Surveying Education In The New Millennium: The Challenges

Abstract

As we enter the new millennium, it is clear that surveying educators face an unprecedented number of challenges. The effects of economic reform, unregulated markets, technology, university management policies, and professional expectations all create their own pressures. In this environment some academic programs are struggling to survive. This paper outlines these, and other major challenges being faced by surveying educationalists. It then suggests a number of strategies that might usefully be employed to ensure future academic and professional survival.