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McMillan, Leah K. – International Review of Education, 2010
The end of the Cold War ushered in a paradigmatic shift in international development discourse whereby a human rights-based approach to development was generated. This shift has stimulated the pegging of international development policy to the objectives of the human rights regime. However, in attempting to unify development and human rights…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Definitions, International Education, International Programs
Gu, Jianxin – Frontiers of Education in China, 2009
Ever since the transnational education trend took off since the 1980s, transnational education has come to bearing political, economic and cultural implications. Different approaches have been formulated to achieve specific policy objectives by both importing and exporting countries. Such approaches demonstrate a four dimensional composition,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
Brock-Utne, Birgit – Comparative Education, 2007
Norwegian official development assistance to education has been profoundly shaped by the political and ideological attitudes of successive national governments. Yet successive coalition governments of highly-contrastive kinds can alike be seen to have been strongly influenced by the policy content, language and underlying assumptions of World Bank…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Trusts (Financial), Economic Development, International Organizations
de Siqueira, Angela C. – 2002
Since the 1960s, the World Bank has been involved in educational policy around the world. Applying a human capital theory/manpower forecasting approach, the World Bank has focused on the infrastructure, that is, buildings and equipment, in vocational and higher education. At the same time, the power and influence of UNICEF and UNESCO, the main…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Development, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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
Williams, Peter, Ed. – 1976
This booklet summarizes the proceedings of a one-day seminar on the educational policy of the World Bank and presents six papers prepared for the seminar. The seminar was held at the University of London Institute of Education in May 1975 and focused mainly on the World Bank's policy on educational aid as stated in its 1974 "Education Sector…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Conference Reports, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Eide, Kjell – 1990
Although its main focus is on economic collaboration, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has played a very influential role in the exchange of educational ideas and experience on an international level. It also is true that while OECD involves the nations of the European Community, Norway and Sweden have had a…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Cooperation, Educational History, Educational Policy
Groener, Zelda – 2001
An study investigated ways in which the political and economic development (PED) agendas of international organizations (IOs) permeated or pervaded PED agendas of the South African government's adult education and training policies. Policy documents of IOs were main data sources, and the richest data sources were country strategy papers written by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Policy

Bujazan, Michael; And Others – Comparative Education, 1987
At the policy level, the World Bank and other aid agencies evidence a practical orientation, emphasizing problems described as solvable by expertise and improved use of capital. In reality, tension exists between educational planning based on positivistic, technical rationality and political interaction grounded in situational considerations. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Agencies, Agency Role, Comparative Education, Decision Making
Galabawa, C. J. – 1990
Of the three East African British colonies (Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania), Tanzania was the least well off at the time of independence in 1961. At that time, only 16,691 students were enrolled in secondary schools, and all general education at higher levels was provided outside the country. Thus, the goals of post-independence educational policy…
Descriptors: African Studies, Colonialism, Developing Nations, Economic Development

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1997
This document contains information about the first four international conferences on adult education and their political, social, and educational contexts. The document presents chronological summaries of key events that occurred in the political, social, and educational spheres in each of the years from 1945 through 1997. The discussions of each…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Community Development, Conferences
Pantaleev, Tzako; Kalandarova, Natalia; Dineva, Nedka; Panev, Georgi; Petrova, Iskra – 1998
This report reviews the current situation of Bulgaria's vocational education and training (VET) system to identify challenges facing the system and areas needing reform. Section 1 explores the following five aspects of Bulgaria's political and socioeconomic situation: (1) demography; (2) economic developments (privatization of state enterprises,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Delivery Systems, Economic Change