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Rizvi, Fazal; Savage, Glenn C.; Quay, John; Acquaro, Daniela; Sallis, Richard J. T.; Sobhani, Nima – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
This article examines the ways in which the International Baccalaureate's Learner Profile is interpreted and enacted in three different national settings. Using the data collected from a comparative study of the Learner Profile in nine International Baccalaureate schools in India, Hong Kong, and Australia, the article problematizes the widely held…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, Student Characteristics, Profiles
Mukerji, Shalini – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
An idea took shape in the slums of Mumbai in the early nineties and went on to become a peoples' movement to address the problem of providing quality education for all of India's children. This piece profiles Dr. Madhav Chavan, the man who provided the dynamic vision for and creative leadership of that mission/movement. Dr. Chavan combined the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Slums, Access to Education, Low Income Groups
Shukla, Vachaspati; Mishra, Udaya S. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
This article evaluates the progress in literacy among the Indian states, from an age-cohort perspective. It argues that age-cohort analysis offers a robust understanding of the dynamics of literacy progress. The article clearly brings out the fact that, despite the accomplishment of universal elementary education, achieving the goal of full…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Academic Achievement, Demography
Mitra, Sugata; Dangwal, Ritu – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
This article describes a study under the Reaching the Unreached component of the Chiphen Rigpel project between the governments of Bhutan and India. This initiative is an attempt to provide computer literacy to children of Bhutan through setting up "hole in the wall" (HiWEL) Playground Learning Station(s) (PLSs). The study described here…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Literacy, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Chhabra, Meenakshi – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
This article examines singular historical narratives of the 1947 British India Partition in four history textbooks from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Britain, respectively. Drawing on analysis and work in the field, this study proposes a seven-module "integrated snail model" with a human rights orientation that can be applied to…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, History Instruction, Violence, Geographic Regions
Dyer, Caroline – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
Evolving policies have increasingly aimed to include nomadic groups in EFA, but an overemphasis on mobility has distracted policy makers from going beyond access logistics to consider learning needs within nomads' contemporary livelihoods and cultural values. Notable global trends are the growth and institutionalization of forms of Alternative…
Descriptors: Migrant Children, Foreign Countries, Migrant Education, Access to Education
Singal, Nidhi – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
This article presents an analysis of key developments in educational policies and strategies, since 2000, in relation to the education of children with disabilities in India and Pakistan. It responds to a set of specific questions focused on factors that have shaped the increased emphasis on education of children with disabilities, how national…
Descriptors: Children, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Criticism
Chudgar, Amita; Chandra, Madhur; Iyengar, Radhika; Shanker, Rishikesh – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
In addition to basic infrastructure, what school resources are important to improve learning? This question is hard to answer due to lack of availability of appropriate data. Collaboration between researchers at US universities and a large, well-established educational foundation in India enabled this study to overcome the challenge of data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Educational Resources, Academic Achievement
Pilz, Matthias; Wilmshöfer, Simon – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
The vast majority--70%--of the Indian population lives in rural areas. They are far removed from India's image as a society with an emerging middle class and well-regarded schools. This research focuses on education and opportunities for skill development for this rural population. The researchers investigated the area around the Chilika Lagoon, a…
Descriptors: Indians, Interviews, Student Attitudes, Industrial Education
Mehrotra, Santosh; Kalaiyarasan, A.; Kumra, Neha; Ravi Raman, K. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This article explores the notion of the duality principle, as embodied in the German dual system of Vocational Education and Training (VET), within the context of a field survey of skill shortages faced by German and Indian firms operating in India. The study finds that these firms experience problems with the quantity and quality of skills…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Skill Development, Foreign Countries, Corporations
Rolleston, Caine; James, Zoe – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
In recent decades, both India and Vietnam have successfully expanded access to schooling to near-universal levels and have shifted their focus to quality-oriented policy reform. Yet, international and national evidence shows strongly contrasting learning profiles for children within the two systems. Simple indicators of numeracy suggest similar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Longitudinal Studies, Educational Policy
Alcott, Benjamin; Rose, Pauline – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
It is increasingly recognized that there is a global learning crisis. This article investigates this learning crisis through a comparative analysis of rural India and Pakistan. Using data from each country's Annual Status of Education Report, it demonstrates that socioeconomic status and gender are important determinants of whether children are in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Comparative Education, Rural Schools
Dobbs, Richard; Madgavkar, Anu – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
As a result of changing employer needs, shifts in the labour supply, and demographic forces, there could be increasingly significant mismatches between worker skills and job requirements by 2030, which could raise structural unemployment levels and slow economic growth. These gaps would include shortages of high-skill workers in advanced economies…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Labor Market
Mehrotra, Santosh – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
In the first decade of this century, India became one of the world's fastest growing large economies, and began to face serious skill-related shortages of workers. Its TVET system has not responded adequately to the growth in demand for semi-skilled and skilled workers. This article describes six sets of reforms that India's educational planners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Relevance (Education)
Mishra, Mukti – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
At present, India's education system turns out millions of young people who are ready to think, but not enough people with entrepreneurial or employment skills. As India faces increasing limits on its resources, both economic and natural, the competency and capability of human resources play a pivotal role in developing and sustaining the economy.…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Vocational Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Youth Opportunities
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