This book explores some of the central issues in the definition and evaluation of excellence and quality in education. Using comparative and international methodology, the contributors from around the world highlight and discuss some of the key factors of the quality debate at national, institutional and classroom levels.

Excellence and Quality in Education offers an invaluable insight into the current polemics surrounding the technocratic push for quality in education.

JOSEPH ZAJDA coordinates sociology and sociology of education programs at the Australian Catholic University, Aquinas Campus. He is the author of Education in the USSR, Education and Society (with REA ZAJDA) and is the founder and editor of the international journals Curriculum and Teaching and Education and Society.

KAZIM BACCHUS is professor in international education and Third World Development in the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta. His publications include over 100 research articles and 28 books. He currently directs the Institute for Educational Development at the Aga Khan University in Karachi.

NICK KACH, until recently professor of education in the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, is author of numerous works in education, especially concerning minority education and issues in multicultural education in Canada including Catholic Schools in Alberta.