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Germany; Italy; Luxemburg; Sweden; Europe
The project "itm" aimed at analysing teaching material from Sweden, Italy, Germany and Luxembourg with regard to their inclusion-sensitivity. Based on this analysis, the project partners went on to compile evaluation criteria and develop inclusive teaching materials themselves. Under "project goals" you can find a criteria catalogue, a process model, publications, a concept [...]

Ukraine
NationMaster provides aggregrated data and statistics from different sources like e.g. UNESCO Institute for Statistics, CIA World Factbooks oder World Development Indicators.The data can be transformed into graphs, compared to other countries and more. NationMaster is provided free of charge by the Australian company Rapid Intelligence. [Abstract: Editors of Education [...]

Brazil
Website of the Faculty for Education of the University of São Paulo. The website provides ample information on teaching and research of the faculty. Furthermore, you have free access to their e-journal “Educação e Pesquisa”. The faculty has the following departments and hence also foci: * EDA – Administração Escolar e Economia da Educação * EDF – Departamento [...]

Italy
This short overview was written in 2004 as a seminar paper for a course about education systems by international comparison (University Karlsruhe, Germany). The organization and levels/areas of the education system are presented in the context of historical and educational developments in this country. The overview also provides brief information on legal bases and [...]

Argentina; international
The Argentinian Society for Comparative Studies in Education (SAECE) was founded in 2001. Its main task is to promote and disseminate development and investigation in the Comparative Studies in the fields of Education and Culture. The website provides news as well as information on conferences, the journal RELEC (Revista Latinoamericana de Educación Comparada), whose articles [...]

France
The AFDECE, formerly founded as ADECE in 1998 and renamed in 2004, unites university and school teachers, school administrators and other relevant officials from the sector of school and higher education administration. The organization aims to promote the exchange and the cooperation between the different education systems and wants to animate to comparative research studies. [...]

China, People's Republic of
This website describes the process of development of the institute according to social and educational research needs in the country. Established in 1962, the institute changed its structure and name several times. It deals in particular with Japanese, Korean and Russian Education and the comparison of education systems with a focus on elementary and teacher education. The [...]

Russian Federation
Since December 2006 the clearly structured specialized federal information portal "Comparative Educational Policy" has been accessible. It is based on the perception that Comparative Education is one of the most important research fields in the world. Focal point of the homepage is the thematic subdivision of the respective contents and the research disciplines. This [...]

United Kingdom
TCRU is a multidisciplinary research unit within the Institute of Education at the University of London. The Unit was founded in 1973 by Professor Jack Tizard and focusses on four streams of research: 1) Health and well-being of children, young people, and families; 2) Research on parenting and family support; 3.) Studies of children's services and environments; 4.) Studies [...]

Latvia
This short overview was written in 2004 as a seminar paper for a course about education systems by international comparison (University Karlsruhe, Germany). The organization and levels/areas of the Latvian education system are presented in the context of historical and educational developments in this country. The overview also provides brief information on legal bases and [...]

Estonia
This short overview was written in 2004 as a seminar paper for a course about education systems by international comparison (University Karlsruhe, Germany). Structure, organization and levels/areas of the education system are presented in the context of historical and educational developments in this country. The overview also provides brief information on legal bases and [...]

Netherlands
This short overview was written in 2004 as a seminar paper for a course about education systems by international comparison (University Karlsruhe, Germany). Structure, organization and levels/areas of the school system are presented in the context of historical and educational developments in this country. The overview also provides brief information on legal bases and [...]

Spain
This short overview was written in 2004 as a seminar paper for a course about education systems by international comparison (University Karlsruhe, Germany). Structure, organization and levels/areas of the education system are presented in the context of historical and educational developments in this country. The overview also provides brief information on legal bases and [...]

Turkey
This short overview was written in 2004 as a seminar paper for a course about education systems by international comparison (University Karlsruhe, Germany). Structure, organization and levels/areas of the Turkish education system are presented in the context of historical and educational developments in this country. The overview also provides brief information on legal bases [...]

Poland
The Polish National Observatory is part of the National Observatory network launched by the European Training Foundation in 1996. It identifies priorities and gives advise on policies for further development of vocational training in Poland by collecting data on, and carrying out structured assessments of vocational education, training and labour market reform.- This website [...]

Latvia
The Latvian National Observatory is part of the National Observatory network launched by the European Training Foundation in 1996. It identifies priorities and gives advise on policies for further development of vocational training in Latvia by collecting data on, and carrying out structured assessments of vocational education, training and labour market reform.- This website [...]

Slovakia
The Slovak National Observatory is part of the National Observatory network launched by the European Training Foundation in 1996. It identifies priorities and gives advise on policies for further development of vocational training in Slovakia by collecting data on, and carrying out structured assessments of vocational education, training and labour market reform.- This website [...]

international
WCCES is an international organisation of comparative education societies worldwide and is an NGO in Operational Relations with UNESCO. Its specific goals are: to promote the study of comparative and international education throughout the world and enhance the academic status of this field; to bring comparative education to bear on the major educational problems of the day by [...]

Japan
This Society was founded in 1965. The homepage provides access to information about history and present situiation of the Society, including an archive for past activities, publications, the annual meeting and the organizational structure.

England; Northern Ireland; United Kingdom
"England's primary school pupils are the third most able readers in the world behind Sweden and the Netherlands. This study, which examined the reading habits and achievements of 10 year olds in 35 countries, showed that England was one of the highest-performing countries in the world, and the most successful English-speaking country." Via the summary of findings the online [...]

Malta; Mediterranean Countries; Europe; Africa; Middle East
The Centre operates as a loose network of associated scholars, engaging academics from across the region according to the profiles required by the different research projects it is involved in. Its main activities are: research, particularly qualitative research that involves field work in different Mediterranean and European societies in order to capture the lived realities [...]

