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Kaewhanam, Phimlikid; Kaewhanam, Kathanyoo; Cain, Parisha Marie; Pongsiri, Ariya; Intanin, Jariya; Kamolkhet, Sirinda – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2022
The purpose of this study was to Local Governments' Education Strategy on the Public Service Delivery for Learning City. This study uses case studies to collect and analyze data, generate inductions, empirical observations, and SWOT analysis. Driving Thailand's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) policy showed that the area conditions were in…
Descriptors: Local Government, Educational Strategies, Public Service, Delivery Systems
Wise, Graham; Dickinson, Connie; Katan, Tuntiak; Gallegos, Maria Cristina – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Indigenous higher education governance is a fundamental element of diversity, equality and inclusivity at universities with significant indigenous student populations or stakeholder communities. Management approaches to establish inclusive governance mechanisms are complex and little guidance exists to support university managers to establish…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Higher Education, Governance, Indigenous Populations
Ezenwaji, Ifeyinwa O.; Otu, Mkpoikanke Sunday; Ezegbe, Bernedeth N.; Okide, Charity C.; Eseadi, Chiedu – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2019
Purpose: This study aims to determine the extent school-based management committee (SBMC) participates in enhancing quality assurance in secondary school management in Enugu state, Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 1,305 people participated in the study, which included a sample of 843 comprising 281 principals in all the public…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, School Based Management, Community Involvement, Quality Assurance
Nauman Adil; Zaki Rashidi; Reema Frooghi – International Journal of Educational Management, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the existing mechanism of school management committees (SMCs) and to propose an improved framework for strengthening its process and outcomes. In 2005, the Education and Literacy department, Government of Sindh decentralizes the administrative and operational authorities to school level in the form…
Descriptors: School Administration, Committees, Community Involvement, Foreign Countries
Jenkins, Carolyn; Arulogun, Oyedunni Sola; Singh, Arti; Mande, Aliyu T.; Ajayi, Eric; Benedict, Calys Tagoe; Ovbiagele, Bruce; Lackland, Daniel T.; Sarfo, Fred Stephen; Akinyemi, Rufus; Akpalu, Albert; Obiako, Reginald; Melikam, Enzinne Sylvia; Laryea, Ruth; Shidali, Vincent; Sagoe, Kwamena; Ibinaiye, Philip; Fakunle, Adekunie Gregory; Owolabi, Lukman F.; Owolabi, Mayowa O. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Stroke is the leading cause of neurological hospital admissions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the second leading cause of death globally. The Stroke Investigative Research and Education Network [SIREN] seeks to comprehensively characterize the genomic, sociocultural, economic, and behavioral risk factors for stroke and to build effective teams…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neurological Impairments, Medical Research, Health Education
Yamada, Shoko – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
A School Management Committee (SMC) is an administrative tool adopted in many developing countries to decentralise administrative and financial responsibilities at school level, while involving local people in decision-making and making education more responsive to demands. I question the assumption linking administrative decentralisation and…
Descriptors: School Administration, Foreign Countries, Committees, Participative Decision Making
Preston, Jane P. – McGill Journal of Education, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative research was to explore the role a School Community Council (SCC) played in encouraging community involvement in a kindergarten to grade 12 school. Via 35 interviews, thematic data reflected that the SCC's influence was limited. As analyzed through social capital theory, SCC members shared thin levels of trust,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Community Involvement, School Councils
Yousuf, Muhammad Imran; Alam, Muhammad Tayab; Sajjad, Muhammad Latif; Imran, Muhammad – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2010
Community participation in planning and managing for increased educational opportunity is necessary. To ensure the involvement of local community, the government of Pakistan experimentally launched a scheme in 1994 by establishing School Management Committees (S.M.Cs). The major purpose of the present study was to observe the functions and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Committees, Community Involvement, Foreign Countries
Hudson, Maui – International Social Science Journal, 2009
Ethical review is an integral part of the process of developing research and considering issues associated with the production of knowledge. It is part of a system that primarily legitimises western traditions of inquiry and reinforces western assumptions about knowledge and its benefit to society. Around the world the process of colonisation has…
Descriptors: Committees, Community Involvement, Foreign Countries, Ethics

Aviner, Saronet – International Review of Education, 1980
Describes the management of the International School in Hamburg, West Germany, which serves children from 42 countries, and the school's attempts to formulate a workable curriculum responsive to heterogeneous needs and frequent changes in the national composition of the student body. (SJL)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Board of Education Role, Community Involvement, Curriculum
Khoo, Kim Choo – 1989
In 1985, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Childcare Services of Singapore started an experimental project designed to develop an alternative model of child care. The resulting project, the Community Childcare Center (CCC), differs from regular child care centers in that it: (1) is cheaper; (2) involves considerable community…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Nkata, James L.; Thody, Angela M. – 1995
This paper investigates the challenges that Uganda and England have faced in beginning to reestablish community participation in the governance of education. It investigates starting points for the possible development of school-governance systems in both countries. Outlined first are the formats for community involvement that have been adopted in…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Advisory Committees, Centralization, Community Involvement
Rose, Pauline – Compare, 2003
Explores the extent to which public policy commitments toward community participation are realized in Malawi. Finds that the main motivation for participation is extractive rather than genuine attempts to encourage local ownership and accountability. Argues that marketization of community participation signifies the entrenchment of individual…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Policy
Rideout, David – Education Canada, 1995
Overviews the role of school councils in each of the 12 Canadian provinces as part of a trend toward site-based management that empowers local communities with decision making and encourages significant input from those responsible for implementing decisions. Suggests that school councils allow parents decision-making power in the policy areas of…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Boylan, Colin; Bittar, Lex – 2001
The aim of school councils in New South Wales (Australia) is to ensure that the whole community is involved in all important decisions made by the school. The impetus for school councils began in 1990, and in 1995 the Department of School Education placed their formation on its priority agenda in response to their slow rate of establishment. Two…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
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