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Brooks, Val; Thistlethwaite, Jill – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2012
This paper focuses on a context where interdisciplinarity intersects with interprofessionality: the work of children's services professionals who address the needs of children identified as vulnerable. It draws on evidence and perspectives from two disciplines--educational studies and health care--to consider the issues and challenges posed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Services, Children
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DeAngelis, Lisa; Penney, Sherry H.; Scully, Maureen A. – Athens Journal of Education, 2014
In teaching leadership development we have developed and revised a model of teamwork and collaboration, which has yielded innovative and positive results. Our study draws on insights from more than 90 project teams, gathered over twelve years of a mid-career executive education program designed specifically to teach collaborative leadership. The…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Management Development, Leadership Training, Reflection
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Crohn, Kara; Birnbaum, Matthew – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2010
Evaluation in environmental education is fairly nascent despite decades-long attention to its importance. In setting the context for future chapters appearing in this special issue of the "Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning," attention is devoted to the political circumstances associated with retrenchment in the public sector and increased…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Democracy, Public Sector, Public Policy
Federal Student Aid, US Department of Education, 2011
This five-year strategic plan describes Federal Student Aid's (FSA's) strategy for meeting its goals and objectives for fiscal years (FY) 2012-16. Specifically, the plan addresses FSA's efforts to increase customer service for students and families, protect taxpayer interests, develop efficient processes and effective capabilities, and strengthen…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Educational Finance, Postsecondary Education
Hamlin, Robert G.; Sage, Lesley – Online Submission, 2008
This paper describes an empirical study of mentor and mentee behaviors deemed critical for developing healthy mentoring relationships and effective mentoring during the "start up" and "on going" stages of a formal mentoring scheme within a major UK public sector organization. Several identified behavioral categories (criteria)…
Descriptors: Mentors, Program Effectiveness, Public Sector, Foreign Countries
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Ramirez, Ricardo – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 2008
The settings for this article are rural and remote communities in the province of Ontario, Canada, where the advent of high-speed Internet has brought about new opportunities for the provision of public health and information services. This article proposes that public funding agencies and service providers will gain planning and evaluation…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Public Health, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Hjort, Katrin – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2008
For more than a decade, competence development has been a key concept of modern management in both the private and the public sector, but to some extent its meaning and practice have been different in the two sectors. In the public sector in particular, competence development has been closely related to a number of other buzzwords characterizing…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Public Sector, Theory Practice Relationship
Geith, Chris; Vignare, Karen; Bourquin, Leslie D.; Thiagarajan, Deepa – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2010
The Food Safety Knowledge Network (FSKN) is a collaboration between Michigan State University, the Global Food Safety Initiative of the Consumer Goods Forum, and other food industry and public sector partners. FSKN's goal is to help strengthen the food industry's response to the complex food safety knowledge and training challenges that affect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Manufacturing, International Trade
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Rothstein, Richard – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
Accountability and performance incentive plans in education are compromised by goal distortion, gaming, and corruption. Education policy makers who design such plans have paid insufficient attention to similar experiences in other fields. This paper describes institutions in health care, job training and welfare administration, and in the private…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Sector, Job Performance, Incentives
Galisson, Kirsten; Brady, Kristin – Academy for Educational Development, 2006
In May 2001, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell announced the establishment of the Global Development Alliance (GDA) as a key part of a new business model for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The GDA initiative aims to launch best practices in public-private partnerships around the world. The model is designed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Private Sector, Public Sector
McCowan, Richard J. – Online Submission, 1998
This paper describes a training management system developed by the Center for Development of Social Services. It is a set of practical, systematic procedures designed to manage and evaluate training programs. It is a complete model that meets the necessary criteria for competency-based training system. The system integrates the complex procedures…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Private Sector, Competence, Social Services
Office of Inspector General (ED), Washington, DC. – 2003
This semiannual report to Congress by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Education, covers the actions of the OIG from October 1, 2002, through March 31, 2003. The report discusses four goals of the President's Management Agenda: (1) improved financial performance: includes information on financial statement audits,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Audits (Verification), Compliance (Legal)
Buck, Maria L. – 1997
In 1992, the Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce in Oklahoma established a welfare-to-work program called Industrial Exchange, Inc. (IndEx). IndEx provides welfare recipients with a combination of education activities and work experience. By contracting with local companies to perform light manufacturing and packaging work at a central site,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Cooperative Planning, Economic Development
Johnson, Amy Bell; McDonald, Deanne; MacAllum, Keith – 2002
The Lansing Area Manufacturing Partnership (LAMP) is an academically rigorous, business/labor-driven school-to-career program in Lansing, Michigan, that includes business, union, school, and parent partners and emphasizes work-based and project-based learning, team teaching, and opportunities for staff and high school seniors to establish close…
Descriptors: Attendance, Career Development, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Finn, Peter – 1998
The Safer Foundation in Chicago, Illinois, is the largest community-based provider of employment services for ex-offenders in the United States. Established in 1972, Safer has a professional staff of nearly 200 in 6 locations. Safer runs a private school, called the PACE (Programmed Activities for Correctional Education) Institute, at the Cook…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Attitude Change, Caseworker Approach
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