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Skerritt, Craig – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
There is a growing consensus that existing arrangements for policy making in education are far from optimal. This paper is about policy making and the roles of--and relationships between--elected officials, civil servants and academics in the making of policy. It aims to open up a conversation about new ways of making education policy that make…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Role
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Moon, Hanna; Ryu, Kirak; Park, Sangoh – European Journal of Training and Development, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to describe how the human resources development (HRD) policy has shifted from the national level to the sectoral levels; the paper also explains the changes that have been made in skills formation in the economy by presenting the emergence of Industry Skills Councils (ISC). Design/methodology/approach: This paper presents…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Governance, Foreign Countries
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Niederhauser, Dale S.; Howard, Sarah K.; Voogt, Joke; Agyei, Douglas D.; Laferriere, Therese; Tondeur, Jo; Cox, Margaret J. – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2018
Although a positive impact of technology interventions on educational practice and student outcomes has been shown in many previous research settings, the use of technology in classrooms and schools is still often superficial and not meeting the potential of technology as envisioned by education reformers and researchers in the field. However,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Educational Technology, Intervention, Educational Practices
Australian Government Department of Education and Training, 2016
This document is the result of the Australian Minister for Education and Training's request to the Higher Education Standards Panel for advisement of options to improve the transparency of higher education student admission policies, while minimizing regulatory impact. The Minister intends to improve the accessibility and comparability of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Admission Criteria, Accountability, Advisory Committees
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Courtney, Jean – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2014
This article describes in some detail aspects of the Student Voice initiative funded and championed by Ontario's Ministry of Education since 2008. The project enables thousands of students to make their voices heard in meaningful ways and to participate in student-led research. Some students from grades 7 to 12 become members of the Student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Participation, Advisory Committees, Educational Administration
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Gallagher, James J. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2015
In this article, James J. Gallagher proposes that understanding the political issues and the debate surrounding the education of gifted students is based on the recognition that education policy (including rules, regulations, financial allocations, etc.) reflects social policy. Hence, society prioritizes needs so that the most important of these…
Descriptors: Gifted, Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Educational Resources
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Still Smoking, Dorothy; Bull Shoe, Debbie Whitegrass – Journal of Adult Education, 2012
The Pikanii Action Team project addressed the issues of teenage drinking and drunk driving on the Blackfeet Reservation. Basing their actions on locally-generated research, the Pikanii Action Team conducted a series of activities and initiatives to promote public awareness and action related to high-risk activities related to drinking. The team's…
Descriptors: Legal Responsibility, Drinking, Community Leaders, Adolescents
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National Center for Special Education Research, 2014
In October 2014, The National Center for Education Research (NCER) and the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER), in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) at the U.S. Department of Education, convened a Technical Working Group (TWG). The purpose of this TWG meeting was to discuss critical education problems and issues on which…
Descriptors: Educational Researchers, Grants, Research Training, Research Needs
Davis, Laurie L.; Moyer, Eric L. – Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, 2015
This report is made up of seven chapters relating to Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) performance level setting (PLS). Chapter one describes the goals of the PARCC program, content standards measured by PARCC, PARCC performance levels, and components of the PARCC system. Chapter two discusses the goals of…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Program Descriptions, Educational Objectives
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Huckle, John – Environmental Education Research, 2009
In 2006 the author was contracted to research possible approaches to a UK indicator of education for sustainable development (ESD). This article describes and seeks to explain the response of government advisers and influential members of the UK ESD community to the approaches he proposed. While the UK strategy for sustainable development called…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
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Knievel, Michael – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2008
Pedagogical and scholarly representations of collaborative writing and knowledge construction in technical communication have traditionally recognized consensus as the logical outcome of collaborative work, even as scholars and teachers have acknowledged the value of conflict and "dissensus" in the process of collaborative knowledge…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Police, Conflict, Collaborative Writing
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Kuhns, Jeff C. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2006
This article discusses the scope of activities of the Network Policy Council (NPC), which has been designed to provide a more direct channel of communications within EDUCAUSE and to provide policy formulation more visibility. The NPC is an advisory council to EDUCAUSE whose members are selected from those who have interest in this area and are…
Descriptors: Networks, Information Technology, Policy Formation, Advisory Committees
National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, 2006
The fourth meeting of the Leadership Advisory Council (LAC) was chaired by Glen D. Whipple, Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP) Chair elect and was held May 22-24, 2006, in Denver, Colorado. The meeting was facilitated by Rhonda Shipp, University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service. Using the Mobius strip facilitation…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Leadership, Advisory Committees, Meetings
Barnhardt, Larry; And Others – 1989
This document reports the accomplishments of state councils on vocational education over the past 4 years as they carried out their responsibilities set by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. It contains an introduction; three sections on findings, on the councils' work on policy issues, and on the councils' function as friendly…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Legal Responsibility, Planning Commissions, Policy Formation
White House Conference on Library and Information Services. – 1991
Designed for use by participants in the 1991 White House Conference on Library and Information Services (WHCLIS2), this guide begins with an overview of the White House Conferences on Library and Information Services, including background information on the 1979 Conference (WHCLIS) and an introduction to the 1991 Conference. Also in the first of…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Conferences, Democracy, Information Services
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