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Direct linkElisabeth Josefine Lackner – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Agreements between national public authorities and higher education institutions serve as a governance instrument in many European countries. In Norway, these agreements are currently undergoing change, as the state now invites the institutions to propose their own goals and parameters in the agreements. This study seeks to understand the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Government School Relationship, Federal Regulation
Keddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina; Blackmore, Jill; Boyask, Ruth; Fitzgerald, Scott; Gavin, Mihajla; Heffernan, Amanda; Hursh, David; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Møller, Jorunn; O'Neill, John; Parding, Karolina; Salokangas, Maija; Skerritt, Craig; Stacey, Meghan; Thomson, Pat; Wilkins, Andrew; Wilson, Rachel; Wylie, Cathy; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, School District Autonomy
Download full textNatalie Irmert; Jan Bietenbeck; Linn Mattisson; Felix Weinhardt – Centre for Economic Performance, 2023
We study whether autonomous schools, which are publicly funded but can operate more independently than government-run schools, affect student achievement and school segregation across 15 countries over 16 years. Our triple-differences regressions exploit between-grade variation in the share of students attending autonomous schools within a given…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, Academic Achievement, School Segregation
Gunnulfsen, Ann Elisabeth, Ed.; Ärlestig, Helene, Ed.; Storgaard, Merete, Ed. – Educational Governance Research, 2023
This book discusses principals' prerequisites and work within the five Nordic countries and focuses on schools as formal institutions that carry out functions delegated to them by the social collective. It includes a discussion about what kind of state policy demonstrates autonomy in Nordic schools, as well as the ways in which school leaders as…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Leadership, Principals, State Policy
Christian Buerger; Jane Arnold Lincove; Catherine Mata – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
School autonomy has been and continues to be one of the most important education reform strategies around the world despite ambiguity about its theoretical and empirical effects on students learning. We use international data from PISA to test three country-level factors that might account for inconsistent results in prior literature: (1) the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
European University Association, 2023
The 2023 edition of the European University Association's Autonomy Scorecard, the most comprehensive yet, provides a full comparative analysis of the state of play of university autonomy in 35 higher education systems in Europe. The Scorecard country profiles delve into in-depth system analyses, offering insights into recent developments and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Universities, Profiles
Crosier, David; De Lel, Gisèle – European Education and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2022
The academic calendar contains national data on how the academic year is structured (beginning of the academic year, term times, holidays and examination periods). Differences between university and nonuniversity study programmes are also highlighted. The information is available for 37 countries. [For the 2021/22 report, see ED617647.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Schedules, Universities, Public Colleges
Kassie, Kitaw; Angervall, Petra – Education Inquiry, 2022
This paper explores the policy discourses underpinning an international higher education partnership involving a large Ethiopian university. Particular attention is given to a partnership programme established between an Ethiopian (EU) and a Norwegian (NU) university, and the main ideas and practices expressed and negotiated from an Ethiopian…
Descriptors: International Education, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Cooperation
Friedrich, Philipp Emanuel – Higher Education Policy, 2021
This article examines organizational change in national ministries responsible for higher education in light of public sector reforms. The article suggests an analytical framework based on authority/autonomy and capacity developments, paying special attention to the creation of agencies. Empirically, this is exemplified by two cases: the Austrian…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Public Agencies, Cross Cultural Studies, Institutional Autonomy
Haugen, Cecilie Rønning – Journal of Education Policy, 2019
Internationally, the autonomy of schools and teachers is under pressure. In Norway, recent policies emphasise output control through national testing, combined with holding schools and teachers accountable for students' results. Whereas recent research documents that the autonomy of schools and teachers is weakening in Oslo, there is little…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Institutional Autonomy, Professional Autonomy
Friedrich, Philipp Emanuel – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This article addresses the governance relationship between the ministry responsible for higher education and the sector agencies against the backdrop of comprehensive sector reforms. The relationship is examined based on autonomy and capacity, which are argued to be decisive in negotiating areas of responsibility. The Austrian and Norwegian…
Descriptors: Governance, Public Agencies, College Administration, Comparative Education
Magalhães, António; Veiga, Amélia; Amaral, Alberto – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Recent shifts in university governance have relied on increased autonomy. Within this context, the enhanced role attributed to governance boards at the expense of academic bodies and the role of external stakeholders has gained momentum. With the aim of understanding the extent of the influence of external stakeholders at the institutional level,…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Governance, Universities, Foreign Countries
Bungum, Berit – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2018
Current visions for the education of young people propose learning in meaningful contexts, relevant for citizens of a modern society. Inquiry-based teaching is one such approach in science education, but its potential can best be realised through constructive collaboration between teachers and across subjects. This chapter presents a case of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Instruction
Haukland, Linda Helén – Athens Journal of Education, 2020
The Bologna Process has made a strong impact on the development of European higher education, although the greatest impact has not been from the process itself, but from the national reforms introduced along with it. With a relatively young higher education system, Norway was ahead of most European countries in implementing the Bologna Process and…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Higher Education, Student Mobility, Educational Policy
Haukland, Linda – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
The Bologna Process was aimed at making a Europe of Knowledge possible, but the standardisation process following the development of the European Higher Education Authority challenged its democratic values; the autonomy of the bureaucratic part of higher education institutions has been strengthened while their faculty members have less formal…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, International Cooperation, Student Mobility, Foreign Countries
