ABSTRACT
Some European countries, notably Sweden, provide their own information services for the English-speaking world. Increasingly, however, comparative education makes demands which are beyond the reach of even the ablest and most privileged individual, so that nothing less than large-scale team research will suffice. Certainly, judging by the number of university chairs in comparative education, this is one sector of the field which is poorly represented in Britain. There remains, of course, that growing sector variously referred to as the ‘backward’, ‘developing’ or ‘emerging’ nations. The World Year Book of Education, indeed, represents an annual triumph of Anglo-American collaboration in the international field of comparative education. Comparative studies have commanded the attention of governments - and substantial research grants - for the sake of throwing light on the elusive problems of the connection between the educational services and economic growth.
