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Gaviria, José-Luis – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2022
This paper is on the paradox of a right, the right to education that is almost universally declared as compulsory. The reason for the compulsion seems to be in its nature as a right. Within a Hohfeldian framework, any claim-right has a corresponding duty. Given that making education compulsory equates to establishing a duty, the possible…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Access to Education, Equal Education, Political Attitudes
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Wodon, Quentin – Journal of Catholic Education, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has led to widespread temporary school closures and a deep economic recession. School closures have threatened children's ability to learn and later return to school well prepared. The impact of the economic recession is going to be even more devastating: first for students, but also for the ability of some Catholic schools to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Catholic Schools
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Vogel-Polsky, Eliane – International Labour Review, 1985
The author discusses the theoretical aspects of positive action programs for women. In looking at the results achieved by the various laws and institutional machinery introduced in Western Europe to enforce equal pay and equal treatment for men and women in employment, she concludes that no notable progress has been made over the past 10 years.…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females
Riddle, Wayne Clifton – 1989
Currently, the Federal Government provides funds to a variety of postsecondary foreign language and international studies education programs authorized under Title VI of the Higher Education Act (HEA). Elementary and secondary foreign language and international studies programs are authorized under Title II of the Elementary and Secondary…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Budgeting, Degrees (Academic), Elementary Secondary Education
European Training Foundation, Turin (Italy). – 1998
The role of social partner organizations in vocational education and training (VET) has been compared for Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia. In these countries, a system of industrial relations comparable to those existing in western Europe is emerging gradually.…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Development, Educational Legislation
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1902
After the Commissioner of Education's introduction, Volume 1 presents state school system statistics and a list of U.S. Bureau of Education publications. Chapters cover central European education; Ohio public school legislative history; school consolidation and pupil transportation; U.S. industrial education; educational pathology; formation of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Educational Legislation, Student Transportation