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Gohir, Tas; Palmer, Grier – Industry and Higher Education, 2005
The UK's bioscience research base is one of the country's genuine long-term economic assets. It is critically important for the UK not to repeat past mistakes, when financial exploitation of innovative and groundbreaking bioresearch went overseas. This study reviews commercialization from the Department of Biological Sciences at Warwick University…
Descriptors: Technology Transfer, Departments, Case Studies, Biological Sciences
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McCardle, Ken – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2005
As a CIO leading an IT department through change and reorganization, the author developed the Enterprise Compass--a four-point guide to reaching goals and focusing achievement. The Enterprise Compass directs staff to look forward to future accomplishment, back for performance assessments, across campus for better understanding of practical working…
Descriptors: Technology Planning, Information Technology, Guidelines, Program Implementation
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Templer, Donald I.; Tyler, Lori; Nelson, Adam A.; Winstanley, Scott; Chicota, Cammy – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2004
The present study was conducted in the context of previous research on the validity, correlates, and stability over time of clinical psychology program graduate scores on the national licensing exam, the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP). The purpose of the present study was to determine the characteristics of programs…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Program Improvement, Clinical Psychology, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
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Hill, Jeffrey S. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2005
At first glance, academic assessment is simply another request for more paper. But it goes well beyond the design of a plan or blueprint. Instead, assessment involves the much more difficult task of creating a new culture. Borrowing from both the experience of the Department of Political Science at Northeastern Illinois University and from the…
Descriptors: Political Science, Educational Change, Educational Assessment, Educational Theories
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Fraser, James W. – Education Next, 2002
In this article, the author argues that university education programs' monopoly on teacher education--which makes them virtually the only path to state certification and thus to a career in public school teaching--has undermined the quality of the programs themselves. While he does not propose taking the professional preparation of teachers and…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Teacher Certification, Public Schools, Educational Quality
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Raines, Shirley C.; Alberg, Martha Squires – New Directions for Higher Education, 2003
Although all academic leaders do not begin their administrative careers as department chairs, for faculty this is a common first step. And it is reasonable to assume that strong department chairs are likely to become college deans, provosts, and presidents. In this chapter, the authors examine the experiences of academicians-turned-administrators,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Professional Development, Department Heads, Higher Education
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Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald – Across the Disciplines, 2006
The author presents a study that employs a modified version of Swales' (1990) move analysis to investigates the generic structure of introductions in a total of 120 writing samples of Ghanaian undergraduates in English and Sociology. The study reveals differences between the two groups in their use of move-structures.
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Undergraduate Students, Sociology, Foreign Countries
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1910
In volume 1, the Commissioner of Education introduces topics to be covered in the report and discusses the Bureau of Education's work. Chapter 1 concerns current education topics, including education boards and commissions, education associations, higher education, education standardization, public schools, departments and branches of study,…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Higher Education, Standards, Public Schools
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Sandberg, Håkan – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2004
Previous work has identified a lack of focused research in the field of team working in university continuing education (UCE). However, teamwork could be seen as self-evident in UCE, in part because UCE is of interest to employees, employers, universities and society. The aim of this study is to "describe" teamwork in UCE at three…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Teamwork, Case Studies, Universities
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
This annual bulletin, formerly prepared and published by the National Association of State Universities, has been published by the Bureau of Education for the past six years. The data, given are taken from reports received from the offices of the presidents of the various institutions, and the figures printed are substantially as given in those…
Descriptors: State Universities, State Colleges, School Statistics, Annual Reports
Zook, George F. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
The impression prevails that there exists some authoritative classification of higher institutions, a classification which has behind it the sanction of the Government. However, there is no comprehensive classification of collegiate institutions by any national governmental agency. Various agencies in the United States maintain lists of collegiate…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Classification, Boards of Education, Educational History
Wilson, Louis Round; Williams, Lester Alonzo – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
The work of the Bureau of extension of the University of North Carolina is presented here as typical of what can be done in making widely serviceable, the resources of an institution of higher learning. The university of North Carolina chartered in 1789 is one of the oldest of the State universities. Its genesis and development have been along…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Research, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics
Wilkins, Theresa Birch – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
The Office of Education publishes at regular intervals a compilation of lists of institutions of higher education accredited by nationally recognized regional and professional accrediting agencies and by State agencies responsible for accrediting within the various States. This bulletin is the eleventh in the series, replacing the 1956 edition.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Voluntary Agencies, Supervision
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1962
Part 1 of the 1961-62 Education Directory of the Office of Education covers state governments. State and territorial education departments' principal school officers and library extension agencies' executive officers are listed in order to enable officials' identification and illustrate organizational structure and hierarchy. The chief state and…
Descriptors: Directories, State Government, State Departments of Education, Public Schools
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
Part 1 of the 1962-63 Education Directory of the Office of Education covers state governments. The principal school officers of state and territorial education departments and library extension agencies' executive officers are listed in order to enable officials' identification and illustrate organizational structure and hierarchy. The chief state…
Descriptors: Directories, State Government, State Departments of Education, Public Schools
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