Using data from the ‘Youth in India: Situation and Needs’ survey, this paper provides perhaps the first estimates of inequality of opportunity in schooling outcomes for males and females separately for India. The inequality of educational opportunity in completion of primary (and secondary) schooling among females is more than twice (and nearly twice) than that among males. Further, among femal...

o ABSTRACT This paper focusses on the consequences for student opportunities and performances of grouping students in classrooms ,:grEl.des, tracks, etc. The organizational differentiation of students is shown to define a structure of flows in educational systems that structure educational opportunities, create ·different learning and social environments and present a set of signals about the c...

the ibridge berlin conference was a 3-day event which brought together iranian entrepreneurs and business owners and their counterparts in europe and the us to explore opportunities in iran’s high-tech sector. it was a pure educational event, privately funded, and organized with no government involvement.

Several cultural heritage institutions all around the world have set up special services, trainings, courses or programs focusing on curation of digital material. Digital curation is a multifaceted task with a great variety of responsibilities, preconditions and objectives. For the first time in this field the DigCurV project offers a framework to locate competences and skills related to vocati...

We examine the effect of single motherhood on children’s secondary school track choice using 12-year-old children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In line with previous studies for the U.S., the U.K. and Sweden, we find a negative correlation between single motherhood and children’s educational attainment. Looking for alternative explanations for this correlation, we use probit regre...

Following the long tradition of attending to the importance of educational opportunity in the understanding of educational progress, 1995 TIMSS International Curriculum Analysis (ICA) was designed to capture country’s curriculum standards as intended curricula and their textbooks as potential implemented curricula. The vision of education opportunity was that of the IEA Tri-Partite Model of Cur...