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Learning from All? The World Bank, Aid Agencies and the Construction of Hegemony in Education for Development
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Verger, Antoni; Edwards, D. Brent, Jr.; Altinyelken, Hulya Kosar – Comparative Education, 2014
This paper explores the nature and quality of the participation that characterises the Bank's consultations with external actors and examines the extent to which the Bank is responsive to such feedback when it comes to defining its policy preferences and strategies in the education domain. It draws on a case study of the participatory process that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Banking, Global Approach, Educational Policy
Forum: The Rise of International Large-Scale Assessments and Rationales for Participation
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Addey, Camilla; Sellar, Sam; Steiner-Khamsi, Gita; Lingard, Bob; Verger, Antoni – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
This Forum discusses the significant growth of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) since the mid-1990s. Addey and Sellar's contribution ("A Framework for Analysing the Multiple Rationales for Participating in International Large-Scale Assessments") outlines a framework of rationales for participating in ILSAs and examines the…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Group Testing, Participation, Relevance (Education)
Framing and Selling Global Education Policy: The Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships for Education in Low-Income Contexts
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Verger, Antoni – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
Public-private partnerships in education (ePPP) are acquiring increasing centrality in the agendas of international organizations and development agencies dealing with educational affairs. They are designed as an opportunity to correct inefficiencies in the public delivery of education and to mobilize new resources to increase the access to and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Education, Partnerships in Education, Agenda Setting
GATS and Higher Education: State of Play of the Liberalization Commitments
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Verger, Antoni – Higher Education Policy, 2009
Higher education is the education level under the most pressure to be internationally liberalized. Currently, the main global instrument to achieve this liberalization goal is the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization. In this paper, the process of trade liberalization of higher education in the GATS…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, International Trade, International Organizations
Measuring Educational Liberalisation. A Global Analysis of GATS
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Verger, Antoni – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2008
In this article, we examine the process of trade liberalisation of educational services in the framework of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Specifically, we analyse the factors that influence the undertaking of commitments on educational liberalisation by the member countries of the WTO. The…
Descriptors: International Trade, International Organizations, International Education, Global Approach
Inclusive Education and Social Inequality: An Update of the Question and Some Geographical Considerations
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Rambla, Xavier; Ferrer, Ferran; Tarabini, Aina; Verger, Antoni – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
The aim of this article is to review the current state of inclusive education in the world and to suggest a few relevant considerations. The first section "Two parallel concerns" retraces the inescapable connections between the educational aspects of inclusive education and more general concerns regarding inequality. The second section "Inclusive…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Comparative Education, International Organizations, Public Policy