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Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multilingual Europe
Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 140.00In a time when the increasing cultural diversity and population mobility of the continent calls for good communication skills, this fascinating book features a wealth of data and critical opinion on the topic of mother tongue education.In the first part of the book, the two editors address central cultural, political and educational concerns relating... more...
Why Not the Best Schools? The Wales Report
Australian Council for Educational Research 2008; US$ 29.95Why Not the Best Schools?: The Wales Report is part of a set of six country reports that support Why Not the Best Schools? by Brian Caldwell and Jessica Harris (ACER Press 2008). Why Not the Best Schools? draws on the findings of the International Project to Frame the Transformation of Schools conducted in Australia, China, England, Finland, the... more...
Vocational Education in the New EU Member States
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 9.99Vocational education often is ignored during discussions of secondary education reform even though it accounts for between 25 percent and 79 percent of upper secondary enrollment in the former centrally-planned countries of the European Union. Based on information, data, and feedback from most of these countries, this paper develops a set of propositions... more...
Die Prager Universität im Mittelalter
BRILL 2006; US$ 212.00Includes twenty-one studies on the history of the University of Prague in the 14th to 16th centuries. Focusing upon the Faculty of Liberal Arts, this book deals with the academic learning, mainly from a doctrinal point of view. more...
Childcare and Preschool Development in Europe
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 105.00This book explains the differences between European countries in the supply and forms of public child care and preschool provisions by reference to the historical context in which these forms originated and to the institutional constraints underlying their development. more...
Transitions from Education to Work
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 105.00Bringing together contributions from international scholars, this book explores the changing nature of young people's transitions and challenges assumptions about pathways from education into employment in contemporary society. more...
Reviews of National Policies for Education: Lifelong Learning in Norway 2002
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2002; US$ 50.00Norway is a test-bed for the implementation of a bold vision of lifelong learning. There is broad and strong political support within Norway for lifelong learning as a next logical step for a highly developed country with a highly educated population, confronted with challenges ranging from economic re-structuring, to an ageing workforce, the contradictions... more...
University Education in Denmark 2005
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2005; US$ 49.00This OECD Review of the Danish university system examines such aspects as governance, funding, the Research Council System, the Danish knowledge system, the university system itself, universities' interaction with society, and outcomes. It finds that training and research is of high quality, but that the system needs to change in response... more...
Governance and Performance in the German Public Research Sector
Springer 2010; US$ 129.99Today, higher education and research institutions are confronted with variable and sometimes contradictory demands from state, industry, and society. They have to face growing volatility in education policy, and a research paradigm that sees an accelerating rate of knowledge growth as well as the internationalization of the knowledge process itself.... more...
University of London
Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 150.00The University of London celebrates the 150th anniversary of its first Charter in 1986, and this history has been produced in commemoration of the occasion. One of the leading universities in the world, and the largest universities in the United Kingdom, the University of London is a many-headed federation of different institutions. This sketch of... more...









