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...Country overview Afghanistan has a long history of organized education. Buddhist, Zoroastrian, and Hindu temples, as well as mosques and madrasas, feature in the past and present traditional educational institutions. However, the modern...

...Country overview Primary and secondary schooling is managed by states/territories. This means there is no single system of education in Australia. M. Crossley , G. Hancock , and T. Sprague , Education in Australia, New Zealand...

...Country overview Brazil is a federation with 26 states, one federal district, over 5,500 municipalities, and more than 200 million people. Education is decentralized, but the federal government centralizes national data gathering and core...

...Country overview Education in Canada is largely controlled at the provincial and territorial levels, under the auspices of Canada’s ten provinces and three territories, where school administration is overseen by a descending governance...

...Country overview Chile The majority of text in this page is sourced from S. Schwartzman , Education in South America ( London : Bloomsbury, 2015). was part of the Spanish colonial empire until 1818 when it became independent. Under...

...Country overview China is a country with over 5,000 years of history and a diverse and profound culture. It is a vast country with contrasting landscapes and terrains, a multiethnic and multilingual population, and varying levels...

...Country overview In 2014 the new constitution in Egypt reaffirmed the states responsibility to provide free education in public schools up to the secondary educational level, with the state spending no less than 4 percent of its gross...

...Country overview England is the largest political entity in the United Kingdom. The Department for Education (DfE) is the department of Her Majesty’s Government responsible for education, apprenticeships, and wider skills in England. Other...

...Country overview Before Finland’s independence in 1917, the moderate expansion of formal education was boosted by industrialization and urbanization. After the Second World War the creation of a Nordic-style welfare state with economic...

...Country overview In Germany, schooling is highly stratified and children are streamed very early, after four or six years of primary schooling, into a variety of school types. Lower secondary education exhibits a status hierarchy extending...