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Huili Si – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2025
In response to neoliberalism, marketisation, and the country's developmental needs, governance of transnational higher education (TNHE) in China is undergoing significant changes. This study investigates the evolving national governance paradigm in TNHE institutions in China. Using a qualitative approach, it analyzes seven pertinent legal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Higher Education, College Administration
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Mario Alarcón; José Joaquín Brunner – Research in Education, 2024
This article examines the different roles the State/government plays in coordinating the Chilean higher education system. It proposes a conceptual and analytical framework based on a multi-governance approach, which considers multi-level, multi-actor and multi-agenda dimensions. This framework is used to study the different roles played by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Governance, Government Role
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Lougheed, Kevin – History of Education, 2021
Education played a vital role in the shifting nature of colonial administration and the reshaping of colonial relations in the nineteenth century. The activities that occurred within classrooms shaped the behaviour and identity of children towards an imperial norm while beyond the school walls the changing management structure tied various local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Governance, Educational History
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Catherine Gripton; Andrew Noyes – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
England's schooling landscape is being remodelled and the move from hierarchical to heterarchical modes of governance has implications for systemic change strategies. Balancing local and networked autonomy with centralising policies complexifies choices for schools, creating tensions that this article explores through the context of curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, School Organization, Educational Environment
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Hammond, Lindsey; Baser, Sean; Cassell, Alexander – Higher Education Politics & Economics, 2020
This two-way, fixed effects analysis examines the relationship between local appropriations and community college state governance structures while examining governance's moderating impact on state-level factors. We find that any type of state-level organization for community colleges does not impact local appropriations, and that in states with…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, State Policy, Governance, Centralization
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Wan, Chang Da; Sirat, Morshidi; Razak, Dzulkifli Abdul – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2020
Academic governance and leadership are two inter-related concepts that set the tone and direction for the development of higher education at the system as well as institutional levels. This article examines the academic governance and leadership in Malaysian higher education by focusing on two national higher education strategic initiatives: the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Leadership, College Administration
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McPhail, Graham; McNeill, Jeff – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2021
In this paper we explore the adoption of a neoliberal turn in New Zealand's education system and its consequences, focusing particularly on secondary school music education. In the 1980s, New Zealand was one of the first states in the Western world to implement comprehensive neoliberal economic policies. Some 35 years later, education in New…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Neoliberalism, Secondary Education
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Holligan, Chris – Power and Education, 2020
Conceptions of education research as independent and serving the interests of truth have come to represent freedoms that emerge from the application of intellectual inquiry. Critiques of education research and its relevance to the enhancement of education, coupled with neoliberal market-led pragmatism, have contributed to the erosion of an…
Descriptors: Ideology, Educational Research, Educational Policy, Power Structure
American Association of University Professors, 2022
This report by the Special Committee on Governance, Academic Free­dom, and Institutional Racism in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system considers the influence of the gerrymandered North Carolina state legislature on the systemwide board of governors and campus boards of trustees and how political pressure has obstructed meaningful…
Descriptors: Governance, Academic Freedom, Racial Bias, State Universities
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Toprak, Mustafa – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2019
This study aims to investigate how national education councils are organized in Turkey, shed light on their voting procedures, and examine their perceived challenges, based on data from eight participants of the 18th National Education Council. A qualitative research design was adopted and data were collected through semi-structured interviews. By…
Descriptors: Governance, Centralization, Educational Policy, Voting
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Gornitzka, Åse; Maassen, Peter; de Boer, Harry – Higher Education Quarterly, 2017
This article discusses changes with respect to university governance structures in six comprehensive universities in Europe. We present an analytical framework on the basis of which we conduct a comparative analysis of the university governance structures along four different dimensions: (a) the internal democratic nature of the governance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Governance, Comparative Analysis
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Donovan, Christina – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2019
It would be easy to assume that social trust is a normatively good value to promote within institutions. Trust encourages cooperation between actors, and thus normalises policies, practices and behaviours that tend to work towards collective social good. To assume this would also be to assume that trust should be a central aspiration for policy…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Policy Formation, Educational Policy, Adult Education
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Bezzina, Christopher – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2019
Over the past two decades Malta has been witnessing wave after wave of reforms. Whilst official documents speak of the need for more decentralised forms of governance the reality shows otherwise. Data from a series of studies involving school leaders show that they still feel that a top-down approach is being adopted leaving limited space for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Governance, Educational Change
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Rónay, Zoltán – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2018
Hungary is on the road towards an illiberal state. On this journey, the Hungarian government, with the Parliament at its service, is reinterpreting the concept of fundamental rights. Under the slogan of effectiveness, new regulations are being adopted which secure more power, influence, rights, and tools for the state. This paper aims to present…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Politics of Education, Centralization
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Ehren, Melanie C. M. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2016
This book presented the methods and modalities of effective school inspections, summarizing the current evidence base and discussing issues of validity and reliability of school inspections in relation to school effectiveness research. In our book we have focused on inspections of single schools which are currently dominating the landscape of both…
Descriptors: Inspection, School Effectiveness, Accountability, Educational Improvement
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