Given the influential role that the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) plays in educational governance, we believe it is timely to provide an in-depth …

While scholars have analyzed global higher education (HE) competition, they have largely
failed to address how global spaces of equivalence are tied both to coloniality and to …

This paper introduces a serendipitous special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural
Politics of Education, focusing on the rise of large-scale international testing and …

This book challenges existing thinking around international engagement practice in
Indonesia and more broadly the ASEAN region. Written by leading practitioners and …

Since the beginning of the current century, the acronym PISA (Programme for International
Student Assessment) seems to pervade the multiple contexts where the education systems …

Scholars of the global phenomenon of international student assessments (eg, PISA, TIMSS)
have paid little attention to the ways in which student users of these material objects are …

The OECD's Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) project is an
important contribution to discussions of how to define and measure the quality of global …

This qualitative study explored the influence of student affairs on academic adjustment and
adaptation for 10 Indonesian graduate students at a single campus. Semi-structured …

This thesis focuses on the emerging problem of education and training interventions in the
overseas aid context, and focuses particularly on the current effectiveness of development …

The research reveals that, the context of PISA is a construct and legitimizes the OECD's
economic approach in education. By using the literacy concept, PISA puts forth the skills …