International education and comparative education are closely related terms. Both feature in the subtitle of Compare. In this anniversary volume Mark Bray explores a wide range of definitions of comparative and international education, describes institutions that promote and reflect one or both fields of enquiry and asks how much these definitions matter. Much of Bray’s discussion exhumes old ‘...

Since the first international comparative study on students’ achievement in the beginning of 1960’s, the interest of countries from all over the world to participate in studies initiated by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), has been growing rapidly. In the First International Mathematics Study (FIMS, 1964) just 12 countries participated. In TIMSS...

After a long period of neglect, the issue of human resources for health (HRH) has recently emerged as a core component on the international health agenda, with policy makers increasingly eager to learn from experience elsewhere. This article investigates systematically the opportunities and challenges associated with the use of cross-national comparisons of HRH policies and practices. It review...

There are a lot of learners all around the world, who are studying in the field of English, but not all of them are proficient in any field of English such as (literature-teaching-translation), and especially in the field of translation which requires a considerable knowledge of two languages such as English and Persian. The present article intended to consider the contrastive of English and Pe...