State school inspection creates expectations in the interface between transnational ideas and national policy contexts. This article investigates how inspectors and education directors understand and reformulate their regulatory roles in relation to the new framework for school inspection policy in Norway. Using data from the LEX-EL project,…

The European Training Foundation (ETF) has created a network of vocational schools and centres that aim for excellence: the ETF Network for Excellence (ENE). Its members are vocational education providers that wish to learn from each other, collaborate, improve their practice, introduce innovation, establish partnerships and provide support to…

This report, authored by Graeme Atherton, examines how universities who are seen as leading internationally and/or in their own national contexts are supporting greater access and success for learners from low-income and other marginalised groups. What can English universities learn from global institutions? By looking at how they work with…

The sixth-form college sector is often marginalised in policy and academic discourse, where the much larger school and further education sectors dominate. This paper sets out to describe the sector's key features, assess its position within the wider education system and consider its future in an increasingly competitive education market. The…

The purpose of this investigation is to tell the story of how six states are developing Programs of Study (POS) as mandated by the Perkins IV federal legislation. The authors' effort focuses on how states' technical assistance systems evolved and what successes and challenges existed for states developing POS. There was no intent to compare one…

Project work is the primary method which enables practicing the activities that contemporary learning theories suggest. The aim of this study is to determine the issues encountered during project work in accordance with students' and teachers' views in secondary schools physics courses in the city of Trabzon, Turkey where project work has been…

Examines head teachers' accounts of the extent and significance of interschool networking between primary schools, secondary schools, and across the primary/secondary divide, in five groups of schools in the United Kingdom. Analyzes the types of collaboration and the tension between conflict and collaboration for schools within the networks.…

A study determined the degree of success that institutions achieve in meeting their articulation program goals. Data were collected through literature review, questionnaires to 462 secondary and postsecondary institutions, and visits to five exemplary articulation sites. Study respondents reported that they were most successful in reaching the…

Formulation and forecast via the development of a five-year projection of possible future conditions in the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) through the use of a modified Delphi technique was the purpose of this study. The research represents a survey investigation utilizing knowledgeable representatives of the 83 OFSAA…

The primary emphasis of the D.C. SSPACE program, which introduced computers and previously developed computer curricular materials into the secondary schools of the District of Columbia and studied the adoption process, was on adoption and not development. The program is described from its initial funding under the Human Resources Research…

An examination of work-related education in the Pittsburgh area revealed some weaknesses of the educational system and suggested some strategies for improvement. The study found that work-related education is performed by a combination of institutions: formal secondary and postsecondary and informal postsecondary. It said that schools have evolved…

Dillingham High School, through Project SERVE (Student Education Radio: Village Extension), intends to bring 25 rural schools and villages in the Bristol Bay area of Alaska together utilizing educational radio. The objectives of the three-year project are to: (1) increase the number of graduating students choosing broadcasting as a vocation by…

A pilot study examined the relationship between the retail sector and food and beverages industries and their implications for training. A range of case studies were undertaken in food manufacturing and retailing enterprises in the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany. The UK case studies examined the problems of manufacturers, both small and large,…

Agricultural education has grown and flourished in the past because it took students with farm backgrounds and helped them become better managers and producers, thus improving agriculture in general. Now that fewer students are coming from farms into agricultural education, agricultural education has lost its protected status and become just…

A 23-item questionnaire was sent to secretaries of education committees in state legislatures and departments of education of all 50 states to obtain data on (1) the basis of intrastate and interstate credit transfer, (2) how migrant students' academic program can be planned to provide continuity, (3) how credit transfers are made, (4) how many…