Over recent years, teacher supply and teacher quality have become significant policy issues in many countries around the world. This book brings together nine papers from leading academics in seven different countries to explore the complexities and contradictions of international trends.

Attentive readers are already familiar with how a bookish young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that would lead her to becoming the world s premier dragon naturalist. Three years after her journey through Vystrana, the illustrious (and occasionally scandalous) Lady Trent defies convention to embark on an expedition to the war-torn continent of Eriga, home of the legendary swamp-wyrm. Accompanied by an old associate and a runaway heiress, Isabella must brave oppressive heat, palace intrigues, gossip, and other hazards in order to satisfy her fascination with all...

"Wonders terrestrial and aquatic, ancient ruins, near drownings, and more kinds of dragon than you can shake a wing at..." > > Six years after her perilous exploits in Eriga, Lady Trent embarks on her most ambitious expedition yet: a two-year trip around the world aboard the Royal Survey Ship Basilisk, to study all manner of dragons. From feathered serpents sunning themselves in the ruins of a fallen civilization to the mighty sea serpents of the tropics, these creatures are a source of both endless fascination and frequent peril. Accompanying her is her young son and a chivalrous foreign...

In hidden catacombs beneath London, below the royal court of Elizabeth I, a second queen holds power. lnvidiana, the dark ruler of faerie England. Fae and mortal politics have become entwined, in alliances and betrayals. When the faerie Lune is sent to manipulate Elizabeth's spymaster, her path crosses that of a mortal agent, Michael Deven.

In this, the fourth volume of her memoirs, Lady Trent relates how she acquired her position with the Royal Scirling Army; how foreign saboteurs imperiled both her work and her well-being: and how her determined pursuit of knowledge took her into the deepest reaches of the Labyrinth of Drakes.

It is 1759, and scientists are mapping the laws of the natural world, disproving ancient superstition. The fee of the Onyx Court fear that magic is losing its place in the world-and science threatens to expose the court to hostile eyes. Yet they and the mortais above may have to harness both magic and science to defeat a common foe.

A brand-new adventure set in the hugely popular A Natural History of Dragons universe - a delightful Victorian-esque fantasy. As the renowned granddaughter of Isabella Camherst (Lady Trent, of the riveting and daring Draconic adventure memoirs) Audrey Camherst has always known she, too, would want to make her scholarly mark upon a chosen field of study. When Lord Gleinleigh recruits Audrey to decipher a series of ancient tablets holding the secrets of the ancient Draconean civilization, she has no idea that her research will plunge her into an intricate conspiracy, one meant to incite...