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Cooperation or Conflict? Education Politics in Switzerland after the PISA Study and the Bologna Process

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Internationalization of Education Policy

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In the past 15 years, education policy-making in Switzerland has experienced important changes. In the field of Swiss secondary education, international school rankings turned out to be major drivers of policy change. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has been the most prominent example of such comparative evaluations of student skills, in the Swiss higher education sector, European and transnational influences led to diverse governance changes as well as structure-related reform activities. Above all, the European Bologna Process emerged as a novel approach In harmonizing the diverse cantonal study structures in Switzerland.

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Bieber, T. (2014). Cooperation or Conflict? Education Politics in Switzerland after the PISA Study and the Bologna Process. In: Martens, K., Knodel, P., Windzio, M. (eds) Internationalization of Education Policy. Transformations of the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137401694_8

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