Author/RK)

The Commonwealth Caribbean consists of fifteen English-speaking territories at various stages of development. The intention here is to provide some kind of overview of those developmental issues which impinge on relationships between education and employment. (Author)

Draws certain comparisons between the organization, methods and objectives of two youth movements seldom viewed in respect of each other: the one serves a religious faith and is known as the pentecostal youth movement, the other serves a political ideology and is known as the Bulgarian komsomol. (Author/RK)

Discusses the advantages of correspondence education in England and the Netherlands, the development of correspondence education in both countries, and the more recent developments of the Open University in England and the Foundation Inspection of Education by Correspondence (ISO) in the Netherlands, the former enlarging educational opportunities…