The seven subject matter reports of the IEA constitute a good example of a large scale international study that incorporates the three elements of comparison, cooperation and universality. Thus, a comparative study was performed through international cooperation and it yielded results of universal validity. (Editor)

Examines the challenge faced by Australian Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education following publication of the Report of the Committee on Open University to the Universities Commission in 1974. Considers existing external studies programs, the importance of independence as a learning "mode", an experiment in community education, and the…

Reports the development in the United States of national media courses, i.e., those using television, newspapers, radio or magazines as the essential means of instruction supplemented with additional readings and other studies. (Editor/RK)

Florida International University, a new upper level public university established in 1972, implemented a philosophical and programmatic objective of service to the community and fostering international understanding through the education of students. Its students are comprised of adult graduates of community colleges and older continuing education…

The Regents External Degree Program of the University of the State of New York offers college degrees to anyone who can qualify. Discusses its development, its content, how credit is determined, and its meaning for students and their on the job performance. (Editor/RK)

A survey was conducted of primary schools and the communities they serve in the two anglophone provinces of Cameroon in 1974/75, as part of a program of research preceding curricular reform in that country. (Editor)

This study sets out to clarify two questions within the context of a non-industrial society's educational system: (1) In what areas would there be measurable variation in physical facilities between primary schools? (2) Is any of this variation statistically related to the academic performance of children on the national selection examination…

From 1960 onwards the U.S. Government set out to improve the schools in American Samoa. Discusses a series of studies of the islanders' educational needs focusing on ten critical unmet needs. (Editor/RK)

The complicated interaction between individual pupils and class groups is highlighted in cases of classroom aggression. Aims at examining individual aggressors partly through the use of teachers' assessments of them as members of the class group, at assessing the group's emotional climate, and at identifying the triggering-off stimuli within the…

Discusses a number of intervening variables that influence the differences found between teachers familiar with and those who adopt new projects, such as relevance, facilitating and limiting influences, objectives and perceived effects of new projects in education. (Editor)

This article suggested an alternative educational institution - the Learning Foundation - as a model for reorganizing the delivery of educational services in order to provide learning opportunities for all ages and levels of experience at the point of the local neighborhood but supported by the services of central resources units. (Editor/RK)

Article contained comments by three distinguished scholars of educational policy on the problems that they felt would face the institutionalization of the Learning Foundation followed by a response of the architect of that idea. (RK)

In spite of impressive expansion in the educational systems of the Arab Middle East countries, educational research in that region is slow to mature. A number of practical and theoretical problems responsible for the slow development of educational research are identified and discussed. (Editor)

The purpose of this paper is to give an account of the history of the Canadian Service for Admission to College and University (SACU) and to discuss its services, its present crisis, and its possible reorientation, bearing in mind the fact that West Germany is about to establish a similar admissions service. (Author/RK)

The differences and problems in teacher training in Poland resulting from WW II and the subsequent rapid increase in the demand for teachers is outlined. (MM)