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Vocational Qualifications at Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5: Who Takes Them and How They Fit into Students' Programmes of Study. Research Report
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Vidal Rodeiro, Carmen; Vitello, Sylvia – Cambridge Assessment, 2020
In 2010, the government announced their latest drive to raise the status of vocational qualifications in secondary education. This overhaul was subsequently enacted based on recommendations made by Alison Wolf in her review of vocational education. As a result, the Department for Education (DfE) introduced four new categories of vocational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Qualifications, Secondary Education
The Impact of Student Composition on Schools' Value-Added Performance: A Comparison of Seven Empirical Studies
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Timmermans, Anneke C.; Thomas, Sally M. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
In many countries, policy makers struggle with the development of value-added indicators of school performance for educational accountability purposes and in particular with the choice whether school context measured in the form of student composition variables should be included. This study investigates differences between 7 empirical studies…
Descriptors: School Demography, School Effectiveness, Educational Research, Comparative Analysis
What Are the Social Benefits of Education? Education Indicators in Focus. No. 10
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OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2013
"Education Indicators in Focus" is a recurring series of briefs that highlight specific indicators in "OECD's Education at a Glance" that are of particular interest to policy makers and practitioners. They provide a detailed look into current issues in pre-primary, primary and secondary education, higher education, and adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Benefits, Demography, Expectation
School Choice in the Light of the Effectiveness Differences of Various Types of Public and Private Schools in 19 OECD Countries
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Dronkers, J.; Robert, P. – Journal of School Choice, 2008
The paper approaches the issue of school choice in an indirect manner by investigating the effectiveness of public, private government-dependent and private independent schools in 19 Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development countries selected from the PISA 2000 survey for this purpose. In a multilevel approach we estimate these…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, School Choice, Foreign Countries