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Direct linkFisher, Trevor – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
Following his previous article in this journal on the centralisation of power in English education post the 1988 Education Reform Act ("The Era of Centralisation", "FORUM", 50[2], pp. 255-261), the author considers the apparent turn to school autonomy central to the Conservative Educational Revolution. He argues that the power…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Government School Relationship, Centralization, Politics of Education
Barker, Bernard – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2009
This article reviews the current state of education reform in the United Kingdom and uses the BBC film "The Choir to explore alternative ways of improving the quality of learning and teaching in schools.
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement
Robson, Sue; Turner, Yvonne – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
This paper reports on a study that took place in a faculty of humanities and social sciences at a UK university. The institution had recently undergone a radical restructure and the vision for the future presented by the new senior management team highlighted internationalization as one of four major areas for growth. The internationalization…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Humanities, School Restructuring, Change Strategies
Peer reviewedMahonly, David – Oxford Review of Education, 1993
Discusses the transition to a postbinary higher education system in Australia and the United Kingdom. Contends that, in Australia, the new direction was motivated by official concerns that universities be made more accessible to government priorities. Maintains that the Australian approach ignored a canon for diversity in higher education. (CFR)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Colleges, Educational Change, Educational History
Meyerson, Joel W., Ed.; Massy, William F., Ed. – 1995
This volume contains six essays on higher education which provide lessons and successful techniques for meeting the challenges of the future. The first essay, "Academic Renewal at Michigan" (James Duderstadt), describes the modern research university as a complex corporate conglomerate in danger of diluting its core business. The…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Change
