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Knodel, Philipp; Martens, Kerstin; Niemann, Dennis – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2013
Education policy has undergone transformation in many countries over the last decade. In this article, we focus on the effects of the most significant international initiative in secondary education, which is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). We analyse two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Achievement Tests
Luna, Laura – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
Based on a school ethnography carried out in an English primary school in the last years of New Labour Government, this paper examines the processes and dynamics involved in the introduction of a cooperative learning method as part of the Success for All Literacy Program, which was being implemented in the school for the first time. It discusses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Accountability, Literacy
Filippakou, Ourania; Salter, Brian; Tapper, Ted – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2010
Formally the new public management model of governance was introduced into British higher education with the passage of the 1988 Education Reform Act, which abolished the existing University Grants Committee (UGC) and instigated the funding councils. This article explores the relationship between the state, the funding councils and the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
Eurydice, 2009
There is an extensive structure of formal student assessment in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Although the structures in each of these countries were similar when they were initially introduced two decades ago, they have increasingly diverged over the last decade. This national description outlines the development of statutory assessment…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Organization, Context Effect, Educational Assessment
Richardson, William – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2007
This article surveys three strands of development in the further education of young people in England since the Second World War: its institutional evolution, some aspects of the experience of its students and staff, and the political and economic imperatives that have given it shape and direction. The account draws upon a wide range of primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Adult Education, War
Hudson, Christine – European Educational Research Journal, 2007
In many countries, there have been changes in the way in which education is governed, with greater fragmentation of responsibility between the state, local government, schools, individuals and the market often accompanied by a move from detailed regulation to framework legislation. Previously, these developments have been seen as part of the move…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Comparative Education, Standardized Tests, Local Government