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Rangvid, Beatrice Schindler – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The voucher system in Denmark combines unrestricted generous subsidies with substantial autonomy of private schools as to schedule and teaching methods. This has produced a private school sector with a wide variety of school types. This paper uses data on eight cohorts of students (over 510,000 individuals) to compare educational attainment in…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, Private Schools, Protestants
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Lieven, Mike – Studies in Higher Education, 1991
The paper compares institutional, legal, and political structures of adult residential colleges in Britain and Denmark and concludes that there are inadequate institutional safeguards in Britain, allowing the state to dominate nominally independent institutions. Danish folk high schools enjoy institutional safeguards against state power but suffer…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Colleges, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries