The concept of organizational culture has been central to the development of concepts, such as the learning organization and organizational learning, which are important within the field of adult education. However, the functionalist models of organizational culture, which have often relied on ethnographic and/or anecdotal studies of organizations…

This book presents methods business organizations and educational institutions can use to prepare their learners to become successful e-learners. "Preparing e-Learners for Self- Directed Learning" (Long) discusses self-direction as a prerequisite to e-learning and gives a list of ways to help enhance learners' self-directedness.…

This book contains eight papers from a detailed study of technical college provision in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, that raised the following four issues relevant to the transformation of technical colleges across South Africa: (1) the teaching and learning environment at technical colleges is suboptimal; (2) social relations at the technical…

This paper addresses the emerging evaluation and controlling system of Germany's Bundesanstalt fuer Arbeit, which is responsible for employment promotion. Part 1 discusses changes in employment administration in European countries, a process that has occurred in the Federal Republic of Germany, although most of the basic structures have been…

Research was conducted in 2000-01 on the long-term impacts of the 200 projects funded by Australia's Framing the Future in 1999 and of the 250 conducted in 2000. Two main research methodologies (case study investigations and a survey) were used for the study. Case study investigations were conducted with the Deaf Education Network in Sydney; South…

Previous research has shown that the majority of the characteristics of vocational education and training (VET) learners in Australia typically lie in the quadrant of "dependent" and "non-verbal," and preferred to learn from hands-on direct experience rather than through reading or listening. Workplace educational delivery…

Increasingly, foundations are choosing to engage in public policy debates as a way of leveraging their investments and increasing their impact in advancing improvements community-wide, statewide or nationally. For foundations, influencing public policy decisions can happen in different ways: funding policy research and dissemination, building…

This annual report presents a program-by-program analysis of the U.S. Department of Education's principal operating components: the Office of the Secretary; the Office of the Under Secretary; the Office of the General Council; the Office of Planning, Budget, and Evaluation; the Office of Management; the Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency…

The annual report of the U.S. Department of Education includes the Secretary of Education's report, and program-by-program analysis of agency principal operating components: the Office of the General Council; the Office of Planning, Budget, and Evaluation; the Office of Management; the Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs; the…

The annual report of the U.S. Department of Education includes the Secretary of Education's report, and program-by-program analysis of agency principal operating components: the Office of the Secretary; the Office of the Under Secretary, including the Office of Management, the Office of Planning, Budget, and Evaluation, and the Office of…

The annual report of the U.S. Department of Education includes the Secretary of Education's report, and program-by-program analysis of the agency's principal operating components: the Office of the Secretary; the Office of the Under Secretary, including the Office of Management, the Office of Planning, Budget, and Evaluation, and the Office of…

This annual report presents a program-by-program analysis of the U.S. Department of Education's principal operating components: the Office of the Secretary; the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Language Affairs; the Office for Civil Rights; the Office of Educational Research and Improvement; the Office of Elementary and Secondary…

Describes the process and timeline of a "cultural audit" of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, to determine ethnic and minority group distribution among students, faculty, and staff. Lessons learned include the needs for absolute administrative support, a committee representative of stakeholders, adequate time for…

South Carolina is planning to base all appropriations to higher education on performance indicators rather than enrollments and facility needs. The new law gives financial incentives to improve, and outlines 37 criteria for judging institutional performance. Institutions fear the system will be biased against them or not take into account their…

A support group formed by three deans of social work schools and sustained over a seven-year period of change for each institution helped each dean address issues in organizational change. Agenda topics included tenure and promotion, selecting senior administrators, dealing with faculty conflict, managing budgets, responding to student concerns,…