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Fifty Years on -- Limitations and Opportunities within Ireland's Higher Education System and Structures
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Breda McTaggart – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Regional Technical Colleges, later Institutes of Technology, were developed just over fifty years ago in response to a perceived gap in knowledge, skills, and competencies required to promote market growth and success (Thorn, 2018). It was envisaged that this change to Ireland's higher education landscape would be capable of continuing adaptation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Technical Institutes, Educational History
Challenges and Opportunities for Culturally Responsive Leadership in Schools: Evidence from Four European Countries
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Brown, Martin; Altrichter, Herbert; Shiyan, Igor; Rodríguez Conde, María José; McNamara, Gerry; Herzog-Punzenberger, Barbara; Vorobyeva, Irina; Vangrando, Valentina; Gardezi, Sarah; O'Hara, Joe; Postlbauer, Alexandra; Milyaeva, Daria; Sergeevna, Natalia; Fulterer, Sieglinde; García, Adriana Gamazo; Sánchez, Lourdes – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
Whether voluntary or enforced, increasing patterns of migration have significantly impacted schools by making them linguistically, culturally, religiously and ethnically more diverse than ever before. This increasing diversity requires school leaders to put in place mechanisms to ensure equity of participation for migration background students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Cultural Relevance, Cultural Awareness
Implications for Equity and Diversity of Increasing International Student Numbers in European Universities: Policies and Practice in Four National Contexts
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Haapakoski, Jani; Pashby, Karen – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
This paper examines the main rationales for and possible implications of the policy of increasing international student numbers in higher education (HE). Drawing on critical discourse analysis, we map key themes emerging from two sets of data--university strategy documents and interviews with staff--collected at eight universities in four national…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Student Diversity, Higher Education, Universities