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Hossain, Mobarak – Sociology of Education, 2022
The education sector in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has experienced a surge of neoliberal reforms over the past few decades, primarily led by the World Bank (WB). One of these reform agendas has been to "decrease standards" or "destandardize" educational responsibilities and policies by devolving educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Neoliberalism, Educational Change
Fontdevila, Clara; Verger, Antoni; Avelar, Marina – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
This paper examines the increasingly diverse range of roles played by the corporate sector in shaping education policy. While a growing body of scholarship has documented the deepening embeddedness of the corporate sector within policy-making processes, empirical research on the strategies mobilized by corporate actors remains unsystematised and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Corporations, Private Sector, Educational Policy
Jeong, Daeul; Hardy, Ian – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
This article explores policy enactment processes in relation to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4), particularly its emphasis upon ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education. Specifically, as part of SDG4 in Laos, the research reveals how medium-of-instruction policy was enacted in relation to ethnic minorities,…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Language Minorities, Educational Change, Language Planning
McCloskey, Stephen – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
This book argues that the international development sector is in crisis which can be mostly sourced to its side-stepping the dominant development question of our age, the neoliberal growth paradigm. It argues that this crisis can be addressed, at least in part, by the sector's re-engagement with the radical development education process that it…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Neoliberalism, Capacity Building, Educational Development
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
McGrath, Simon – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
The current dominant account of aid to education focuses on schooling and official development assistance and talks in terms of policy work, donor harmonisation and, increasingly, budgetary support. However, this approach is limited in a number of ways. The return of international policy interest in vocational education provides an opportunity to…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational History, Foreign Policy, Vocational Education
Colclough, Christopher; De, Anuradha – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
In the early 1990s, large numbers of children in India remained out of school. International commitments to achieve education for all (EFA) globally meant that India was an important case for donors. India was pressed to accept aid for primary education, and agreed with some reluctance. Although subsequent donor involvement was substantial and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Elementary Education, Access to Education
Sutherland, Lee – Perspectives in Education, 2007
This article explores the development of policy in quality assurance in higher education. While it briefly examines the broader context of quality assurance in South Africa in terms of the National Qualifications Framework as one of the political levers for establishing a quality assurance system in education and training systemically it focuses…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Strudwick, Jerry – 1989
This report presents information on the Improving the Efficiency of Educational System (IEES) Project Policy Research Initiative, which sought to improve educational capacity at the local level in Botswana and Indonesia. In Botswana, interviews were conducted with approximately 1,450 households and 20 policy makers. In Indonesia, 820 parents, 144…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Fuller, Bruce, Ed.; Habte, Aklilu, Ed. – 1992
Progress made by African governments toward improving their educational policies is described in this collection of papers, which were presented at a conference cosponsored by the World Bank and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Since the mid-1980s, several educational policy adjustment programs have been initiated in…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Educational Change
Lamarra, Norberto Fernandez; Aguerrondo, Ines – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1978
Examines theoretical components of educational planning in Latin America. The purpose of the article is to provide insight into current Latin American educational problems by identifying patterns in educational policy formation. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Assessment, Educational Change

MacKinnon, Archie R. – International Review of Education, 1979
In the 1950s and 1960s, donors of international aid attempted to impose a Western, technological form of schooling on the developing nations. In the 1970s, however, rediscovery of a pluralistic concept of intelligence has led donors toward a reappraisal and emphasis on more culture-specific educational interventions. (SJL)
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Culture Conflict, Developed Nations, Developing Nations

Eisemon, Thomas Owen; Holm-Nielsen, Lauritz – Higher Education, 1995
Experiences of different countries in establishing mechanisms to coordinate development of higher education systems, diversify institutional financing, and increase efficiency of public investments are examined. Attention is drawn to the need for effective policy structures to manage higher education, link reform costs to benefits, acknowledge…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comparative Education, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations
World Bank, Washington, DC. – 1993
This study explores education and training systems of the Caribbean nations that are members both of The World Bank and the Caribbean Group for Cooperation in Economic Development (CGCED). The study does not attempt to provide a detailed blueprint for each country or set of institutions or present new research findings. Overall, the emphasis is to…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Karam, Gebran – International Education Journal, 2006
The current status of the Lebanese vocational and technical education (VTE) system is assessed and the strategic issues and challenges facing it are identified. In addition to the economic and social challenges that are common to many developing countries, the Lebanese system suffers from idiosyncratic problems, which may require innovative and…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Private Sector, Foreign Countries, Technical Education