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Liang Meng; Lei Chen; Diandian Zhang – Research Evaluation, 2024
In this study, to examine status compensation effect we explore an intriguing behavioral pattern of grant applicants. We draw from the status compensation hypothesis and examine the influence of an applicant's status (i.e. ranking of the applicant's affiliated institution) on the title length of the applicant's grant proposal. In addition, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Proposals, Grants, Institutional Characteristics
Schuller, Tom; Williams, Jenny – Adults Learning, 2009
"Learning Through Life," the main report from the Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning, is the culmination of a two-year process of consultation, analysis and reflection. The report sets out bold proposals which go well beyond the boundaries of adult education and training. Several key weaknesses in the current system were…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Research Reports
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Pingping, Hu – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
In 2006, the Chinese government conducted, in the western provinces and a few central provinces, a reform that exempted all rural compulsory education stage students from tuition and miscellaneous fees, in accordance with the measures for implementing the New Mechanism for Assured Funding for Rural Compulsory Education (hereafter "New…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Change Strategies
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Duckett, S. J. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
During 2002, the Australian Education Minister conducted a year-long review of tertiary education under the title "Higher Education at the Crossroads." The policy statement arising from that review was released on 13 May 2003. It incorporates a combination of new financial incentives on students and universities, potential expansion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Politics of Education
Renard, Rosamunde – 1996
Community-based early childhood education and development programs can serve a geographical community, but may also serve a group not necessarily from the same community but who have a deep interest in one or more community-based schools. This set of booklets provides a proposal and program characteristics for a community-based early childhood…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Programs, Community Role, Community Schools
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DeYoung, Alan J. – European Educational Research Journal, 2005
An important subset of issues involved in describing the process of educational globalization emerges when considering the reception, response and/or rejection of international proposals, ideologies and agents by indigenous national and regional educators. This case study describes and discusses how foreign/Western education proposals and policies…
Descriptors: Ideology, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Program Proposals
Lukoshkin, A. P.; Min'ko, E. V. – Soviet Education, 1990
Examines the need to increase expenditures per student at Soviet technical institutes. Proposes seeking financial assistance from enterprises employing technical specialists. Outlines an experimental program in cost accounting. Suggests stipend and wage allotments and explains some of the contractual obligations involved. (CH)
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Economic Factors, Educational Administration, Educational Finance
Powell, J. P., Ed.; Wilson, Michael, Ed. – 1974
Papers and proposals resulting from educational and rural development fieldwork in the highlands of Papua New Guinea by the education staff and students of the University of Papua New Guinea are included in this collection. Providing essential background knowledge necessary for formulating solutions to the complex and politically sensitive issues…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Change Strategies, Children