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Direct linkAlexander P. Gorbunov; Natalya N. Gorbunova; Miroslava A. Gorbunova; Galina N. May-Boroda – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2022
The authors conduct a study of the main regularities determining the distinctive features of digital education. The conducted research allowed us to identify several trends in vocational education, providing an increase in socioeconomic and managerial efficiency and competitiveness of higher education systems in the current digital society. A…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Program Effectiveness, Higher Education, Educational Trends
Cheng, G.; Zhang, C.X.; Fan, Y.C.; Li, F.F.; Lin, L.; Zhu, X.B. – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2019
A plan for national education to train outstanding engineers has been put into practice at Henan Polytechnic University (HPU). Practical education is a basic characteristic of engineering education. This paper proposed ideas and models to reform the mineral processing engineering education system and also described the discipline and the objective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Engineering Education, Mineralogy
Download full textZaidi, Ali; Beadle, Shane; Hannah, Arthur – UK Department for Education, 2019
The Department for Education (DfE) commissioned ICF Consulting to undertake a study to examine the functioning of the Level 4 and 5 (L4-5) qualification and provider market, in order to support its review of L4-5 education. This study examines the characteristics and effectiveness of the Level 4 and 5 (L4-5) market. It specifically explores…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Barriers, Educational Policy, Legislation
Bain, Richard – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2017
This paper is a study of collaborative partnerships in education. It uses qualitative research methodology to explore case studies of three partnerships within a British city. Written from the 'insider' perspective of a headteacher, it uses personal reflection to make sense of experience in relation to a context of unprecedented change in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Competition, Administrator Attitudes
Agasisti, Tommaso; Bolli, Thomas – Higher Education Quarterly, 2013
The Bologna reform aims to enhance several dimensions of the universities' activities, by favouring mobility and mutual recognition of higher education degrees across Europe, with the objective to create a European Higher Education Area. The radical changes induced by the Bologna Process affect universities' productivity both directly (for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Productivity, Educational Change, Universities
Taylor, Barrett J.; Cantwell, Brendan – Research in Higher Education, 2015
The heightened mobility of resources, ideas, and cultural practices across national borders--commonly known as "globalization"--entails changes in the contexts in which US research universities operate. We draw on recent developments in neo-institutional theory to understand these changes and their implications for the ways in which US…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Competition, Research Universities, Doctoral Programs
Forster, Greg – Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2013
This report surveys the empirical research on school choice. It provides a thorough overview of what the research has found on five key topics: (1) Academic outcomes of choice participants; (2) Academic outcomes of public schools; (3) Fiscal impact on taxpayers; (4) Racial segregation in schools; and (5) Civic values and practices. The evidence…
Descriptors: Freedom, Evidence, School Choice, Racial Segregation
Esiobu, G. O. – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2011
Purpose: This study aims to verify the impact of cooperative learning as an intervention strategy towards the achievement of peace, equality and equity in the science classroom as part of the democratic process necessary for sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach: The study sample comprised 56 SSS 2 students in one public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Competition, Educational Change
Smarick, Andy – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2010
Over the last year, no education story has garnered more enthusiastic or sustained positive attention than Race to the Top, the $4.35 billion federal program intended to spur and support groundbreaking state-level reforms. The White House called state responses to the competition "overwhelming." Columnist David Brooks wrote that it was…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Educational Change, Politics of Education
Figlio, David; Hart, Cassandra M. D. – Education Next, 2011
Programs that enable students to attend private schools, including both vouchers and scholarships funded with tax credits, have become increasingly common in recent years. This study examines the impact of the nation's largest private school scholarship program on the performance of students who remain in the public schools. The Florida Tax Credit…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Tax Credits, Competition, Program Effectiveness
Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
Forster, Greg – Foundation for Educational Choice, 2011
This report collects the results of all available empirical studies using the best available scientific methods to measure how school vouchers affect academic outcomes for participants, and all available studies on how vouchers affect outcomes in public schools. Contrary to the widespread claim that vouchers do not benefit participants and hurt…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Competition, Program Effectiveness
McGuinn, Patrick – Educational Policy, 2012
This article offers an analysis of the origins, evolution, and impact of the Obama administration's Race to the Top (RTTT) competitive grant program and places it in the broader context of the debate over the No Child Left Behind Act and the shifting intergovernmental relations around education. RTTT is fundamentally about two things: creating…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Incentive Grants
Manna, Paul – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2010
During President Barack Obama's first two years in office, the administration's signature education initiative has been the Race to the Top (RTT) fund, a small part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that was passed to stimulate the nation's ailing economy. While celebrations and criticisms of RTT abound, serious attempts to…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Competition, Federal Aid, Educational Improvement
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
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