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Xu, Hui – Online Submission, 2005
The present condition of rural education in the western region of China is not optimistic. Existing problems include lacking education investment, poor school-running conditions, simplified running pattern and laggard concept of education. The countermeasures are: firstly, governments at all level especially the center one should increase input to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Rural Areas, Compulsory Education
Suppanz, Hannes – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
This paper reviews Iceland's performance in skills accumulation against the backdrop of a rapidly changing economic environment and discusses directions for further improvements. Since the late 1990s, the government has considerably raised expenditure on education, which is now among the highest in the OECD relative to GDP. Nonetheless, Iceland…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries