Editor's Note

Volume IX of Western European Education is being devoted in its entirety to the translation of the four studies on "Educational Reform and the World of Work" in Italy, Sweden, France, and England, respectively, that constitute volumes I and II of the Marburg Research Group's Qualifizierung und Wissen-schaftlich-technischer Fortschritt am Beispiel der Sekundar-schulreform in Ausgewahlten Industriestaaten.     

Editor's Note

The articles in this issue of Western European Education deal with several factors that influence educational policy: immigration (Finland, Sweden, Denmark, England), politics (West Germany), and the "Back to the Basics" movement (Scotland). As several of the articles make clear, politics, immigration, and pressures to retain traditional standards in education (or return to them) are all intertwined. That educational decision makers in other parts of the world are facing similar issues makes this closer look at Europe timely.     

Editor's Note

This issue of Chinese Education completes the translation of Hung Ch'i, 1970, No. 8, the first part of which appeared in the previous issue. It also continues the series of translations from the book Comrade Mao Tse-tung on Education Work begun by the previous editor of this journal. All of the articles in this book have appeared at one time or another in English translation - most of them in the Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung. The purpose of republishing them here is to bring them together for easy reference. We are, however, departing from the practice of the previous editor of retranslating these articles, and will instead present them as translated by the Foreign Languages Press in Peking.