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Alan Watkins; Matt Silver – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
The need for change in the education system is obvious and overwhelming. But each stakeholder group has its own ideas about why the system is broken and how to fix it. Competing priorities, political inertia and diminishing budgets maintain the dysfunctional status quo. This essential text examines the underlying causes behind the key challenges…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Knowledge Economy, Educational Change, Systems Approach
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Hansen, Petteri; Wallenius, Tommi; Juvonen, Sara; Varjo, Janne – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
Throughout history educational leaders have looked to other countries and have attempted to learn by borrowing useful examples to implement in their own educational systems. As recent comparative policy research shows, processes of policy lending and borrowing have their own socio-historically defined dynamics. In this paper, the authors approach…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Cross Cultural Studies, Specialists
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Donkeng Nazo, Armel – Online Submission, 2022
This paper is a summary of my doctoral dissertation; it investigates the recent developments and reforms launched by Cameroon Higher Education policymakers to upgrade and align this sector to the needs of the country's socio-economic development and suggest strategies built from China's successful experience. This qualitative work was done in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Socioeconomic Influences, Educational Policy
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Li, Kaiyi – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2021
In 1932, with the help of the League of Nations, the Chinese government sent an educational mission consisting of five scholars to Europe, in order to investigate education in different countries as reference points for ongoing Chinese educational reform. This article argues that educators in the mission used foreign examples to support their…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Educational Change
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Antonowicz, Dominik; Kohoutek, Jan; Pinheiro, Rómulo; Hladchenko, Myroslava – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
The aim of the article is to explore the impact of excellence as a powerful policy idea in the context of recent and contemporary developments in three selected Central and Eastern European countries, namely, the Czech Republic, Poland and Ukraine. More specifically, we explore how excellence as a "global script" was translated by policy…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Policy, Excellence in Education, Foreign Countries
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Britez, Rodrigo G. – Policy Futures in Education, 2012
This article presents an assessment of the impact and implications of the international mobilities operating in the national public policy environment. In fact, patterns of transformations that take place in national higher education systems are generating diverse and complex outcomes in different countries, in ways that may preclude a simple…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 2003
This report explores, in particular, the educational R&D systems in two countries, England and New Zealand, both members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). OECD review teams have been assessing the effectiveness of the educational R&D systems in these two countries in developing and applying usable…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Educational Research