Review Of Higher Education Research Articles

“Let Hayward State Do It…?”

The principal author of Ed School: A Brief for Professional Education responds spiritedly to a review by John Thelin (“Is the Ed School the Dead School?”) in the spring 1989 (12:3) issue of The Review of Higher Education . The author refocuses the discussion on the central historical problem identified in Ed School: the scholasticism of education schools has prevented them from advancing, or even sustaining, the craft of teaching in American elementary and secondary schools. She laments the preservation of the status quo implied in Thelin’s review.

Research on Institutional Advancement: Emerging Patterns and Parameters

The editors of the Review of Higher Education and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) bring to the attention of the scholarly community institutional advancement, a developing field of professional activity, and its associated research questions. The guest editors, in this opening essay, introduce the articles that follow which incorporate literature reviews, research, and the expertise of other administrative fields for its methods.

An International Review of Higher Education in Leisure, Recreation, Parks and Related Fields

The results of an international survey conducted by the Commission on Education of the World Leisure and Recreation Association, were published in 1986. This article is an attempt to review this original set of data collected throughoutthe world. Cultural differences impose strong limitations in the interpretation of the data. However, the survey has gathered valuable descriptive information about one thousand institutions involved in leisure, park, recreation, tourism and many other related fields. It covers forty-two countries distributed over the five continents.

End-of-year reflections

'~Those of you who aspire to be editors-don' t . For me, so far, it has been an agonizing experience." Thus, began an April 9, 1984 memorandum to associate editors and members of the editorial board from Keith Lupton, our previous editor. Perhaps I should have heeded his 1984 advice (or Orwell's, at least), but I thought it would be safe to assume this responsibility, because it had been a very smooth and pleasant experience working as an associate editor with Keith Lupton. Also, I know six other capable editors fairly well, Stephen White (National Forum), Robert Kingston (The Kettering Review), Stanley Lindberg (The Georgia Review), David Groves (Visions in Leisure and Business), Suzanne Lindenau (Journal of Educational Techniques and Technologies), and Lance Kramer (Continuing Higher Education Review), and they generally seem in good spirits and able to meet for lunch. I did suspect that once I assumed this editorial responsibility, I would be able to even fur ther advance the fine manuscript flow systems pioneered by journal founders Perenich and McCallum, which were even more streamlined in the Lupton period. This has not been the case at all. It is a tremendous challenge to merely stay atop the distribution of manuscripts. I sometimes th ink my position should be retitled, ~Editorial Node." Nonetheless, I am proud of the first two issues because I know firsthand the serious considerations given articles by all reviewers, and in tu rn the conscientious openness and responsiveness most authors have given the many recommendations for revisions. The interactions inherent in this critique of manuscripts can be most stimulating, and Keith is right, from time to time, agonizing. In the months ahead I hope to develop a system that will permit me to perform a more sensitive analysis of Innovative Higher Education activities. This journal is a biannual publication containing articles that emphasize innovations occurring in higher education systems. Three senior editors, one editor, three associate editors and a 16 member editorial board are responsible for soliciting manuscripts in addition to many which are independently forwarded, and for facilitating a network for blind review of all submissions. Since I assumed the editor-

Review of Higher Education and the Labour Market

Review of Higher Education and the Labour Market

Editorial: The Higher Education Review

Editorial: The Higher Education Review

A Comprehensive Reform of Higher Education

England's university reform received its initial strong impetus from the Robbins Report (Higher Education, London, HMSO, 1963). During recent years, the focus and dimensions of this reform movement have passed beyond the concerns of the Robbins Report toward broader access to colleges and the rapprochement of academic higher learning and further education, i.e., continued education for young adults. This trend is discussed in the following article, which was originally published in the Higher Education Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, Summer 1971 (now published by Tyrrell Burgess Associates, Ltd., 34 Sandilands, Croydon, England).

Review of Higher Education in the Forty-eight States: A Report to the Governors' Conference.

Review of Higher Education in the Forty-eight States: A Report to the Governors' Conference.