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Education Endowment Foundation, 2025
Teaching assistants (TAs) are crucial to the work of schools and colleges across England. Their contributions are invaluable, particularly for those pupils most in need of additional support. The TA role is broad, changeable and context specific. Duties can include supporting pupils' readiness for learning, access to learning and recap of…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Staff Role
Pearson, Jerold; Earl, Marie – CURRENTS, 2012
When yes/no or multiple-choice answers do not suffice--when a qualitative understanding of a topic rather than a quantitative head count is needed--it is time to consider focus groups. They work well when learning why, how, and what for is more important than measuring how many. Focus groups are primarily an open-ended form of inquiry, enabling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Alumni, Attitudes
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Morton, Sam – Management in Education, 2011
This paper provides an account of how performance management is operating in a rural primary school in the county of Rutland, UK, which aspires to provide an outstanding standard of education for its pupils. The paper begins by outlining the existing regulations for the operation of performance management in schools, before going on to explain how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Rural Schools, Instructional Leadership
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Qiu, Chunlan; Wen, Rongsheng – International Education Studies, 2008
Based on an analysis on the features and problems in the libraries of some newly-upgraded local undergraduate institutions, this article finally comes to a series of management countermeasures.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Academic Libraries, Library Administration, Library Development
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Swiniarski, Louise B. – Childhood Education, 1984
Descriptors: Curriculum, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Lawaetz, Peter – International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, 1984
The Technical University of Denmark has tried to free resources in a stagnant or declining budget for development of new subject areas by planned contraction of ordinary activities, with only moderate success due to low mobility and strong specialization of the scientific staff. A more realistic planning system has been introduced, using…
Descriptors: College Administration, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Long Range Planning
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Burdet, Benoit; Bontron, Cedric; Burgi, Pierre-Yves – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2007
Online education encompasses a variety of technologies, one of which is lecture capture--a long-standing practice at the University of Geneva. The faculty of arts has recorded most of its lectures on audiotapes since the 1970s, well before the World Wide Web existed. Modernization of the recording technologies, however, which until recently…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Online Courses, Internet
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Farnham, David – Higher Education Review, 1985
Trends in academic staffing in British higher education, especially in universities and polytechnics, are examined, along with major staffing issues facing employing authorities and academic staff in the short term. Implications for employee relations in a period of institutional change and resources constraint are considered. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Personnel Management
Langendoen, D. Terence – 1988
An overview is given of a study that examined the place of linguistics in undergraduate curricula in the United States and Canada, the nature and structure of the curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in linguistics, and the population served by the curriculum. The overview describes the project and its major activities (data collection and…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Data Collection, Financial Support, Foreign Countries
Thornbury, Robert E. – 1977
The emergence, development to the present, and future trends of teacher centers in Great Britain are examined. The effects of political decisions, educational expenditure, the Plowden Report, curriculum review, social crises, and other factors on the ways in which teacher centers were organized and have changed are discussed. Problems and possible…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Governance, Higher Education
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Teather, David C. B. – Higher Education Review, 1990
The legislated merger of two Australian Colleges of Advanced Education, Armidale and Northern Rivers, and the University of New England is viewed from the perspective of a staff member. The legislation, expectations, and superficial and structural changes are examined, and implications for the country's higher education system are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Broekhuizen, E. H.; Frankfort, J. G. – International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, 1981
Since 1975 the allocation of the academic staff at the University of Leyden has been based on a limited range of tasks and means. An allocation model for technical and administrative staff is described. Some remarks covering aspects related to the structuring of models are provided. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, College Faculty, Data Analysis
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Strydom, Andries H.; Noruwana, Justice – Higher Education, 1993
Reasons for differences in academic standards in new and established South African universities are attributed to a fragmented educational system, disparities in student enrollment and staffing, and lack of a culture of learning. Areas requiring attention before quality assurance can be implemented are identified, and recommendations are made.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Change Strategies, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement
Harris, Malcolm – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1993
A computerized system used in an Australian university school of education to allocate faculty teaching loads equitably and flexibly is described. It features reconciliation of workloads based on (1) course design and enrollment and (2) formulas relating to administration, research, and development responsibilities negotiated within the faculty.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, College Faculty, Computer Oriented Programs
Watt, Michael G. – 1988
This report elaborates on nonnumerical summaries of quantitative data on practices applied to instructional materials by the staff members of 17 service agencies of the Education Department of Tasmania, Australia. The descriptions presented are based on interviews and observations made during a survey conducted between October 1987 and February…
Descriptors: Education Service Centers, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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