United Kingdom
"BAICE promotes teaching, research, policy and development in all aspects of international and comparative education. It is the British affiliate of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies. BAICE produces the journal Compare and organises a series of one- day research conferences annually. BAICE also has a major annual conference".

Sweden
The IIE is one of the few institutes in the Nordic countries specializing in international and comparative education in a multi-cultural and multi- disciplinary research environment. The website offers presentations of research projects and networks as well as the education programmes and courses at the institute.

Francophone Countries; international; France
The homepage of this association of francophone comparative educational researchers provides information on the organisation (members, organizational structure), activities (congresses, publications) and more (information material, yearbook, news). Until 2011, the AFEC website could be found under . [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Poland
These are the pages of the Faculty of Educational Studies, one of the faculties at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan . An overview on the sixteen research departments (general didactics, history of education, adult education etc.) and the College of Education is given. For each department the main topics of educational research are listed and the head of department is [...]

United Kingdom
"ERA is a comprehensive database comprising specially selected high-quality abstracts which cover the current international research in education. A versatile research tool, ERA is supported by a fully-flexible search engine, and comprises links to the full-text online versions of articles where possible. Library's Articles Direct TM document supply service provides access to [...]

Eastern Europe; Central Europe
This website provides Internet resources on education in East and Central European countries. It offers comparative tables and texts followed by a variety of links to country information on the respective education systems.- OSEAS, an acronym which stands for OverSeas Educational AdviserS, is one of seven groups within NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

China, People's Republic of
This page gives an overview on the history and tasks of the Comparative Education Research Center of the China National Institute for Educational Studies. It lists the employed researchers with their respective focus of research interest and enumereates the research projects dealt with at the centre.

Brazil
The website of the Brazilian Society for Comparative Education provides information about its structure and members, about publications (boks, journals, reports), some of them available online for free, about conference announcements and other events as well as a bibliography of Brazilian theses in Comparative Education from 2008 to 2011 (including abstracts).

Finland
RUSE is the only institution in Finland specialising in research of the sociology of education and educational policy. It does international comparative research in the field of sociology of education and has established in 1998 the European Postgraduate Network together with eight European countries. The homepage provides information about research areas and projects, [...]

Canada
The purpose of the Society is to encourage and promote comparative and international studies in Canadian education by: (1) Promoting and improving the teaching of comparative education in institutions of higher learning; (2) Stimulating research; (3) Facilitating the publication and distribution of comparative studies in education; (4) Interesting professors and teachers of [...]

China, People's Republic of
This website of the International and Comparative Education Research Institute (ICERI) of the Beijing Normal University wants to give an overview on current comparative educational research in China. The information is offered under the following headlines: Information on the institute, Comparative Education in China, Resource Centre and Related Links. There is also offered [...]

Hong Kong; China, People's Republic of
The Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) was established in 1994 within the Faculty of Education of the University of Hong Kong. The Centre is strongly research-oriented, and welcomes linkage with individuals and institutions with comparative interests both locally and internationally. On its homepage CERC provides information on: Publications, Seminars, E-Forum, [...]

Hong Kong; China, People's Republic of
The objectives of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong are: to promote the study of comparative education in Hong Kong; to disseminate ideas and information, through seminars and publications and other means, on recent developments, in Hong Kong and abroad, of comparative education scholarship; to liaise with other scholarly associations of comparative education and [...]

Romania
The National Observatory of Romania is part of the National Observatory network launched by the European Training Foundation in 1996. It identifies priorities and gives advise on policies for further development of vocational training in Romania by collecting data on, and carrying out structured assessments of vocational education, training and labour market reform.- This [...]

Slovenia
The National Observatory of Slovenia is part of the National Observatory network launched by the European Training Foundation in 1996. It identifies priorities and gives advise on policies for further development of vocational training in Slovenia by collecting data on, and carrying out structured assessments of vocational education, training and labour market reform.- This [...]

Spain
The website of the Spanish Society of Comparative Education provides information about the Society, the publications of its members and other relevant publications concerning comparative education, indexes of the SEEC journals, actualities and interesting issues for comparatists. A link list of national and international research and documentation centres, international [...]

Europe
This Website serves as an information and communication platform for European educational researchers in the field of Comparative Education. It concentrates on the organisational and content-related preparation of its annual conferences. This website provides information on the history of CESE, its members and their publications. At a time when European education faces immense [...]

United States of America (USA); international
The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) was founded in 1956 to foster cross-cultural understanding, scholarship, academic achievement and societal development through the international study of educational ideas, systems, and practices. The Society´s members include some 1,000 academics, practitioners, and students from around the world. Their professional [...]

international
Comparative Education Review investigates education throughout the world and the social, economic, and political forces that shape it. Founded in 1957 to advance knowledge and teaching in comparative education studies, the Review has since established itself as the most reliable source for the analysis of the place of education in countries other than the United States.

international
The IEA is an international cooperative of national research institutions and governmental research agencies from almost 70 countries worldwide. Since it was founded in 1958, the IEA has carried out more than 30 international large-scale comparative studies of educational achievement. Some prominent examples are the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, TIMSS, [...]

United Kingdom
"The School has strong research profile - it is currently rated as one of the leading research schools in the country. All of our lecturing staff are active in one of our seven research centres which are linked around the common theme of Culture and Learning in Organisations. In addition we have a long and distinguished tradition of carrying out international consultancy and [...]

Australia; New Zealand
The Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society promotes the scholarly study of education in its widest sense, including global, regional, national, local and community policies, processes, and practices, and the social and cultural contexts in which education occurs. Its website offers information about its conferences and how to contact