This occasional paper of the Centre for Education Policy and Practice outlines how the National School Improvement Tool, developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) in collaboration with the Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment is being used in Australian schools. The Tool is grounded in international…

These days ICT has penetrated into almost all sectors of the economy and society of Mongolia. More and more effort and attention is being paid to integrating ICT into the education sector. The current education reforms have a big component related to ICT, which includes the development of a Master plan for ICT in the Education sector, addressing…

The authors argue that the ongoing research by the National Academies, the National Research Council, and the National Science Foundation are imperative. The findings and recommendations on what the school systems of America must do to develop specific educational programming will position the U.S. at the forefront of the world's economies if…

The aim of this study is to provide a retrospective on the reorganisation of the school network in Portugal between 2005 and 2007. Underlying measures predicted the closure of approximately 2000 primary schools, mainly situated in rural areas. This is a current topic of considerable controversy considering the reform which is being implemented and…

An integrated system of higher education geared to the national development plan can bring about fundamental shifts in national consciousness that will result in a more harmonious relationship between the principal resource of all development activities--people--and the goals toward which the national plans are aimed. (Author/IRT)

Author is a member of the James Committee which authored the James Report in Educational Planning Paper No. 1, Teacher Education and Training" and Paper No. 2, Student Numbers in Higher Education in England and Wales." (MB)

The report is a clarification of issues--delineating the distinctions between career education and vocational education and recommending changes in Federal policy to spur further advances in making schools relevant to the real needs of students. (Author/EA)

Ethiopia's Education Sector Review and a subsequent symposium set up a framework and guidelines for Incorporating, integrating and financing a nonformal component in a comprehensive educational system for Ethiopia. Most of the governmentally sponsored educational activities now classified as NFE are conducted by organizations other than the…

The author claims that the real operational goal of those who control public education has not been to have good schools, but to have schools that are just good enough. Until now, educators have not made basic policy but they must do so. (Author/AS)

The educational programs of the Great Leap Forward (GLF) represented the first organized attempt by the Chinese government to restructure and align the educational system with the national economy. The educational policies of the GLF ultimately foundered because of patterned inertia within the educational system.(Author)

In developing countries ideology plays an important role in the political process, for the level of disorganization forces political leaders to look for support and loyalty rather than efficiency. (Author)

Reviews the Democratic Republic of Zaire in geographic, economic, demographic, historical, and educational terms and concludes that to date the reorganization required by new policy goals has been implemented by "fiat." The government of Zaire needs to fashion an authentic process of educational planning. (Author/WM)