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Cooke, Michael; Lang, Daniel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
The paper examines the results of a study of strategic plans in community colleges in Ontario, Canada between 1995 and 2005. The system was very similar to centralized systems in many jurisdictions including China. The study found that (1) the strategies of those colleges were more alike than different; (2) the strategic content of the plans as…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Centralization, Strategic Planning, Higher Education
Lind, Loren – This Magazine Is About Schools, 1972
Examines some aspects of the control apparatus of the Ontario school system from both a historical and an operational perspective. (DM)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Centralization, Educational History
Goodwin, John R.; O'Reilly, Robert R. – 1979
Interviews were conducted with the presidents and senior administrators of 20 Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology located in the province of Ontario (Canada) to assess the relationship between organizational size and organizational structure. It was found that a relationship existed between the size variable and certain structural dimensions.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Centralization, Community Colleges, Horizontal Organization

March, Milton E. – Canadian Administrator, 1981
Outlines findings from a study of four western Canadian provinces that compared teachers', administrators', and school boards' perceived control over educational decision making in 32 areas. Educational decision making was found to be somewhat decentralized, but only in deciding grades do teachers hold the highest degree of control. (Author/WD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Centralization, Decentralization
Holdaway, E. A. – 1973
This document presents comparative data concerning staff utilization under educational systems operated by the State as opposed to those operated by school districts. The study reported here used as its samples the Canadian Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia and the Australian States of Queensland and Victoria. Specifically, the study was…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness
Konrad, Abram G. – 1974
The governance of community colleges in western Canada is increasingly influenced by the activities of federal and regional agencies, provincial legislatures, professional and trade associations, and advisory committees. Decision-making is increasingly centralized so that programs are standardized, procedures are routinized, and colleges lack…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Centralization, Collective Bargaining, Decision Making