Describes the problems the European countries are having in educating the children of migrant workers and some of the steps that have been taken to accommodate these children in the educational systems of the host countries. (IRT)

Outlines the major principles on which educational planning is based in "Education Without Frontiers," which contains the education findings of the "Plan Europe 2000" projections on the future of Europe. (IRT)

Examines attitudes and practices concerning equal opportunities for women in education and work, and briefly compares the attitudes of readers of the British "Sunday Times" with the attitudes of Americans as expressed in the 1978 Gallup Poll. (IRT)

Examines the effects the downturn in the European economy is having on education and employment of young people in Western Europe. (IRT)

The British government is the first in Europe to have produced a discussion document and to have spelled out the options for higher education in the face of current enrollment projections. The five options in the discussion document are briefly outlined. (Author/IRT)

Examines pressures, internal and external to education, that have created changes in European teacher education. The internal changes include the changing status of teachers, new roles for teachers, and a restructuring of the profession. (IRT)

Outlines the state of foreign language instruction in Europe and the forces affecting it. (IRT)

Discusses the impact of changing national administrations on the educational systems of Europe, the resistance to change of each country's attitudes toward education, and distinctive features of the "educational cultures" of European countries. (PGD)

Observing that there is no shortage of work to be done, but rather a shortage of employment, this essay analyzes aspects of youth unemployment in Europe including school effectiveness; alienation and the work ethic; remedies, which include European Community's "social guarantee"; and some considerations for future change. (MJL)

Reports on the Council of Europe's joint European-American seminar that deals with teaching about the United States in secondary schools in Western Europe. (MD)

Reviews the changing role of the head teacher in European educational systems, and the changing concepts of educational administration and methods of administrator training that are affecting the headship. (PGD)

Reviews the policies of various European governments concerning the financing of student costs for postsecondary eduation, touching on the payment of tuition, the use of grants or loans, the effects of different student populations, and some social and administrative implications of governmental support. (PGD)

In Europe, global interdependence has defeated conventional approaches to studying Europe. "European Studies"--popular during the seventies--became academically colonized and impoverished. "Europe across the curriculum" is presently risking diffuseness. Treatment of Europe in European schools will have to be coherent, sequential, and…

During the last 30 years unprecedented economic growth and novel patterns of migration in Europe have increased opportunities and simultaneously destroyed established patterns of life and traditional processes of education. (Author)

Although a recent conference in Neusiedl-am-See, Austria, and others like it have encouraged the development through national education systems of an awareness of European cultural identity and "active cooperation and communication among Europeans," the realization of such a project remains largely to be accomplished. (JBM)