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CES reviews are available in summary, sections and full report format
Feedback
The Centre for Education Systems is providing an accessible resource for everyone in the education eco-system.
We invite careful review of our output by others in order to provide an ever increasing level of detail and accuracy. Please provide feedback through: info@ces.partners
Our approach
Rather than focusing on its own primary research, CES draws on existing but disparate sources of information to describe in great detail relevant education landscapes, alongside all of the quality academic literature and commentary, together with synthesis, modelling and insight.
Stages
Our evidence base has been developed in multiple stages (see Methodology for detail):
• first, country reports - providing system descriptions and systematic reviews of academic literature, typically augmented with in-country expert interviews
• second, distillation of the detail - using comparative tables and thematic reviews
• third, synthesis and key insights – describing different policy alternatives or "typologies" and explaining how policies might contribute to different outcomes
• finally, intersectional analysis - describing how different policy areas can work for and against each other.
Objectives
Our objective is not to find the "right" answer or impose a particular vision of education, but to increase understanding of the options available to achieve diverse educational goals, the intended and unintended consequences of each and the opportunity to evaluate "what's possible" within different contexts and priorities.
A key goal is to provide reliable briefings to policy makers, particular around policy options which further system coherence.
Accuracy and partnerships
We are reliant on the accuracy of country reports, the quality of research and our analysis of policy mechanisms. This can be challenging in any circumstance and particularly so for comparative reviews, where jurisdiction evidence is sort “from the outside”.
Just as CES partners with academics, experts and stakeholders in the UK , so we would like to deepen relationships with comparable groups in other jurisdictions. This will help us to improve accuracy and understanding and also ensure our resources are increasingly relevant to all 14 jurisdictions under review, as well as further afield.
Again, please contact CES at info@ces.partners
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