Volume 15, No. 4
Summer 1990
CONTENTS
SPECIAL ISSUE: THE OXFORD ROUND TABLE
INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE III
Observations on Conclusion of the Oxford Round Table
VIVIAN WILLIAMS, Professor, Director of the Norham Center for
Leadership Studies and Fellow, St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford 443
A Comparative Survey of Education Systems:
Structure, Organization, and Development
EDMUND KING, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of London 445
The World Economic Crisis and the Quality of Education
STEPHEN PAUL HEYENMANN, Chief, Human Resources
Economic Development Institute, World Bank 456
External Debt and Public Investment in Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
JANDHYALA B. G. TILAK, Professor, National Institute of
Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India 470
Compulsory Nine Year Education in China: Issues and Prospects
JIANLANG WANG, Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University 487
Issues in Brazilian School Finance
DAVID N. PLANK, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburg 498
Canadian Education: A National Agenda
STEPHEN B. LAWTON, Orlando Institute for Studies in Education 517
Adieu Victoria? Reform and Critical Strategy in the Brimelow – Hickrod Debates
MAUREEN W. MCCLURE, Professor, University of Pittsburgh 534
Financial Aspects of School Closure in the United Kingdom
KENNETH E. SHAW, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter 558
COMMENTARIES
The British Education Act of 1988: A Critique from the Labour Party
HILLARY ARMSTRONG, Labor Party Member of Parliament, United Kingdom 572
Education in Alberta: Transcending the Barriers
JIM DINNING, Minister of Education, Alberta, Canada 577
Education in Nigeria: Overcoming Adversity
JIBRIL AMINU, Minister of Education, Nigeria 581
Education in Israel: Quality, Study and Survival
YITZHAK NAVON, Minister of Education and Former President, Israel 587
Directions for Education in America
BOOTH GARDNER, Governor, State of Washington 592
Education Reform and Economic Competition: Critical Issues
WALLACE G. WILKINSON, Governor, State of Kentucky 603
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