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Carbone, Angela; Evans, Julia; Ross, Bella; Drew, Steve; Phelan, Liam; Lindsay, Katherine; Cottman, Caroline; Stoney, Susan; Ye, Jing – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
Distributed leadership has been explored internationally as a leadership model that will promote and advance excellence in learning and teaching in higher education. This paper presents an assessment of how effectively distributed leadership was enabled at five Australian institutions implementing a collaborative teaching quality development…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Leadership Styles, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Blouin, David D.; Moss, Alison R. – Teaching Sociology, 2015
Twenty years ago, Pescosolido and Milkie (1995) reported that 50 percent of U.S. and Canadian sociology graduate programs offered formal teacher training. Despite pronouncements that offerings have increased substantially, no similarly thorough and direct investigation has been published since. In this time of dramatic change and increasing…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Relevance (Education), Teacher Education Programs, Sociology
Lee, Lung-Sheng Steven – Online Submission, 2013
Globalization in the 21st century has brought innumerable challenges and opportunities to universities and countries. Universities are primarily concerned with how to ensure the quality of their education and how to boost their local and global competitiveness. The pressure from both international competition and public accountability on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accountability, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
Josefson, Kristina; Pobiega, Jenny; Strahlman, Christian – Quality in Higher Education, 2011
Sweden has a high level of student influence. At Lund University, students are not viewed as counterparts but partners in the university's activities. Lund University has carried out Student Satisfaction Surveys (barometers) since the 1990s and an overview has shown that an evaluation culture has grown during the past decade. It is, however, time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Participation, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes
Hensel, Nancy, Ed. – Online Submission, 2012
"Characteristics of Excellence in Undergraduate Research" ("COEUR") is based on the collective experience, over many years, of Council on Undergraduate Research members who have engaged undergraduate students in research, developed undergraduate research programs, mentored new faculty to include undergraduate research in their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Educational Quality, Research Projects
Jallade, Jean-Pierre – European Journal of Education, 2011
This article provides an overview of education cooperation in Europe seen though some of the major initiatives of international organizations (IOs) active in this field. The purpose of the article is two-fold: (i) mapping out IOs' most significant programmes according to their objectives and modes of cooperation as a pre-requisite to understand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Organizations, International Education, International Cooperation
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education, 2010
This report evaluates college programmes within a wide range of disciplines subsumed within the business, management and administration (BMA) area. The disciplines covered are: business and finance; economics; law; management; public administration; international business studies; enterprise; management skills; management planning and control…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Programs, Program Evaluation, Business Administration Education
Altanopoulou, Panagiota; Dontsidou, Maria; Tselios, Nikolaos – Quality in Higher Education, 2012
In this article, 93 Greek university departments were evaluated according to their academics' h-index. A representative sample from the fields of social sciences and humanities, sciences, engineering, pharmacy and economics was adopted. In the reported study, 3354 (approximately 1 out of 3) academics serving in Greek universities were evaluated.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Sciences, Intellectual Disciplines, Humanities
Kettunen, Juha – Journal of Institutional Research, 2010
Higher education institutions educate those who are the most talented and best able to secure the future for the next generation. This study examines an efficient strategy process in higher education and emphasises the importance of sufficient dialogue during the process. The study describes the strategy process of the Turku University of Applied…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Planning, College Administration, Strategic Planning
Davies, Dan – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2007
This paper reports on a commissioned research project to evaluate the impact of support (mainly funding) given by the UK Government's National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) to various projects under the general heading of "science learning" over a four-year period (2000-2004). Findings emerging from the study…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Program Evaluation, Institutional Mission, Endowment Funds
Sutton, Jean; Wilkin, Anne – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2007
Local Government Employers (LGE) was created by the Local Government Association (LGA) in April 2006. The aim of LGE is to work with local authorities, regional employers and other bodies to lead and create solutions on pay, pensions and the employment contract, to ensure the provision of excellent and affordable local services. The LGE…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Local Government, Institutional Research, Organizational Theories

Thatcher, Adrian – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 1991
The conception and development of a unit at the College of Saint Mark and Saint John (England) to support improvement of instructional quality are described. Issues addressed include the meaning of "quality," organizational structure, the unit's role in program and faculty evaluation, establishment of objectives, and operational…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Lee, Victor S. K. – Open Learning, 1996
Presents a historical explanation of Hong Kong's expanding higher education sector. Describes quality assurance mechanisms deployed by the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong to review and assess its own development, the degree programs it offers, and the courses in each degree program. (Author/JMV)
Descriptors: College Programs, Courses, Degrees (Academic), Educational Development

Nedwek, Brian P.; Neal, John E. – Research in Higher Education, 1994
The design and use of performance indicators for documenting quality of higher education in North America and Europe is discussed, and the indicators and assessment initiatives are compared in terms of nine dimensions. Implications of the results for institutional researchers and for the higher education community are examined. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Outcomes Assessment, Comparative Education, Evaluation Criteria
McIntosh, Naomi E. – International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, 1978
A generalized procedure for interrelating possible research activities and decisions over the life of a course is proposed. The main levels at which research can contribute to the evaluation are discussed, and data are presented in relation to one particular program: the Social Science foundation course at the Open University. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, External Degree Programs, Foreign Countries