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Curran, Conor – Irish Educational Studies, 2020
This article assesses the rates of third-level degree obtainment amongst Republic of Ireland-born football migrants who played league football in England in the period from 1945 until 2010. It will illustrate that despite a general widening of access and participation at university level in the Republic of Ireland in the late twentieth century,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletes, Team Sports, Immigrants
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Jacobson, Erik – E-Learning, 2009
This article presents a review of seven national governments' online collections of adult literacy-related research. This study explored the type of learning associated with official web spaces by asking the following research questions: (1) What kind of research do these governments present on their websites? (2) How is the presentation…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Educational Research, Educational Resources, Access to Information
McBride, Stephanie – 1986
This paper discusses the relationship between national identity and the so-called "marginal" areas of Irish television, i.e., advertisements, continuity announcements, and promotional trailers. The following issues are considered: (1) how these "spaces" between television programs compare in terms of use and influence to…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Commercial Television, Foreign Countries, Government Role
Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2004
In this article, the author discusses how England refines its accountability reforms. When the Conservative government crafted the Education Reform Act of 1988, which mandates a national curriculum for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, as well as national-curriculum tests at ages 7, 11, and 14, schools in England were permitted to secede from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Accountability, National Curriculum
Meehan, Niall; Bell, Des – 1986
The challenge to public service forms of broadcasting posed by the adoption of neo-liberal communication policy strategies by a number of western European governments has presented the left with a dilemma. Traditionally these public corporations have been characterized as ideological instruments of class domination. Today, however, sections of the…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Capitalism, Censorship, Economic Development
Johansson, Olof; Ricknell, Lars – 1987
Fundamental features of the financial aid systems for college students in 10 European countries are described, as are the theoretical framework and research topics of the study on which this report is based. The study is intended to determine the per capita degree of subsidization in each country; to describe the effects of the financial aid…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Family Income