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Kell, Chris – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1999
States that when counselors join a multi-disciplinary team the variety of attitudes towards confidentiality is often not made explicit. Questions how counselors can protect the patient, and themselves, within a team approach to medical care. Contends that corporate ideology is the main variable affecting the integration of a confidential…
Descriptors: Accountability, Confidentiality, Cooperation, Counselor Client Relationship
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Evans, G. R. – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2006
The "Times Higher Education Supplement" of 9 February 2006 briefly reported that the Privy Council, tasked with approving the statutes of universities, was now going to leave their internal arrangements in their own hands. These underlying policy directions need to be set in the context of the important change of emphasis from…
Descriptors: Universities, Risk Management, Educational Policy, Educational Administration
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Riley, Dan – Education and the Law, 2007
Under Prime Minister Tony Blair's New Labour government, increased criminalisation of previously non-criminal behaviour, anti-social behaviour and greater accountability of children and parents for their behaviour were evident. The article provides an overview of anti-social behaviour legislation and the implications for children, schools and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Well Being, Infants, Antisocial Behavior
Beaulieu, Paul – Centre for Literacy of Quebec, 2006
This bibliography was compiled for the 2006 Summer Institute at The Centre for Literacy-"Accountability and Public Trust: Restoring the Balance." The selections include lectures, research studies, policy papers, and government documents that describe and analyze recent concepts of accountability in the context of government funding in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Trust (Psychology), Financial Support
Lumby, Jacky – 2003
In 1993 the government of the United Kingdom introduced a raft of measures designed to improve practice in postcompulsory, nonadvanced education. A survey of postcompulsory institutions suggests that the same policies have led to different outcomes in the two main types of institution: general further education colleges and sixth form colleges.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Government Role
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Jeffrey, Bob – Journal of Education Policy, 2002
Argues that a humanist discourse prevalent in teacher relations with students, colleagues, and advisor/inspectors has been challenged by a "performativity" discourse that, among other things, distances teachers from students and creates a dependency culture in opposition to previous mutual and intimate relations. Concludes that the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Humanism
Mansell, Jim; Elliott, Teresa – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2001
British residential care staff (n=143) were given scenarios describing tasks they might carry out and asked what would happen if they did or did not do them. Although a majority reported consequences from managers or coworkers, a large minority did not. The tasks for which most reported consequences were administration. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adults, Attendants, Foreign Countries
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Lund, Darren E. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2006
Contemporary academic discourse about diversity and discrimination is a multilayered and contested landscape, with intersecting and conflicting views from a variety of ideological and theoretical positions even from within the field of education. Compounding this tumult are manifestations of nationalist perspectives that may employ similar…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Academic Discourse, Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries
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Riddell, Sheila; Kane, Jean; Banks, Pauline; Wilson, Alastair; Baynes, Anne; Dyson, Alan; Millward, Alan – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2002
The second of two articles on individualized education programs (IEPs) reports on a study of the relationship between IEPs and student achievement. The study found agreement among policy makers, administrators, and educators that IEPs serve an accountability function, improve teaching, and enhance learning. However, different groups emphasized…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Daines, John – Adults Learning (England), 1994
The syllabus for Workers' Education Association courses was revised to include explicit learning objectives while attempting to overcome adult student resistance to formal assessment. The form enables students to comment on the course and evaluate their own outcomes. (SK)
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries
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Evans, G. R. – Higher Education Review, 2000
Discusses the 1992 British Education Reform Act and identifies weaknesses in the existing accountability structures in both old and new universities and related implications for academic freedom. Argues that reviewing the quality of the administration may be as important reviewing the quality of teaching and research. (DB)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Accountability, College Administration, Educational Legislation
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Alderman, Geoffrey; Brown, Roger – Higher Education Quarterly, 2005
This article provides a comparative analysis of the systems used for the "accreditation" of degree-granting institutions in the USA (accreditation) and the UK (audit). The authors begin by outlining the similarities and differences between the two processes. They point out that audit is not the subject of political controversy in the way…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Quality Control, Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education
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Fischman, Wendy; DiBara, Jennifer A.; Gardner, Howard – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2006
What is the responsibility of an educator--where does it begin and end? We report on a study of teachers at four admired public high schools in urban areas in the US. The teachers describe their deep commitment to meeting students' academic needs, as well as their developmental, social and emotional needs. The ways these teachers construe…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Urban Teaching, National Standards, Student Needs
Watson, Keith – Educational Administration, 1980
Discusses five issues affecting education in the United Kingdom--financial constraints, reduction in the number of students, accountability and participation, concern for standards, and changes in social patterns. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Administrators, Declining Enrollment
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Kerry, Carolle – School Leadership & Management, 2005
This paper looks critically at the government's year 2000 initiative to make school governors responsible for headteacher performance management (HTPM). A case study, carried out at John Wiseman Community Primary School by the author as an insider-researcher, is augmented by questionnaire and interview data from other institutions. Critical…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Schools, Foreign Countries, School Administration
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