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Marcella Milana – International Review of Education, 2024
Comprehending interest group politics is central to studying the European Union's (EU) policy shaping and decision-making, in education as in other policy areas. Yet the contribution of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to EU policy shaping and decision-making in European education has been overlooked. Drawing on organisational studies, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nongovernmental Organizations, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Ian Baker – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation utilizes performance-based funding for higher education in Europe as the mechanism through which to interrogate broader relationships between universities and their external resource environments. Structured as three distinct journal-length articles, I first explore the emergence of performance-based funding systems for higher…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities
Global Partnership for Education, 2024
Transforming education systems to be fit for the 21st century is the common thread for creating inclusive and equitable societies resilient to conflict, climate change and economic crises. Now is the time for increased investment in African education systems. This paper describes: (1) the state of Africa's educational landscape; (2) innovative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, 21st Century Skills, Inclusion, Equal Education
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Sands, Sara R. – Educational Policy, 2023
The research on education philanthropy typically characterizes foundations as practicing either "traditional" or "strategic" philanthropy. These labels are used to indicate divergent ways of thinking about the impact of grants and approaches to grantmaking between the two models. Drawing on a theoretical framework informed by…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Systems Approach, Grants, Sociology
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Nasser Al Harrasi; Nidaa Al Subhi – Cogent Education, 2024
The interaction between Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and industry for the purpose of improving the exchange of knowledge and technology refers to the concept of universities--industry collaboration (UIC). This research aims to identify the Determinants of UIC in Oman by considering the four main players in UIC, which are faculty, students,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Business Relationship, Higher Education, Industry
Meghan Rens; Epke Vogel; Daniëlla van Uden; Willem Kleinendorst – European Training Foundation, 2023
The past years have witnessed a growing trend in applied research in Vocational Education and Training (VET), which refers to investigative activities and services conducted by VET organisations which have a strong practical focus on solving real-life problems. Insights from applied research can be used to develop or improve products and services,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Research, Program Evaluation
Arribas, Jose Manuel Galvin; Zisimos, Georgios; Thomas, Stefan; Vuorinen, Pirita; Stanley, Julian – European Training Foundation, 2020
What is vocational excellence, why is it important, and how is it developed and for whom? This paper tries to: address the complexity of vocational excellence; explain the different types of centres of vocational excellence (CoVEs), which embody vocational excellence, their missions and functions; and identify good practices that work well in…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Policy, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries
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Baser, Sean M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
The proliferation of political nonprofit organizations since the Citizens United decision has undoubtedly reshaped American politics. These interest groups have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in recent state and federal elections. Yet, little is known about how these organizations influence higher education politics and the extent to which…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Nonprofit Organizations, Lobbying, Social Change
T. Shuali; C. Carmona; V. Tenreiro; A. Casino; M. Simó; A. Aneas; M. Jabbaz; A. Neubauer; M. Jiménez – European Commission, 2022
Publication metadata This report provides an overview of the 21 selected innovative cases for the development of intercultural and democratic competences in teacher education, which analysis has been the basis to extract lessons learnt in support of evidence based educational policy development. The results of this analysis and the recommendations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Educational Needs, Inclusion
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Abs, Hermann J. – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
This article explores the tools and strategic options for policymaking of two European intergovernmental organisations in the area of citizenship education. The first section analyses the policy tools used to date, whereas the second section presents current global, political and education-specific challenges in the field. The third section…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Citizenship Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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A. Chris Torres – AERA Open, 2023
This study uses framing theory and the concept of causal stories to examine beliefs about causes and solutions to improving chronically low-performing schools in response to Michigan's school turnaround policy. Across cases, policymakers and district leaders assigned most responsibility to poor leadership, poverty, and chronic educator turnover as…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Public Officials
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Knutsson, Beniamin; Lindberg, Jonas – Comparative Education Review, 2017
The point of departure of this article is an apparent antinomy. On the one hand, there is the powerful argument in political theory on the emergence and consolidation of a post-political condition. On the other hand, research in international and comparative education demonstrates how conflicts and power asymmetries continue to characterize…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Educational Policy, Power Structure
Jobs for the Future, 2019
As the cost of college has increased 12-fold over the past 30 years, state disinvestment in higher education has deepened. Today, learners are forced to make a tough choice: either forgo college at a time when getting a postsecondary credential matters more than ever, or join the ranks of 45 million Americans with student loan debt, who today…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Access to Education, Equal Education, Talent Development
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Gándara, Denisa – Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Extant research neglects to examine how policymakers make decisions regarding funding allocations to higher education institutions. This case study analyzed the policy process surrounding the development of one model for funding higher education in Colorado. The study is anchored in a theory of policy design, which considers how groups targeted by…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Educational Finance, Policy Formation, State Policy
Davidson, Petrina M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This research examines the interaction between international governmental organizations (IGOs) and national governments around the development of secondary social studies curriculum in post-genocide contexts, with a special focus on the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) involvement with secondary social…
Descriptors: Death, International Organizations, Secondary School Students, Social Studies
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