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Direct linkLebeau, Yann; Mills, David – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2008
After years of neglect, there is renewed international interest in higher education in sub-Saharan Africa. Comparative projects have been launched on a continental scale, looking at the socio-economic relevance of higher education, often with the aim of reviving failing institutions. A new "transformation" policy paradigm has replaced a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research and Development, Models, Educational Finance
Brown, Phillip; Lauder, Hugh; Ashton, David – European Educational Research Journal, 2008
The dominant view today is of a global knowledge-based economy, driven by the application of new technologies, accelerating the shift to high-skilled, high-waged European economies. This view is reflected in the expansion of higher education and the key role of higher education in national and European economic policy. The Lisbon agenda seeks to…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Human Capital, Global Approach
Download full textJacobs, Karen Dupre – Online Submission, 2007
The Kritsonis Teeter-Totter Model, developed by Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, is utilized to cultivate a legacy of transformational leaders in schools throughout the United States. In a time when change in schools is inevitable, the model aides school leaders in better defining their individual role in schools and that of their stakeholders in…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Educational Improvement, Educational Development, Transformative Learning
Caruso, Marcelo – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2007
The monitorial system of education was the most promising device in the field of primary education at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Its astonishing spread across the five continents represents one of the earliest processes of internationalization in the field of elementary schooling, which has rarely been analysed from the point of view…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Elementary Education, Comparative Education
Nworie, John – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2007
The field of instructional technology has continued to evolve since its inception in the early 1900s. Academic technology units in higher education have witnessed tremendous change in the last one and a half decades. The changes have led to reorganizations, realignments, adoption of innovative administrative structures, increased demands for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Instructional Development, Performance Technology
Sisitka, Heila Lotz; Schudel, Ingrid – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2007
In the early 1990s, in response to the emphasis laid on environment and development issues by the new South African Constitution, Rhodes University undertook several initiatives such as establishing the first Chair of Environmental Education (EE) in Africa. Another important initiative was the introduction of an open-entry participatory course for…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Educational Development
Andrei, Tudorel; Stancu, Stelian; Isaic-Maniu, Irina Maria – Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods, 2007
Here is a short presentation of the main statistical indicators for higher education. The analysis was structured on national and regional level and also taking in account the differences between private and state universities. We have focused on some indicators regarding students and teachers flows. Romanian case is a special one, that had no…
Descriptors: Private Education, Higher Education, State Universities, Foreign Countries
Ng, Shun-wing – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2007
The decentralization of the power of school governance is one of the recent trends of educational development in a global society in which the notion of parents as stakeholders and partners of state education is being gradually recognized, albeit at different paces, in several Asian countries. This paper attempts to analyze the chronological…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Governance, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Jones, Phillip W. – Comparative Education, 2007
The impact on educational analysis of mainstream international relations (IR) theories is yet to realize its full potential. The problem of education in relation to the construction of world order is considered in relation to core developments in IR theory since the Second World War. In particular, the global architecture of education is seen as a…
Descriptors: International Relations, International Organizations, International Education, Comparative Education
Hinzen, Heribert – Convergence, 2007
This paper looks at the context in which preparations are under way for CONFINTEA VI, the next UNESCO International Conference on Adult Education. The last CONFINTEA was in 1997, and ever since, a series of international conferences and initiatives dealing with adult and continuing, non-formal and out-of-school education, literacy and basic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Conferences (Gatherings), Continuing Education
Gillard, Derek – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2007
The author provides notes on the historical context and membership of the consultative committees chaired by Sir W. H. Hadow, summarises each of the six reports produced between 1923 and 1933, and assesses the extent to which they informed the development of education in England, noting that the Plowden Committee felt compelled to reiterate many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change
Ofulue, Christine I. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
The use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to bridge the communication gap between teacher and learner has been identified as a major characteristic of Open and Distance Learning (ODL). In many developing counties, including Nigeria, several barriers prevent OD learners from maximising the potentials of ICTs to enhance their learning.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Literacy, Distance Education, Barriers
Stedron, Jennifer M.; Shah, Tajel; Bautsch, Brenda; Martin, Patricia; Deye, Sunny; Bailey, Lamar; Handel, Stephen J.; Vasavada, Natasha; Shen, Yilan; Exstrom, Michelle; Shelton, Sara; Santiago, Helen; Bell, Julie Davis; Quin, Bradley J.; Baum, Sandy; Bell, Julie Davis; Sturtevant, Anne; Bautsch, Brenda; Williams, Ronald; Kerouac, Pamela; Badolato, Vincent – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2010
There are formidable challenges at every level of the system that confront students who aspire to enroll and succeed in college. In 2007, the College Board formed the Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education to study the educational pipeline as a single continuum and identify solutions to increase the number of students who…
Descriptors: Public Policy, State Action, State Legislation, State Surveys
Goel, Sanjay – Online Submission, 2010
Community and culture significantly influence value orientation, perceived needs, and motivation as well as provide the ground for creating shared understanding. All disciplines have their own cultures, and all cultures evolve through cross-cultural exchanges. The computing community has created and documented a sound body of knowledge of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Engineering Education, Investigations, Educational Research
Schmidt, William H.; Houang, Richard; Shakrani, Sharif – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2009
Whether to adopt national standards and tests has long been a subject of lively debate in the United States. With 47 states now participating in the Common Core State Standards Initiative, and a commitment from Education Secretary Arne Duncan to allocate hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to the development of common tests, the country is…
Descriptors: State Standards, National Standards, Foreign Countries, Federal Government
