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André Brasil; Joviles Vitório Trevisol – Research Evaluation, 2025
This paper presents a comparative study between the Brazilian and Dutch national evaluation systems of research and graduate education. Science systems can be as distinct as the social-economic circumstances, established governance, and cultural realities of each country, and both evaluation systems under analysis were developed from very…
Descriptors: Research Administration, Graduate Study, Comparative Education, Institutional Autonomy
European Commission, 2025
The Council Recommendation on building bridges for effective European cooperation in higher education (hereinafter the Recommendation), adopted on 5 April 2022, aims at enabling deeper and more effective transnational cooperation among higher education institutions across Europe. Challenges hampering seamless cooperation have many sources and may…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, International Cooperation, Higher Education, Student Mobility
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Hong, Min – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
There are several common trends and challenges in the higher education (HE) system around the world, like expansion and diversification of HE, fiscal pressure and orientation to markets, demand for greater accountability and great quality and efficiency (e.g. The financing and management of higher education: a status report on worldwide reforms,…
Descriptors: State Universities, Governance, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Education
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Mai, Anh Ngoc – Higher Education for the Future, 2022
As previous research has not addressed the relationship between university autonomy and university rankings within countries where the state control model is used, this study explores universities' strategies to achieve top university rankings in accordance with their autonomous rights and financial as well as political support. Specifically, this…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Institutional Characteristics, Cross Cultural Studies
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Võ, Minh Th? H?i; Laking, Rob – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
Autonomisation, allowing public organisations greater freedom from central control, has been extensively debated in the public policy literature as a means of increasing their efficiency and effectiveness. The government of Vietnam has adopted autonomisation as a key policy in reforming public service delivery. This paper investigates the…
Descriptors: State Universities, Institutional Autonomy, Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization
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Altbach, Philip G.; Mathews, Eldho – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2020
India now has the second largest higher education system (after China) in the world. After spending most of its energy on simply meeting the needs of expanding participation in recent years, India, under Prime Minister Modi's second administration, is finally turning its attention to boosting quality, increasing research productivity, and for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Global Approach
Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board, 2018
Over the past decade, charter schools have gained a prominent role in the debate over how to improve K-12 education, becoming one of those rare ideas that attracts bipartisan support. Yet as charter schools have expanded and begun educating more American school children, so has discussion over the role charter schools should ultimately play in our…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, School Role, Public Education
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Capano, Giliberto; Regini, Marino; Turri, Matteo – Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education, 2016
This book critically examines the ramifications of reforms to higher education institutions. All of the higher education system reforms implemented in western countries over the last three decades have had one fundamentally important aim: namely, that of changing the existing institutional and system governance arrangements. This book argues that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Universities, College Administration
European Students' Union, 2020
This Policy Paper aims at analysing the most important aspects of Public Responsibility, Financing and Governance of Higher Educations while seeking to formulate a students perspective on the state of play within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). In doing so it touches upon the very foundation of how and in which socio-political…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governance, Educational Finance, College Administration
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Ha, Sha – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Purpose of the present research is an investigation of the most recent personnel reforms of higher education institutions in China and in Italy. A one-to-one comparison between the two realities would have been unrealistic, given the enormous differences between the two Countries in size and historical development. We focused our analysis on some…
Descriptors: Educational Change, State Universities, Comparative Education, Standards
Kim, Juli; Field, Tim; Hassel, Bryan C. – Public Impact, 2019
Across the United States, a movement to create a new kind of public school--"autonomous district schools"--is giving districts the freedoms charter schools receive. Like charter schools, autonomous district schools are freed from innovation-inhibiting state and district policies, allowing talented educators to make academic and…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Public Schools, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
Finn, Chester E., Jr.; Manno, Bruno V.; Wright, Brandon L. – Harvard Education Press, 2016
"Charter Schools at the Crossroads" offers a frank and nuanced analysis of the successes and shortcomings of the charter movement, and outlines possible directions for the future. Few observers present at the creation of the first charter schools a quarter-century ago could have predicted how rapidly this movement would spread or how…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational History, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Douglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2016
The acceptance of new growth theory relates, in part, to a number of highly touted regional success stories--or what I term "Knowledge Based Economic Areas" (KBEAs) in this and past essays. The United States, and California in particular, is viewed as perhaps the most robust creators of KBEAs, providing an influential model that is…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Economic Development, Regional Characteristics, Research Universities
Nusche, Deborah; Radinger, Thomas; Busemeyer, Marius R.; Theisens, Henno – OECD Publishing, 2016
This report for Austria forms part of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Review of Policies to Improve the Effectiveness of Resource Use in Schools. The purpose of the review is to explore how school resources can be governed, distributed, utilised and managed to improve the quality, equity and efficiency of school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Education
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Woods, Philip; Simkins, Tim – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
The structure of the English school system has been the subject of almost continuous change since the late-1980s. The most recent was commenced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government, which was elected in May 2010. This policy set in train, very quickly, processes through which all schools have been encouraged, and in some cases…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, School Districts, Educational Finance
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