DOCUMENT RESUME ED 475 715 HE 035 809 AUTHOR Yonezawa, Akiyoshi, Ed.; Kaiser, Frans, Ed. TITLE System-Level and Strategic Indicators for Monitoring Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century. Studies on Higher Education. INSTITUTION United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bucharest (Romania). European Centre for Higher Education. ISBN ISBN-92.-9069-172-1 PUB DATE 2003-00-00 NOTE 230p. AVAILABLE FROM CEPES-UNESCO, 30 Strada Stirbei-Voda, RO-70732, Bucharest, Romania ($20). Fax: 40-1-3123567; Web site: http://www.cepes.ro. PUB TYPE Books (010) -- Collected Works - General (020) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF01/PC10 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Educational Indicators; *Evaluation Methods; Foreign Countries; Futures (of Society); *Higher Education; *Program Evaluation IDENTIFIERS *Monitoring ABSTRACT Papers in this collection result from the work carried out in the context of an Invitational Roundtable on System-Level Indicators for Higher/Tertiary Education organized by the European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO-CEPES) and the Research Institute for Higher Education of HiroshiMa University, Japan. Section 1, "The Roundtable--An Overview," contains: (1) "What Was Achieved, under What Conditions, and for What Purposes?" (Akiyoshi Yonezawa and Frans Kaiser); and (2) "System-Level Indicators for Higher/Tertiary Education: Some Notes on Requirements and Use" (Frans Kaiser). Part 2, "Instructional Views," contains: (3) "Indicators of Higher Education" (Denise Lievesley); (4) "On the Uncertain Consequences of Taking Advice from Procrustes" (Guy Neave); and (5) "Indicators for Tertiary Education Reform: A World Bank Perspective" (Jamil Salmi). Part 3, "National Views," contains: (6) "The German Perspective Regarding the Design and Use of System-Level Indicators for Higher Education" (Klaus Schnitzer); (7) "Strategic Indicators for Higher Education Systems: Lessons from the French Experience" (Thierry Chevaillier); (8) "Problems Related to the Design and Use of System-Level Indicators for Higher Education in Poland" (Roman Z. Morawski); (9) "Romanian Perspectives on the Design and Use of System-Level Indicators in Higher Education" (Panaite Nica); (10) "A South African Perspective on System-Level Indicators for Higher Education" (Saleem Badat); (11) "Key Issues in the Development of Higher/Tertiary Education in China" (Hong Wei-Meng); (12) "The Japanese Perspective on the Design and Use of System-Level Indicators for Higher/Tertiary Education" (Akira Arimoto, Akiyoshi Yonesawa, Hideto Fukudome, and Masakazu Takeuchi); (13) "The Perspectivb of the United States Regarding System-Level Indicators for Higher Education", (Jamie P. Merisotis); (14) "Using System Indicators To Stimulate Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document