First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION I SECTION I Comparative and Theoretical The Demand CHAPTER ONE The demand for education as a human right CHAPTER TWO The demand for education as a political need CHAPTER THREE The demand for recreational and social education CHAPTER FOUR The requirements of the labour-market and the education explosion CHAPTER FIVE The explosion in world population CHAPTER SIX Economic, social and administrative difficulties in expanding education CHAPTER SEVEN Special problems of admission to higher education in an age of expansion CHAPTER EIGHT Meeting the demand in advanced and developing countries CHAPTER NINE The role of educational institutions with special reference to highly industrialized areas CHAPTER TEN The role of educational planning in developing countries Consequences CHAPTER ELEVEN Political implications of the educational explosion in developing countries CHAPTER TWELVE Sociological perspectives on the educational explosion CHAPTER THIRTEEN The social and pedagogical effects of the explosion in secondary schools SECTION II Reports from Countries: Europe CHAPTER ONE Tertiary education in the United Kingdom CHAPTER TWO The demand for technical education in the United Kingdom CHAPTER THREE The educational explosion in Belgium CHAPTER FOUR The demand for general education in France CHAPTER FIVE Expansion and crisis in secondary education in France CHAPTER SIX Facilities for study abroad as a contribution to the expansion of education in developing countries. Problems and proposals with special reference to Germany CHAPTERSEVEN The consequences of the explosion in Italian primary schools CHAPTER EIGHT The educational explosion in Sweden CHAPTER NINE The problem of expanding education in multi-lingual states, with special reference to the Soviet Union The Americas CHAPTER TEN The curricular consequences of the explosion in schools in the United States CHAPTER ELEVEN The demand for tertiary education in the United States CHAPTER TWELVE The explosion of education in a Latin-American country-Brazil CHAPTER THIRTEEN The problem of expanding education in a plural society-Ceylon CHAPTER FOURTEEN Primary and mass education in India CHAPTER FIFTEEN The education corps in Iran-a new experiment in the expansion of education CHAPTER SIXTEEN Primary and mass education in Malaysia CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Universal secondary education in New Zealand CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The expansion of primary and mass education in Africa CHAPTER NINETEEN The problem of language policy in Africa in expanding African education CHAPTER TWENTY Racial discrimination within a policy of expansion-Rhodesia CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Some economic implications of the education explosion in Ghana