World Education Encyclopedia: A Survey of Educational Systems Worldwide (2nd edition)

This major encyclopaedia “is designed as a descriptive survey of the national education systems of the world. It is a global report on the state of education in the dawn of the twenty‐first century.” Ambitious claims, but well‐founded. A total of 130 contributors provide essays on 233 countries, these essays ranging from 235 to almost 30,000 words. That means a set of substantial entries providing a lot of comparative descriptive data.

While contributors were allowed to vary things a bit as circumstances might demand, the basic structure of each country entry contains: history and background; constitutional and legal foundations; overview;...