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Ejoigu, Aloy; Sule, Sheidu – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
This paper traces briefly the history and development of university education in Nigeria from one university in 1948 to a total of 118 universities as at the time of writing the paper. Besides the chronicle, the paper examines some cross-cutting issues that tend to scuttle the otherwise good intentions and robust programme initiatives of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Universities, Higher Education
Robinson, Norman; Munton, Patricia D. – 1989
This study investigated the phenomena of strike propensity and strike compliance among teachers in an illegal teachers' strike that occurred in British Columbia, Canada, in 1983. A questionnaire developed for this study was distributed in early 1984 to a random sample of 1,000 teachers from eight school districts; a total of 456 responded. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Labor Problems, Labor Relations
Cumberbatch, Guy; And Others – 1986
A content analysis was performed on all of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) Nine O'Clock News and ITV (Independent Television) News at Ten programs that were broadcast during Britain's year-long miners' strike--March 1984-March 1985--and a four-month sample of Channel 4 news to examine how television news covered a protracted story of…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries, Hypothesis Testing
Randles, Harry E. – 1978
The responsibility for education in Australia rests with the states. Teachers in the state of New South Wales, as in other Australian states, are employed by the Public Service Board, which determines working conditions. Teachers are administered, however, under the Department of Education. Labor disputes in Australia are settled not by formal…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Fris, Joe – 1979
This study attempted to formulate a method of assessing teachers' affective states that can predict the course of teacher contract negotiations. Researchers attempted to analyze and quantify teachers' feelings of professional role deprivation (PRD) and attitudinal militancy and to assess the relationship between the two. Professional role…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Professional Recognition
Jones, Tamara – 2001
This paper explores the perceptions of three rural secondary school teachers in the Riverina area of New South Wales, Australia. In-depth interviews were conducted with three secondary teachers: three male teachers aged 25, 32, and 60. The original objective of the grounded theory study was to examine the teachers' perceptions about the state's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Mass Media Role, Professional Recognition
Grayson, J. Paul – 1997
This study examined the academic and economic impact of a faculty strike at York University (Canada) on undergraduate students, as well as the relationship between problems created by, and student support for, the strike. During the fifth and sixth weeks of a strike by faculty and librarians at York University that lasted from March 20 to May 13,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Faculty, Economic Impact, Foreign Countries