The World Crisis in Education: The View from the Eighties

Drawing on evidence from many sources, the author looks at the future of education for all countries, focusing in particular on the lower-income developing countries. He identifies and examines such critical future issues as the worldwide growth of learning neeeds and how to meet them; the growing financial squeeze and inequalities between and within countries; the growing opportunities , educational reforms, innovations and new technologies and possible ways of coping with these issues through new forms of international cooperation.