The question of quality has become one of the most important framing factors in education and has been of growing interest to international organisations and na

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During the last 20 years, governments around the world have paid increasing attention to the recruitment, preparation, and retention of teachers. Teacher supply

This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline’s analytic