life. A key challenge for the school sector is to reduce the achievement gaps of the lowest performing students, while … improving overall literacy and numeracy outcomes. Greater autonomy at the school level and improvements in teaching quality …

Education has been given high priority by India’s central and state governments and continues to grow fast. School … access has been expanded by investment in school infrastructure and recruitment of teachers. In higher education too, the … availability of student loans for higher education needs to improve. Poor learning outcomes amongst school students and mediocre …

choices among the different types of upper secondary school. Large differences in pupils’ performance between regions cannot …Compulsory school education in Italy produces poor results in terms of 15-year olds’ performance on PISA tests … be explained by the quantity of resources available; separating the influence of socio-economic conditions from school …

to be particularly poor at ensuring good performance of pupils in the middle to bottom half of the education performance …

The French education system has a mixed record. A generally very successful pre-school and primary school level …

The French education system has a mixed record. A generally very successful pre-school and primary school level …

the paper, together with reforms to enhance achievement more generally by improving teaching skills and basing school …

stratification in the school system; and making tertiary education more attractive and responsive to labour-market requirements. With …