Prospects is UNESCO’s quarterly review of comparative education including viewpoints, articles and trends/cases. Examples of the articles found in this issue are: educational change from the perspective of the desicion makers; Switzerland: in a changing world, schools, too, are gradually changing; Finland: restructuring higher education; Chile: generating social consensus for a long-term reform of education; Mozambique: some considerations on educational research, policy formulation and decision making adn Jordan: the dynamics of educational decision making.