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Chanimbe, Timothy; Prah, Paa Kwesi Wolseley – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2020
Secondary schools in Ghana are mainly classified as day or day/boarding, single sex or mixed, stratified into resourced (elite) or less resourced whilst academic delivery is via academic or technical-vocational programmes. This categorization has also bred performing and underperforming inequities suggesting the absence of equal access to quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, High School Students, Educational Policy
Maglakelidze, Shorena; Giorgobiani, Zurab; Shukakidze, Berika – Online Submission, 2013
There is no fixed rule about how financial resources must be directed to the education sector. It is quite clear that the size of investment in the sector well defines the quality of education students are offered. It is highly important to define the amount of money, which is needed for effective functioning of schools and it is also important to…
Descriptors: General Education, Educational Finance, Public Schools, Funding Formulas
Bonilla-Angel, Juan D. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Contracting out public schools to private institutions is an instrument for reforming public education as it may facilitate academic innovation and improve student academic performance through higher school accountability and autonomy. The degree of autonomy that different providers have may vary substantially depending on the contractual and…
Descriptors: Expenditure per Student, Public Schools, Nontraditional Education, Private Schools
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Yanqing, Ding – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
Beginning in 2006, the "two exemptions and one subsidy" (TEOS) policy was integrated into the New Mechanism for Assured Funding for Rural Compulsory Education (hereafter the "New Mechanism"). The New Mechanism includes TEOS, raising the standard of public expenditure guarantees for rural compulsory education stage schools,…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Performance Factors, Policy Analysis
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Naylor, Nancy – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2001
This article discusses Ontario's new Special Education Grant that provides funding on the school board's total enrollment and on an identified student basis. This new approach to funding was designed to minimize administration, in that only the highest-need students are identified for funding purposes. Implementation issues are examined. (CR)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student
Dixon, Ken – 1987
This guide on implementation of open learning in Great Britain provides information on resourcing, resource deployment, and costing and pricing. It begins by drawing attention to points of importance to those engaged in forming policy on the provision of open learning. These are presented in a series of flowcharts giving quick reference to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Distance Education, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student
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Stepanova, Tat'iana – Russian Education and Society, 2004
Iaroslavl Oblast is a pilot region on problems of the modernization of education. It was entirely logical that the oblast was given this status: modernization was something that administrators on different levels viewed not formally but substantively. A number of aspects were developed to improve the sector, such as normative financing of schools,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Rural Education