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Tight, Malcolm – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2013
This article considers how higher education institutions change over time, using the United Kingdom system as an exemplar, and focusing on the 15-year period between 1994/95 and 2009/10. While there are many aspects of institutional change worthy of study, the focus here is on how institutions appear to others. Thus, the article examines the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, School Size
Machin, Stephen; Vernoit, James – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2011
In this paper, we study a high profile case--the introduction of academy schools into the English secondary school sector--that has allowed schools to gain more autonomy and flexible governance by changing their school structure. We consider the impact of an academy school conversion on their pupil intake and pupil performance and possible…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Secondary Schools, Control Groups