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Gornitzka, Åse; Maassen, Peter; de Boer, Harry – Higher Education Quarterly, 2017
This article discusses changes with respect to university governance structures in six comprehensive universities in Europe. We present an analytical framework on the basis of which we conduct a comparative analysis of the university governance structures along four different dimensions: (a) the internal democratic nature of the governance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Governance, Comparative Analysis
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Tanaomi, Mohammad Mehdi; Asaadi, Robert Reza – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
This article examines the similarities and differences in the systems for faculty career advancement in higher education institutions in the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The analysis focuses on two specific cases: the University of Tehran and Portland State University. Through this paired comparison, we draw out the similarities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, College Faculty, Faculty Promotion
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Chan, Jeremy – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2015
China aims to become an innovation-led nation by 2020, but its leadership is generally sceptical--and oftentimes hostile--to the market forces, open exchange of ideas, and creative destruction that have unlocked innovation in other countries. Instead, Beijing hopes to promote innovation in China through a massive expansion in higher education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Innovation, Higher Education, Knowledge Economy
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Nir, Adam E. – Curriculum and Teaching, 2012
The following paper attempts to assess whether research benefits school empowerment, as argued by the evidence-based literature, or, whether an education system under centralised circumstances, may be another expression for the centralisation trap which undermines school empowerment. This study follows an official Call for Research initiated by…
Descriptors: School Based Management, Centralization, School District Autonomy, Empowerment
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Hardy-Dubernet, Anne-Chantal – European Journal of Education, 2008
In order to successfully match students and jobs in the medical profession of their choice, and at the same time meet the country's health care needs, it has become evident that access to medical schools and the various medical professions should be tightly regulated, in particular by a "numerus clausus." In most Western countries,…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Health Needs, Medical Schools
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Sasaoka, Yuichi; Nishimura, Mikiko – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
This article critically reflects upon the "divides" among actors within two currently popular education policies in low-income countries: decentralisation and Universal Primary Education (UPE). Current literatures suggest that the existing decentralisation framework tends to overlook the "divides" among actors that often impede…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Governance, Foreign Countries, Accountability
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Murphy, Jerome T. – American Journal of Education, 1980
Compares the operation and control of public schooling in Australia and the United States by exploring and contrasting the changing roles, concerns, and activities of school administrators, the federal government, the courts, elected officials, citizens, pressure groups, and "new breed" professionals. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Centralization, Citizen Participation, Comparative Analysis
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Wortham, Sue C. – Childhood Education, 1994
Compares La Junta Nacional de Jardines Infantiles (JUNJI), Chile's federally funded preschool system, with the United States' Head Start program. Notes that, unlike Head Start, JUNJI is administered at the national level; requires preschool teachers to have four-year university degrees; follows a national curriculum; and, due to budget…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Federal Programs, Foreign Countries
Osipova, I. P. – 1979
An objective description of the programs and outline of the problems of the Lenin State Library are presented by I.P. Osipova of the Lenin State Library of the USSR, and a comparison between that library and the Library of Congress (LC) is presented by Frank M. McGowan. The Lenin Library serves as national library of the USSR, state repository of…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Government Libraries
Mezel, Jamal Assad; Strong, Merle E. – 1989
This paper describes the history, organization, and administration of vocational education in the United States and Iraq, contrasting the highly centralized Iraqi system with the decentralized system in the United States. The paper also compares and contrasts the possible strengths and weaknesses of the two systems in terms of their organization,…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Decentralization, Delivery Systems
Tyson, Dan – College Board Review, 1993
Ireland's computerized, national system of university admission, which assigns all students to institutions simultaneously, and Britain's system using a single set of admissions forms and centrally coordinated admissions, suggest that centralization can be an efficient and cost-effective method of linking students with colleges in the United…
Descriptors: Centralization, College Admission, College Applicants, College Choice
Serov, V. V. – 1979
The mechanics of the Soviet library system, the availability of libraries to the citizenry, organizational components, and the development and planning principles of librarianship as they follow Leninist national policy are discussed in this paper by V.V. Serov, Head of the Main Library Directorate, USSR Ministry of Culture. A program of library…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination
Fenelonov, E. A. – 1979
The development and use of library statistics in the Soviet Union and systems of reporting are discussed in this speech by E.A. Fenelonov, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, and are compared with statistical development in the United States by Vernon E. Palmour of King Research, Inc. Fenelonov emphasizes the use…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Development
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Herdlein, Richard J.; O'Hern, Kelly; Kukemelk, Hasso – International Education, 2006
This qualitative study compares the development of student services at a major European university (University of Tartu) with American higher education in order to assess philosophical and organizational differences. Based on European and German models of higher education, the Estonian university has followed a pattern of emphasizing the cognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Universities, Student Personnel Services
Kozelka, Paul R. – 1985
National language planning involves four interdependent processes that ideally constitute a cycle: fact-finding, policy formation, implementation, and evaluation. Each of these processes is more difficult in the relatively young but highly pluralistic nations of Africa. A community-based model of language planning offers ways to alleviate or…
Descriptors: African Languages, Centralization, Community Role, Comparative Analysis
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