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Download full textRónay, Zoltán; Niemczyk, Ewelina K. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2023
Considering the fast-changing times and mounting challenges, higher education institutions (HEIs) became recognized as important change agents in the society but at the same time became more threatened. To that end, recently Magna Charta Universitatum, a declaration stating that intellectual and moral autonomy is the hallmark of any university and…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Change Agents
Rónay, Zoltán; Niemczyk, Ewelina K. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2020
As scholars we navigate in the fast changing and demanding research environment. The pressure to produce tangible outputs, secure funding, and undertake international collaborations has high implications on individual researchers' work and well-being. The issues brought forefront in scholarly literature showcase the impact of research pressures on…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Professional Autonomy, Productivity, Educational Research
Rónay, Zoltán; Niemczyk, Ewelina K. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2022
Having reviewed several pieces of strategy documents, policy papers, and literature, we concluded that there is no uniform definition of either institutional autonomy or academic freedom (AF). Many different points of view determine the interpretation of these terms. Furthermore, the policymakers (e.g., governments, legislators) can ignore the…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Rónay, Zoltán – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2019
Although efforts were made to establish several higher education institutes in the Medieval era, Hungarian higher education began in 1635 when the first university, which is still in operation today, was founded. For the first one hundred and fifty years the university was under the influence of the church, then under Absolutism, it came under the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Institutional Autonomy, Universities
du Plessis, André – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2020
The South African education system has been perceived as a decentralised and democratized education system and the National Development Plan proposes that greater management autonomy should be granted to public school principals by recommending that principals should gradually be given more powers as the quality of their leadership improves. This…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Administration, Public Schools, Principals
Rónay, Zoltán – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2018
Hungary is on the road towards an illiberal state. On this journey, the Hungarian government, with the Parliament at its service, is reinterpreting the concept of fundamental rights. Under the slogan of effectiveness, new regulations are being adopted which secure more power, influence, rights, and tools for the state. This paper aims to present…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Politics of Education, Centralization
Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; González-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; González, Irma; Espino, Piero; Olaguez, Eugenia; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Valdes-Perea, Alba-Liliana; Álvarez, María-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquín; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Rodríguez-Ramírez, Sergio-Esteban; Álvarez-Gómez, Miguel; Cabral-Araiza, Jesús; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2018
A reform always implies an adjustment, a transformation, or a change. But one always hopes that a reform is for the better, and that it will benefit those who will be affected by the reform. Educational reforms have been seen in this way, since the world changes and we change with it. In this line of thought, we can dare to think that when an…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Poverty, Quality of Life, Social Differences
Rónay, Zoltán – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2019
In the latest BCES Conference Book ("Education in Modern Society," BCES Conference Books, 2018) a study was published which presented Hungarian legislation on the field of education. It is clear that the legal framework serves the interests of the government. The Fundamental Law of Hungary does not guarantee the fundamental right to…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Educational Legislation, Civil Rights, Higher Education
Direct linkBush, Timothy Mark – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
In 2014 "almost 80% of all government school teachers in Australia in their first 5 years of their teaching careers were on short-term contracts." This paper will consider how the short-term contract governs early career teachers in Australia, and more broadly, how neo-liberal governance works on and through institutions and individuals.…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Contracts, Foreign Countries, Governance
García, Amelia Molina; Melo, José Antonio Sáenz; Lara, José Luis H. Andrade – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2017
A "worldization" process of the education system started during the later years of the last millennia. This movement has been strengthened through the participation of supranational organizations, in which their recommendations have served as the source of guidance in the definition of educational policies of the associated countries.…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Global Approach, Role
Ramos, Geronimo Bueno; Bueno, David Cababaro – Online Submission, 2019
This study analyzed the Science teachers (ST) and non-science teachers' (NST) perceptions of supervisory practices in an autonomous national high school in the Division of Zambales during the School Year 2016-2017 in relations to curriculum and instruction, communication, staff development, evaluation, leadership; and classroom visits. It utilized…
Descriptors: School Supervision, Educational Administration, Institutional Autonomy, High Schools
Nadirova, Gulnar – NORDSCI, 2018
University education throughout the world undergoes a fundamental transformation in terms of its role in society, the system of functioning, economic structure, and value. At present, many countries observe and discuss the crisis of universities. There is an opinion that The University from a purely educational institution is transformed into a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Barriers, Foreign Countries, Educational Trends
Hawkins, Melissa; James, Christopher R. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The daily work of organising in schools both configures and is configured by the nature of schools as complex organisations. However, the organisational complexity of schools is often omitted in normative and analytical accounts of schools as organisations. In this paper, we seek to redress that omission and to bring organisational complexity to…
Descriptors: Organizational Theories, Administrative Organization, Educational Administration, Institutional Autonomy
Gottau, Veronica; Moschetti, Mauro – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
In 1999, the Province of San Luis (Argentina) approved the creation of the so-called 'Escuelas Experimentales Autogestionadas' (SelfManaged Experimental Schools) inspired by the US charter schools, but with important differences. This article explores the circumstances under which the project was dismantled and abandoned prematurely. The study…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Advisory Committees
Mizuta, Kensuke; Yanagiura, Takeshi – Online Submission, 2008
(Purpose) While numerous data and research indicate that the fiscal practice of institutions has been influenced by National University Corporation Act (NUCA), what exactly the effect NUCA has had on institutions is not known beyond anecdotal experiences and stories. The contribution of this paper is to provide hard evidence on such institutional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Public Support, Educational Finance
