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Amanatidou, Effie; Cunningham, Paul; Gök, Abdullah; Garefi, Ioanna – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2014
Grand challenges stress the importance of multi-disciplinary research, a multi-actor approach in examining the current state of affairs and exploring possible solutions, multi-level governance and policy coordination across geographical boundaries and policy areas, and a policy environment for enabling change both in science and technology and in…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Policy Analysis, Institutional Mission, Educational Policy
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Comber, Darren; Walsh, Lorraine – Quality in Higher Education, 2010
The question of the manner in which universities have organised themselves to embed the "quality" agenda in Scotland is addressed in this paper by considering whether the seemingly different structures generated are in fact sophisticated and efficient forms of resource allocation, or organic and emergent structures with only local…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Resource Allocation, Models
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Lu, Suju – Convergence, 2009
This paper first reviews the development of community education in Shanghai, one of China's eastern coastal cities. Then the development of community education in the Xuhui District of Shanghai, especially its management system and operational mechanisms, school operating systems and networks, curriculum systems, and team building are presented.…
Descriptors: Community Education, Change Agents, Team Training, Foreign Countries
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Grignon, Michel – Economics of Education Review, 2008
I investigate the role of education on health, using country-level data and the production frontier framework suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO) to assess performances of health care systems. I find that the impact of human capital on health is much smaller than suggested by the WHO frontier model, and the relationship exhibits…
Descriptors: Health Services, Human Capital, Role of Education, Systems Analysis
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Schulz, Lucy; Szekeres, Judy – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2008
One of the challenges facing those responsible for service provision in universities is ensuring that service is provided at the right point in the organisation. Service delivery points can exist at the school/department level, faculty/division level or central unit/university wide level. This does not always follow organisational logic, common…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Delivery Systems, Student Personnel Services, Guidance Centers
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Wood, R. Kent; And Others – Instructional Science, 1979
Describes Fault Tree Analysis, a tool for systems analysis which attempts to identify possible modes of failure in systems to increase the probability of success. The article defines the technique and presents the steps of FTA construction, focusing on its application to education. (RAO)
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Failure, Management Systems, Models
New York State Office of the Comptroller, Albany. Div. of Management Audit. – 1997
This report presents data on costs associated with providing telephone service at 14 campuses of the State University of New York (SUNY) for the period January 1, 1994 through December 31, 1995. It examines the factors that affect overall costs of telephone service, and what opportunities exist for reducing telephone costs. The report includes…
Descriptors: Accounting, Costs, Efficiency, Higher Education
Liu, Susana J. – 1980
This study (1) examines the university's serials system and identifies its problems; (2) analyzes the current manual operations in the serials department, with emphasis on the serials check-in system; and (3) determines whether or not computerization of some or all of the serials subsystems would improve the department's internal effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, College Libraries, Feasibility Studies, Higher Education