Volume 19, No. 4
Spring 1994
CONTENTS
SPECIAL ISSUE: The Oxford Round Table
Foreword
Adapting Education to the Modern World
JOHN ABBOTT, Director of Education 2000, United Kingdom 1
Making Sense of the Reform and Restructuring of Education and Training
SIR CHRISTOPHER BALL, consultant on higher education and formerly
Warden of Keble College, Oxford University 7
Purpose of Education: Peace, Capitalism and Nationalism
KERN ALEXANDER, University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech 17
Industrial Policy and National Success: The Human Element
MARC TUCKER, President, National Center on Education and the Economy,
New York 29
The Reform of Education in Russia and State Policy in the Educational
System: Background, Goals, Principles and Stages of Implementation
EDUARD D. DNEPROV, Advisor for Education Policy and Humanitarian
Affairs to the President, Russian Federation 36
The Reform of Education in the Republic of Belarus: Its Progress and Hopes
VICTOR A. GAISYONOK, Minister of Education and Professor,
Republic of Belarus 46
Managing Education Change in Estonia: The Development of Coordination,
Cooperation and Choice
PAUL-EERIK RUMMO, Minister of Culture and Education, Estonia 51
Perspectives of the Future Educational System in the Republic of Croatia
NAIMA BALIC, Senior Advisor and First Deputy, Ministry of Culture and
Education, Croatia 55
Reconstruction of the Hungarian Educational System: New Trends and
Realities in 1993
SANDOR TOTH, Chief de Cabinet of the Ministry of Culture and Education,
Hungary 58
A Study in the Politics of Business/Education Partnerships:
The British City Technology College Programmes
RICHARD MARGRAVE, Head of Press and Public Relations,
Association of Teachers and Lecturers, United Kingdom 65
Challenges to Education in Norway: The Quality of Equality
GUDMUND HERNES, Minister of Education, Norway 70
Changing Educational Systems to Meet the Demands of the New Century
PER UNKEL, Minister of Education and Science, Sweden 77
Reform of the Education System and Responses to the New Social
Challenges in Portugal
JOAQUIM AZEVEDO, Undersecretary of State for Basic and Secondary
Education, Portugal 81
The Education Strategy for Philippines 2000
ARMAND V. FABELLA, Secretary of Department of Education,
Culture and Sports, Republic of the Philippines 85
Education and Training Partnerships, The 1990’s Imperatives:
Jamaica, The West Indies
BURCHELL WHITEMAN, Minister of Education and Culture in Jamaica,
West Indies 94
The Quality and Financial Resource Dilemma of Education in the Congo
NAASSON LOUTET-DANGUI, Minister of Education, Republic of the Congo 99
Present and Future Scenarios for an Education System in South Africa,
Taking into Account the Move Towards Democracy
PIETER G. MARAIS, Minister of National Education, Republic of South Africa 103
Education and Gender Equity in Africa: The Case of Ethiopia
GENNET ZEWIDE, Minister of Education, Ethiopia 109
Education in a Rapidly Changing Society: The New York Response
CHARLES D. COOK, State Senator, New York 113
Private Resources and the U.S. Public Schools
THOMAS W. EVANS, Chairman of the Board, Teachers College,
Columbia University, NY 121
Business-Education Partnerships: Assessing the Value
CHRIS MARSDEN, Head of Community and Educational Relations,
British Petroleum Company, United Kingdom 127
Building Partnerships for the Culturally Diverse Work Place:
The Career Awareness Program of Home Savings of America
JUDY MORGAN PHILLIPS, Vice President Manager, Home Savings of America,
Career Awareness Program, California 130
Business and Education Partnerships: A Preschool through Higher
Education Perspective in the United States
RICHARD GREEN, Director, Education Affairs, Honeywell, Inc., Minnesota 138
Early Childhood Development:
A Key Component in the Development of Education Policy
KATE TORKINGTON, Head of Training for the Bernard van Leer Foundation,
The Hague, The Netherlands 145
Education Reform in Argentina
MIGUEL JOSE SOLE, Secretary of Technical and Operative Coordination,
Ministry of Culture and Education, Argentina 155
Alaska 2000—The Process of Change
JERRY COVEY, Commissioner of Education, Alaska 159
The New Mexico Legislature and System Education Change
BARBARA A. PEREA-CASEY, State Representative, New Mexico 163
Common Collaborative Systems of Education: Paradigm for a
Learning Society
MARY JANE GUY, Associate Professor in Educational Leadership at
Winona State University, Minnesota 167
PROGRAMME OF THE 1993 OXFORD ROUND TABLE 183
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