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Crouch, Luis; Merseth, Katherine A. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
This paper highlights patterns in school enrollment indicators that affect the efficiency and effectiveness of education systems in a set of low-income countries: those that have expanded access quickly in the last decade or two, but have not yet absorbed that expansion efficiently. Although the patterns in these indicators are observable in the…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Low Income Groups, Developing Nations, Educational Indicators
Regmi, Kapil Dev – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
Amidst growing criticisms of global financial institutions, primarily the World Bank, this article explores their influence on educational programme planning in some of the impoverished nations known as the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The domination of these institutions originates not only from their monetary power but also from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, International Organizations, Educational Planning
Nieto, Sandra; Ramos, Raúl – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This article analyzes the factors that explain the gap in educational outcomes between the top and bottom quartile of students in different countries, according to their socioeconomic status. To do so, it uses PISA microdata for 10 middle-income and 2 high-income countries, and applies the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method. Its results show that…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Socioeconomic Status, Comparative Education, Low Income Groups
Finger, Leslie; Gindin, Julián – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
Latin American teachers' unions have stepped into the policymaking sphere and shaped education policies unrelated to regular workplace priorities like salaries and class sizes at notable moments. The literature on teachers' unions in Latin America has not addressed this, tending to focus instead on those unions' history and role in social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Unions, 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
Gagnon, Amélie; Legault, Elise – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
Ensuring that every child gets a teacher is a prerequisite to reaching the Education for All goals. Today, 58 million children are still not in school, and while a variety of factors constrain efforts to provide quality primary education for all children, ensuring that classrooms have enough teachers is at the top of the list. Since 2006, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Access to Education, Primary Education
Hunt, Frances – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This article provides an overview of how teacher quality and learning outcomes are included in national education policies. It responds to a set of specific questions focused on strategies to improve learning, links between teacher quality and learning outcomes, and how policy seeks to overcome learning obstacles for the most disadvantaged. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Educational Policy, Public Policy
Learning at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Constraints, Comparability and Policy in Developing Countries
Wagner, Daniel A.; Castillo, Nathan M. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
United Nations development goals have consistently placed a high priority on the quality of education--and of learning. This has led to substantive increases in international development assistance to education, and also to broader attention, worldwide, to the importance of children's learning. Yet, such goals are mainly normative: they tend…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Developing Nations, Educational Quality, International Organizations
Maclean, Rupert; Jagannathan, Shanti – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The article provides an overview of the global economic landscape in which the contemporary skills development discourse is located. Effective skills development oriented to market needs and to competitiveness in high-value global value chains will help developing economies to avoid the middle income trap. It outlines major issues and challenges…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Global Approach
Joshi, Priyadarshani – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
This paper analyzes the parent decision-making processes underlying school selection in Nepal. The analysis is based on primary survey and focus group data collected from parent meetings in diverse local education markets in two districts of Nepal in 2011. It highlights three main arguments that are less frequently discussed in the context of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Parents, Decision Making
Ahsan, M. Tariq; Mullick, Jahirul – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
Several international declarations, signed over the last few decades, are helping to promote Education for All, by eliminating inequalities in both society and education systems. This article, a descriptive review of policy documents and reform initiatives, reports on ways the Government of Bangladesh has responded to these international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Equal Education, Educational Policy
Lee, Jeongwoo – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
Many countries are now creating world-class universities (WCUs) as essential parts of their higher education reform agendas, and as national goals. It is legitimate to ask whether every country that aspires to build a WCU can do so--especially developing countries. To answer this question, this paper provides a three-step framework. The first step…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Universities, Global Approach, Higher Education
Breidlid, Anders – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
This article addresses the role that education plays in conflict, with specific reference to the civil war in Sudan. It analyses the ideological basis of the Sudanese government (GoS) during the civil war, with special reference to the role of religion and ethnicity. It shows how the primary education system was based on the Islamist ideology of…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Religious Cultural Groups, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Islam, Mir Nazmul; Anwar, Arif – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
Training paraprofessionals such as teachers is one of many significant challenges facing Afghanistan's educational system. This case study focuses on the innovations offered in that regard by BRAC, a large NGO based in Bangladesh that brought its many years of development experience to Afghanistan in 2002 and established itself there as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Nongovernmental Organizations, Educational Innovation
Begin-Caouette, Olivier – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
Through a case study of Quebec's general and vocational colleges (cegeps), this article analyzes the role that institutions play in internationalizing the in-service training they provide to their teachers, and explains how partnerships with educational institutions in developing countries contribute to this process. Data from a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Two Year Colleges, Public Colleges