Far-reaching transformations in Swiss education were pushed in the last decade by two prominent international initiatives, namely the 1999 Bologna process and the OECD's PISA study starting in 2000. To what extent and in which way were these soft governance initiatives able to trigger Swiss...

Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit den nationalen und internationalen Einflussfaktoren, die in den letzten 25 Jahren drei wesentlichen Dimensionen des französischen Hochschulsystems - politics, policies und polity - geprägt haben. Das Augenmerk der Analyse richtet sich vor allem auf die...

In this paper we examine the Chinese domestic discourse centering on Shanghai's participation in the PISA study and interpretations of the 2009 results. The main focus is to examine why local education authority took part in the PISA project and how actors from the education authority use PISA...

This article analyses from a cross-national comparative perspective how deregulation of compulsory education affects two central educational outcomes: efficiency and equality. The conflict between public regulation on the one hand and the market model on the other hand describes one of the most...