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Kelly, Anthony – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
The fiascoes that seem to accompany the annual publication of examination results in England, the subsequent inquiries instituted to ensure they "never happen again" and the Secretary of State's decision, reversed six months later because of fears about possible EU legal challenges, to "end competition between exam boards"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing, Competition, Institutional Cooperation
Lee, Lung-Sheng; Land, Ming H. – Online Submission, 2010
Due to changes from centralization to marketization, Taiwan's university governance must increase its effectiveness. The purpose of this paper was to introduce trends in and issues of Taiwan's university governance, describe university governance in the United States, and draw implications that Taiwan's university governance needs to learn from…
Descriptors: Democracy, Governance, Foreign Countries, Governing Boards
Lubienski, Christopher – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2009
This report seeks to address critical issues such as these by synthesising the evidence on innovations in more market-driven education systems. The analysis draws on data from over 20 OECD and non-OECD countries, including both developed nations that seek to move beyond established systems of state-run schools, and developing nations where formal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Developed Nations, Access to Education
Pioneer Inst. for Public Policy Research, Boston, MA. – 1995
A draft of a book, "School Choice: The Cultural Logic of Families, the Political Rationality of Institutions," received a great deal of media attention. The book contains research from nine different studies of school choice and includes an introduction and conclusion by Harvard professors Richard Elmore, Gary Orfield, and Bruce Fuller. The…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Competition, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Pioneer Inst. for Public Policy Research, Boston, MA. – 1996
In Pioneer Institute's November 1995 "Dialogue," nine school-choice advocates critiqued a draft manuscript of "Who Chooses, Who Loses? Culture, Institutions, and the Unequal Effects of School Choice," edited by Harvard professors Richard Elmore, Gary Orfield, and Bruce Fuller. This publication contains the response of Professor Fuller to the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Competition, Elementary Secondary Education
Losh, Charles – 1994
The Skills Standards Projects have provided further emphasis on the need for benchmarking U.S. vocational-technical education (VTE) against international competition. Benchmarking is an ongoing systematic process designed to identify, as quantitatively as possible, those practices that produce world class performance. Metrics are those things that…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Competency Based Education, Competition, Educational Quality