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OECD Publishing, 2016
This issue of "Education Indicators in Focus" reports that Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries organise learning time for primary and secondary education in different ways: (1) The number and length of school holidays differs significantly across OECD countries, meaning the number of instructional days…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Secondary Education, School Schedules, Time Management
Agboola, B. M.; Ofoegbu, F. I. – Online Submission, 2010
Demand for university education has increased due to the recent innovations of universal, free and compulsory education at the basic and senior secondary education level. Education has been expanding very rapidly at all levels in Nigeria. However, there are serious problems related to quality, equity, unavailable human and material resources and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
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Shaoqing, Lu; Shouli, Zhang – Chinese Education and Society, 2004
In the study of compulsory education for transient children, Beijing Xingzhi School for the Children of Transient Workers is a good example. There is no question that this is the most well-known school to date for transient children in China, and it has to a certain extent become a symbol of this social issue. The initial reports regarding this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Investigations, Migrant Workers, Compulsory Education