The year 2015 was significant for the arena of international development, as UNESCO's "Education for All" agenda was replaced by "Education 2030", which would identify minimum standards of education quality. The OECD had been working on extending its existing PISA assessment into low- and middle-income countries through PISA…

This study reports on an investigation into the impact of a national, school-based teacher development programme on learning and teaching in Kenyan primary schools. Building on a national baseline study (n=102), 144 video-recorded lessons, covering the teaching of English, maths and science at Standards 3 and 6, were analysed to investigate…

The year 2007 was a highly significant one for "international education" in an "internationally minded school" context. It marked the fortieth anniversary of the first trial exam of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP). This paper charts the rather random global growth of this programme, from it being a…

This paper describes three multigrade school reforms in Latin America: (1) Colombia's "Escuela Nueva", (2) Guatemala's "Nueva Escuela Unitaria", and (3) Chile's MECE-Rural. Each reform endowed primary teachers and students with special training and instructional materials, and encouraged new kinds of instruction in rural…

The PTTC (Peking Teachers' Training College) was set up in 1954 to train secondary school teachers. The authors investigate the recruiting and training of future teachers both before and after the GPCR (Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution) to determine whether the GPCR brought about any significant change in Chinese education. (KC)

Within the International Baccalaureate syllabus framework candidates for the diploma must have instruction in some form of art or craft, so-called "creative or aesthetic activity". Examines the implications of this syllabus in terms of student's interests and creative development. (Author/RK)

Of concern here are traditionalist educational policies encapsulated in contemporary Development Plans of two Melanesian island-nations, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, and one Polynesian island-nation, Tonga. Such policies ignore new knowledge, new aspirations, new attitudes to school and are inappropriate for current educational needs.…

Evaluates the European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students (ERASMUS) in terms of the historical ideas of the great humanist Erasmus. Presents the goals, achievements, and prospects of the ERASMUS Program, summarizes the main ideas of Erasmus, describes trends in European higher education, and confronts the differences…