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Direct linkMaher, Michael; Karlidag-Dennis, Ecem – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
This presented study explores the ongoing Uni Connect Programme run by the UK government to widen participation among underrepresented young people. The research focused on one specific local authority that delivers Uni Connect activities, gathering data from eight in-depth interviews (project manager N = 2, activity coordinators N = 6) and the…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Accountability, Entrepreneurship, Outreach Programs
Download full textOffice of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2025
On July 31, 2018, the "Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act" (Public Law 115-224) (Perkins V, the Act, or statute), was signed into law and thus reauthorized and amended the "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006." The U.S. Department of Education's (Department) Office of…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Vocational Education, Guides
Waugh, Joanne – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2023
This research builds upon the work of Guthrie and Waters (2021, 2022) to interrogate what motivates such RTOs (Registered Training Organisations) to pursue high performance. High performing RTOs were interviewed to explore their understanding of high performance and their motivations for pursuing high performance. This research adds a new…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Training, Organizations (Groups)
Waugh, Joanne – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2023
The quality of registered training organisations (RTOs) remains a topic of great interest to users of both vocational education and training (VET) and governments as the VET sector adapts to deliver on forecast workforce and skilling needs. All RTOs must adhere to minimum quality standards, but some deliver above and beyond those standards. This…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Training, Organizations (Groups)
Lamia, Tamara L.; Lowry, Garry F.; McLees, Anita W.; Frazier, Cassandra M.; Young, Andrea C. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2021
The flexibility federal block grants provide recipients poses challenges for evaluation. These challenges include aggregating data on wide-ranging activities grant recipients implement and the outcomes they achieve. In 2014, we began designing an evaluation to address the challenges of assessing outcomes and to improve outcome accountability for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Grants, Program Evaluation, Health Services
Heather A. Turner; Jeffrey C. Sun; Kevin P. Kinser; Sarah T. Zipf – Institute for College Access & Success, 2024
Online program managers (OPMs) are third-party companies that work with colleges and universities to develop, launch, and deliver online learning. Despite the prevalence of these companies in higher education, cost details are often buried or asserted with legal protections as trade secrets or business models unavailable for public review.3…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Program Administration, Online Courses, School Business Relationship
Jeffrey C. Sun; Heather A. Turner; Kevin Kinser; Sarah T. Zipf – Institute for College Access & Success, 2024
Based on a review of 48 online program manager (OPM) contracts and 44 chief online learning officer (COLO) interviews, this policy brief highlights potentially problematic contract provisions between colleges and OPMs, raising concerns about their effects on federal compliance, students' learning, and openness about government contracting.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Administration, Partnerships in Education, Contracts
Mindy E. Krantz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The enterprise resource planning (ERP) industry is a billion-dollar software industry with two prominent higher education ERP companies bringing in a combined $14.27 billion the third quarter of their 2024 fiscal years (Oracle, 2023; Workday, 2023). ERP systems stemmed from materials resource planning (MRP) systems in the manufacturing industry…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Two Year Colleges, Technical Institutes, Computer Software
Nicole Stelle Garnett; Michael Q. McShane – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2023
Over the last two years, seven states have enacted new universal education savings account (ESA) programs or have expanded existing programs to universal or near-universal eligibility. Parental-choice advocates, who have labored for decades to make incremental inroads toward achieving greater educational freedom for families. However, the authors…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Money Management, Barriers, Parent Role
Santos, José M. R. C. A. – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2021
Research and Development (R&D) project managers in Higher Education must deal with uncertainty, ambiguity, competition, accountability and different objectives for professors, scientists, firms, users and other stakeholders. Formal project management frameworks are commonly adapted to support this. However, the wide range of challenges related…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Partnerships in Education, Higher Education, Public Sector
Baldwin, Cheryl K.; Magnuson, Doug – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2022
In this qualitative interpretivist study, we investigated the types of interactions and negotiations that supported or constrained adult education program planners' capacity to act, conceptualized as dignity. Data were drawn from interviews with 14 program planners working in collaborative partnerships in U.S. underperforming urban schools.…
Descriptors: Program Development, Adult Education, Capacity Building, Human Dignity
D'Brot, Juan – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2022
Accountability mechanisms and processes have evolved with changes in statute. State Education Agency (SEA) accountability systems may exhibit characteristics of compliance- and/or improvement-focused systems in light of requirements under the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act" (ESEA) and its reauthorizations under the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Best Practices, Disclosure, State Departments of Education
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2021
The Accountability Plan is an annual report that is closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This report enhances the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by fostering greater coordination between institutional administrators, University Boards of Trustees and the Board of Governors regarding…
Descriptors: Accountability, Performance Based Assessment, Strategic Planning, College Administration
