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Governance and Free Education: Directions, Mechanisms and Policy Tensions

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Mark Bray (United Kingdom)

Director of UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), Paris and Buenos Aires. Formerly Dean of the Faculty of Education and Chair Professor of Comparative Education at the University of Hong Kong, China. Has also taught at the Universities of Papua New Guinea, London and Edinburgh, and in secondary schools in Nigeria and Kenya. Author of numerous works on educational policy analysis and planning. E-mail: m.bray@iiep.unesco.org.

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Bray, M. Governance and Free Education: Directions, Mechanisms and Policy Tensions. Prospects 37, 23–35 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-007-9017-y

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