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Norway
"Rein tekst" for young people of 16 and 19 years This campaign builds on the same principles and methods as "tXt", with the difference that "Rein tekst" is aimed at the target group of older students. In this case, the paperback contains abstracts of publications intended to appeal to more experienced readers. It covers the same variety of genres as in the tXt campaign [...]

Norway
The Norwegian Centre for Arts and Culture in Education is a resource centre helping strengthen work in art and culture subjects in primary and secondary education. It was established by The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research in 2007. Its main tasks are the development of related activity to the national framework and teaching plan, support to the implementation and [...]

Spain
Article in the online magazine The Atlantic on the relation between education, language and national identity in Catalonia. The article contains many links to other sources (media, science, statistics). [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Spain
Article by the German radio broadcast Deutsche Welle on the question of how identity and language ae related to education and school in Catalonia. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Spain
The Spanish Ministry for Education has requested a 'detailed report' on the content of the textbooks used in Catalonia. The analyse was carried out by the Catalan teacher organisation “Action for Secondary Education Improvement” (AMES) (Acció per a la Millora de l'Ensenyament Secundari). They concluded that the books emphasize the differences between Catalan and other [...]

Spain
When it comes to identity and national feelings, the issue of education is never far away. The online magazine Catalan News discusses accusations of “indoctrinating” children made by some objectors to the independence movement in Catalonia. Catalan News provides news from and about the region of Catalonia in English and for an international readership. It is part of [...]

France
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in France. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progress and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra sections [...]

international
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in each country worldwide. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will [...]

Georgia
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in Georgia. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra [...]

Belgium; Netherlands
English translation of the "Cultural Treaty" between the Netherlands and Flanders in 1995. This treaty includes the "cooperation in terms of Culture, Education, Sciences and Welfare" between the country and the region linked by a common language. A commission (CVN) was created to monitor the implementation of the treaty. The commission is evaluated regurlarly, newly installed [...]

Belgium; Netherlands
Website of the Commission in charge of the monitoring of the implementation of the "Cultural Treaty" between the Netherlands and Flanders in 1995. Unfortunately, the site is not available in English. The Dutch site informs about the commission's wirk and the implementation of the treaty in the form of projects and more. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Belgium; Netherlands
Short article about the celebrations on the occasion of the 20 years of the "Cultural Treaty" between the Netherlands and Flanders in 1995. The article links to relevant information on the treaty, on cooperating institutions and the commission monitoring the implementation of the Treaty. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Netherlands
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in the Netherlands. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra [...]

Belgium
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in Belgium. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra [...]

Turkey; international
The Department of Educational Sciences of this Faculty seems to be identical to the Institute of Educational Sciences (for a list of further Faculty departments: see at the end of this abstract). The first provides links to its sub-departments, most of which unfortunately are only in Turkish. The latter provides a list of Master's and Doctoral Thesis as well as a database of [...]

Turkey; international
The Faculty has 12 departments and hence is probably one of the biggest if not the biggest faculty of education in Turkey (see the list at the end of this abstract). Under "publications", you can find two e-journals published by the faculty, the "Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences" and the "Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences Journal [...]

Turkey; international
The Faculty of Education at Hacettepe University has its own homepage. But as the faculty overview on the university site is more detailed and has more links to the respective departments, we link to this overview here. The Faculty of Education has 6 departments: * Educational Sciences -> Curriculum and Instruction -> Educational Administration, Supervision, [...]

Turkey; international
Istanbul University obviously has a new website. Unfortunately, the website of the Hasan Ali Yücel Faculty of Education has no English version yet. The website provides a project list and some information on research interests and publications on the professors' personal homepages. The Hasan Ali Yücel Journal of Education published by the faculty is Open Access, has [...]

China, People's Republic of
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in China. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra sections [...]

Greece
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in Greece. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra sections [...]

Brazil
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in Brazil. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra sections [...]

Russian Federation
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in Russia. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra sections [...]

India
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in India. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra sections [...]

South Africa, Republic
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in South Africa. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra [...]

Indonesia
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in Indonesia. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra [...]

Israel
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in Israel. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra sections [...]

Finland
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in Finland. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra [...]

Palestinian Territories
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in Palestine. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra [...]

international
The mission of the International Network for Research in Arts Education is to promote high quality international research in arts education (formal non formal and informal), to conduct research on the implementation of UNESCO’s “Seoul Agenda: Goals for the development of arts education”, and to serve as a forum for the dissemination of research, the promotion of debates [...]

