Towards a Management Science Perspective for Recurrent Education

Vincent P. Houghton and Tony E. Gear
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Vincent P. Houghton: The Open University, Milton Keynes, England
Tony E. Gear: The Open University, Milton Keynes, England

Interfaces, 1975, vol. 5, issue 2, 1-10

Abstract: Many models to aid decision-taking in education of a strategic nature have been put forward in the literature, but there has been little response from educational administrators. In order to pinpoint the reasons for this, a revolutionary concept, recurrent education, is examined in detail. The beginnings of a mathematical programming model applicable to this concept are presented. It appears from this study that the problems of planning education are connected with: setting objectives; defining input-output relationship, which is essentially uncertain in nature; measuring achievements on often long-time scales; handling multiple objectives and defining them in an operational form; including stochastic aspects of educational processes.

Date: 1975
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