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The article measures the relative efficiency of government spending on higher education in selected new EU member states (with special focus on Croatia and Slovenia) in comparison to selected OECD countries. The article applies a non-parametric approach, i.e. data envelopment analysis (DEA), to assess the relative technical efficiency of higher education across selected countries. When estimating the efficiency frontier we focus on measures of quantities outputs/outcomes. The results show that the relatively high public expenditure per student in Croatia should have resulted in a better performance regarding the outputs/outcomes, i.e. a higher rate of higher education school enrolment, a greater rate of labor force with a higher education and a lower rate of the unemployed who have tertiary education. On the other hand, regardless of the input-output/outcome mix, the higher education system in Slovenia is shown to have a much higher level of efficiency compared to both Croatia and many other comparable new EU member states and OECD countries.

This paper aims to examine homeschooling an alternative education in Indonesia. At the present time a lot of popping educational institutions, began formal education through non-formal education. The institute has a goal to educate the future generation. The result, not all educational institutions could be feasible for the education of children today, as in formal education. Often, formal education, structural, and impressed force, make students feel depressed, so they could not undergo the program learning with fun, excitement, and filled with love. Moreover, competition among learners causing some students feel stress so that the child is looking at learning as a liability burden and not as a requirement. In the present era, emerging institutions of alternative education in an effort to address the above issues, one of which is home schooling.

The article discusses the international research of educational quality in the countries of the European Union at the present stage. As an example of monitoring at international level there can serve the implementation of the international programs (TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS, CIVIC, LINGVA etc.) carried out with the support of International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievements (IEA) and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). There have been brighten up the variables affecting the results of the tests of those being tested. The international comparative researches provide identifications with not only positive aspects but also shortcomings of educational programs. Besides, on the basis of their results (information) the central educational bodies can apply tools which promote raising achievement of pupils, productivity of activity of teachers and overall performance of school institutions in general. At the same time, according to the international monitoring, it is possible to track the development of education in any country if the management of educational systems is decentralized.The authors prove that the latest developments in the field of monitoring are among the countries that make extensive use of France, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, etc. belong to the countries which widely use the last achievements in the sphere of monitoring, they have developed the classical theory of tests, then provided IRT and the based practice of testing for millions of pupils, organized the companies and services which develop tests, organize mass testing, are constantly engaged in collection of information for monitoring of quality of education. Experience of the western countries shows that they are ahead of us on scales of application of tests, the number of publications, preparation of scientific resources, level and quality of the theory of test techniques and control, modern technical means which are used in testing. Monitoring of school progress which took stable positions in the educational systems of the developed countries for the last decades gives an opportunity to obtain data on a condition of an educational system in the country. According to scientists not too many countries have accurate information on the level of knowledge of pupils. France, Great Britain are interested not only in the results of knowledge of pupils but also process of assimilation of knowledge and how to help pupils who have difficulties at school. Confirmation of the importance of this problem is an introduction in the European countries, in particular in Great Britain and France, of special training for teachers in estimation of knowledge of pupils – a course of a new discipline in higher educational institutions.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- PART I Introduction -- 1 Professions in comparative perspective: The case of medicine -- PART II The medical profession, state and the market -- 2 Medicine in Britain -- 3 Medicine in the United States -- 4 Medicine in Russia -- PART III Conclusion -- 5 The professions, state and the market: Medicine in context -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cultural knowledge economy: education, the new economy, and the communicative turn -- The politics of postmodernity and the promise of education -- Education policy in the age of knowledge capitalism -- National education policy constructions of the knowledge economy -- Universities, globalization, and the new political economy of knowledge -- The theater of fast knowledge: performative epistemologies -- The new pedagogy and social learning -- Theorizing educational practices: the politico-ethical choices -- Knowledge networks, innovation, and development: education after modernization -- Educational policy futures

"Discover an innovative framework for addressing intersectionality within educational spaces designed to combat the cumulative effects of systemic marginalization due to race, gender, disability, class, sexual orientation, and other identity-based labels. Highlighting diverse ways of knowing, this book will generate insights that can inform more equitable policy analysis, research, and practice"--