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Owen, Liz; Craig, Lesley; Barrett, Whitney; Hannay, Sam – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2022
Excellence, equity and efficiency are key drivers for improvement in Scotland's education sector, including educational psychology. This paper discusses and evaluates the decisions taken by one Scottish Educational Psychology Service towards achieving the key outcomes of excellence, equity and efficiency through a redesign of their service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Psychology, Psychological Services, Delivery Systems
Gao, Xing-Ya; Yu, Rong-Bin; Shen, Hong-Bing; Chen, Qi – Chinese Education and Society, 2014
To build an effective model to train excellent doctors, Nanjing Medical University has proposed a five- plus three-year combined undergraduate-master's clinical medicine degree program. The program integrates undergraduate education, the education of research students, and standardized doctor residency training into a single system, allowing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, Physicians, Medical Schools
Hampson, Ian; Fraser, Doug – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
The training and licencing of aircraft maintenance engineers fulfils a crucial protective function since it is they who perform and supervise aircraft maintenance and certify that planes are safe afterwards. In Australia, prior to training reform, a trades-based system of aircraft maintenance engineer training existed in an orderly relation with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aviation Mechanics, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Training Methods
Sattar, K.; Cooke, L. A. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2012
At the end of 2010 the Durban University of Technology initiated a Curriculum Renewal Project, central to which is the aspiration to become a student centred university through the transformation of teaching and learning and the promotion of quality enhancement. However, the current realities for curriculum development and quality assurance at the…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Curriculum Development, Context Effect, Models
Janssens, Frans J. G.; de Wolf, Inge F. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2009
This article demonstrates the value of theoretical ex-ante evaluation of policy programs. We show how a specific policy might not achieve its objectives and illustrate the elements of the policy, which need improvement. These conclusions are based on a reconstruction and evaluation of the theory behind a policy program that aims to increase…
Descriptors: Productivity, Governance, Educational Change, Quality Control
Loots, A. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
The evaluation of educational or social programmes is paramount for establishing success or impact in higher education. Evaluation questions about programme goals (e.g. better performance of first-year students) or about the quality of programme strategies (design and implementation) and effectiveness of delivery (coordinator inputs and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Models, Research Methodology
Westerheijden, Don F.; Hulpiau, Veerle; Waeytens, Kim – Tertiary Education and Management, 2007
Attention shifted in recent years from design and implementation to use and usefulness of quality assurance. Scientific studies focus increasingly on quality assurance's impact on curricula and individual teachers. Which factors influence follow-up activities and what is their relation to improvement of education? One factor that we single out is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Program Effectiveness, Social Environment
Khatib, Ruslan Bin – Skillstech, 1985
Describes two Malaysian organizations that the government has appointed to spearhead the dissemination of the QCC (quality control circles) concept and activities: The National Productivity Center and the National Institute of Public Administration. The author also examines the basic concepts of the QCC in Malaysia. (CT)
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Foreign Countries, Productivity, Program Design

Harris, Brad; Owen, Jon – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1994
Documents the approach and the design decisions taken during the establishment of a quality system for teaching activities in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds. Describes the motivations for performing the work, how it was organized and resourced, the approach adopted, and the impact of the Higher Education…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
Webster, William G. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1990
The key concepts and methodologies of quality assurance programs used in health service delivery systems are reviewed, and it is suggested they could be readily applied to Canadian universities as a powerful administrative and curricular development tool that would define and enhance the quality of students' educational experiences. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems

Mora, Jose-Gines; Vidal, Javier – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1998
Discussion of the introduction of quality assurance into Spanish universities gives a brief recent history of the university system, describes first experiences in quality assessment during the 1990s and their results, and explains the structure and outcomes of the 1995 institutionalization of a national program for institutional evaluation.…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational History, Educational Quality

Johnston, Sue – Higher Education Research and Development, 1997
Discusses the role of educational development units (EDUs), which support improvement of teaching in Australian universities, focusing on the tension between the individual faculty consultation function and the unit's role at an institutional level. Suggests these two levels of action should be considered complementary and necessary. Describes…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Consultation Programs, Educational Quality, Educational Trends
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1989
This document explains the Youth Training Scheme (YTS) in Great Britain. It is intended for YTS managers, coordinators, and tutors but may also be useful to curriculum and staff developers at colleges and training organizations. The manual begins with an introduction that gives the background and rational for the YTS, and it ends with a 60-item…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Foreign Countries, Off the Job Training, Postsecondary Education
Owen, Jane; Yarrow, David; Appleby, Alex – 2002
This document is a questionnaire designed for work-based learning providers. It is a diagnostic benchmarking tool developed to give organizations a snapshot of their current state. Following a brief introduction, there are instructions for filling in the questionnaire, which includes both open-ended response and scoring according to a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Effectiveness, Benchmarking, Computer Mediated Communication
Ingram, David; John, Glyn – 1990
This study investigated the status of instruction in cultures and languages other than English in Queensland, Australia in preparation for development of comprehensive and coherent public policies for the field. The report addresses the following topics: the policy development process (project background and the nature of language education…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Cultural Education, Educational Policy, Educational Quality