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Therese N. Hopfenbeck; Samantha-Kaye Johnston; Caroline Cresswell; Kit Double; Joshua McGrane – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
This study evaluates the implementation of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Career-Programme (CP) in secondary schools in Kent, United Kingdom. Launched by the IB and Kent County Council in 2012, the initiative offered students from disadvantaged areas the opportunity to participate in a programme to prepare them for future careers and/or…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Advanced Placement Programs, Citizenship Responsibility, Capacity Building
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Bryant, Darren A.; Ko, James; Walker, Allan – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2018
This article draws on data from cases of high-performing and improving schools in Hong Kong. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with principals, middle leaders, and senior teachers to identify key policies and steps taken for their enactment, and to solicit interpretations of the policies. Principals were found to actively select,…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Windle, Joel; Maire, Quentin – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
The global middle class (GMC) is a theoretical construct that seeks to globalise a set of attributes identified in studies of school choice in the global north, and to a lesser extent in developing nations in Asia. As theorised by Ball a mobile middle class with cosmopolitan sensibilities drives international education options in global cities.…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Educational Strategies, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries