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Defining development as a participatory process within a society aimed at creating or maintaining social structures and institutions that allow a society's present and future needs to be met, a study was undertaken to discover what kind of treatment was given to development news by Third World media. Eleven foreign newspapers from a university library were analyzed for content for 1 month. The papers came from a variety of countries, including China, Israel, and Canada, and from five countries in Africa. A total of 3,031 development news items were found, or about 9 or 10 items per issue. A measure of the proportion of the page and determination of the priority each item had received were made. Over half of the items were less than one-eighth of the page. Priority estimation followed a similar pattern, in that only 28.5% of the items were high priority, 49% were given middle priority, and 22.5% received low priority. Development news was primarily gathered by the newspaper staff or the national news agency of the country, and most items came from the latter. The results appeared to support the charges that Third World media place no more emphasis on development news than do Western news agencies. (HTH)

Business and industry support education in their communities in many ways, and financial gifts are only one of them. Business, industry, labor, government, and foundations are involved in financial support through grants, fellowships, scholarships, awards, endowments, loans, donations of time and services, and donation of teaching aids, materials, and equipment. Business and industry gain an improved work force, tax deductions, visibility in the community, and satisfaction of the sense of social responsibility. Federal legislation has sought to support vocational education actively, but it has also sought to use limited federal dollars to leverage maximum matching funds from private and other public sources. State sources of financial incentives include players from education and employment agencies. Contributions from business and industry can fall into any of the categories of the major and minor costs that partnerships encounter. Private foundations may also fund partnership activities, if the appeal is couched in terms of the foundation's interests. (A list of 23 references is appended. Two appendixes contain a list of ways business benefits from partnership and a principal's "wish list" of types of support.) (YLB)