Ukraine; Russian Federation
In this article of 2008, the researchers Laada Bilaniuka and Svitlana Melnyk explore the history, the current meaning, the language policy and the conflict about the use of Russian and Ukrainian language in Ukraine. The article appeared in: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Volume 11, Issue 3-4, 2008, Special Issue: Multilingualism in Post-Soviet [...]

Ukraine
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in Ukraine. You will find information on the following issues: * General information * Education System * Participation in education * Progression and completion in education * Education expenditures * Illiterate population * Literacy Rate Furthermore you will find extra [...]

Brazil; Germany
The Goethe Institutes are commissioned by the German government to foster German language and culture. The links to Brazil are close - Goethe Institute maintains six centres across the country, initiating and collaborating on cultural projects, fostering reading competence, language skills, translation of literature. In 2013, the Institute is engaged in the Frankfurt Book Fair [...]

Brazil
The website hosts information about Brazilian authors and publishers in English, e.g. translation programmes, statistics, trends, online publishing, e-books, the “digital debate” and government policy.

Brazil
Website of the Faculty for Education of the University of Campinas, Brazil. The website provides ample information on teaching and research of the faculty. Furthermore, you have free access to a number of e-journals published by the Faculty (see the table under "Journals" or the Faculty's journal list). The faculty has the following departments and hence also foci: * DECISE [...]

Austria
The Lesezentrum Steiermark (Centre for Reading in Styria) helps communities, parishes, schools etc. to build up libraries and advises them on managing their stock. It initiates and accompanies reading events, trains librarians, works in the field of reading education and thus contributes to the establishment of an efficient network of libraries in Styria.

Ecuador
The National Library System (SINAB) is a decentralized entity of the ministry of education. It promotes the participation of the Ecuatorian population in the community of the cultural field around the library. The library system is part of a new political and cultural democratisation conception with the aim to remedy the deficiencies of the library services and of the [...]

Costa Rica
The Association of Teachers of Secondary Education (APSE) of Costa Rica has the objective to improve the professional conditions of its members with regard to the scientific, legal and social norms which determine the teaching profession. Also, it defends the labour laws of its members as well as their social and economical interests and promotes the development of a solidly [...]

Bolivia; Germany
The website of the Bolivian Embassy in Germany contains information about Bolivia and the binational exchange with Germany. Under the category `Kultur und Bildung` there are indications about the Bolivian education system, Bolivian universities, German-Bolivian societies, Bolivian artists and research institutions.

Argentina
The National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology is an organ of the ministry for science, technology and productive innovation. Through its 4 funds - fund for scientifical research (FONCyT), technological fund Argentina (FONTAR), trust fund of the promotion of software industry (FONSOFT) and Argentinian sectorial fond (FONARSEC), the Agency fosters the [...]

Nicaragua
The Nicaraguan Institute for Culture (INC) fosters the studies and investigation of the cultural roots of the country and thereby contributes to the formation of arts, dance, music, folklore, theatre, literature and visual arts. The Administrative Law established this ministry as organ charged with the competent planning, management, promotion, execution, inspection and [...]

Spain; Latin America
The Cervantes Institute is a public institution which was founded in 1991 by the promotion of Spanish teaching and language and for t he diffusion of Spanish and Latin-American culture. It is located in Madrid, Spain and in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, the birth place of Miguel de Cervantes. The centres of the institute are located in all five continents. The tasks and functions [...]

Peru
The task of the General Direction of Intercultural Bilingual and Rural Education (DIGEIBIR) is the contribution to the acquisition of educational quality and equality by using diversity as mean to make proposals and to gather knowledge in all levels and modalities of the system to respond to the necessities and demands of the multicultural and multilingual population of the [...]

Romania
Fundatia Link Romania Moldavia is an independant Romanian registered Christian charity promoting a culture of dignity and respect by fostering the human potential within every person and encouraging personal autonomy and self-sustainability. The foundation works with children in need of help, homeless people and other persons in misery, to make a firmed existence possible for [...]

United States of America (USA)
The Early Childhood Research Institute on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) has been a federally-funded collaborative effort of several councils and universities of the United States.The CLAS Institute identifies, evaluates and promotes effective and appropriate early intervention practices and preschool practices that are sensitive and respectful to [...]

