Private higher education institutions in Ghana involved in continuing and professional education have multiple affiliations with diverse public and foreign universities as a result of the varied programs offered. Using the three main isomorphic classifications of DiMaggio and Powell's (1983) institutional theory namely coercive, mimetic and…

Private tutoring has become a pervasive phenomenon in Bangladesh, with significant implications for educational equity and quality. This paper examines the policy landscape surrounding private tutoring and proposes comprehensive strategies to mitigate its adverse effects on the education system. Through a systematic review of existing literature…

Professional development (PD) plays a crucial role in promoting teachers' linguistic competence and teaching quality, contributing to enhancing and maintaining sources of effective teachers, especially novice teachers with little teaching experience. Mentoring has emerged as a PD activity in which a novice teacher is mentored and directly…

This paper defines shadow education as private supplementary tutoring that is fee-based and parallel to mainstream schooling. The study focuses specific attention on the underlying determinants of this private tutoring. This research covers the costs, patterns, intensity, and scale of private tutoring. It also provides detailed insight into the…

In this paper, we outline English language teaching practices from a private language school in Serbia. We use data from qualitative interviews with six English language instructors from one private language school in Serbia to understand how these individuals prepare for and teach adult learners. We discuss these based on the andragogical process…

The purpose of this study was to propose causal model of the relationship among transformational leadership, organizational culture, knowledge management, and organizational performance. A sample of 389 was randomly drawn from instructors of private higher education institutions under the Office of the Higher Education Commission. Data were…

Globalization has made a big impact on all spheres of today's society. One of its most obvious impacts is the effect it has on education. It greatly influenced the economics and funding of public education, as well as the development of educational policies. International organizations set the benchmark for educational quality, evaluation and…

The President speaks of the principles which guide the Reagan Administration's education policies, and specifically discusses the proposed tuition tax credits for parents who send their children to private schools. The President also discusses proposed aid to human services programs which help the elderly and the poor. (CT)

Argues that, despite the plethora of federal, state, and local policies that now affect children, there is not (and never has been) a conscious national policy toward them except one: that all children should attend school until a state-mandated age. Offers, from the perspective of private education, nine recommendations for creating an…

The decline in academic achievements among public school students during the past two decades is discussed and several studies that support the evidence on the lack of educational excellence are cited. It is noted that the results of these studies offer a message about Catholic education, since many of the proposals offered to rectify this problem…

This paper examines research conducted on Catholic school administrators. The basic questions used to identify and categorize data were: (1) Who are the researchers and from what types of universities do they come? (2) What types of Catholic school administrators are studies? (3) How are these administrators studied? and (4) What is the focus of…

This paper considers factors contributing to the perspectives on educational reform held by educators in the public and private school systems of the United States and suggests a common perspective that can be used by both parties. The paper first defends four assertions: (1) the perspectives of those debating the appropriate roles of public and…

Between 1974 and 1979, nonpublic school enrollment in Maryland's Montgomery County rose 10 percent, while enrollment in the public school system decreased by 17 percent. A study undertaken to determine the reasons for this trend revealed that 53 percent of the parents who transferred their children from public to private schools did so because of…

Three principles concerning children's intellectual rights are proposed and discussed. The principles are: (1) intellectual rights of children include access to ideas and freedom of expression; (2) denial of rights on the basis of lack of competence requires empirical justification; and (3) denial of rights on the basis of lack of competence…

This study explores how and why parents choose to enroll their children in certain schools, and what criteria they apply in making an enrollment decision. Fourteen families with 10 typical and 6 special children were interviewed in depth about their experiences with preschool and school enrollment and their expectations regarding their children's…