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Attewell, Paul, Ed.; Newman, Katherine S., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2010
The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world. Educational expansion is desirable for a country's economy, beneficial for educated individuals themselves, and is also a strategy for greater social harmony. But has greater access to education reduced or…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
Western European Education, 1986
Begins by reviewing widely-perceived ills of France's lower secondary schools and noting the political nature of any decision to change. Outlines the official 1982 four-point program of reform designed to move toward genuine democratization of the schools. Notes obstacles to change, but provides guidelines for a number of practices deemed helpful…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Change, Educational Methods, Educational Policy
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Mauger, Gerard – Journal of Education Policy, 1993
French schooling is characterized by rising levels of educational participation and perpetuation of class and gender inequalities. After exploring this issue, this paper considers the character of contemporary French youth (aged 18 to 24) and selected aspects of youth culture as these illustrate change and continuity in class and gender divisions.…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Leisure Time
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Geiger, Roger L. – 1977
The attempt to give the third and fourth years of university study in France more vocational relevance (the second cycle reform of 1976) is analyzed in relation to the fundamental transformations taking place in French higher education in the areas of access to higher education, institutional diversification, and university governance. Although…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Opportunities
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education
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van Zanten, Agnes – European Educational Research Journal, 2005
This article is based on the Keynote Address to the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Crete, Greece, 21-25 September 2004. One of the most consistent results in sociology of education research has been the existence of inequalities in school results and educational trajectories related to social factors. Despite an important…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Ethnic Groups, Parent Role, Foreign Countries