University of Malaya

Welcome to CRICE!

Centre for Research in International and Comparative Education

The Centre for Research in International and Comparative Education (CRICE) embodies a focus on research in international and comparative issues in education that affect educational policies and practice, broadly defined. Some prominent issues may include, among others, education in the knowledge economy at all scales from global to local; education provision issues such as efficiency, effectiveness, access/equity, gender, culture and religion as well as teaching and learning. The Centre focuses on, but not be restricted to, South East Asia. It is envisioned that the Centre will help overcome the relative dearth of research in this field in South East Asia. Globally there is a realisation that Interdisciplinary study and research is the way forward. Consequently the Centre will also examine how related and contributing disciplines to educational studies (such as history, economics, geography and sociology) help to analyse and explain education systems and contribute to their improvement.

Latest Publications

Education in South-East Asia

This book on education in South-East Asia is the very first of its kind to comprehensively cover and discuss the education systems and issues in all the countries in the region.

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Islam and Higher Education
Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities

This book explores the different concepts of 'a university' and the way they shape practice in Muslim contexts, with a particular focus on the Islamic republic of Pakistan.

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What is International and Comparative Education?

Comparative Education is to do with looking at education in countries other than one's own. It became a recognised foundations of education discipline at university level around 1930, largely due to the efforts at the University of London Institute of Education and Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.

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