Comparative Education Policy

Manon Giovinazzo, Fangzhou Liang, Toyo Kawabata and Sacha Alanoca China's education system has been experiencing major challenges in the last two decades, which have, unfortunately, not been tackled properly and deeply enough to disappear. Also, those challenges are only known by a few since the collection of data in China is almost impossible, except in the Shanghai and Beijing regions. The two main challenges that China is currently facing are, on the one hand, an exam-oriented system, making life a nightmare for high school students and on the other hand, the development of major inequalities of performance between urban and rural regions. As a result, our group of students came up with policy recommendations for the Chinese government to include to their undergoing reform plan, which you will discover in the last part of the PowerPoint.   Case study : Education in China   by Manon Giovinazzo, Fangzhou Liang, Toyo Kawabata and Sacha Alanoca

Raphaelle Desrousseaux, Stephanie Hagen, Sophia Kissa and Giulio Catanzariti Amongst OECD countries, the case of Turkey is of paramount interest. With 30% of the population aged under 14, 10.5 million pupils enrolled in primary education, a rapid migration from rural to urban areas and a high fertility rate the Turkish educational system is facing big challenges in the coming years. This presentation starts analyzing the structural transformation that Turkish educational system encountered in the last century,  and then it investigates what are the most pressing issues for th e students and for the governance of the educational system and tries to understand how institutions could adapt  to better cope with the present challenges.  Education in Turkey   by Raphaelle Desrousseaux, Stephanie Hagen, Sophia Kissa and Giulio Catanzariti

Alice Escande and Marie-Aimée Altmeyer "Vocational Education Training (VET) aims to equip people with knowledge, know-how, skills and competences required in particular occupations or more broadly on the labour market" (European Training Foundation). In this post, we focus on Initial VET (IVET), different from Continuous VET (CVET), which focus on training individuals entering the labour market or already working. The objectives of IVET focuses on better preparing students for the future, matching their skills with labour market demands and providing them with adequate career guidance. IVET usually takes place at the elementary, middle to high school level but can also in some cases, take the form of short post-secondary education programs. In Europe, about half of students enter IVET programs. How has the conception of IVET evolved throughout time? 300 years ago, VET existed mostly in the form of Apprenticeship. 13-14 years old students would go on to pursue a s...