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Argentina; Latin America
The Network FLACSO (Latin American Institute for Social Sciences) is an international organisation in research and documentation founded in 1957 by the UNESCO. It has offices in 16 Latin American Countries. Since 1982, the Argentinian office of FLACSO has an area and website for education and educational research. Two programmes are central to this education area: the [...]

Brazil
Website of the Faculty for Education of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The website provides ample information on teaching and research of the faculty. Furthermore, you have free access to their e-journal “Educação & Realidade”. The faculty has the following departments and hence also foci: * DEBAS - Departamento de Estudos Básicos (Aprendizagem [...]

international; Ireland
The School of Education was founded in 1909. Amongst others, it has a focus on gender and education. Furthermore, people are working on areas as diverse as the sociology of childhood, psychology, gender & education, the history of education, education & disadvantage, curriculum design & development, children's literature, teachers and teaching, philosophy of education, [...]

Uruguay
The objectives of the Uruguayan Association of Catholic Education (AUDEC) are one the one hand the coordination and representation of catholic institutions of formal and nonformal education on their diverse levels in the national frame. On the other hand, AUDEC stimulates the integral development of persons through a socio-educative process. Furthermore, AUDEC promotes, [...]

Belgium
The Interdisciplinary Research Group for Socialisation, Education and Formation (GIRSEF) works in the fields of sociology, psychology and education sciences. It was founded in 1998 by the Université catholique de Louvain. The central objective of the GIRSEF is the development of fundamental research and applied research in the field of education and formation. Until now [...]

Morocco
The Moroccan Association for the Improvement of Education Quality (AMAQUEN) is an association which unites people with the conviction that the wellbeing of the education system depends from the application of concepts of quality management. It wants to realize the following goals: 1. To create and to publish research work which deal with quality improvement in the education [...]

Japan
"VSJF - German Association for Social Science Research on Japan" was founded in 1988. Its general aim was and still is to strengthen the study of contemporary Japan in the German-speaking countries. Under "activities" you can find the section group on education. The database experts allows the search for experts in specific fields.

Europe
NESSE is still in a developmental phase (as of January 2007) therefore it has not yet its own website. Coordinator is the Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique (INRP) in France. Main aim of the mission is the improvement of policy development in Education and Continuing Education in Europe by constructing a stable and effective network of experts who are involved in [...]

international
Choike is a portal on Southern civil societies that provides full length reports, an NGO directory, news, and links to international campaigns such as the UNESCO Literacy Decade (2003-2012). It covers aspects concerning society, communication, globalization and environment. The section on education can be searched for literacy campaigns and target groups as well as NGOs and [...]

Argentina; Latin America
The Network FLACSO (Latin American institute for social science) is an international organisation in research and documentation founded in 1957 by UNESCO. It has offices in 16 Latin American Countries. The homepage of the office in Argentina presents abundant information on educational issues: Programs and projects, publications, products, research results, full text [...]

Bolivia
The Institute for Socio-Economic Research (IISEC) conducts research activities in Bolivia in the field of economics, education and sociology. Under the link "working papers" the homepage provides access to full text information about educational sociology, bilingualism and intercultural education, vocational school system as well as quality in education in Bolivia. The reports [...]

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, [...]

Bangladesh
The primary objective of this website is to give a general overview about the educational systems in Bangladesh. The site was originally created as a term paper for a humanities course in a Canadian college, titled "Comparative Education". The chapters of the full text are: History of Bangladesh, education systems, general statistics, gender differences, regional differences. [...]

Hungary
The Hungarian Institute for Higher Educational Research is an academic institution dedicated to social research on education. It carries out economical, sociological and statistical researches on the educational system at national, regional and institutional levels. With empirical sociological research methods, statistical analysis and case studies HIER contributes to the [...]

China, People's Republic of
Chinese Education and Society offers unabridged translations of articles from Chinese journals, newspapers, and collections of articles published in book form. The aim of the journal is to present the more important Chinese studies in this field in the light of the interest of those who are professionally concerned with it. Sources used are: Jiaoyu yanjiu (Education Research), [...]

France
IREDU is located at the University of Bourgogne and has a focus on the sociology and economy of education. Furthermore, IREDU is a partner institute of the Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur les Qualifications (CEREQ). The website provides information on the structure and activities of IREDU, study opportunities, research projects, publications (partly fulltexts), events, [...]