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Peer reviewedGamage, D. T. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1992
Recent Australian higher education reforms envisioned creation of a unified national system (with a smaller number of larger institutions) through institutional mergers. This article discusses the merger of two Melbourne institutions, La Trobe University and Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences, focusing on key issues that delayed the merger for…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Institutional Cooperation
Peer reviewedWalker, Allan; And Others – Journal of Educational Administration, 1996
Describes and analyzes an effort to introduce problem-based learning (PBL) into a Chinese cultural setting--an educational administration course at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Discusses tensions between Eastern students' perceptions of teachers as "wise persons" and a Western discovery-learning philosophy, ameliorative…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Cultural Influences, Discovery Learning, Educational Administration
Devolution of Responsibility to Queensland Schools: Clarifying the Rhetoric, Critiquing the Reality.
Peer reviewedBurke, Clarrie – Journal of Educational Administration, 1992
Examines the emergence and early implementation stages of Queensland (Australia) Education Department's policy for devolving responsibility to state schools. Clarifies the department's rhetoric in developing and promoting its decentralization policy; examines policy efficacy at the "school face" level; explores possible policy outcomes,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decentralization, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
