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Copeland, Mo – Independent School, 2016
For years, schools have tended to approach budgets with some basic assumptions and aspirations and general wish lists but with scant data to drive the budget conversation. Suppose there were a better way? What if the conversation started with a review of the last five to ten years of data on three key mission- and strategy-driven indicators:…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Budgeting, Budgets
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Jackson, Denise; Tomlinson, Michael – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
The paper draws on evidence from a survey of Australian and UK students (N = 433) on students' career values and their relationship to their proactivity in career self-management. Much of the dominant approaches to careers have focused on career competencies and adaptability in the context of increased movement from traditional to more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Work Attitudes, Values
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Kant, Nikhil; Prasad, K. D.; Anjali, Kumari – Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to derive criteria for a strategic selection of learning management system (LMS) after making an analysis of the feedback data collected from learners and academic counselors in open and distance learning (ODL) to evaluate their perceptions. This analysis hints at the need to implement a learning management system (LMS) in…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Distance Education, Strategic Planning, Competition
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Mandigo, James; Corlett, John; Sheppard, Joanna – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2021
While 83% of Canadian universities identify global citizenship education as a top five priority and 97% provide opportunities for their students to participate in study abroad, only 3% of students take advantage in any given year. Faculty-led study abroad courses that are for-credit, short in duration, focused in a student's disciplinary area of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kinesiology, Global Approach, Higher Education
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Kemp, Shaun – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
This article engages with diachronic analysis, an analysis of changes over time, as it relates to the field of language planning and policy (LPP) through a case study of a local language problem: the introduction of Chinese language into an established government school over a 10-year period. Using cultural-historical activity theory, expanding…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Chinese, Case Studies
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Jayes, Mark; Borrett, Sophie; Bose, Arpita – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: Mental capacity legislation in the UK is designed to safeguard the rights of people who may need support, or may be unable, to make autonomous decisions. Very limited evidence has been published about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the application of mental capacity legislation and, to our knowledge, none on the ability of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Cognitive Ability, Civil Rights
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Lang, David; Wang, Alex; Dalal, Nathan; Paepcke, Andreas; Stevens, Mitchell L. – AERA Open, 2022
Committing to a major is a fateful step in an undergraduate education, yet the relationship between courses taken early in an academic career and ultimate major issuance remains little studied at scale. Using transcript data capturing the academic careers of 26,892 undergraduates enrolled at a private university between 2000 and 2020, we describe…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), College Planning, Natural Language Processing
Santos, Janiel; Peters, Eleanor Eckerson – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2022
Informed by interviews with campus administrators and Northern Arizona University (NAU) students, the "Student Success is the DNA of NAU" case study outlines strategies this public, four-year, Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) is employing to build NAU into an engine of opportunity for students and the communities they represent. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Hispanic American Students, College Students, Minority Serving Institutions
Kathleen Pilar Blanco Eble – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is a qualitative study includes documents analysis and interviews. The study focus is applying entrepreneurial theory to funding public higher education in the U.S. The critical portion of the dissertation focuses on the best practices they have implemented to practice academic entrepreneurialism. The literature review takes a…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Educational Practices, Higher Education, Case Studies
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Barros, Sandro R.; Devarajan, Darshana – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
In 'Literature and Life', Deleuze remarks that all literature manifests as delirium, and, as such, the destiny of literature is to play itself out between two poles that create and reflect life back to itself: what the human desires, and the constant changes life imposes onto us. Taking Deleuze's statement as a point of departure concerning the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Neoliberalism, Minority Group Students, Language Planning
James P. Sampson Jr. Ed.; Janet G. Lenz Ed.; Emily Bullock-Yowell Ed.; Debra S. Osborn Ed.; Seth C. W. Hayden Ed. – Online Submission, 2023
This book's aim is to improve the integration of Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory, research, and practice, leading to more cost-effective career interventions that help persons to make informed and careful career decisions over a lifetime. The starting point for the book's content was the 2004 Sampson, Reardon, Peterson, and Lenz…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Information Processing, Career Development, Career Choice
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Yawson, David Eshun; Yamoah, Fred Amofa – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2020
The concepts of employability and generational effects are emerging disciplines within the context of business education management research, but their complementary role in curriculum development and enrichment is yet to be explored. The study employs a work-related employability course for a business school undergraduate cohort (N = 267)…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Curriculum Enrichment, College Curriculum, Business Administration Education
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Khan, Jahidur Rahman; Sheikh, Md. Tuhin; Muurlink, Olav – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
Breastfeeding duration has been linked to maternal and child health. Current-status (or interval-censored) data offers a more reliable measure of duration and cessation of breastfeeding than approaches that rely on recall, due to high percentage of 'heaping'. The present study explores the determinants of breastfeeding termination within the first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nutrition, Child Health, Decision Making
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Bigby, Christine – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2020
Background: Dedifferentiated policy treats adults with intellectual disabilities as part of the larger group of people with disabilities. The implications of the dedifferentiated National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) for adults with intellectual disabilities are explored. Methods: Analysis of peer reviewed and grey literature between 2014…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Public Policy, Intellectual Disability, Adults
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Park, In-Jo; Rie, Juil; Kim, Hyang Sook; Park, Jiyoung – Journal of Career Development, 2020
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of a future time perspective (FTP)-based career intervention on career decisions. The career intervention consisted of three sessions based on three factors of FTP: opportunity, value, and connectedness. The study was performed with 41 college students who were randomly assigned to the…
Descriptors: Time Perspective, Intervention, Career Choice, Long Range Planning
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