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Chidi, Nnebedum; Victor, Akinfolarin Akinwale – Online Submission, 2017
Unsatisfactory performance of secondary school students in external examinations in Oyo State seems to suggest lapses in principals' application of human capital development practices especially in the areas of training and mentoring of teachers to enhance instructional delivery. This unpleasant state of affair necessitated the researchers to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Human Capital, Educational Practices
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Cheong, Kee-Cheok; Hill, Christopher; Leong, Yin-Ching; Zhang, Chen – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
As human capital came to the fore in the discourse on economic growth, so too has the concepts of employment prospects and employability attributes as students transit to the labor market. This paper examines three issues in this transition in the context of Malaysia. These are, first, how important is employment prospects a consideration when…
Descriptors: Employment, Employers, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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Prasad, Ajnesh; Segarra, Paulina; Villanueva, Cristian E. – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Scholars have increasingly recognized how efforts among business schools to attain or maintain accreditation from external agencies (i.e. Association of Advance Collegiate Schools of Business [AACSB]) have engendered myriad consequences on the experiences of academic faculty members. Extant research that has investigated this phenomenon…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Accreditation (Institutions), Foreign Countries, Work Environment
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Sayer, Peter – AILA Review, 2019
There has been a rapid global expansion of English instruction in the early grades in public school curricula. Particularly in so-called developing countries, the increase of and its shift from exclusively private to public education is linked to the idea that acquiring English promotes personal, social, and economic development. The author takes…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Hunkin, Elise – Power and Education, 2016
The last two decades have seen the emergence of a global education paradigm that has reimagined education through the lens of neo-liberal ideology. Education policy agendas and discourses in current times are globally governed through transnational networks, which have increased the opaqueness of education policymaking. For critical policy…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Change
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Peurach, Donald J.; Glazer, Joshua L.; Winchell Lenhoff, Sarah – Educational Policy, 2016
The national education reform agenda has rapidly expanded to include attention to continuous improvement research in education. The purpose of this analysis is to propose a new approach to "developmental evaluation" aimed at building a foundation for continuous improvement in large-scale school improvement networks, on the argument that…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Educational Improvement, Networks, Network Analysis
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Beighton, Chris – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
This paper analyses recent policy and discourse in the UK lifelong learning sector to identify a tension in discourse which positions teacher educators as essential to the knowledge economy while simultaneously insisting on the deficits they represent. Drawing on critical analyses from Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurizio Lazzarato and Gilles Deleuze, I…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Teacher Educators, Teacher Role
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Khmeleva, Galina A.; Bulavko, Olga A. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The model of shift share analysis was improved to show that the foundation of economy's transition to industrially innovational type of development is created at the local level in case of developing countries. Analysis of structural shifts in 28 large cities in 2008-2014 showed that the perspective of industrially innovational development is yet…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metropolitan Areas, Economic Change, Economic Factors
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Khattab, Nabil; Fenton, Steve – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2016
In this paper, we argue that the power structure that lies within the UK elite universities dictates a division of labour through which the inflows of overseas academics into the UK academic labour markets are skewed towards these elite academic institutions where they are employed primarily in research-only posts. These posts, are less valued and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Selective Admission
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Torres, A. Chris – Urban Education, 2016
An unsustainable workload is considered the primary cause of teacher turnover at Charter Management Organizations (CMOs), yet most reports provide anecdotal evidence to support this claim. This study uses 2010-2011 survey data from one large CMO and finds that teachers' perceptions of workload are significantly associated with decisions to leave…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Faculty Mobility, Faculty Workload, Charter Schools
Cullen, Julie Berry; Koedel, Cory; Parsons, Eric – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2016
Improving public sector workforce quality is challenging in sectors such as education where worker productivity is difficult to assess and manager incentives are muted by political and bureaucratic constraints. In this paper, we study how providing information to principals about teacher effectiveness and encouraging them to use the information in…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Teacher Effectiveness, Labor Turnover, Teacher Persistence
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Robert Crosnoe; Kelly M. Purtell; Pamela Davis-Kean; Arya Ansari; Aprile D. Benner – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Because children from low-income families benefit from preschool but are less likely than other children to enroll, identifying factors that promote their enrollment can support research and policy aiming to reduce socioeconomic disparities in education. In this study, we tested an accommodations model with data on 6,250 children in the Early…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Low Income Groups, Longitudinal Studies, Surveys
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Tam, Vicky C.; Chan, Jackie W. W.; Li, Sandy C.; Pow, Jacky – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2018
The application of information and communication technology (ICT) in education has been gaining attention worldwide. Educators and school administrators are interested in the myriad possibilities offered by new technologies to enrich teaching materials and to provide ubiquitous learning environments to enhance students' learning. This case study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Technology Integration, Educational Technology
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Young, Cheri A.; Haffejee, Badiah; Corsun, David L. – Journal of Management Education, 2018
Given increasing globalization and the foreign-born workforce characterizing many organizations around the world, managers are increasingly called on to effectively manage a culturally diverse workforce. One way to increase the cultural intelligence and empathy of managers was proposed by Ragins, who indicated that mentors in diversified mentoring…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Empathy, Mentors, Intervention
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Nyaruwata, Leonorah Tendayi – Distance Education, 2018
This paper presents the successes and challenges faced in implementing the dual-mode strategy in higher education in the context of feminist theory. Worldwide, women's universities have been established by governments and private organisations to involve women more fully in the country's economic, political and social activities. The establishment…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Success, Barriers, Mixed Methods Research
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