POST-COMPULSORY EDUCATION IN THE 1980s INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN LANCASTER
Titel:
POST-COMPULSORY EDUCATION IN THE 1980s INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN LANCASTER
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Higher education in Europe
Paginering:
Jaargang 3 (1978) nr. 6 pagina's 41-42
Jaar:
1978-11
Inhoud:
From 29 August to 1 September 1978 the 4th International Conference in Higher Education “Post-Compulsory Education in the 1980s” was held at the University of Lancaster. The conference which drew some 250 participants from 25 countries and representatives of several international organizations concentrated on the following problems of higher education in the context of their implications for the future development in this field: structures of post-compulsory education; higher education and working life; staff development; student learning; role of the media in higher education; and priorities for the 1980s. The work of the conference was carried out in plenary and working party sessions. In the sessions of the working parties, each group discussed one of the above-listed conference issues. During the plenary sessions the following addresses were presented: the opening address on the present problems of higher education and their implications for its situation in the 1980s, by Lord Briggs, Worcester College, Oxford; On “The many faces of academic coordination”, by Professor Burton R. Clark, Director of the Higher Education Research Group, Yale University; “Evaluating recurrent education reform or reforming recurrent evaluation in higher education?” by Professor Urban Dahllof from University of Upsala; and a summary of the work of the conference by Lord Vaizey,. Brunel University The conference identified a number of problems, e.g. demographic changes affecting potential student populations in the 1980s, changes in the structure and content of university level education (mainly in the context of higher education systems in the developed countries. We present below the views expressed at the conference, concentrating on those given during the plenary sessions.
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