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Santori, Diego – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
This paper aims to extend existing theorisations around the notion of public narratives by analysing their regulatory effects under intensified market conditions. My analysis suggests that public narratives constitute a liminal space, one that it is not exclusively real or imaginary, factual or normative, but that simultaneously affects and is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Neoliberalism, Public Opinion
Brown, Roger – Quality in Higher Education, 2010
Following a report by a Parliamentary Committee, the Higher Education Funding Council for England is consulting the sector about a strengthened national quality assurance system, with an enhanced role for information about quality and a closer focus on academic standards. This article provides a critical review of the main proposals.
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, National Standards
Saarinen, Taina – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2008
The article analyzes the construction of national reactions to a transnational higher education policy from the point of view of the representation of social actors in policy documents. The data are provided by the so-called Bologna Process, particularly the development of comparable quality assurance systems, and Finnish responses to those…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Policy Formation, Audiences, Quality Control
Wiseman, Alexander W. – Review of Research in Education, 2010
In the past 150 years, educational systems have expanded and become integrally linked with economic, political, and social status in modern nation-states. As the stakes for education have risen, so has the call for more and improved use of scientific evidence as a basis for educational policymaking. Evidence from averaged scores on international…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy

Potter, David; And Others – Journal for Higher Education Management, 1992
A discussion of the response of George Mason University (Virginia) to economic decline in 1989-92 looks at four stages in the downturn and examines a variety of planning and policy issues, including management of both unplanned and planned reductions, continued uncertainty, politics of decline, organizational communication and morale,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Case Studies, Centralization, College Administration

Belanger, Charles H.; Mount, Joan – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1998
Survey of 74 Canadian universities suggests prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR) is gaining legitimacy because of the government/industry agenda to prepare the workforce, growing emphasis on lifelong learning, changing demographics, and students' conviction that learning outside the classroom should be validated. Quality assurance and…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Educational Trends
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2006
"Engaging Young Australians with Asia" is a national policy statement which supports "The Adelaide Declaration on National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century." These goals promote understanding of the value of cultural and linguistic diversity, and possessing the knowledge, skills and understanding to contribute…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Indigenous Populations, Quality Control, Position Papers