Since the fall of the Taliban Government in Afghanistan, education has become one of the key priorities in the process of reconciliation, reconstruction and development agreed to in Bonn (Government of the Federal Republic of Germany 2001). The Ministry of
This paper addresses the comparisons of the education system of Pakistan and the UK from six dimensions i.e. education and training authority, educational structure, curriculum formulation, assessment and evaluation, supervision and management, and teacher education and training. The results revealed
East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, this study estimates how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family background is
