books at home and a variable combining the type and location of their school represent the most important predictors of … student performance in all of the analysed countries, while other school characteristics are rarely relevant. Econometric … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically …

English as medium of instruction at the early school years in Hazara division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The population of … school years. Teachers did not seem to be able to provide useful English as medium of instruction environment to the students … implications, as the medium of instruction conundrum does not seem to go away in the Pakistani school education context in general …

coeducational and single-gender secondary school backgrounds shape the academic experiences and training of MA in TEFL students … secondary schooling backgrounds shape the graduate school experiences of in-service and pre-service EFL teachers. The findings … suggest that the impacts of studying in coeducational and single-gender schools do extend up to graduate school affecting the …

We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in … academies are conversions from already existent state schools and so are school takeovers that enable more autonomy. Our … schools experiencing the largest increase in their school autonomy relative to their predecessor state. Analysis of mechanisms …