Policies for Higher Education. General Report.

Overview & Synopsis

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) organized a Conference on Future Structure of Post-Secondary Education, Paris, June 1973. The central concern of the conference was to examine the advent of mass higher education in its main patterns and characteristics and to identify alternative policy measures for facilitating the overall structural transformation of the system towards meeting its new objectives in the context of social and economic development. This document reports conference proceedings and papers presented, covering overall issues in the development of future structures of postsecondary education, accessibility to postsecondary education and employment, nontraditional forms of study in postsecondary education, the structure of studies and the place of research in mass higher education, and the planning and financing of postsecondary education. (MJM)