The Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society (ANZCIES) has recently become the new authorizing agency to sponsor and produce The International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives (IEJ), a DEST-compliant publication.

The IEJ, published bi-annually, is an international, open-to-air and hardcopy journal for advancing the academic quality and rigor in comparative and international education research. Through the journal, the Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society is committed to making available substantive research findings that are:

• of importance for educational policy and practice;
• theoretical and/or practice-based; and
• cross-disciplinary, integrating education with academic disciplines such as anthropology, demography, economics, history, law, linguistics, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology.

A further intent is to integrate research findings from comparative, international, and global issues in education that place particular emphasis on cultural contexts.