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Olivier Guyottot; Anne-Sophie Thelisson – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Recent studies have highlighted the major challenges faced by managers in the higher education sector and shown the contradictory demands which foster paradoxical tensions. Previous works have also underlined some specific tensions and rigidities that business school deans regularly face in their role. Yet, few studies have empirically explored…
Descriptors: Deans, Administrator Role, Business Schools, Foreign Countries
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Ball, Stephen J.; Maroy, Christian – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2009
This paper, based on 14 case studies of schools situated in six local urban spaces (within the urban agglomerations of Budapest, Charleroi, Lille, Lisbon, London and the Creteil/Paris region), will analyse the internal logics of action of these schools and show that they are conditioned by the interaction between internal (school narrative…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Case Studies, Urban Schools, Foreign Countries
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Boffo, Stefano; Dubois, Pierre; Moscati, Roberto – Tertiary Education and Management, 2008
The transformation of higher education systems under the pressure of new needs required by the "society of knowledge" in France and Italy has had a deep effect on the relationship between state and university, and therefore a direct impact on university governance. This article sums up the main results of a research carried out on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governance, Foreign Countries, Resistance to Change
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Henri, James; Hay, Lyn; Oberg, Dianne – School Libraries Worldwide, 2002
Describes an international study of the principal's role in developing and supporting school library programs that was conducted in Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Japan, Scotland, and South Korea. Discusses three survey instruments that were used to provide information for principals and teacher-librarians that would inform their efforts to…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy
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Drodge, Stephen – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2002
Comparison of management in further education colleges in Britain, Regionale Opleidingen Centra in the Netherlands, and lycees professionnels in France found they operate in different administrative and cultural contexts but are affected by similar pressures and issues, particularly in three areas: managers' role in education, management of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
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Warnet, Marc – School Organisation, 1994
Emphasizes the importance of the principal's strategic thinking for school success. Clarifies the processes and factors influencing strategy determination by comparing a competitive, advantaged-based approach with a value-based approach. Uses a private French religious school to assess each approach's main contributions and relative importance and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Competition, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Scanning
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Boer, Harry de; Goedegebuure, Leo – Australian Universities' Review, 1995
A survey of 112 higher education institutions in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Flanders (Belgium) sought information about governance and decision-making structures, including the involvement of faculty, administrators, and governing councils at different levels; areas in which these actors participate…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Administrator Selection, Budgeting
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Baudelot, Olga; Rayna, Sylvie; Mayer, Susanna; Musatti, Tullia – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2003
Surveyed local early childhood coordinators in France and Italy regarding their status, training, and tasks in order to compare the function of coordinating municipal early childhood education and care services in these two countries. Found impressive similarities in services, policies, and the function of coordination. Also found that service…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
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Allies, Christian; Troquet, Michel – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2004
Trade globalisation is beginning to affect universities worldwide. In response to this outside pressure, institutions have become more geared to gaining international repute through research than to maintaining their reputation at home for the quality of their teaching. As a result of this focus on research, French universities, for example, are…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, International Trade, Educational Quality