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Sidhu, Ravinder – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2008
This article inquires into the "calculative practices" that are used to regulate quality in higher education. After providing a historical snapshot of the antecedents of quality regimes, I discuss university ranking systems (league tables) and the UK's Research Assessment Exercise. I ask two questions: first, what do the visibilities of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Trust (Psychology), Educational Quality
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Stronach, Ian; Frankham, Jo; Stark, Sheila – Journal of Education Policy, 2007
This article examines the state's contemporary construction of "sex" as an educational problem in England. It does so by interrogating the notion of the "pregnant teenager" as it is semantically and statistically constructed in accountability discourses, as well as research constrained within them. It then examines certain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Educational Research, Adolescents
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Lambert, Cath – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
Transformational leadership is widely recognised as being central to the implementation of educational reform. In this paper I draw on selected educational speeches made by New Labour politicians in order to locate shifting discourses of leadership within the broader accountability framework through which the terms of the relationship between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformational Leadership, Masculinity, Educational Change
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Lomas, Laurie – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2007
Purpose: The paper seeks to deepen the understanding of university lecturers' perceptions of quality. Design/methodology/approach: The paper employs a literature review to establish a robust analytical framework and the use of in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a random sample of 20 lecturers in a range of UK universities. The interview…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Quality Control
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Davies, John; Douglas, Alex; Douglas, Jacqueline – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2007
Purpose: The paper seeks to explore the effect of academic culture on the implementation of the European Foundation for Quality Management's (EFQM) Excellence Model in UK universities. Design/methodology/approach: A literature review reveals several aspects, which collectively define the academic culture in UK universities. These aspects were…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Universities, Case Studies
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Harris, Belinda – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2008
Schools in the UK and beyond continue to experience the damaging effects of "top down," "one size fits all" "outcome-based" educational reforms. Educators struggle to meet the dual demands of a punishing performativity- and accountability-driven regime alongside the personal, social, emotional and learning needs of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Emotional Development, Students, Foreign Countries
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Lefstein, Adam – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
How and why is national policy translated into interactions between teachers and pupils? This article examines the enactment of the English National Literacy Strategy (NLS) in a case study of two literacy lessons, which are drawn from a yearlong ethnographic study of the NLS in one school. Although the teacher taught directly from and adhered…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Ethnography, Literacy, Reading Instruction
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Wiseman, Alexander W. – Review of Research in Education, 2010
In the past 150 years, educational systems have expanded and become integrally linked with economic, political, and social status in modern nation-states. As the stakes for education have risen, so has the call for more and improved use of scientific evidence as a basis for educational policymaking. Evidence from averaged scores on international…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Whetton, Chris – Educational Research, 2009
Background: National curriculum assessment (NCA) in England has been in place for nearly 20 years. It has its origins in a political desire to regulate education, holding schools accountable. However, its form and nature also reflect educational and curriculum concerns and technical assessment issues. Purpose: The aim of the article is to provide…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Biographies, Foreign Countries, Accountability
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Black, P.; Wiliam, D. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
In recent years, a number of analyses assessments used in different countries have appeared. Analyses emerging from international comparisons such as Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have focused on what might be termed "cross-sectional" comparisons;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Measurement, Comparative Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hoyle, Eric; Wallace, Mike – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2007
This article adopts "irony" as a frame for understanding some of the consequences of the reform movement in the UK. A distinction is drawn between the ironies that are endemic in all organizations and rooted in ambiguities and dilemmas, and the ironies that specifically flow from the disjunction between central policies and the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Bard, Julia – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2007
This article explores the implications of funding increasing numbers of religious schools on the children of minority communities. It argues that handing responsibility for schooling to religious bodies undermines transparency, democracy and accountability in educational provision. Far from promoting "inclusion" as the Government claims,…
Descriptors: Democracy, Private Schools, Financial Support, Minority Group Children
Adelman, Clifford – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2009
The title of this document is a deliberate play on the title of the biennial reports on the progress of Bologna produced by the European Students' Union, "Bologna With Student Eyes." It is a way of paying tribute to student involvement in the Bologna reforms, and marking a parallel student working participation in the state system…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Qualifications, Educational Change
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Plowright, David – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2007
The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) is responsible for carrying out external inspections of all schools in England, in the UK. Compared with early inspections, there is now an increased focus on the contribution that school self-evaluation can make to the inspection process. However, it is clear from studies undertaken in recent years…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Institutional Evaluation, Self Evaluation (Groups)
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Taylor, Ian – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2007
This article assesses the impact of education reform and the new public management (NPM) on the discretion of school teachers. The focal point of the study is Michael Lipsky's theory of discretion which casts public service professionals and others involved in service delivery as "street-level bureaucrats" because their high degree of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Public Schools, Educational Policy, Governance
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