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Franssen, Thomas; Scholten, Wout; Hessels, Laurens K.; de Rijcke, Sarah – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2018
Over the past decades, science funding shows a shift from recurrent block funding towards project funding mechanisms. However, our knowledge of how project funding arrangements influence the organizational and epistemic properties of research is limited. To study this relation, a bridge between science policy studies and science studies is…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Innovation, Institutional Characteristics, Research Administration
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Ryan, Cathal; Bergin, Michael; Titze, Sylvia; Ruf, Wolfgang; Kunz, Stefan; Mazza, Riccardo; Chalder, Trudie; Windgassen, Sula; Miner, Dianne Cooney; Wells, John S. G. – Innovative Higher Education, 2017
There has been significant growth recently in online learning and joint programmes of education involving collaborative partnerships between and among higher education institutions in different jurisdictions. Utilising an interdisciplinary team model (Care and Scanlan 2001), we describe in this article the process of collaboration among four…
Descriptors: Online Courses, International Cooperation, Higher Education, Educational Improvement
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Hodgman, Matthew R. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2014
After years of remarkable expansion, the for-profit higher education sector is showing signs of an industrial reset in the wake of increased federal regulations aimed at addressing claims of aggressive recruiting practices and high student default rates throughout the sector. Large publicly-traded for-profit universities, such as the University of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Private Colleges, Human Resources
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Coates, Max – Management in Education, 2015
The article is a summary of a small-scale research project which considers the formation of Co-operative Trust Schools. This was carried out in 2013 at a time when the number of schools becoming Academies and Trust Schools through the Co-operative College was burgeoning. Through questionnaire, interview, documentary analysis and exploration of…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Interviews, Content Analysis, Web Sites
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Tonyan, Holli A. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2015
Eco(logical)-cultural Theory suggests that a daily routine results from individuals adapting cultural ideas to the constraints of a local context or ecology. Using Ecocultural Theory, this research examined family child care providers' descriptions of daily activities and overall approach to understand cultural models. The results highlighted a…
Descriptors: Child Care, Cultural Context, Models, Educational Practices
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Dada, M. S.; Imam, Hauwa – African Higher Education Review, 2015
This study analysed accreditation exercises of universities undergraduate programs in Nigeria from 2001-2013. Accreditation is a quality assurance mechanism to ensure that undergraduate programs offered in Nigeria satisfies benchmark minimum academic standards for producing graduates with requisite skills for employability. The study adopted the…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Undergraduate Study, Universities, College Programs
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Goulionis, Yannis – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
The higher education sub-sector of the entire education system is very important and plays pivotal role in all walks of life. Quality in the universities cannot be orchestrated without charismatic and effective administration doubled with management decision-making techniques. The study was aimed at evaluating the management techniques used in…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Foreign Countries, Universities, Participative Decision Making
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Zziwa, Gertrude – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2014
The organisational structure of universities follows particular models that distinguish them from other learning institutions. This research investigated the effect of the organisational structure on the management of universities in Uganda using a sample of 361, 44% of whom were members of academic staff, and the rest contained university top…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization, Governance, Universities
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Dimopoulos, Kostas; Dalkavouki, Katerina; Koulaidis, Vasilis – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2015
This study aims at investigating primary school principals' work on a daily basis in order to understand the ways in which the centralized educational system affects their practices. Four typical cases of principals were selected and asked to keep daily records for a period of four months. Data from logs were complemented with data collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Elementary Education, Semi Structured Interviews
Land, Ray; Gordon, George – Higher Education Academy, 2015
Teaching excellence is at the centre of national and international higher education policy. The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is a part of the debate to develop a shared understanding of what constitutes teaching excellence and has published research including "Considering Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: 2007-2013" by Dr Vicky…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Excellence in Education, Research Reports, Focus Groups
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Cuthill, Michael; Schmidt, Christopher – Journal of Institutional Research, 2011
This article explores the challenges confronting a research-intensive Australian university in responding to the "widening participation" agenda outlined in the recent "Review of Higher Education". The university argued that it is not possible to respond effectively to this agenda without having a clear understanding of the…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Access to Education, Barriers, Institutional Characteristics
Rudolph, Niki J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Colleges and universities across the country are seeking ways to strategically position their campuses within the growingly competitive landscape of higher education. The presidents of these institutions are approaching these changes with a watchful eye on the fiscal, environmental, and human resources involved. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Liberal Arts, College Presidents, Administrator Role
College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2011
As leading measures of student success and institutional quality, persistence and graduation rates are intensely debated at education conferences, institutional meetings and legislative sessions (Adelman, 1999; American Association of State Colleges and Universities [AASCU], 2002; Gold & Albert, 2006; Perna & Thomas, 2006; Tinto &…
Descriptors: Evidence, Graduation Rate, Colleges, Academic Persistence
Mateso, Peter E. E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this concurrent triangulation mixed methods study was to understand the status of succession planning and management (SPM) efforts of the subject university as perceived by the fulltime academic and fulltime administrative staff. Four research questions guided this study: (1) how do fulltime academic staff and fulltime…
Descriptors: Promotion (Occupational), Organizational Culture, Interviews, Program Effectiveness
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Garavan, Thomas N.; Wilson, John P.; Cross, Christine; Carbery, Ronan – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2008
Purpose: Utilising data from 18 in-depth case studies, this study seeks to explore training, development and human resource development (HRD) practices in European call centres. It aims to argue that the complexity and diversity of training, development and HRD practices is best understood by studying the multilayered contexts within which call…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Concept Mapping, Context Effect
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