Arab States
The Arab Education Forum is a non-governmental, non-profit organization active in the Arab World in the field of community and youth work. The mission of AEF is to contribute to an Arab cultural regeneration project that springs out of the inherent knowledge and experiences within the Arab societies. AEF constantly attempts to develop a shared vision related to learning in the [...]

Morocco; Germany
The German-Moroccan Society is a politically and denominationally independent, non-profit society with the goal to foster the amical, cultural and social relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kingdom of Morocco. The society informs through exhibitions, lectures and study visits about the political, social and economical conditions in Morocco and wants to [...]

Morocco
Since it was founded in 2006, Global Morocco Exchange (GME) has become one of the world's leading providers of quality post-secondary educational services. The colleges, schools and universities that are part of the GME network offer high quality education to approximately 120,000 students across the world in a variety of career-oriented disciplines. More than 18 campuses [...]

Austria
PHILAK is an association which devotes itself to the promotion of the interdisciplinary discourse in the field of cultural studies. Until now (february 2011), there have been two conferences with the themes "ETHIC - BETWEEN INFLATION AND MORALINE" and "RATIONALITY - PLACEBO OF THE TRUTH", which are of interest especially for students and young, not yet established scientists.

Lithuania
The Goethe-Institut is the globally active cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany. It fosters the knowledge of the German language abroad and cultivates international cultural cooperation. It procures an extensive image of Germany trough information about the cultural, social and political life. With the network of Goethe-Institutes, Goethe-Centres, [...]

Liechtenstein
The EIF purposes scientific research and teaching in the field of intercultural and interreligious encounters and relations, primarily in the frame of European integration. The aim of EIF is to prepare, to realize, to analyze and to procure scientific research projects and studies as well as regular expert conferences and education events which relate especially to fields of [...]

Europe
EUMEDIS stands for Euro-MEDiterranean Information Society . This initiative taken by the European Commission in 2000 includes in Sector 5 regional education and training projects, particularly developments in the field of distanc e education. Focal point is co-operation in the area of information society. Project participants are non-commercial private and public [...]

Scotland; United Kingdom
Universities Scotland exists to represent and promote Scotland's higher education sector and campaign on its behalf. Through this work, it seeks to assist the sector to deliver its essential contribution to the economic, social and cultural needs of Scotland, and to enhance Scotland's international reputation. Under the rubric "briefing", the educational system of Scotland [...]

international
Founded in 1983, the International Association of Language Centres (IALC) is a network of high-quality, independent language schools teaching their native language to international students. Located in the major capitals, university cities, beach resorts and historic towns worldwide, IALC accredited language schools provide effective language courses and cultural immersion for [...]

Australia
The Group of Eight (Go8)is a coalition of leading Australian universities, intensive in research and comprehensive in general and professional education. The Go8 exists to: - enhance the contributions of its member universities to its nation's social, economic, cultural and environmental well-being and prosperity; - extend the contribution of its member universities to the [...]

Moldova, Republic of
MATE (The Moldavian Association of Teachers of English) was founded by a group of teachers in the fall of 1990. It is a professional, non-political organization, the aim of which is the improvement in standards of teaching English as a foreign language. MATE is based in Iasi, but individual membership is open to all teachers of English in the counties of Moldavia. MATE [...]

United Kingdom
The British Council has been creating ties between people in the UK and those in other countries for almost 75 years. It runs programmes in education, English language, the arts, science and technology, sport and governance.

Denmark
The site was established in 2002 by the danish Children's Culture Council and presents extensive information on all aspects of children and culture. In danish only.

Denmark; Finland; Faroe Islands; Greenland; Iceland; Norway; Sweden; Northern Europe
Valhalla is the Nordic Council of Ministers´ portal for children and youth culture in all the Nordic countries. Valhalla´s objectives are: to give information about children and youth culture in the Nordic countries, to give information about national activities with a common Nordic relevance, to share ideas and experience with all those working with children, youth and [...]

Austria; Eastern Europe
KulturKontakt Austria (KKA) is one of the largest Austrian centres of competence for cultural education, arts & cultural education, cultural dialogue and educational cooperation with Eastern and South East Europe. It is a non-profit making organisation and has three programme departments: arts & cultural education, educational cooperation and cultural promotion & sponsoring. [...]

Scotland; United Kingdom
SCRAN is the history and culture site which lets you learn directly by accessing images, movies, sounds and virtual reality. There are one million heritage records from museums, galleries, archives and media. Searches can be made in 1 million records. The point "education" in the navigation bar provides ready a huge variety of copyright-cleared resources for educational use. [...]