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Wheeldon, Anita Louise; Whitty, Stephen Jonathan; van der?Hoorn, Bronte – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2023
If centralising university services is regarded as operationally ineffective, why do managerialised universities continue to organise themselves this way? We investigate an occurrence of this paradox at a regional Australian university, where professional staff services were centralised for a period of 7 years. They were separated from academics…
Descriptors: Centralization, College Administration, Foreign Countries, Regional Schools
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Omolabake Fakunle – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2024
Micro-level internationalization offers possibilities to explore different human experiences in international higher education. This is especially crucial given well-reported issues of racism, micro-aggression, and underrepresentation of racially minoritized international academic staff, whose voices remain mostly invisible in internationalization…
Descriptors: Centralization, Decolonization, Educational Change, Power Structure
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Toprak, Mustafa – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2019
This study aims to investigate how national education councils are organized in Turkey, shed light on their voting procedures, and examine their perceived challenges, based on data from eight participants of the 18th National Education Council. A qualitative research design was adopted and data were collected through semi-structured interviews. By…
Descriptors: Governance, Centralization, Educational Policy, Voting
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Gornitzka, Åse; Maassen, Peter; de Boer, Harry – Higher Education Quarterly, 2017
This article discusses changes with respect to university governance structures in six comprehensive universities in Europe. We present an analytical framework on the basis of which we conduct a comparative analysis of the university governance structures along four different dimensions: (a) the internal democratic nature of the governance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Governance, Comparative Analysis
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Bezzina, Christopher – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2019
Over the past two decades Malta has been witnessing wave after wave of reforms. Whilst official documents speak of the need for more decentralised forms of governance the reality shows otherwise. Data from a series of studies involving school leaders show that they still feel that a top-down approach is being adopted leaving limited space for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Governance, Educational Change
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Cooke, Michael; Lang, Daniel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
The paper examines the results of a study of strategic plans in community colleges in Ontario, Canada between 1995 and 2005. The system was very similar to centralized systems in many jurisdictions including China. The study found that (1) the strategies of those colleges were more alike than different; (2) the strategic content of the plans as…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Centralization, Strategic Planning, Higher Education