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Linda J. Harrison; Manjula Waniganayake; Jude Brown; Rebecca Andrews; Hui Li; Fay Hadley; Susan Irvine; Lennie Barblett; Belinda Davis; Maria Hatzigianni – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
This study assessed the impact of structural characteristics on quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) outcomes in an Australian national study. Data from the Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) repository of National Quality Standard (NQS) ratings were used to identify long day care services that had…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Quality Assurance
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Forje, John W. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2006
Political governance and quality management are often contested concepts, meaning different things to different people; and often their meanings have shifted historically. The collapse of the governance system behind the iron curtain countries triggered an avalanche in international politics and instituted new governance and management system to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Governance, Governmental Structure
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Berkhout, Susara J. – International Review of Education, 2005
Comparing the dynamics of centralisation/decentralisation in Belgium and South Africa has the advantage of revealing discrepancies between the public or official rationale for the (re) distribution of power and the probable or eventual effect of this (re)distribution on educational processes and learning outcomes. It can be seen that local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization, Educational Administration, Empowerment
Buxell, Ingrid T.; Ners, Krysztof J. – 1997
This paper focuses on the experience of the Policy Education Centre on Assistance to Transition in providing monitoring and evaluation services to "Support for Improvement in Governance and Management in Central and Eastern European Countries" (SIGMA), a joint project of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Development, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization