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Brits, H. J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
According to a recent study, institutions of higher learning in South Africa fail to a great extent to integrate the key management functions that are fundamental to effective quality management. This article argues that the effective promotion of quality of a university's core business depends to a large extent on the ability of an institution's…
Descriptors: Total Quality Management, Systems Approach, Foreign Countries, Resource Allocation
Snell, Warren – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1982
Resource allocation within education systems is approached from the perspective of economic theory and input-output processes. It is suggested that economic concepts of efficiency and productivity focus attention on factors affecting effective use of resources and should be systematically encouraged. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Educational Economics, Efficiency, Input Output Analysis, Outcomes of Education
Pigozzi, Mary Joy; Cieutat, Victor J. – 1988
This manual endorses and adopts the sector-assessment approach for planning and managing the allocation of educational resources. Chapter 1 presents the manual's goals. Chapter 2 describes the manual's content and information sources, explains the term "sector assessment," identifies the groups that benefit from recommendations made by…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Assessment, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education

Shaw, K. E. – Educational Management and Administration, 1983
A discussion of the usefulness of reasoning, as compared to experience, in three levels of decision making in school management informs this critique of the state of educational management theory and research. (MJL)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Planning
Picus, Lawrence O. – School Business Affairs, 1995
The Goals 2000 Act focuses on local decisions to improve education. The challenge for school business administrators will be to meet the changes in the way schools and districts operate in the areas of linking social services, budgeting, and purchasing. Lists the eight goals of the act, along with the objectives for measuring achievement of each…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Budgeting, Decentralization, Educational Change
Masland, Andrew T. – 1982
The importance of myth and ritual in understanding the use of computer simulators in higher education is considered. Myths are commonly held beliefs that maintain social solidarity and reduce ambiguity; rituals serve a similar function, but they involve actions in addition to words. Examples of common myths and rituals are used to illustrate the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Administration, College Planning, Computer Oriented Programs
Gerber, Michael M. – 1990
This paper recommends a research and action agenda for the federal Office of Special Education Programs in examining instructional technology for individuals with disabilities, particularly as those activities relate to "system" change. Staff development programs and curriculum reform are stressed as concrete components of system change.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Knowles, Malcolm S. – 1983
A model is proposed for developing and implementing a community-based lifelong learning resources system. The model, which is based on systems theory, features the following sequence of activities: identifying all the learning resources in a community, incorporating information about these resources into a database, establishing a mechanism for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Community Action, Community Programs
Linke, Russell D., Ed. – 1979
Papers from the 1978 conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia are presented. A large part of the conference was devoted to a general symposium on accountability in higher education, while other topics were organization and administration of higher education, curriculum development and evaluation, staff…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Students, College Administration, College Students
Mangum, Garth; Mangum, Stephen; Sum, Andrew; Callahan, James; Fogg, Neal – 1999
The effectiveness of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 was critiqued. WIA was praised for providing an avenue for communication among state and local agencies during development of workforce development plans, potentially allowing individuals to choose from a wider array of services and service providers, spreading the concept of one-stop…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, At Risk Persons, Career Centers, Delivery Systems
WIA Youth Policy Councils: Key to the Future for a Generation of Challenge. Policy Issues Monograph.
Callahan, Jim; Pines, Marion – 1999
The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 mandates the creation of youth councils to bring together the major resource and delivery systems that have youth as a major "customer." These systems include the following sectors: education; public housing; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families agencies; WIA partners; the justice system; and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agency Cooperation, Annotated Bibliographies, At Risk Persons