Reviews & Analysis

Will the present academic staff of universities around the world be able to cope with the challenges of a new era?

Britain's schools are struggling to come to terms with the challenge of a changing society.

The demand for graduates will continue to increase over the next ten years, and employers must change their ways if they are to attract their share of scarce skills.

Industrial application of recent advances in ceramics technology will require adaptable staff with first degrees in a variety of scientific subjects, rather than highly specialized personnel with higher degrees.

Demand in software market balances cutback in recruitment in the computer and electronics industries.

Twenty-one million new jobs are expected in the United States by the year 2000, and unemployment is likely to fall to 6 per cent.

Britain's Chancellor Nigel Lawson, some say, is presiding over an economic 'boom'. But what likelihood is there that the recovery will result in employment opportunities?

For 200 years Australia has looked overseas for labour, attracting emigrants from throughout the world. As the fanfares sound for its bicentenary, does Australia still hold its attraction for job seekers?