The role of pre-vocational education in general compulsory education has become increasingly relevant over recent years, with the international debate focussing particularly on its importance in school-to-work transitions. This study considers curriculum design and the implementation of pre-vocational education in four countries with radically…

After an introduction by the Commissioner of Education, chapters I and II of volume 1 cover reports from the Mosely Educational Commission to the United States. Chapter III addresses proceedings instituted to execute the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. Subsequent chapters cover French education, agriculture teaching in French and Belgian schools,…

Volume I begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction of the 1908 report. Chapter I is on current topics and discusses education relations, including professor, teacher and student exchanges. International congresses are discussed, including the first international congress of mothers, parents' national education union, universal…