1. Note by the coordinating editor

   EditorialNotes Pages: 135 - 135

2. Reforms in higher education: The case of Chile in the 1980s

   • Beatriz Fried
   • Mario Abuhadba

   OriginalPaper Pages: 137 - 149

3. Higher education finance in China: Current constraints and strategies for the 1990s

   • Min Weifang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 161

4. Financing higher education in Colombia

   • Augusto Franco

   OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 176

5. Venezuelan higher education in perspective

   • Juan Carlos Navarro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 188

6. Private higher education: The Philippines as a prototype

   • Estelle James

   OriginalPaper Pages: 189 - 206

7. Financing higher education in Pakistan

   • Shahrukh R. Khan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 207 - 222

8. Higher education in Brazil: Recent evolution and current issues

   • Alberto De Mello E Souza

   OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 233

9. Performance indicators: Towards a synoptic framework

   • Mantz Yorke

   OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 248

10. Student failure: Disintegrated patterns of study strategies and perceptions of the learning environment

    • N. J. Entwistle
    • J. H. F. Meyer
    • Hilary Tait

    OriginalPaper Pages: 249 - 261

11. What is wrong with the modern research university?

    • Ronald H. Stein

    Review Article Pages: 263 - 266

12. Book reviews

    • Brian Crow
    • Alec Ross
    • G. D. Moss

    BookReview Pages: 267 - 271

13. Announcement

    Announcement Pages: 272 - 272