The paper explores developments in the sphere of tertiary education in Russia during the period of socio-economic transformation. It is demonstrated that under market reforms deceptively positive tendency to educational expansion conceals rising inequality in access to education, quality erosion and increasing human capital mismatch thus reducing competitive advantage of Russia lying with natio...

Where Hong Kong does feature in international scholarship its characteristics have often been selectively raided to confirm generalised propositions such as the value of free markets, the benefits of whole class instruction, or of cultural homogeneity and/or imperialism. As with all stereotypes they hide as much as they reveal. The tendency to portray Hong Kong in a somewhat stereotyped and cli...

The understanding, study, and use of educational tools and their application to the education of adults in professional fields are increasingly important. In this review, we have compiled a description of educational tools on the basis of the teaching and learning setting: the classroom, simulation center, hospital or clinic, and independent learning space. When available, examples of tools use...

What kinds of policies can governments adopt to attract, retain, motivate and develop qualified teachers in elementary and secondary schools? The project will pursue two avenues to address this question. The first component will study the effect of recent reforms on the teaching profession in four countries. Some of these reforms involve increases in compensation linked to specific teacher beha...

Beginning with A Nation at Risk in 1983, numerous reports were issued throughout the 1980s calling for educational reform in the United States. These reports resulted in sweeping educational reforms enacted by state legislatures nationwide. In Texas, significant educational changes were initiated in 1984 by House Bill 72. One of the outcomes of this bill was major reform in secondary agricultur...

Since South Africa's first national democratic elections in 1994, the Government of National Unity has issued several curriculum-related reforms intended to democratise education and eliminate inequalities in the post-apartheid education system. The most comprehensive of these reforms has been labelled outcomes-based education (OBE), an approach to education which underpins the new Curriculum 2...

Problem-based learning is an educational method characterized by utilization of problems involving patients as a context for students to learn problem-solving skills and acquire knowledge about basic and clinical science. It is a core curriculum in the new pathway of educational reform. Chang Gung University and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital began a program of educational reform in 1998. However...

This article is the second of a two-part investigation, the first part of which was published in Ethics and Education, vol. 5, issue 2, 2010, under the title ‘Preface to an ethics of education as a practice in its own right’. Although it builds on the arguments of that ‘preface’, this second part of the investigation can be read as a stand-alone essay. It begins with a brief review of a new sub...

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate criteria by which the principles of curriculum reform can be judged. To this end, the paper presents an overview of standard critiques of medical education and examines the ways medical curriculum reforms have responded to these critiques. The paper then sets out our assessment of these curriculum reforms along three parameters: pedagogy, educational co...