Educational reform in the modern era which the school administrators and all personnel in the school Must improve and develop themselves to keep up with changes in the era of globalization. By using the supervisory management model process to develop educational quality, these research objectives are to: 1) Study the problems and elements of…

Many African countries have developed policies to reform their education system in order to widen participation in higher education. To achieve this, open, online and distance education based models have been advocated as the most viable delivery tools in expanding access to higher education. However, the policy analysis of Kenya, Rwanda and…

The development of critical thinking skills among learners is a common educational goal across graduate theological schools. The purpose of this article is to provide a survey of some of the primary historical influences of the critical thinking movement in higher education in the United States and the movement's impact on graduate…

Sowcik and Allen's paper, "Getting Down to Business: A Look at Leadership Education in Business Schools," identifies a number of compelling issues in improving leadership education in business schools and provides a thorough overview of how these efforts could benefit from the considerations present in the National Leadership Educators…

This article aims to review the historical development of continuing professional development programmes (CPDPs) for teachers, as well as the policies and objectives of such programmes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) from the inception of these programmes until now. Styles of CPDPs that the Education Training Centres (ETCs) offer are…

The purpose of this research was to determine how teachers and administrators in a successful North Carolina district perceived the purpose and value of a school improvement plan (SIP) and the planning process. The SIP is the accepted best practice for school-wide improvement, and the perceptions of the purpose and value of the process…

Attempts a brief analysis of the traditional decision-making process for budget preparation and the alternative, program planning, budgeting system (PPBS), in an effort to determine the effect of PPBS on the decision-making process for resource allocation and to answer the question of whether PPBS has improved decision-making processes. (Author/RK)

This paper is designed to increase understanding of the responsiveness of the accreditation process in general and the NCA Commission on Institutions of Higher Education in particular to current "nontraditional" developments in post-secondary education. (Editor)

The purpose of this report is to provide descriptive information about educational technology practices related to the core objectives of the U.S. Department of Education's Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program. The EETT program is part of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" ("NCLB") and, like other elements…

Article evaluated programs created to coordinate the Federal effort in education research and development. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this program was to assist faculties in Ontario universities in improving the effectiveness of instructional processes by systematic development of objectives, content, methods, and evaluation for each course offered with economy in the application of instructional resources. The first two chapters of this program report try to set…

The comprehensive nature of the Total Institutional Project required a diversity of specialities and points of view. An advisory panel was encouraged to investigate any aspect of Austin College's program that it felt was relevant to the overall purposes of the project. The panel was able to gain a great deal of understanding concerning the…

The Ohio Career Development Program was evaluated and students were tested in order to carry out that evaluation. (RK)

When asked some difficult questions in a recent interview, the director of OE's Office of Career Education responded with incisive and refreshingly forthright answers. (Editor)

An evaluation team considered the success that an arts-oriented curriculum had in being established in a variety of school sites involved in Project IMPACT. (Author/RK)