The COVID-19 pandemic posed many challenges to student learning, classroom instruction, and the management of school systems. Media, think tanks, and education groups have warned of a post-COVID fiscal cliff for K-12 schools after the $190 billion from the federal government in the form of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief…

In the context of educational globalisation, the role of supranational organisations in shaping the educational policy decisions, especially of aid-dependent countries, has increased. Using global governance as a theoretical framework and Critical Policy Sociology (CPS) as a methodological framework, this paper analysed key educational policy…

Education has been recognized as an important tool for achieving a nation's goals, vision and objectives. The quality of Nigerian universities has been and still is an issue of concern among stakeholders due to the challenges posed by globalization and the need for continued scientific and technological advancement. Over the years, this concern…

There exist many actors within the realm of education policy planning and implementation, namely: the policy makers; the national, local and regional institutions engaged in the dissemination and interpretation of these policies; and the educational institutions that implement these policies at the ground level (schools). While schools are largely…

The rise in UK government funding for information and communications technologies (ICTs) since 1997 has created a large capital infrastructure, which schools are required to support with their own funds. Simultaneously, both nationally and internationally, the model of self-managing schools gathers momentum. In the UK, the government supports the…

This paper is a keynote speech delivered at the National Symposium of Early Childhood Education) held by the Ministry of Education, December 16-19, 2004. In this paper, Jiang Jin first analyzed the difficulties and challenges that China faced in the development of early childhood education (ECE), including the partially dissolved ECE system,…

With the converging concerns regarding institutional financing, public accountability, and the development of more effective techniques for planning and managing of postsecondary educational institutions and systems, the need for serious, practical consideration of the state of the art in new planning and management techniques in postsecondary…

Suggests that institutions spend more for fund raising, publications, alumni and public relations in order to receive larger gifts. Provides guidelines for college advancement program that would be based on institution's future educational needs and would increase the effectiveness of public relations and development offices. (WM)

A trio of themes--economy, efficiency, and reform in higher education--dominated the work of the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System during the year 1970-71. The whole nature of post-high school education is changing. Post-secondary education today must not only meet the needs of students seeking traditional academic and…

Examines the effects of educational planning on developing nations. Particular reference is made to the association that educational planning and educational planners have had with formal educational institutions and to the role that planning and its practitioners have played as purveyors of the "new magic" in traditional societies.…

Explains how to organize a successful field trip supporting the National Science Education Standards for 200 students. Describes what to do regarding rules, funding transportation, lodging, food, group assignments, planning for free time, chaperones, and discipline. (YDS)

This paper emphasizes the need in junior colleges for comprehensive fiscal planning so that academic planning can be realistically linked to available revenues. Such planning would incorporate the following considerations: (1) available dollars should be used more efficiently since increased expenditures do not necessarily increase educational…

Discusses the "remarkably brief and superficial" coverage of financial matters in the Robbins Report, highlighting public accountability of universities, the funding of research, and student finance. Expresses the need for strict financial regulation considering the amount of money involved and the misuse of funds during the 1960s and…

For at least a brief period of time, the release of Bob Rae's review of post-secondary education in Ontario served to focus public attention on the importance of post-secondary education not only in Ontario, but across Canada. This article elaborates further on Rae's review which stresses the crucial importance of the higher studies and recommends…

In past decades the planning process in higher education was based on certainties and assumptions about the source of funds, enrollments and enrollment distribution, levels of expenditures, and faculty. Today, none of these certainties remain. The uncertainties of today involve declining enrollments after 1980, society's capacity to effectively…