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Direct linkSoong, Hannah – Comparative Education, 2022
This article examines the educational strategies of Shanghai Chinese middle-class parents who intend to raise their children to be cosmopolitans. It is based on a 2-year interview study of a group of Chinese parents who send their children to accredited international bilingual schools in Shanghai. Drawing on the concept of ordinary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Parents, Bilingual Schools
Asadolahi, Salar; Farney, James; Triadafilopoulos, Triadafilos; White, Linda A. – Comparative Education, 2022
Across OECD countries, education choice is proliferating as parents seek and governments permit choice both inside and outside public education systems. The movement of students out of the common public school, however, varies significantly across jurisdictions and sociodemographic characteristics such as race and class. This variation in…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Policy, Feedback (Response), Outcomes of Education
Young, Natalie A. E. – Comparative Education, 2018
International schools are commonly depicted in the academic literature and popular press as offering elite educational credentials to an elite, oftentimes international, student body. In this paper, I draw on a case study of a Canadian international school to argue that a new form of international school is emerging in China--one that offers a…
Descriptors: International Schools, Academic Failure, Case Studies, Foreign Countries
Miller-Idriss, Cynthia; Hanauer, Elizabeth – Comparative Education, 2011
This paper maps the landscape of transnational higher education in the Middle East, focusing in particular on the recent expansion of satellite, branch, and offshore educational institutions and programs that foreign institutions have set up in the region. Of the estimated 100 branch campuses currently operating worldwide, over one-third are in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, International Education, Foreign Countries
Bunnell, Tristan – Comparative Education, 2008
The year 2007 was a highly significant one for "international education" in an "internationally minded school" context. It marked the fortieth anniversary of the first trial exam of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP). This paper charts the rather random global growth of this programme, from it being a…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Development, International Schools
Gorard, Stephen; Smith, Emma – Comparative Education, 2004
This paper uses pupil responses to the PISA study in 2000 for all EU countries. Using indicators of the pupil intakes to schools and their outcomes it computes segregation indices for 15 countries, and then tries to explain the resulting patterns in terms of the characteristics of national school systems. Segregation by sex in each country is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Females, Single Sex Schools
