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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
Dalin, Per – 1980
No country in Europe, with the exception of France, provides specially designed professional preservice programs to prepare educational administrators. This is partly because administrators have little power, being controlled at one level by central politicians and administrators and at the institutional level by teachers and teacher unions.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Centralization, Change Agents
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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