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Direct linkCone, Lucas; Brøgger, Katja; Berghmans, Mieke; Decuypere, Mathias; Förschler, Annina; Grimaldi, Emiliano; Hartong, Sigrid; Hillman, Thomas; Ideland, Malin; Landri, Paolo; van de Oudeweetering, Karmijn; Player-Koro, Catarina; Bergviken Rensfeldt, Annika; Rönnberg, Linda; Taglietti, Danilo; Vanermen, Lanze – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
With schools and universities closing across Europe, the COVID-19 lockdown left actors in the field of education battling with the unprecedented challenge of finding a meaningful way to keep the wheels of education turning online. The sudden need for digital solutions across the field of education resulted in the emergence of a variety of digital…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Zoellner, Don – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2020
In a number of advanced market democracies the role of public technical and vocational education and training institutions has been called into question. This is one result of a singular dominant public policy discourse favouring the provision of public services through contracting out in competitive markets. With the limitations of this default…
Descriptors: Public Education, Vocational Education, Competition, Privatization
Singelmann, Joachim – Rural Sociology, 2011
The Berlin Wall was one of the most visible symbols of two worlds that could not view each other. Thus, the fall of the Berlin Wall--and the fall of Communist regimes all over Eastern Europe, ultimately including the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself--removed the barrier to visibility. These events were revolutions that resulted in the end of…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Democracy, Group Unity, Foreign Countries
Knuth, Ulrike; Knierim, Andrea – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2013
Purpose: The aim of this article is to provide evidence on the consequences of the privatization process in Brandenburg with a focus on the agricultural advisors' situation. Before the background of future European Union (EU) expectations on Farm Advisory Systems (FAS), their capacities and competences to respond to such challenges are discussed.…
Descriptors: Information Transfer, Statistical Analysis, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
Ringarp, Johanna; Rothland, Martin – European Educational Research Journal, 2010
What does a country do when its schools and educational system in general do not produce the results the country believes they are capable of? This article describes the political debates that comparative international studies such as the Programme for International Student Assessment have given rise to in Germany and Sweden. As a result of the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Comparative Education
Nir, Adam E.; Naphcha, Melly – International Journal of Educational Management, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of research is to attempt to determine to what extent the salary level of teachers working in public educational systems is connected with the trend towards privatization considering that privatization has become nowadays a prominent phenomenon in educational systems around the world. Design/methodology/approach: A secondary…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Public School Teachers, Correlation, Income
Perry, Laura – European Education, 2009
This article examines equity in national systems of education in terms of differences in student outcomes, as measured by mathematics achievement scores on Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003. The author uses four measures for assessing equity in student outcomes: (1) the strength of the relationship between student…
Descriptors: Privatization, Equal Education, School Choice, Mathematics Achievement
Spottl, Georg – Policy Futures in Education, 2008
In Europe a very intensive discussion is in full swing as to whether vocational schools should in future be guided and monitored by the state or whether they should be freed from state dependency. Within the framework of a number of pilot projects in German-speaking countries, vocational school centers are currently testing their autonomy. This…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Institutional Autonomy
Pritchard, Rosalind – Comparative Education, 2005
Higher education (HE) in Germany and the United Kingdom is being continually subjected to the discipline of market forces. An empirical study was conducted using questionnaires with academic staff in 12 institutions in each country to discover the extent to which their values and attitudes were converging and were in keeping with what might be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Privatization, Higher Education
Daun, Holger – International Review of Education, 2004
The Czech Republic, England, France, Germany and Sweden differ culturally and economically, but they commonly exhibit general trends of decentralisation in the control of educational processes and outcomes. The present contribution looks at these five European countries as the venue for case studies in educational restructuring as well as…
Descriptors: Privatization, Administrative Organization, Foreign Countries, Governance
Peer reviewedUgeoz, Perihan – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 1998
States that the increasingly unrestricted growth of competition places national public institutions of education under escalating pressure. Notes that creeping privatization is passing more costs of education onto the citizen. Argues that this internationally subversive process is seldom critically addressed but is instead dominated by a high-brow…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Economic Development, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries
Download full textFohr, Horst – Education and Science, 1994
The Treuhandanstalt was given the task of privatizing former German Democratic Republic-owned enterprises and restructuring them so that they could survive and function in a market economy. The enormity of this task entailed personnel reductions as high as 10-20% in many cases and many qualitative changes, including the following: alterations to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Needs, Educational Policy, Employment Qualifications
