Editorial.

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.