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Breyer, Caroline; Lederer, Julia; Gasteiger-Klicpera, Barbara – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2021
This paper presents results of a comparative study about assistance services for supporting students with disabilities in regular schools in five European countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Portugal, Slovakia and the UK). Besides the analysis of relevant documents on assistance services, semi-structured interviews and focus groups with learning and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Teaching Assistants, Qualifications
Nikolaj Broberg; Gillian Golden – OECD Publishing, 2023
Module A of the OECD Higher Education Policy Survey (HEPS) 2022 elicited information on policies to promote digitalisation of higher education in OECD member and accession countries. In total, 30 jurisdictions responded, providing comparative information on various areas of digitalisation policy, from regulation and governance to financial and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
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Brown, Martin; Altrichter, Herbert; Shiyan, Igor; Rodríguez Conde, María José; McNamara, Gerry; Herzog-Punzenberger, Barbara; Vorobyeva, Irina; Vangrando, Valentina; Gardezi, Sarah; O'Hara, Joe; Postlbauer, Alexandra; Milyaeva, Daria; Sergeevna, Natalia; Fulterer, Sieglinde; García, Adriana Gamazo; Sánchez, Lourdes – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
Whether voluntary or enforced, increasing patterns of migration have significantly impacted schools by making them linguistically, culturally, religiously and ethnically more diverse than ever before. This increasing diversity requires school leaders to put in place mechanisms to ensure equity of participation for migration background students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Cultural Relevance, Cultural Awareness
Tyran, Katharina, Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2022
This regional dossier aims to provide a concise, description and basic statistics about minority language education in a specific region of Europe. The glottonym Croatian in Austria covers two linguistic realities, namely the recognised minority language of Burgenland Croats and the Croatian standard language as a migrant language of the recent…
Descriptors: Serbocroatian, Language Minorities, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary School Students
Doleschal, Ursula – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2023
This Regional Dossier focuses on the Austrian federal province of Carinthia, where the vast majority of the Slovene-speaking minority in Austria lives. The Slovene language belongs to the South Slavic language group. It was the official language of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia in former Yugoslavia and has been the state language of…
Descriptors: Slavic Languages, Native Language, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Weyringer, Sieglinde – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2013
In Austria, gifted education and the education of highly gifted and talented children have been receiving an increasing public awareness and social acceptance over the past decade. The article highlights the existing ideas of giftedness in Austria, and it presents several initiatives having triggered and influenced this positive development. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Talent, Music
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Frantz, Roger S.; McClarty, Katie Larsen – Gifted and Talented International, 2016
Educational policies and practices are influenced by cultural, political, and economic factors, and this is also true of specialized educational approaches such as gifted education. Factors such as a country's cultural tendency toward egalitarianism or meritocracy, whether the political system is centralized or decentralized, and the degree to…
Descriptors: Gifted, Special Education, Cultural Influences, Economic Factors
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Smyth, Fiona; Shevlin, Michael; Buchner, Tobias; Biewer, Gottfried; Flynn, Paula; Latimier, Camille; Šiška, Jan; Toboso-Martín, Mario; Rodríguez Díaz, Susana; Ferreira, Miguel A. V. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2014
This paper seeks to compare the evolution of inclusive education policy in the four countries of an EU-funded research project (QualiTYDES) operating under the shared policy environment of the UN, EU and European Commission. A shared policy cannot of course be assumed to result in common legislative or provisional outcomes at national level. The…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Educational Policy, Educational Legislation
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Resch, Claudia – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2014
The approach to the support of gifted and talented children and youth has changed considerably in the past twenty years. While, until the 2000s, provision programmes predominantly focused on extracurricular activities for pupils, gifted education now follows a systemic and inclusive approach, including all (educational) institutions--kindergarten,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Academically Gifted
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Bótas, Paulo Charles Pimentel; Huisman, Jeroen – European Journal of Higher Education, 2012
This article explores how power relations are constructed in the governance of higher education institutions. It examines and deconstructs, from a Foucauldian perspective, power relations and mechanisms in the relationship between the state and higher education institutions, and between academic and management staff. This research article…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governance, Power Structure, Benchmarking
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1897
This is Volume 1 of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1895-96, containing Part I. The volume begins with the Commissioner of Education's Introduction and a section entitled, State Common School Systems. Part I includes the following chapters: (1) Laws Relating to City School Boards; (2) The English Education Bill of 1896;…
Descriptors: Laws, Boards of Education, Educational Legislation, Music Education
Arvidson, Lars; Rubenson, Kjell – 1991
This report reviews adult education policies within the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). It asserts that human resources and their impact on the economy depend on the kind of education and training the labor force receives. The main features of governance and finance, participation patterns, and present concerns are discussed. An appendix…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Opportunities
European Bureau of Adult Education, Bergen (Netherlands). – 1974
The booklet reports on the results of a meeting of 10 nations held, under the auspices of the European Bureau of Adult Education, to make determinations about the present and future states of legislation which affects adult education. The 10 nations represented were: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Objectives
Ministry of Education and Arts, Vienna (Austria). – 1973
The organization of education in Austria, 1971-1973, is briefly presented in a pamphlet of six sections. The content dealing with historical background ranges from medieval monastery schools through 19th century reforms. A few basic statistics on the country and population are noted. Legal foundations, describing the organization and structure of…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Administration, Educational History, Educational Legislation
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Gruber, Karl Heinz – European Journal of Education, 1982
The relationship of the state and higher education, particularly in relation to the role of science education, is outlined throughout Austrian history. Conservative postwar reconstruction, expansion of access to higher education, and student participation in administration are traced, and criticisms of the present government-academic balance are…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Administration, Educational Change, Educational History
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