Most of the reforms, which have been undertaken in the last 30 years in the Turkish educational system, are about teacher education. Teacher education has a history of more than 150 years in Turkey. The first teacher education school was established in 1848 and all teacher education institutions, whose curriculum was based on the professional approach, were governed by the Ministry of National ...

The rapid development in Indian higher education sector has increased the focus on reforms in higher educational institution administration. Efficiency and accountability have become important elements, and the integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into the educational administration process has become a necessity. The objective of this study is to know the current exten...

The literature on Educational Change has been dominated by research published in the established, liberal democracies. This volume examines Educational Change in South Africa, a country undergoing rapid social and political change, and situated geographically, historically and culturally in the South. What are the meanings and processes of change? How do we explain the contours and contexts of ...

In empirical education and labour market research, different approaches for measuring education have been pursued; they reach from ‘number of years of schooling’ and educational scoring as continuous measures to typologies as ISCED and the CASMIN classification as categorical approaches. The value of the CASMIN educational classification has been demonstrated in many studies in comparative soci...

BACKGROUND Although curricular reforms have attempted to address sources of stress in medical residency, no recent studies have examined the financial or emotional situations of current medicine residents. OBJECTIVE To question medicine residents about financial status, educational debt, moonlighting, and psychological issues. DESIGN Survey distributed in a nonrandomized fashion to medicine...