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Clara Fontdevila; Antoni Verger – Comparative Education Review, 2025
Although the role of international organizations in the diffusion of education policy is widely acknowledged, their role in the articulation of policy ideas remains comparatively underresearched. This article addresses this gap through a case study on the role of the OECD in the construction of the School Autonomy with Accountability policy…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Models, International Organizations
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Vuokko Kohtamäki – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
This study applies resource dependence theory to address the question of how the critical resource dependence relationship emerges in the context of a university's performance agreement. This study focuses on two Nordic universities that have adopted performance agreements while simultaneously using strong performance-based state funding. Resource…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Universities
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Curtis Valentine – Theory Into Practice, 2024
Educational outcomes for Black & brown students are the result of well-functioning school systems overwrought with top-down bureaucracy that stifle school-based leaders from generating school-based solutions. The dominant explanation is the growing power and influence of politically-driven school board members cut off from local, national, and…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Administrative Organization, Governance, Boards of Education
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Tomas Esper – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2024
Spreading like wildfire, school autonomy with accountability (SAWA) policies have transformed education worldwide. Rooted in new public management, SAWA is a 'policy bundle' that links greater decision-making at the school level with standardization and monitoring practices like large-scale assessments and performance indicators. As with every…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Educational History, Accountability
Kreijkes, Pia; Johnson, Martin – Research Matters, 2023
In this paper we explore the concept of the middle tier in education systems, outlining how it is a crucial element that links high-level education policy to the practices that are carried out in schools. Reflecting on the similarities and differences in the profiles of the middle tiers of the four nations of the United Kingdom (UK), we observe…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Institutional Autonomy, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Marcel Pagès; Gerard Ferrer-Esteban; Antoni Verger; Miriam Prieto – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
School systems are shifting towards forms of post-bureaucratic governance (PBG), implying higher levels of school autonomy, choice, and performance-based management. Under this governance approach, which combines forms of administrative and market accountability, schools face greater levels of competition and external pressure to perform. Schools…
Descriptors: Governance, Institutional Autonomy, Performance Based Assessment, Accountability
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Decheng Zhao; Yao Zhou; Meng Wang – Chinese Education & Society, 2023
School governance is a topic of general interest worldwide in educational research, and in recent years, it has also drawn widespread attention in China. In order to examine the problems faced in the process of promoting the modernization of school governance at Chinese primary and secondary schools, we conducted interviews with different…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Governance, Accountability, Elementary Schools
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Alison L. Milner; Christian Ydesen – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2024
School autonomy with accountability (SAWA) reforms have developed in diverse forms in Northern Europe. Following processes of decentralization to the municipal and school levels, quality assurance and inspection became key to the test-based accountability agendas of Denmark and England respectively. With an abductive approach, we explore the…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Accountability
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Juanatey, Ana García; Jordana, Jacint; Durán, Ixchel Pérez; Royo, David Sancho – European Journal of Higher Education, 2021
This contribution examines recent transformation in the institutionalization of a new mode of governance in the field of Higher Education. We identify three characteristics of the institutional design of public Quality Assurance Agencies (QAAs) that operate at the national level in the field of higher education. In order to do so, we examine three…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Comparative Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
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Rymarzak, Malgorzata; den Heijer, Alexandra; Curvelo Magdaniel, Flavia; Arkesteijn, Monique – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
The purpose of this article is to describe the effects of university governance on campus management based on the examples of the Netherlands and Poland. The study connected theory on campus management with a concept of five dimensions of university governance (autonomy, management, participation, accountability and transparency) into an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, College Administration, Universities
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Ayad, Khalid; Bennani, Khaoula Dobli; Elhachloufi, Mostafa – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The concept of governance has become ubiquitous because it is recognized as an important tool for improving quality in all aspects of higher education. In Morocco, few scientific articles have dealt with the subject of university governance. Therefore, we will present a general review of the evolution of governance through the laws and reforms…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Administration, Governance
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Urbanek, Piotr – European Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Agency theory is a theoretical platform used primarily to describe processes related to corporate governance. However, the theory is also being used to describe the processes associated with the functioning of the higher education system. Contractual relationships in this sector make it possible to identify the institutions that may act as either…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Accountability
John Aubrey Douglass – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Since establishing its first campus in 1868, the University of California (UC), California's land-grant university, developed into the nation's first multi-campus system in the United States, and is today widely recognized as the world's premier network of public research universities. This short essay provides an historical brief on the role that…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Educational Development, Participative Decision Making, Governance
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Wan, Chang Da; Sok, Say; Sirat, Morshidi; Un, Leang – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2018
Cambodia and Malaysia are two Southeast Asian countries at dissimilar levels of socio-economic development. Their higher education systems are also on different developmental paths with varying motivations driving their respective development and progress, but the governance of higher education across these two systems has one striking similarity.…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism
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Andrew Wilkins; Brad Gobby – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
Across the globe school autonomy reforms have been criticised for opening up public assets to various dangers or risks, from misappropriation of public monies by private sponsors to secretive governance structures maintained by homophilic groups. While these risks are not the exclusive product of school autonomy reforms, they are an endemic…
Descriptors: Governance, School Administration, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Change
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