He has been Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in International Studies and Teacher Education at the School of Culture and Lifelong Learning since September 2000.

UNESCO: Purpose/Objectives of the Chair

The Welsh government launched a programme of reform in education following disappointing results from an international comparison of school standards in 2009.

BBC: School classroom

More than 190, 000 Chinese students studied in the U.S. during the 2011-12 school year, according to the Institute of International Education, a 23% increase from the year before.

WSJ: China Mourns Boston Marathon Victim

"China's government directly manages the country's education system, " says Liu Ji, executive president of the China Europe International Business School (ceibs) in Shanghai, a venture funded by the city's municipal government and the European Union.

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