Education

These pages will enable you to locate books, journals and electronic resources for education topics. They have been created by the Liaison Librarian for Social Policy as the Education Research Group is associated to Social Policy. However they are designed to be useful for any LSE member researching topics within education.

If you need further help please contact the Social Policy Liaison Librarian, Ellen Wilkinson|, who will be happy to assist.

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Useful webpages for Education 

• Unistats
  Unistats Official site maintained by UCAS. It enables you to search and compare information about universities and colleges in the UK, and the subjects they offer. It includes results from the National Student Survey which measures levels of student satisfaction.
• Phd's Education Index
  free acces to the Education Index tool from PhDs.org .It uses publicly available numbers from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and presents them clearly so that users can rate by results and retention. It covers online universities plus some data / statistics on general trends in enrollment in specific subject areas
• Education: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  UNESCO produiced reports and statistics on all levels of education worldwide.
• Education for ALL Monitoring reports -United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  This monitors progress against a number of agreed targets see the FAQ
• Learning Curve Pearson/EUI
  How do education systems rank worldwide?
• World Bank eAtlas of Gender
  
• Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
  Founded and compiled by the Shanghai Jiaotong University. The rankings have been conducted since 2003 and are updated annually. The ranking compare about 1200 higher education institutions worldwide according to a formula that takes into account alumni/staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly-cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories, articles published in the journals Nature and Science the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index. The website has general world rankings and some rankings for subjects such as economics it includes details on methodology. http://www.arwu.org/SubjectEcoBus2010.jsp
• World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education [UNESCO]
  It provides information and visual graphs of enrolment and gender in primary, secondary and tertiary education, also in adult and youth literacy. A final chapter considers how policies effect gender equality in education.
• Top Universities by Reputation 2012
  Times Higher Education world university reputation rankings Methodology is on the website.
• Eurydice Educational encyclopedia
  New online encyclopaedia on Education systems in Europe from Eurydice See more statistics on education in Europe from the main Eurydice website. Covers 38 countries. It also has over 5,000 thematic articles
• Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA ...
  DERA is a digital archive of documents published electronically by government and related bodies in the area of education. It is created as a permanent web archive by staff of the Institute of education Library. University of London. Currently over 1,000 documents/ reports are accessible with more being added. Topics covered are broad ranging include schools, learning, higher education policy and finance
• UNdata
  Launched in beta by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) it aims to provide a single gateway to over 30 UN statistical databases. The site can be searched by keyword or browsed by subject . It also offers a country file index which contains links to the website of the statistical bureau/ government department of the nation concerned. Other features of the site include twitter feeds which alert users to the latest updates and a glossary of terms . The full range of subject areas are covered including tourism, trade, refugees, education, crime and the environment
• Fachportal Pädagogik- German Education Portal
  is coordinated by the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF). It provides free access to a number of databases where you can trace online journal articles, reports, books and other materials relating to education.
• German Education Index
  is maintained by the Educational Information System (FIS Bildung), a network of almost 30 documentation institutions, and is hosted by the German Institute for International Education Research (DIPF). It is a searchable index to journal articles, book chapters, reports and other grey literature covering all aspects of education policy, practice and theory. This includes coverage of teaching, the economics of education, and all levels of education from primary schooling to higher and adult education. Over 400 journal titles are indexed. These are primarily German language, but also include major English language publications. Entries cover publications from approximately 1980 onwards.
• National Foundation for Educational Research NFER publications
  The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) is a uk based organisation which conducts research into educational policy, the teaching profession and schooling issues in the Uk. Its web site provides access to some of its recent full text reports. Topics covered by this include: educational standards, the role of teachers and the national curriculum.