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Eric D. Leise – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explored the influence institutional cultures and structures have on a university's internationalization strategy. It also accounted for the roles external forces, such as government policies and geopolitics, play in shaping internationalization strategies. The comparative case study between the United States, England, and Sweden were…
Descriptors: Universities, International Education, School Culture, Strategic Planning
Federiakin, Denis; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Kardanova, Elena; Kühling-Thees, Carla; Reichert-Schlax, Jasmin; Koreshnikova, Yuliya – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
In this paper, we present a study, which models and measures the competencies of higher education students in business and economics--within and across countries. To measure student competencies in a valid and reliable way, the Test of Understanding in College Economics was used, which assesses microeconomic and macroeconomic competencies. The…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Undergraduate Students, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Sass, Katharina – History of Education, 2020
This paper explores comparatively and historically why Nordic and Continental welfare and education regimes differ in the degree of comprehensiveness of their primary and lower secondary school systems. It analyses how school reforms, reform attempts and coalitions in the post-war decades were shaped by different cleavage structures in Norway and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational History, Welfare Services, Social Systems
Kraitzek, Andreas; Förster, Manuel; Walstad, William B. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
Changes in the economy and society lead to a growing necessity of financial education. In this context, we investigate the approaches to financial education in secondary schools in the United States and Germany. We seek to answer the question if and how the implementation of financial education is similar and different between the two countries.…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Money Management, Standards, Course Content
Xiao, Hong Ying; Chan, Tak Cheung – Educational Planning, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to identify the special features of the governance structures of research universities in four western countries: the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and France. Conceptual framework was laid out as groundwork of the paper. Scholarly work of known authors in higher education governance was reviewed with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Governance, Models
Christou, Theodore Michael, Ed.; Kruschel, Robert, Ed.; Matheson, Ian Alexander, Ed.; Merz-Atalik, Kerstin, Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2022
Featuring leading voices in the field from across Canada and Europe, this edited collection offers empirical analyses of the historical, social, cultural, and legislative determinants of inclusive education in Canadian schools. Covering four thematic areas including the structure, culture, and practices of inclusive education, the volume offers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Social Structure, Cultural Context
Westaway, Lise; Ladel, Silke; Vale, Pamela; Larkin, Kevin; Graven, Mellony; Kortenkamp, Ulrich – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2023
In this paper we compare the early years mathematics curricula of Germany, South Africa, and Australia in relation to the place value concept. Place value is an important topic as it underpins much of the number work completed by learners in the early years of schooling. We found that there were differences between the three curricula that could…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Mathematics Instruction, Number Concepts, Mathematics Curriculum
Annen, Silvia – International Journal of Training and Development, 2021
Germany and Canada differ significantly regarding their migration policy as well as the structures of the national labour markets and their educational systems. This paper aims to analyse how these differences affect the labour market outcomes of immigrants and the usability of foreign qualifications and work experiences by using the health and…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Work Experience, Recruitment, Immigrants
Doil, Melina; Pietzner, Verena – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
Due to the lack of success of German students in recent program for international student assessment (PISA) studies since 2001, the question arises whether German teacher training has an impact on this performance. This publication is based on a systematic review which deals with German-language publications of various PISA-relevant areas within…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
Gessler, Michael; Moreno Herrera, Lázaro – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2015
The design of vocational didactics has to meet special requirements. Six core assumptions are identified: outcome orientation, cultural-historical embedding, horizontal structure, vertical structure, temporal structure, and the changing nature of work. Different approaches and discussions from school-based systems (Spain and Sweden) and dual…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Comparative Education, Instructional Design, Educational Innovation
Apple, Lana; Debs, Mira – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2021
PISA test data from 2000 to today have shown Germany's education system is one of the most inequitable within the OECD, with high correlations between student background and achievement outcomes. Scholars have identified the highly differentiated school structure, which tracks students as young as 10 years old, as a central cause. This scholarship…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Case Studies, Outcomes of Education, Correlation
Ryan, Paul, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
Paul Ryan has brought together the writings of the most prominent British research into vocational preparation in Britain in comparison to the other advanced economies, primarily within the EEC. The book, originally published in 1991, documents various aspects of inadequacy in British practice at the time, concentrating upon intermediate skills,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Vocational Education, Job Skills
Pineda, Pedro; Celis, Jorge – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
Previous work has not yet comparatively studied which forms of peace education (PE) have been adopted in national laws. Through content analysis of policy documents, we seek to find out why the Colombian Congress established PE as mandatory content across all educational levels in 2014 in a postwar phase, while the German Standing Conference of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Peace, Educational Change
Barnett, George A.; Lee, Moosung; Jiang, Ke; Park, Han Woo – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
This paper provides a network analysis of the international flow of students among 210 countries and the factors determining the structure of this flow. Among these factors, bilateral hyperlink connections between countries and the number of telephone minutes (communication variables) are the most important predictors of the flow's structure,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Student Mobility, Global Approach
Peters, Susanne – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
VET (vocational education and training) is a highly complex, multidimensional worldwide phenomenon with diverse structures. Additionally, very different actors define the functions of a national (or even a regional) VET system. The paper contributes to a better understanding of the policy frameworks and current states of such systems. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Marketing, Commercialization