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O'Neill, John – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2010
The author's experience of ethical review over six years as an academic member and chairperson of a university human ethics committee has been largely positive and educative. The account brings together archival records and personal experience to create a "transactive" account of the practical experience of doing ethical review in one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Risk, Educational Principles
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Roche, Michael M.; Berg, Lawrence D. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1997
Criticizes New Zealand's adoption of market-oriented higher education--universities as "knowledge businesses" and students as "consumers." Argues that the competitive capitalist economic model advocated by the state replicates societal structural inequalities and is wholly inappropriate for a university. Recommends a return to…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Collegiality, Competition, Educational Administration
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Somerville, Mary M.; Schader, Barbara; Huston, Malia E. – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2005
Library leaders promote reconsideration of organisational purposes, processes, and relationships at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California, USA. Systems thinking, fortified by information literacy, informs workplace changes that provide learning experiences transferable to better alignment of library outcomes with…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Information Literacy, Leadership, Foreign Countries
Mahoney, James – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
The educational surveys of which some account is given in this bulletin do not by any means represent all the foreign investigations that have been made; it is believed, however, that they will serve to acquaint American students of education with certain foreign types, and at the same time throw some light on the history of surveys and of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Policy Formation