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Rymarzak, Malgorzata; den Heijer, Alexandra; Curvelo Magdaniel, Flavia; Arkesteijn, Monique – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
The purpose of this article is to describe the effects of university governance on campus management based on the examples of the Netherlands and Poland. The study connected theory on campus management with a concept of five dimensions of university governance (autonomy, management, participation, accountability and transparency) into an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, College Administration, Universities
Ehren, M. C. M.; Janssens, F. J. G.; Brown, M.; McNamara, G.; O'Hara, J.; Shevlin, P. – Journal of Educational Change, 2017
Across Europe schools and other service providers increasingly operate in networks to provide inclusive education or develop and implement more localized school-to-school improvement models. As some education systems move towards more decentralized decision-making where multiple actors have an active role in steering and governing schools, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization, Governance, Educational Change
Timmermans, Anneke C.; Thomas, Sally M. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
In many countries, policy makers struggle with the development of value-added indicators of school performance for educational accountability purposes and in particular with the choice whether school context measured in the form of student composition variables should be included. This study investigates differences between 7 empirical studies…
Descriptors: School Demography, School Effectiveness, Educational Research, Comparative Analysis
Burns, Tracey, Ed.; Köster, Florian, Ed. – OECD Publishing, 2016
What models of governance are effective in complex education systems? In all systems an increasing number of stakeholders are involved in designing, delivering, and monitoring education. Like our societies, education systems are increasingly diverse regarding students, teachers, and communities, as well as the values and identities we expect…
Descriptors: Governance, Models, Educational Practices, Educational Research
Ehren, Melanie C.; Shackleton, Nichola – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2016
In most countries, publicly funded schools are held accountable to one inspectorate and are judged against agreed national standards. Many inspectorates of education have recently moved towards more proportional risk-based inspection models, targeting high-risk schools for visits, while schools with satisfactory student attainment levels are…
Descriptors: Risk, Inspection, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries
Ehren, Melanie C. M.; Shackleton, Nichola – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2016
In many countries the need for education systems and schools to improve and innovate has become central to the education policy of governments. School inspections are expected to play an important role in promoting such continuous improvement and to help schools and education systems more generally to consider the need for change and improvement.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Inspection, Comparative Analysis
Timmermans, Anneke C.; Doolaard, Simone; de Wolf, Inge – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2011
Accountability systems in education generally include indicators of student performance. However, these indicators often differ considerably among the various systems. More and more countries try to include value-added measures, mainly because they do not want to hold schools accountable for differences in their initial intake of students. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Indicators
Ehren, Melanie; Perryman, Jane; Shackleton, Nichola – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
With decentralisation becoming increasingly widespread across Europe, evaluation and accountability are becoming key issues in ensuring quality provision for all (Altrichter & Maag Merki, 2010; Eurydice, 2004). In Europe, the dominant arrangement for educational accountability is school inspections. The purpose of this research is to identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Involvement, Inspection, Expectation
Sun, Hechuan; de Jong, Rob – International Journal of Educational Management, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to find out what kind of contextual factors that positively or negatively influence effective school improvement (ESI) in The Netherlands. Design/methodology/approach: To achieve the above-mentioned purpose, Sun's contextual level model with ten contextual factors and 48 indicators has been used to carefully…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Professional Autonomy, Goal Orientation, Organizational Effectiveness
King, Roger – Universities UK, 2008
The growth of private higher education has come as a surprise to most governments, which have tried to catch up in their regulatory and funding policymaking. In China, Malaysia and South Africa they have given legal recognition to previously disallowed private higher education and this has helped to fuel its subsequent growth. Some governments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Proprietary Schools, Models
Vroeijenstijn, A. I. – 1995
This guide provides advice and recommendations on designing a system of external quality assessment (EQA) for systems and institutions of higher education. Based on a Dutch national model, key features of the suggested system include: ownership by higher education institutions themselves although sanctioned by the government; primary aims of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
Palmer, Barbara H. – 1995
This study explored quality assessment and accountability in Dutch university education using a case study approach. The Dutch national system of quality assurance is described, and developments since the mid-1980s are traced. The university case studies illustrate models which are being employed to implement the quality assurance system including…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality