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Musset, Pauline – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
This literature review on school choice analyses the impact of choice schemes on students and on school systems focusing on equity. Reviewing the evidence can be difficult, as the literature is often fragmented and inconclusive, and the political importance of this research often results in high-profile attention given to individual studies rather…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Educational Research, Educational Policy
Universities UK, 2017
The report presents patterns and trends in data on students and staff at UK higher education institutions covering a 10-year period that has seen a transition to new higher education funding systems across a large part of the UK. Patterns in income and expenditure of UK higher education institutions in 2015-16 are considered. For the first time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Higher Education, Trend Analysis
Dockery, Alfred Michael – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
The preservation of Indigenous cultures is a controversial issue in Australia. On the one hand, the maintenance of traditional Indigenous culture has been viewed as a barrier to integration with mainstream society and the achievement of socio-economic equality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. An alternative view sees maintenance…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Cultural Maintenance, Educational Attainment, Cultural Differences
Department for Education, 2011
This report gives an overview of the existing evidence base on class size and education in England. In particular, it considers how class sizes have changed over time; the impact of the increase in birth rate on pupil numbers and how this could affect the teacher requirement and class sizes; and the impact of class size on educational outcomes.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Class Size, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Objectives
Agboola, B. M.; Ofoegbu, F. I. – Online Submission, 2010
Demand for university education has increased due to the recent innovations of universal, free and compulsory education at the basic and senior secondary education level. Education has been expanding very rapidly at all levels in Nigeria. However, there are serious problems related to quality, equity, unavailable human and material resources and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
Universities UK, 2010
This report presents an analysis of the diversity of income streams in UK higher education institutions (HEIs) at a time when the sector is facing considerable uncertainty. The research was conducted over a six-week period from March to April 2010 and, as such, it predated the establishment of the new Coalition Government in the UK. In the period…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Income, Economic Impact
Anand, Priyanka; Mizala, Alejandra; Repetto, Andrea – Education Working Paper Archive, 2008
This paper estimates the impact of private education on the academic achievement of low-income students in Chile. To deal with selection bias, we use propensity score matching to compare the test scores of reduced-fee paying, low-income students in private voucher schools to those of similar students in public schools and free private voucher…
Descriptors: Private Education, Public Schools, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement
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Shibata, Masako – History of Education, 2004
In Meiji Japan (1868?1912) and the German "Kaiserreich" (1871-1918), the educational system assisted the state in the definition of the notions of national identity. They developed, it is broadly claimed, within a similar vision of a state, which culminated in similar patterns of nationalism towards the end of the Second World War. In this article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role of Education, Educational History, Politics of Education
Aspinall, Robert W. – 2001
In 1989, the Japan Teachers' Union, Nikkyoso, split into two unions after 2 years of factional infighting. Japan has two political camps, the governing conservative Liberal Democratic Party and the left-wing Japan Socialist Party. The teachers' union is a powerful member in the camp of the latter. This book incorporates studies of the links…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Labor Problems, Politics of Education
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Koutselini, Mary; Michaelidou, Athena – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2004
The purpose of the present study was to investigate Cypriot teachers' and parents' attitudes towards, and understanding of, the educational policy of Greece-Cyprus Unified Education. The data of the study were collected through a 3-part questionnaire and an open question asking for attitudes towards, meaning and justification of the Unified…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Educational Policy, Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Smyth, John; Shacklock, Geoffrey – 1998
This book criticizes the current theory that effective education should promote economic competiveness in today's global market. It also insists that the theory of effective education has been taken out of the hands of teachers and assumed by people outside the classroom. Furthermore, the book describes teachers' reactions and resistance to these…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Chubb, John E.; Moe, Terry M. – 1992
In an analysis of school reform in Great Britain, this book shows how the landmark Education Reform Act of 1988 (ERA) imposed a radically new framework on British education. This framework is built on the same types of reforms that American activists have been proposing for years: school-based management (SBM), choice, and accountability.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Cox, Cristian – Human Development Network Education, 2006
The Education Working Paper Series is produced by the Education Unit at the World Bank (HDNED). It provides an avenue for World Bank staff to publish and disseminate preliminary education findings to encourage discussion and exchange ideas within the World Bank and among the broader development community. Throughout the 1990s and into the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Policy Formation, Educational Quality
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2004
Located at a meeting place between the West and the East, Hong Kong has been chosen in this comparative investigation to reconfirm a theoretical model of "reciprocal relationship" between mathematics achievement and self-concept using the 8th grade databases from TIMSS and TIMSS-R. During the time between these two projects, Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Self Concept
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
Across OECD countries, governments are seeking policies to make education more effective while searching for additional resources to meet the increasing demand for education. The 2010 edition of "Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators" enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries' performance. It provides a rich, comparable…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Educational Indicators, Foreign Countries
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