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Insights into Accounting Education in a COVID-19 World
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Sangster, Alan, Ed.; Stoner, Greg, Ed.; Flood, Barbara, Ed. – Accounting Education, 2020
This paper presents a compilation of personal reflections from 66 contributors on the impact of, and responses to, COVID-19 in accounting education in 45 different countries around the world. It reveals a commonality of issues, and a variability in responses, many positive outcomes, including the creation of opportunities to realign learning and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Summer Learning Programs and Student Success in the Global Economy
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Smink, Jeffrey D. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2007
In the United States and around the rest of the world, there is a renewed focus on ensuring that schools are providing students with the skills necessary to compete in the global economy. High-quality summer learning programs are an ideal vehicle to help students gain content knowledge and develop innovative skills: they provide time for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Thinking Skills, Global Approach, Summer Programs
Path Dependency and the Politics of Quality Assurance in Higher Education
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Perellon, Juan F. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2005
National policy agendas for quality assurance in higher education (HE) are increasingly influenced by supra-national trends and decisions. Taking Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands as examples, the paper analyses how supranational trends are re-interpreted at the national level and how recently formulated national policies combine the demands…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Methodological Reflections on Using the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale as a Measure To Make Cross-National Evaluations of Quality.
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Calder, Pamela – Early Child Development and Care, 1996
Studied usefulness of Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS) for cross-national comparisons of nursery school quality. Found that ratings can be made in two hours, and can provide comparisons on several important criteria, but because the scale is empirically, rather than theoretically based, its use can obscure cultural differences in…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria
Quality Assessment in Spain: An On-Going Process.
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Mora, Jose-Gines – Higher Education Management, 1997
Recently the Spanish higher education board launched a university evaluation program to institutionalize quality assessment as an extended, continuous, system-wide process. Self-study and external assessments are the program's cornerstones. The new quality assessment program and the experiences leading to it are explained. Potential problems and…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Outcomes Assessment, Comparative Analysis, Educational History
Reports on the Interviews about Reception and Use of International Indicators
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European Educational Research Journal, 2004
This article presents seven reports on the interviews about reception and use of international indicators among respondents from Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain and United Kingdom. The first report is based on interviews with 5 respondents occupied with different aspects of the macro level of the Flemish educational system.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Reports, Educational Indicators