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Download full textNgugi, Margaret; Mumiukha, Catherine; Fedha, Flora; Ndiga, Beatrice – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Universalisation of primary education (UPE) has been a global issue since the early sixties, yet several decades later and even in the 21st century, many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are still grappling with it. Unlike their counterparts in the developed world, its realisation in developing countries has been faced with a myriad of constraints.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Access to Education, Educational Development
The Emergence of Doctoral Programmes in the Colombian Higher Education System: Trends and Challenges
Direct linkAcosta, Orlando; Celis, Jorge – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The international literature contains few formal analyses of the state of Colombian higher education and its most critical issues. This article systematically and comparatively analyzes the emergence of Colombian doctoral programmes within a national and international context. It shows that, while Colombia has experienced a significant growth in…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Higher Education, Educational Development, Educational Trends
James, Freddy – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
There have been appeals within the educational change (EC) and school improvement (SI) literature for research to explore more non-westernized and developing country contexts (Dimmock, 2000; Harris, 2009; Harris & Chrispeels, 2006; McMahon, 2006). This article is a response to those appeals. The study maps the SI educational policy contexts of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Context Effect
Panacci, Adam G. – College Quarterly, 2014
This paper identifies and examines major issues and implications of the proposal to substantially increase the number of applied baccalaureate degrees offered by Ontario's Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, including increasing four-year applied degree offerings and introducing three-year applied degrees. Currently, provincial legislation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bachelors Degrees, Colleges, Educational Development
McSweeney, Peter; Rayner, John – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
While the calm waters metaphor might explain the changes navigated by Australian agricultural education through most of its history, the last 20 or so years have been very turbulent. Now, the new millennium sees agricultural education in both Australia and the Western world facing a different and less certain future. This paper analyses some of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Agricultural Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Development
Baum, Sandy; Kurose, Charles; McPherson, Michael – Future of Children, 2013
This overview of postsecondary education in the United States reviews the dramatic changes over the past fifty years in the students who go to college, the institutions that produce higher education, and the ways it is financed. The article, by Sandy Baum, Charles Kurose, and Michael McPherson, creates the context for the articles that follow on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Educational Finance, Institutional Characteristics
Murray, Corey; Ullman, Ellen – Community College Journal, 2010
President Obama wants it. Billionaire business mogul turned philanthropist Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, say it's key to the nation's economic future. But are America's colleges really poised to regain the world lead in college graduates by 2020? Doing so would require adding an additional 5 million graduates during the next decade--a lofty…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, College Graduates, College Role
Usher, Alexandra; Kober, Nancy – Center on Education Policy, 2011
This report examines a decade's worth of research on school vouchers and concludes that vouchers have had no clear positive effect on student academic achievement, and mixed outcomes for students overall. Effects on graduation rates, parental satisfaction, public school achievement and cost to taxpayers are discussed. The report also notes that…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement, Educational Vouchers, Cost Effectiveness
Akyeampong, Kwame – Online Submission, 2010
In 2007 Ghana celebrated 50 years of independence from British colonial rule. The golden jubilee offered an opportunity to take stock of how the country had progressed in expanding education and the challenges for the future. This paper offers a critique of the journey, highlighting the challenges and progress. What reforms in education has taught…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Development
Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2010
This issue of "The Progress of Education Reform" summarizes recent research that may challenge conventional wisdom on how and where public resources for postsecondary education should be dedicated in an effort to increase college completion rates. Questions to be examined include: (1) How did changes in enrollments and the allocation of resources…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Higher Education, Community Colleges, Academic Persistence
Lee, John Michael, Jr.; Rawls, Anita – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2010
When the Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education (subsequently referred to as the commission) convened in the fall of 2008, the educational landscape included a number of issues that the commission's members recognized as formidable challenges to those students who aspire to enroll and succeed in college. The Commission's…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Attainment, Educational Change
Stedron, Jennifer M.; Shah, Tajel; Bautsch, Brenda; Martin, Patricia; Deye, Sunny; Bailey, Lamar; Handel, Stephen J.; Vasavada, Natasha; Shen, Yilan; Exstrom, Michelle; Shelton, Sara; Santiago, Helen; Bell, Julie Davis; Quin, Bradley J.; Baum, Sandy; Bell, Julie Davis; Sturtevant, Anne; Bautsch, Brenda; Williams, Ronald; Kerouac, Pamela; Badolato, Vincent – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2010
There are formidable challenges at every level of the system that confront students who aspire to enroll and succeed in college. In 2007, the College Board formed the Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education to study the educational pipeline as a single continuum and identify solutions to increase the number of students who…
Descriptors: Public Policy, State Action, State Legislation, State Surveys
Alvarez-Mendiola, German – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
In Mexico there is no policy of lifelong learning; however, the idea of focusing on students and learning--especially on appropriate knowledge-acquisition skills at various points in one's life--is spreading through post-secondary education. Since about ten years ago, institutions of higher learning, mostly universities, have initiated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Higher Education, Models
Kim, Dongbin; Rury, John L. – History of Education Quarterly, 2007
The 1947 President's Commission on Higher Education, popularly known as the Truman Commission, offered a remarkable vision, one of an expansive, inclusive and diverse system of postsecondary education in the United States. It appeared just as hundreds of thousands of former GIs poured onto the nation's campuses, taking advantage of a little…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment Trends, Access to Education, Federal Government
Williams, Joe – Education Next, 2005
The history books will show that New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg seized control of the city's sprawling public school bureaucracy and its 1.1 million students on July 1, 2002. But it was 18 months later when New Yorkers got their first real taste of what mayoral control and accountability were supposed to be about: when reports of escalating…
Descriptors: School Construction, School Safety, Graduation Rate, Public Schools
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