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Knowledge Management in Malaysian School Education: Do the Smart Schools Do It Better?
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Awang, Marinah; Ismail, Ramlee; Flett, Peter; Curry, Adrienne – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to shed light on changes in the Malaysian education system, with particular reference to the development of Smart Schools, and to evaluate progress with respect to knowledge management in school education. Design/methodology/approach: The research is designed around questionnaires based on a knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Educational Change, Information Technology
Learning by the Market: Regulatory Regionalism, Bologna, and Accountability Communities
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Jayasuriya, Kanishka – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2010
Over the last two decades institutions of higher education have been subject to new modes of regulatory governance. This essay applies a "regulatory lens" to higher education governance with a view to understanding the sometimes contradictory relationship between the globalisation and regionalisation of higher education and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, Governance
The Impacts of Reforms on Research and Innovation in France: Direction, Planning and Co-Ordination
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Laperche, Blandine; Uzunidis, Dimitri – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2011
The various reforms introduced in France since the end of the 1990s are transforming the field of institutional research, which has historically been hierarchical and centralised, by giving more leeway to the different levels of territorial administration. In this new context, who is involved in orienting and planning research? The wide diversity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Administrative Organization, Organizational Change
Transformative Pedagogy, Leadership and School Organisation for the Twenty-First-Century Knowledge-Based Economy: The Case of Singapore
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Dimmock, Clive; Goh, Jonathan W. P. – School Leadership & Management, 2011
Singapore has a high performing school system; its students top international tests in maths and science. Yet while the Singapore government cherishes its world class "brand", it realises that in a globally competitive world, its schools need to prepare students for the twenty-first-century knowledge-based economy (KBE). Accordingly,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Information Technology, Knowledge Management
Cultural Democracy: Universities in the Creative Economy
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Araya, Daniel – Policy Futures in Education, 2010
The influence of globalization on institutions of higher education is one of the leading topics in educational policy today. As the nexus of innovation increasingly moves from labor-intensive "smokestack industries" to "mind work," education is becoming critical to policy discussions on economic growth. Tracing current discourse on the…
Descriptors: Colleges, Social Influences, Global Approach, Educational Change
Failure? Isn't It Time to Slay the Design-Dragon?
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Winkler, Dietmar R. – Visible Language, 2009
There is a closed cycle of design education that replicates the most common design practice--and feeds into that practice that seeks awards based on incremental change supported by professional organizations and trade journals--that feeds back to education forms for imitation. This is the educational failure this paper cites. It takes to task the…
Descriptors: Schools, Educational Change, Design, Information Technology
IT Governance as an Institutionalized Organizational Response in Higher Education: Case Studies of Three Public Universities in the United States
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Winston, Evelyn E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The changes in the environment of higher education related to globalization, immigration, rising social-economic inequality, the knowledge economy and cultural identity (Benjamin, 2003; Collis, 2003) are requiring institutions to make some basic strategic choices. One of these decisions is the extent to which institutions of higher education will…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Information Technology, Educational Change