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Sónia Cardoso; Alberto Amaral; Teresa Carvalho – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
Doctoral education in Europe has changed significantly in the last two to three decades. This transformation, visible in the structuring dimensions of doctoral education, appears to indicate a move to a more instrumental approach. This paper aims to determine the prevalence of an instrumental concept of doctoral education in Portuguese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Degrees, Social Systems, Educational Change
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Turchi, Antonella; Greco, Serena; Morini, Elettra; Nencioni, Paola – Research on Education and Media, 2023
Schools are a complex system made up of not only relationships, infrastructures, and challenges, but also constraints. It seems essential that schools, as complex organizations, work in synergy, according to a shared vision with all the actors involved in the educational process. School management is now part of a process that is increasingly…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Leadership, Governance, Foreign Countries
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Ana Godonoga; Barbara Sporn; Katharina Reidl – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Universities, and business schools specifically, are experiencing a transformation of their societal mission. Similar to the STEM fields, business schools are nested in global competitive environments facing multiple competing pressures, one being the need to demonstrate their social impact (SI). While business schools signal their commitment to…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Institutional Mission, Management Development, Educational Change
Gouëdard, Pierre – OECD Publishing, 2021
Across OECD countries, the increasing demand for evidence-based policy making has further led governments to design policies jointly with clear measurable objectives, and to define relevant indicators to monitor their achievement. This paper discusses the importance of such indicators in supporting the implementation of education policies.…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Program Implementation, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
OECD Publishing, 2021
Widespread school closures affected over one billion students during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vocational education and training (VET) sector has faced particular challenges during the crisis, most notably the fact that the digital learning environments that most education institutions had to rely on during closures don't work…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Vocational Education, School Closing
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Cavioni, Valeria; Grazzani, Ilaria; Ornaghi, Veronica; Agliati, Alessia; Gandellini, Sabina; Cefai, Carmel; Camilleri, Liberato; Bartolo, Paul; Tatalovic Vorkapic, Sanja; Golob, Lana; Poulou, Maria; Martinsone, Baiba; Supe, Inga; Simões, Celeste; Lebre, Paula; Colomeischi, Adina; Rusu, Petruta; Acostoaie, Lidia; Vintur, Tatiana; Conte, Elisabetta – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2023
In the last two years, a growing number of studies have focused on the promotion of students' mental health to address the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, less studies have been conducted on sustaining teachers' mental health which has been affected by the sudden changes in online teaching and the difficulties in keeping and…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Promotion, Teacher Student Relationship, Stress Variables
Crosier, David; Birch, Peter; Davydovskaia, Olga; Kocanova, Daniela; Parveva, Teodora – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2017
This report aims to provide insight into the realities faced by higher education academic staff at a time of fast-moving change and increasing societal demand. Fluctuating student numbers, new funding and steering mechanisms are among the features of today's European higher education landscape, but not enough is known about how academic staff are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Higher Education
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Carvalho, Teresa; Videira, Pedro – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Higher education institutions in Portugal, as in many developed countries, have undergone deep transformations affecting their organisational structures and professionals. These reforms framed by new public management are said to induce changes in the traditional jurisdictional field of the academic profession with the administrative power being…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Evaluation, College Faculty, Professional Autonomy
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Flores, Maria Assunção – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2018
This paper reports on findings from a broader piece of research aimed at investigating the ways in which head teachers experience a new teacher evaluation policy in Portugal, particularly in regard to the challenges and perceived effects of the policy on school and on teacher development. Data were collected through a questionnaire with open and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Improvement, Personnel Policy
Looney, Janet; O'Shea, Majella; Staring, François; Vicentini, Letizia; Wisniewski, Jerzy; Frøhlich Hougaard, Karsten; Day, Laurie – European Commission, 2022
The overall aim of the study was to gather evidence on effective policy reforms for broad competence development in school education, including better achievement of basic skills. The six key objectives are: Objective 1: To understand the key features of policy design and implementation of reforms for broad competence development and achievement…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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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
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Cranmer, Sue; Lewin, Cathy – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2017
Innovation, a complex concept, underpinned a four-year pan-European research project designed to increase the effective use of technology in school classrooms. This article revisits evaluation data collected during the project and explores the challenges of conceptualising, realising and researching "innovation." The authors describe how…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries
Carneiro, Roberto, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (NJ1), 2011
The New Opportunities Initiative (NOI) is a Portuguese flagship programme to recognise and accredit prior learning (RPL, APL) and to endow low-skilled adults with upper secondary qualifications, which is defined as the minimum entry threshold to the exercise of a full citizenship in a knowledge-rich society. NOI's major achievement has been its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Prior Learning, Program Effectiveness, Certification
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Cerda Suarez, Luis Manuel; Hernandez, Wilmar – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2012
In the last decade, many changes have taken place in the field of university education. Professional practice demands that future graduates design and market products, preserve the interests of their clients, take responsibilities in public administration or participate in politics. Universities must educate professionals so that they become…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Styles
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Flores, Maria Assuncao – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2011
Initial teacher education (ITE) has attracted the attention of many researchers worldwide aiming at discussing its curriculum and rationale, but essentially its impact on the education and professional socialisation of pre-service teachers. This paper looks at the major trends in the recent ITE curriculum in the Portuguese context, as a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Curriculum
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