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Abstract: This paper examines changes over the last 20 years which have shaped international human development assistance for the alleviation of poverty and inclusion and what it achieves. With reference to labour market restructuring and the contemporary rhetoric, design and management of human development interventions, it describes a study into how these changes influence the multiple messages being transmitted in association with aid sector interventions and applies them to case studies of communication in very different organisational partnerships. The discussion is of the learning they inspire and its implications for inclusion, control and stability at multiple levels. The paper observes close similarities between the case studies in low-income states and others in advanced capitalist nations, which offer short-term funding oriented at the inclusion of marginal groups and at the support of civil society initiatives for its own development. It argues that the remit of the aid sector and other providers, rather than alleviating poverty, reinforces internationally framed structures of inclusion, marginality, cohesion and stability, with differential skill in the management of finance, human and other resources crucial to the process. Observable across corporate, statutory and non-government sectors alike, such skill attains the status of a global literacy, subordinating other knowledge and practice to its logic. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Editorial. Illustrates how, since its inception in 1989, 'Gender and Education' has been a beacon for the finest scholarship in the field of gender and educational theorizing. Journal's extra-curricular developments; Analysis of the content of papers published; Highlight of stereotypes of feminist scholarship relating to education; Impact of feminist interest in masculinities as the growth areas of the 1990s.

The article focuses on the impact of education on migration in Highland Ecuador. Multiple patterns of migration obtained in a series of rural communities were structured in terms of education and employment. Data were collected in Andean Ecuador in 1975 and 1976. Some trends in economy and migration during those years were also described. The incidence of different patterns of migration found to be associated with each of the communities studies were identified in relation to educational experience and employment.

Provides a background on research papers on the quality of education which were published in the volume 33, number two, 2003 edition of the periodical 'Compare.' Link between education and the issues of democracy and participation; Link between education and issues of democracy and citizenship.

Introduces articles related to education contained in the June 2004 issue of "Compare."

Editorial. Introduces research on education and teaching, published in the volume 32 of the 'Compare' journal. Response from Caroline Vincent and Dougal Hutchison to the article on birth date effects in schooling by Gillian McDonald; Inclusion of abstracts completed by students of the BAICE; Raf Vanderstraeten's paper that uses the concept of pillarisation as a schema around which to conceptualise differentiation within the Belgian and Dutch education systems.

Editorial. Introduces a series of articles about comparative education. Establishment of specialist school programs in England and New Zealand; Quality of education in Haiti; Applicability of exogenous models of education change.