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Mortimore, Peter – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2023
This article proposes reform of the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted). It considers the purpose of inspection in English schools and describes the previous system of inspection based on Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools (HMI). The question of how effective Ofsted is -- in comparison to similar countries -- is then addressed. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inspection, Schools, Standards
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Susanti, Dewi – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
Increasing costs of running educational institutions and funding educational programs, coupled with decreasing government subsidies to support such costs, have made privatisation and marketisation of higher education a common phenomenon throughout the world. The article presents the development of this trend in Indonesia utilizing two recent…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching (Occupation), Public Colleges, Low Income
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Gunter, Helen; Rayner, Steve; Thomas, Hywel; Fielding, Antony; Butt, Graham; Lance, Ann – Management in Education, 2004
load has been highlighted by recent studies, including work for the DfES by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC 2001) and by the Office for Manpower Economics (OME) for the School Teachers' Review Body (DfES 2000). The PwC report concluded that teachers and headteachers work more intensive weeks than other comparable managers and professionals. This heavy…
Descriptors: Criticism, Foreign Countries, Teachers, Instructional Leadership