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Goddard, C. R.; And Others – Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 1990
The article responds to a previous one addressing child welfare practice and legislation in Australia. It maintains that child protection services in Victoria are inadequate, lacking in accountability and good working relations between the police and community services, and fail to meet standards of practice. (DB)
Descriptors: Accountability, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare

Dimmock, Clive – School Leadership & Management, 1999
Summarizes a case study of dilemmas facing a Western Australian secondary headteacher involved in restructuring his school. Analyzes his methods of coping with intractable situations (like school expansion and performance management) and outcomes. Dilemmas offer both opportunities and challenges for visionary, proactive, and creative school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Coping, Creativity

Wildy, Helen; Wallace, John – School Leadership & Management, 1998
Describes how two reforms--portfolio culture and teacher professionalism--converge in a systemwide program for school leaders' professional development. Investigates use of portfolios to help (Australian) principals, deputy principals, and department heads improve their performance and accountability. Participants used portfolios as evidence of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Department Heads, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Volante, Louis; Cherubini, Lorenzo – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2007
Renewed calls for greater accountability within schools have led to a rapid expansion of standards-based reforms across the Western world. Establishing and raising standards, and measuring the attainment of those standards, are intended to encourage excellence in our schools. Yet concern is increasing about the fairness of external testing and the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Accountability
McWilliam, Erica; Perry, Lea-Anne – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2006
This article addresses risk and its minimization as a powerful rationality for driving leadership practices in contemporary schools. It explores risk-consciousness as "a moral climate of politics" (Giddens 2002) and as a management imperative that impacts on any contemporary organization, including schools. The impact of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Accountability, Risk
Murray, David; Dollery, Brian – Higher Education Policy, 2006
Australian higher education has undergone radical change aimed transforming universities into commercial enterprises less dependent on public funding. Despite some significant successes, including dramatic increases in the numbers of domestic and international students, decreased Commonwealth subsidies, and more private sector finance, there are…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Classification, Accountability, Foreign Students
Barr, Andrew; Gillard, Julia; Firth, Verity; Scrymgour, Marion; Welford, Rod; Lomax-Smith, Jane; Bartlett, David; Pike, Bronwyn; Constable, Elizabeth – Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2008
Improving educational outcomes for all young Australians is central to the nation's social and economic prosperity and will position young people to live fulfilling, productive and responsible lives. Young Australians are therefore placed at the centre of the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals. These goals are: (1) Australian schooling…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Outcomes of Education, Educational Objectives, Youth
Macpherson, R. J. S. – 1982
The process of school review currently used in Victoria (Australia) involves an internal school evaluation, a School Review Board visit and report, and a followup stage. Six months after the board had visited one high school, a retrospective view of the review process was gathered from 8 students, 9 parents, 24 teachers, and 5 administrators. As a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Administration, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Northian, 1975
Descriptors: Academic Education, Accountability, Adult Education, Culture Conflict
Slertchly, A. R. B. – Vestes, 1976
Reasons and remedies for breakdown, alienation, and apathy in universities are explored. Suggestions are made for creating the conditions within which they can be reconstituted as purposive, creative, adaptable institutions continuingly satisfying the needs of their participants and the community. (LBH)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Responsibility

Walker, W. G. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1971
Themes of the program were centralization and bureaucracy, planning and systems analysis, accountability and assessment, and teacher negotiations and participation in policymaking. (Author/JF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Bureaucracy, Collective Bargaining, Conferences

O'Brien, Peter W.; And Others – Planning and Changing, 1980
Describes a process used to involve community, staff, and students in goal-setting in the Australian Open College of Further Education. (JM)
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Involvement, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries
Marsh, C. J. – Unicorn, 1977
A challenge facing school staffs is the development of school-based curriculum. Some guidelines and incentives for increasing staff participation in curriculum development are presented. Available from: Australian College of Education, 916 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia, $2.50 single copy. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Models

Marginson, Simon – Australian Journal of Education, 1990
Use of outcomes measures of educational quality (1) promotes measurable values over those that cannot be measured; (2) emphasizes monetary values of outcomes when physical measures may be more appropriate; (3) creates the illusion of precision; (4) uses monolithic modeling; and (5) makes global claims based on narrow measures. (MSE)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Moses, Ingrid – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1989
A discussion of the use of performance management for faculty and nonacademic staff in colleges and universities first offers the definition of performance management used in business, examines colleges and universities as institutions of learning, and suggests the notion of quality maintenance as a better approach to personnel management. (MSE)
Descriptors: Accountability, College Administration, College Faculty, Evaluation Criteria