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Armstrong, Alan – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2014
This paper brings together the main strengths and challenges currently facing Scottish education and outlines approaches to the ways forward. Knowledge about how to improve education systems has grown rapidly over the last two decades. One key challenge facing Scotland, and no doubt many other countries, is in ensuring a smooth "learner…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Educational Practices, Curriculum Development
Jakubowski, Maciej; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Porta, Emilio Ernesto; Wisniewski, Jerzy – Human Development Network Education, 2010
Increasing the share of vocational secondary schooling has been a mainstay of development policy for decades, perhaps nowhere more so than in formerly socialist countries. The transition, however, led to significant restructuring of school systems, including a declining share of vocational students. Exposing more students to a general curriculum…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests