After a brief outline of the educational situation and the social framework in Italy which developed after the second world war, this article explores the future of the Italian school system. (Author/RK)

The author, the retiring Chairman of the "Comparative Education" Editorial Board, draws on his experience of the last fifteen years in examining how educational resources are being devoted to applied comparative education. Specifically, he focuses on one such application, the launching of the International Baccalaureate. (Author/RK)

Attempts to show that the route of those who have been active in comparative studies over the past thirteen years has not been the most profitable one and to demonstrate that the way ahead lies in greater academic independence, in less dogmatism regarding methodology, and in deliberately placing limitations on the competence of the comparative…

Argues that in the more commonly used approaches to comparative education there has been lacking an adequate theoretical base upon which any country could with confidence know how to learn from another country's educational experience what would be useful for its own development. (Author/RK)

Focuses on understanding comparative education with regard to its political commitment, as it is reflected in the positions taken by some outstanding educationalists in the course of the history of this discipline. (Author/RK)

Provides some insights into the problem's of post-compulsory education and its meaning for comparative education. (Editor/RK)

Pinpoints the implications raised for comparative studies by the internationalization of educational institutions. (Editor/RK)

Stresses the importance of methodology and some of its more stubborn problems. (Editor/RK)

Writing primarily as a researcher concerned with data for national application, author indicates some of the insights that can be gained from comparative studies by workers in other fields. (Editor/RK)

Attempts to delineate an area where comparative education can help inform policy, namely the interaction of educational systems in multi-national contexts, seeking to relate the discussion to the theme of the Third World Congress of Comparative Education, and paying particular attention to the oddly-neglected case of the various national systems…

Draws attention to two particular territorial aspects of educational inequality and considers some of the implications which studying them helps to highlight. (Author/RK)