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Political campaigns -- England -- Wolverhampton --- Fryer

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This paper seeks to find an empirical explanation of Vietnam's outstanding performance on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2012. Only a few developing countries participate in the assessment. Those who do, with the unique exception of Vietnam, are typically clustered at the lower end of the range of the Programme for International student Assessment scores. The paper compares Vietnam's performance with that of a set of seven developing countries from the 2012 assessment's data set, using a cut-off per capita GDP (in 2010 purchasing power parity dollars) of USD 10,000. The seven developing countries' average performance lags Vietnam's by more than 100 points. The "Vietnam effect" is difficult to unscramble, but the paper is able to explain about half of the gap between Vietnam and the seven countries. The analysis reveals that Vietnamese students may be approaching their studies with higher diligence and discipline, their parents may have higher expectations, and the parents may be following up with teachers regarding those expectations. The teachers themselves may be working in a more disciplined environment, with tabs being kept on their own performance as teachers. Vietnam may also be benefiting from investments in pre-school education and in school infrastructure that are disproportionately higher when compared with Vietnam's per capita income level.

Economics of Education --- Fryer-Levitt --- Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition --- Pisa

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Fryer, John, --- India --- Iran --- Description and travel --- Early works to 1800.

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Amer, Ghada --- Coventry, Keith --- Delvoye, Wim --- Fryer, Paul --- Höller, Carsten --- Morgan, Polly --- Pietromarchi, Benedetto --- Saraceno, Tomas --- Sesti, Petroc --- Shawcross, Conrad --- Twombly, Cy

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"In John Fryer and The Translator's Vade-mecum, Tola offers for the first time a comprehensive study of the collection of scientific and technical glossaries, with English-Chinese parallel translation, compiled by the English scholar John Fryer (1839-1928). Other than contributing to the history of modern Chinese lexicon and translation in late Qing China, Tola analyses the role of The Translator's Vade-mecum in the diffusion of ideas and terms between China and the West, at the same time providing new insights on the connection between religious efforts by missionaries in late Qing China and their secular attitude towards translation. The great number of resources presented also show a new perspective on the transcultural flows of knowledge, China's modernisation process in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the history of nineteenth-century Protestant missions in China"

Science --- Technology --- S15/1200 --- S19/0160 --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Translations into Chinese --- History --- China: Language--Aspects of translation from and to Chinese --- China: Natural sciences--Technology, inventions --- Fryer, John, --- Fulanya, --- China --- Civilization --- Western influences. --- Occidental influences --- E-books --- Translation science --- English language --- Chinese languages --- Fryer, John