How is ecu schooling Governed?

Data is now the lifeblood of schooling governance. At the foreign point, firms just like the OECD steer schooling structures via their programmes of overview and the eu Commission’s venture of constructing the main profitable wisdom economic system on this planet is pushed by means of information assortment, research and comparability. on the nationwide point, policy-makers more and more depend upon info to teach them the place they're located, with regards to their rivals, and draw on facts to justify coverage instructions. inside of structures, colleges and lecturers became knowledgeable in facts use, and interpret their priorities as regards to data.

This ebook attracts on a three-year comparative learn of the impression of information on schooling platforms in Europe, the contrasting coverage contexts of Denmark, England, Finland, Scotland and Sweden, and interpreting using info in those structures, on the subject of steerage via Europe, in addition to coverage mediation and ‘translation’ of knowledge inside structures. The authors draw on interviews with key coverage actors within the ecu fee and with nationwide coverage makers in all 5 platforms, in addition to on neighborhood case experiences and a tremendous comparative survey of the results of information creation and use at the paintings of academics and headteachers. The learn introduced jointly overseas researchers from quite a few disciplinary backgrounds, together with educationalists, political scientists and experts in study and evaluation.

The booklet deals new arguments when it comes to using caliber coverage and overview as a way of standardising and harmonising schooling coverage and perform, whereas additionally drawing realization to major version in coverage and perform throughout those platforms. it's going to be of interest to researchers, post-graduate scholars and complicated undergraduate scholars in coverage stories in schooling and extra generally.