A discussion of the effects of social upheaval in Northern Ireland on the school system looks at the politically and religiously divided schools, traditional segregation by social class and sex, changes currently being attempted, establishment of common curricular elements, and the role of parents. (MSE)

Efforts to promote cooperation between higher education and industry in the European Community during the 1980s took these forms: encouragement through legislation; development of specific programs; changes in internal structures of higher education; and financial support of projects. Most of the impetus has come from education, not industry. (MSE)

COMETT (Community program for Education and Training for Technology) supports practical cooperation between universities and industry in training for technology, through consortia, exchanges, and joint training projects. It stresses the need for strategic thinking in cooperative efforts and the fragility of cooperation and management. Program…

The last decade has seen wide-ranging changes in the higher education-industry relationship in Ireland. It is increasingly recognized that colleges have a major role in providing technological and business capability for modern industrial services development and that close cooperation holds appreciable benefits for higher education. (MSE)

The United Kingdom's Council for Higher Education and Industry is a forum at which academic and business leaders can establish long-term common interests and open communication. It has proposed a strategy for development of partnerships based on principles of inclusion, good management, expanded research, and broad educational reform. (MSE)

An industrialist looks at the arguments for cooperation between industry and higher education in the area of professional continuing education, extracts some basic assumptions about responsibility and capacity for providing such education, reexamines them based on experience, and makes recommendations for action by education, industry,…

Five models of the university are examined: traditional (medieval); liberal (English); positivist (French); relativist (utilitarian); and humanist (German). The models exist on three conceptual continuums, focusing on the goal of the university and nature and function of science. It is argued that, despite erosion, the humanist model is most…

This article introduces four papers addressing problems of higher education in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia. Issues identified include overcoming the Communist heritage, the separation of teaching and research, low student numbers, appropriate diversification of higher education, increasing access, the role of the state, and…

This article identifies reasons for the crisis of Czechoslovak higher education including centralized administration, political screening of personnel, destruction of teachers' research and educational activities, and the perceived decreasing importance of higher education. Also considered is the new Higher Education Act of 1990 involving radical…

This article stresses the importance of the integration of Hungary's higher education system into Europe's, in a discussion which covers the Hungarian system's structure and functions; participation in higher education; organization and management; and finance. (DB)

This article identifies the critical problems (economic, political, and social) facing the university system in Poland and argues that the university system can survive only by embracing such functions as forming values and ideas needed for democracy, fostering international and intranational links, and providing service functions. (DB)

The article describes the existing state of higher education in the republics and provinces of Yugoslavia and outlines planned reforms and measures. Outcomes are seen to be dependent on the positions of the newly elected governments of the individual republics which are entirely responsible for education. (DB)

The report describes Polish student and teacher surveys that indicate, over time, a lower level of student interest in studying and low levels of cognitive need and professional ambition. Findings are applied to possibilities for change in Poland's new social, political, and economic situation. Similarities of student attitudes in Poland and in…

The last few years have seen an acceleration in "the drive toward the market" as the principal element underlying higher education policy in western Europe. The trend, seen in historical perspective, is more than just another example of higher education policy as crisis management. (MSE)

The mid-1980s period of dormancy in French higher education is coming to an end, and a policy for higher education has begun to emerge again. This occurs at a time when the stakes and challenges in change are enormous, partly because of the delay in responding to them. (MSE)