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Vargas Herrera, Francisco; Moya Marchant, Loreto – Religious Education, 2020
Chile's General Law of Education (LGE) states that one of the purposes of education is the spiritual development of all its schooled population. In turn, other legal documents claim that the Institutional Educational Project should define how schools are to approach that statement. This article analyses the frequency of keywords, based on a…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Institutional Mission
Lemaître, María José; Ramírez, Anely; Baeza, Pablo; Blanco, Christian – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2021
Within the framework of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) project, "SDG 4: Planning for flexible learning pathways in higher education," this research aims to provide a review of policies and development initiatives in Chilean higher education to support flexible learning pathways. This study uses a mixed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Access to Education, Equal Education
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Muñoz, Marcia; Martínez, Claudia; Cárdenas, Cristian; Medina, Mario – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
We present the lessons learnt in the process of adopting the Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) approach for the curricular reform of the Computer Science program at the School of Engineering of the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Chile. These lessons were gathered through a participatory and iterative process involving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Educational Change, Engineering Education
UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2021
Social demand for higher education has more than doubled in the past 20 years. However, only one-third of all countries' higher education systems are enrolling more than 50% of the traditional age cohort. Despite major advancements in achieving higher levels of access and participation, inequalities and inequities in higher education persist and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, International Organizations, Access to Education
Elacqua, Gregory; Contreras, Dante; Salazar, Felipe; Santos, Humberto – Cato Institute, 2011
There is a persistent debate over the role of scale of operations in education. Some argue that school franchises offer educational services more effectively than do small independent schools. Skeptics counter that large, centralized operations create hard-to-manage bureaucracies and foster diseconomies of scale and that small schools are more…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
McEwan, Patrick J. – 2000
Argentina and Chile have longstanding policies that give public subsidies to private schools. This paper uses data from 1997 from Argentina and Chile to compare the academic outcomes of seventh and eighth graders in public and private schools. Three types of private schools are analyzed: Catholic schools that are subsidized by the government,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Catholic Schools, Educational Assessment