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Diana Toledo Figueroa; Christa Rawkins; Emily Qing; Hugo Marques de Sousa – OECD Publishing, 2024
Teacher shortages have intensified across several OECD countries, making this an urgent priority for education systems. Between 2015 and 2022, the share of students whose principals reported shortages rose from 29% to 46.7% on average across the OECD. Simultaneously, rapid technological advances, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and broader…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Teaching (Occupation)
Delisle, Jason D., Ed.; Usher, Alex, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2019
"International Perspectives in Higher Education" offers a balanced perspective on how different countries approach key policies and what the United States can learn from those programs. Jason D. Delisle and Alex Usher have gathered a diverse group of experts to examine systems across the globe with a focus on the trade-offs between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Access to Education
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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
Keating, J.; Medrich, E.; Volkoff, V.; Perry, J. – 2002
A study to compare vocational education and training (VET) systems examined nine countries across these three large geographical regions: Europe, East Asia, and the Americas. It explored variables that most define and influence characteristics, behavior, and apparent success of VET systems and the impact of change. The nine systems were chosen on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Cultural Context, Demography