This book provides a comparative look at key issues that characterize and contextualize upper secondary science education in sixteen countries in Oceania, South America, Asia, Europe, North America, Africa, and the Middle East, incluing links with elementary and early science, final assessment, and the secondary/tertiary education interface.

TIMELY: Access to upper secondary schooling has been growing over the past half century first in industrialized nations and then in developing countries, largely because of changes in the labor market.

Foreword; Simon McGrath 1. Introduction: The Upper Secondary Tier and the Place of Science Therein; Barend Vlaardingerbroek, Neil Taylor and Terry Lyons 2. Australia; Terry Lyons 3. Brazil; Luis Carlos de Menezes and Regina Cândida Ellero Gualtieri 4. Canada - British Columbia; Todd M. Milford 5. China - Hong Kong SAR; Benny Hin Wai Yung and Kennedy Kam Ho Chan 6. Finland; Jari Lavonen and Pasi Reinikainen 7. Hungary; András Buda 8. Malaysia; Noraini Binti Idris 9. New Zealand; Peter Rawlins, Carrol Walkley and Lone Jorgensen 10. Nigeria; Omaze Anthony Afemikhe and Sylvanus Yakubu Imobekhai 11. Pakistan; Irshad Hussain 12. Scotland; Nicky Souter 13. Sri Lanka; Marie Perera 14. Turkey; Muammer Çalik 15. The Middle East - Egypt, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia; Saouma BouJaoude and Ghada Gholam 16. Reflections on Upper Secondary Science for the Twenty-First Century; Barend Vlaardingerbroek and Neil Taylor