A 1977 survey of over 100 males in small-scale enterprises in Zaria (Nigeria) shows both formal education and apprenticeship are mechanisms distributing economic benefits. By avoiding viewing the informal sector of the economy as distinct and separate, apprenticeship becomes an extension of the formal educational system. (LC)

Using field data from South Maragoli (Western Kenya), explains households' high outlay on school fees and the sustained popular demand for educational expansion in the context of the erosion of subsistence production and consumption in favor of consumption purchased from income from wage labor. (Author/LC)

Data were collected in five countries (The Gambia, Ghana, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone) between 1976 and 1981 from secondary students to examine five variables affecting occupational aspirations: sex, culture, religion, socioeconomic status, and environment and opportunities of the school. School quality and sex affected attitudes most. (LC)

Explains the colonial school's role in terms of the distribution of education by vertical (social strata) and horizontal (regional) integration, the type of education offered, and the political and social context of interwar Vietnam. Indicates the schools played a divisive role, an effect not due solely to foreign domination. (LC)

The influence of teachers' organizations/unions worldwide is closely linked with public esteem of education and with the availability of finance for schools. The current economic recession and disillusion with the return on education spending must be reversed for teachers' organizations to return to a position of power. (LC)

Describes, in detail, the educational status of Romany students in socialist Hungary and, briefly, in nonsocialist Austria and Finland. Regardless of the country's politics, attempts at successful schooling, through better teaching methods and parental and adult involvement, must be interwoven with changing the prejudices and employment practices…

Teacher training in Portugal is outlined in terms of its past and its future development. (RK)

Author attempts to find basic relationships between five major components, which end up by shaping some basic organizational patterns for educational planning. (Author/RK)

Considers the history of educational practice in Europe and how Britain's new European contacts should be a catalyst for new and productive interdependence within the European Community. (Author/RK)

Author attempts to evaluate the possibilities or agreement that might be reached in interpreting the various aims of moral education. (RK)

Discusses the systematic and scientific study of sport and physical education and suggests areas for cross-cultural analysis. (RK)

In the present study an examination is made of a relatively new approach to the assessment of learning environments. (Author)

This study analyzes the efficiency of the Soviet educational system as it has been measured against it remarkable expansion in education. (Author/RK)

Paper attempts to analyse the factors constraining the use of primary and secondary level schools as instruments for planned political socialization. (Author)

Paper recognizes that investment in education is a key factor in a nation's economic and social development, particularly in developing countries. (Author/RK)