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Archana Sridhar – Innovative Higher Education, 2025
Academic freedom is understood as a set of individual protections and community practices for faculty to assess quality, promote truth-seeking, and advance the common good through research, teaching, and other expression. It is also understood as a set of institutional principles for universities when it comes to decision-making about academic…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Civil Rights, Institutional Autonomy, College Faculty
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Amanda Keddie; Jill Blackmore; Katrina MacDonald – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
The articulation of school autonomy into practice nationally, regionally and locally is highly situated in terms of what it enables or impedes with regard to the professional autonomy of principals and teachers. Principal autonomy does not necessarily mean greater teacher professional autonomy. In this paper, we draw on a three-year qualitative…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Institutional Autonomy, Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making
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Mesay Gerbi Bogale; Jeilu Oumer Hussien – Educational Planning, 2024
This study aims to assess the practice of institutional autonomy at Jimma University in Ethiopia. The study employed a mixed approach by collecting research data through a questionnaire, semi-structured interview, and document analysis. Two hundred and thirty-two randomly selected instructors and academic leaders were contacted through the…
Descriptors: State Universities, Research Universities, Institutional Autonomy, Foreign Countries
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Israa Medhat Esmat – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Academic freedom constitutes an integral part of traditional university values that ensure the proper functioning of universities in pursuing truth and inculcating civic values. In a globalized world where Higher Education (HE) policy is the result of the interaction of local, national, and international levels, the positions of international…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Educational Policy
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Diego Cardona-Escobar; Marc Pruyn; Melissa Barnes – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Equality and equity have become dominant discourses within educational policy documents during the last decade. Colombia, for example, has introduced a language policy initiative that purports to provide educational equity opportunities for all through English language environments and opportunities within schools. Drawing on Ball's (1993.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
Robert M. Higgins – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This study explored a contemporary period of Japanese higher education policy planning that adopted internationalisation of higher education as a metanarrative for sociocultural change in Japan. These wider societal pressures have over a period of time contributed to increasing institutional resistance to top-down policy initiatives. Further,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Higher Education, Professional Autonomy