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Ainscow, Mel – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
This article provides an introductory commentary to the papers in this Prospects special issue on inclusive education. In so doing, it stresses the need to be cautious as we read accounts of inclusive education from other parts of the world: whilst lessons can undoubtedly be learned from the accounts in this special issue, they must be adopted…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Equal Education, Barriers, Educational Research
Bogachenko, Tatiana; Perry, Laura – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This article examines the pedagogical dimension of vospitanie, or character formation, in communist and post-communist education. It explores how vospitanie is conceptualized in two teacher-education textbooks--one from each period--in Ukraine, a post-Soviet country. Comparative analysis shows how conceptualizations of vospitanie have evolved over…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Social Change, Teacher Education, Textbooks
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
Ally, Mohamed; Grimus, Margarete; Ebner, Martin – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
Recent statistics on the use of mobile technology proclaim that the world is becoming mobile. People use their phones to socialize, to conduct business, to search for information, and more. For the first time in history, people around the world have the potential to learn from any location at their own convenience. But first, education systems…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Improvement, Electronic Learning, Handheld Devices
Wang, Lijia; Lai, Manhong; Lo, Leslie Nai-Kwai – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
In 2009, a reform in teachers' pay, linking remuneration to performance, was implemented in China. The intention was to improve the quality of education by making teachers more diligent and creative and removing the inequality in pay between teachers in different schools. A review of this reform reveals that it has resolved the problem of…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Merit Pay, Educational Change, Comparable Worth
Schwartzman, Simon – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
Starting in the 1970s, Brazil developed a very complex system of quantitative assessments of education at all levels, making extensive use of statistical information and tests, in an effort to improve and maintain the quality of its education. However, with some exceptions, particularly at the graduate level, Brazilian education standards remain…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Statistical Analysis, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
Abadzi, Helen – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
With the advent of school-based management, citizen committees in low-income countries or areas are often expected to oversee the functioning of schools, health centres, and other community resources. However, studies of their effectiveness show mixed results. Though members of such committees may be able to repair buildings, they often cannot…
Descriptors: School Based Management, Delivery Systems, Psychological Studies, Group Dynamics
Dolan, Janice; Ndaruhutse, Susy – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2011
In recent years, Save the Children, a non-governmental organization, prioritized education for children affected by conflict through its Rewrite the Future Campaign. By significantly scaling up the resources allocated to programmes in conflict-affected countries, the organization has grown its education programmes in these contexts. Thus it has…
Descriptors: Conflict, Nongovernmental Organizations, Access to Education, Educational Quality
McLaughlin, Colleen; Swartz, Sharlene – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2011
Despite recent progress in meeting the goals of the Education for All agenda, certain groups of young people are particularly vulnerable to exclusion and underachievement, including children with HIV/AIDS, children living in poverty, and children with disabilities. HIV/AIDS has reduced many young people's rights to access education, to live a full…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Qualitative Research, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Disabilities
Nahas, Charbel – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2011
This paper assesses the adequacy, efficiency, and equity of higher education in Lebanon in both the public and private sectors, while highlighting challenges that are specific to Lebanon. It concludes by discussing various approaches and strategies to remedy the challenges facing higher education in Lebanon.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Jaffer, Kulsoom – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2010
This article traces how the concept of educational inspection has evolved in Pakistan, especially in the province of Sindh, and discusses whether the existing inspection system helps to improve quality and establish accountability. The inspection system that originated in colonial days has evolved to incorporate the notion of using supervision to…
Descriptors: Supervision, Educational Quality, Inspection, Foreign Countries
Schleicher, Andreas – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
Results from PISA show that strong educational performance, and indeed significant improvement over short periods of time, is possible. Whether in Asia (e.g., Japan and Korea), in Europe (e.g., Finland) or in North America (Canada), many countries display strong overall learning outcomes; equally important, they show that poor performance in…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement
Bermingham, Desmond; Christensen, Olav Rex; Mahn, Timo Casjen – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
This article introduces the special issue of "Prospects" on "Aid effectiveness in education". It brings together case studies of attempts in several very different contexts to improve the effectiveness of the use of aid in the education sector. By drawing on the historical evolution of the new paradigm over the last 20 years, the authors make the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Barriers, Incentives, Educational Policy
Hattori, Hiroyuki – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
Since 2001 the government of Cambodia has striven to advance policy-led education reform based on a sector-wide approach. This paper critically reviews the status and progress of Cambodia's education reform from the perspective of the aid's effectiveness. The paper looks at the performance of the sector reform in the three priority areas…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations
Rose, Pauline – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
"Absorptive capacity" is a frequently used term amongst development practitioners in education. It is adopted by some as a reason for caution over scaling up aid. Others are of the view that absorptive capacity is an excuse by some donors for not delivering on their Education for All financing commitments. Drawing on interviews with…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Donors, Nongovernmental Organizations, Barriers