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Lafon, Valerie, Ed. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
"IMHE-Info" is the newsletter published by the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) programme of OECD. This issue includes: (1) Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society; (2) The Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO); and (3) City-Regions in Focus. Publications of interest, IMHE News, and a calendar…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Quality, Strategic Planning, Institutional Administration
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Huber, Stephan Gerhard; Gordel, Bettina – European Educational Research Journal, 2006
Whereas internationally the shift towards quality control of school systems started in the early 1980s, mainly promoted by transnational agencies, this development only began in Germany in the mid 1990s. However, a clear-cut change from an input-controlled and centralised to a more output-controlled, decentralised and deregulated supervision…
Descriptors: Quality Control, School Districts, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
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Pritchard, Rosalind – Comparative Education Review, 2006
What happens when a highly regulated educational system--one featuring academic freedom, a national outlook, and an input-oriented, state-run bureaucracy--attempts to internationalize and introduce management structures that are outcome-oriented, deregulated, and more efficient? In the case of Germany, examined in this article, it has long been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Control, Human Resources, School Restructuring
Lee, John – Online Submission, 2002
The problem of ensuring quality in mass education systems is as old as the systems themselves. Responses to this problem reflect the political and cultural organisation of different nation states. In the USA the problem has to be dealt with at a local level. The federal government is very restricted in powers in the field of education and social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality