"Schools have always been in a society where practical is more important than intellectual," says education writer Diane Ravitch. "Schools could be a counterbalance." Ravitch’s latest book, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools,...
The 'Higher Education Funding Report 2004-05' shows the impacts of the Government's major policy and funding changes to the higher education sector, following the introduction of the Backing Australia's Future policies in late 2003. It clearly demonstrates that while the sector has had to endure...
This entailed numerous reforms of national education systems with the aim of ensuring the comparability of educational degrees. More specifically, all European member states started to model their higher-education systems along the lines of the Anglo-Saxon economies by introducing the distinction between...
including making the abolition of tuition fees a key part of their election strategy in 2010 when the party's leaders lacked faith in the policy. The article also notes that critics of the Coalition's higher education reforms were largely ineffectual because they lacked a strong intellectual case...
Since we shouldn’t rely on reforms in a conservative political environment, any change becomes a social not a political responsibility. The reasoning offered here also applies to issues beyond sexuality. Before talking about conscious social change let’s take a broad overview. Any minority ...
“autonomous development” as one of the core competencies for the development of Chinese students, schools should prioritize the development of students' learning autonomy as an important goal. Strengthening educational reforms can significantly contrib...
education, promotes tradition, updates concepts, broadens ideas, deepens reforms, and accelerates development. After 60 years of unremitting efforts, the school has continuously expanded its scale, fundamentally improved its educational conditions, upgraded its level of education, and significantly enhanced ...
Teacher Education The Transformation of the Teacher Knowledge Landscape in the Context of School Reform ZHU Yuanyuan School of Marxism, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China Abstract:It has been widely recognized that teachers are ...
Since most colleges and universities are established and funded by central and local governments in the early 1990s, the running of such schools to meet the increasing demands of the public has caused serious financial problems. A series of reforms were thus introduced to improve the condition, ...
Further advancement reforms which along with the high school new curriculum, the new classroom instruction, no longer is the teacher performs “the lesson plan play”, but is by between the teacher and student's sincere interaction, the deductive production splendid beautiful poem.[translate] ...