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Nowell Chidakwa – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2024
Rwanda started teaching English to support sustainable development and deliver the five key pillars that would help Rwandans transition from their existing way of life to the society they all desire and are happy to be a part of. As a follow-up to the Sustainable Development Goals and the Berlin Declaration on Education for Sustainable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Sustainable Development
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Soo Sturrock – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
In an international policy environment of intensified high-stakes accountability, pupil assessment data are an invaluable commodity and critical indicator of both school and teacher effectiveness. Teachers' engagement with pupil data and the associated experiences of increased accountability are of great consequence, and highly contentious for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Accountability, Student Evaluation
Nancy Montes; Fernanda Luna – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2024
This article characterizes and reflects on the possible uses of early warning systems (hereafter, EWS) in the region as effective tools to support educational pathways, whenever they identify risks of dropout, difficulties for the achievement of substantive learning, and the possibility of organizing specific actions. This article was developed in…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Use, At Risk Students, Foreign Countries
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2020
European policies on international mobility of students in initial vocational education and training (IVET) are working but more is needed. Young people in IVET today have more opportunities to do part of their training abroad than their peers of a decade ago. In most European Union (EU) Member States they tend to receive better information,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Policy, Study Abroad, Student Mobility
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Mogale, Makobo Lydia; Modipane, Mpho Calphonia – South African Journal of Education, 2021
Globally, policy implementation in the education system has been found to be a challenging area of development. The South African education system is no exception to the ineffective implementation of policies. For example, in South Africa, the progression policy was introduced by the Department of Education in 2013 for the purpose of minimising…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
US Agency for International Development, 2020
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) Education Policy, (the Policy) effective November 2018, guides Agency-wide investments in education and is the primary source of direction for all education programming. The Policy outlines key principles and priority areas that are critical to supporting countries on their journey to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education, Decision Making, Public Agencies
OECD Publishing, 2017
The PISA for Development brief series is a set of concise monthly education policy-oriented notes published by the OECD which are designed to describe a specific PISA for Development topic. In this brief, PISA's role in monitoring the fourth United Nations Sustainable Development Goal--to "ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
Santiago, Paulo; Fiszbein, Ariel; Jaramillo, Sandra García; Radinger, Thomas – OECD Publishing, 2017
This country review report for Chile provides, from an international perspective, an independent analysis of major issues facing the use of school resources in Chile, current policy initiatives, and possible future approaches. The report serves three purposes: i) to provide insights and advice to Chilean education authorities; ii) to help other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance
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DeLuca, Christopher; Braund, Heather; Valiquette, Adelina; Cheng, Liying – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2017
Given the longstanding role of grades in education, and their increased use for high-stakes decisions including student mobility, admission, selection, and accountability, this paper presents a systematic review of grading policies across all 10 Canadian provinces and 3 territories. In total, 23 policies were inductively analyzed for their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grading, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
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Hennessy, Laura – Research in Drama Education, 2016
This article offers a perspective on Drama as a separate subject within the UK secondary school curriculum from the point of view of a working Head of a Drama department. I explore the various concerns a teacher of this subject must consider when planning a curriculum within their school, including breadth and depth of content and assessment of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Department Heads, Drama, Theater Arts
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Sharma, Umesh; Forlin, Chris; Marella, Manjula; Jitoko, Filipe – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2017
The Pacific Island countries are committed to promoting disability-inclusive education through enactment of the Pacific Education Development Framework. To support this move, key stakeholders have identified the need for developing local and contextually appropriate indicators for measuring progress of disability-inclusive education. This paper…
Descriptors: Pacific Islanders, Educational Indicators, Inclusion, Disabilities
European Students' Union, 2018
In every policy paper European Students' Union (ESU) seeks to outline their vision for a truly modern and collegial higher education and student interests. This paper provides an overview of ESU's main policies on higher education. It begins with the following sections: (1) What is higher education?; (2) Who is higher education for?; (3)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Unions, Student Rights, Educational Policy
Cavallini, Simona; Bisogni, Fabio; Soldi, Rossella – European Union, 2021
This study identifies, analyses and categorises educational and training (ET) initiatives implemented by local and regional authorities (LRAs) across the European Union (EU). LRAs' responsibility in education and training varies importantly among Member States, but the evidence gathered through this study tells a story of active contribution of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Local Government, Government Role, Geographic Regions
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Scherer, Lexie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016
This paper examines the experiences of children learning to read in a multi-ethnic London primary school. The data are drawn from doctoral research, based on ethnographic fieldwork, with children aged six to seven years and ten to eleven years. Reading is revealed as a strongly emotional realm for children. The children are weak to resist teacher…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Programs, Emergent Literacy, Ethnography
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2018
Work in 2015-17 signals continuity with earlier national strategies and initiatives. It confirms the recent focus on apprenticeships and other forms of work-based learning, and increasing attention to widening access to VET and qualifications, two areas that have been reinforced by EU-level policy packages. The report also presents measures taken…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Vocational Education, Educational Policy
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