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Roos, Clive – Perspectives in Education, 2004
This article focuses on the extent to which the legislative framework and education-funding models applicable to school education in South Africa post-1994 have, in attempting to address historical inequalities, resulted in a particular form of privatisation of public education. The article sets out the extent of the autonomy available to all…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Community Control, Educational Finance
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Mok, Ka Ho – Comparative Education, 2005
In coping with the challenges of globalization, various reform measures, in the field of social policy, have been initiated in post-Mao China. Strategies such as privatization, marketization, commodification and societalization have been adopted to redefine the relationship between the state, the market and other non-state sectors involved in…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Financial Support
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Postiglione, Gerard A. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2005
How much is hegemony and how much is self-determination in the higher education systems in Southeast Asia? This paper argues that while the question of centre and periphery is still relevant to the analysis of international university systems, the analytical frameworks from which it has arisen may lose viability in the long term. Southeast Asian…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Self Determination
Bulkley, Katrina; Mundell, Leah; Riffer, Morgan – Research for Action, 2004
Educators nationwide focused on Philadelphia in the summer of 2001 as politicians and policy makers explored the possibility of a state takeover of the city's school system, a seismic power shift that would produce the largest privatization of a public school district in American history. The findings reported in this document are based on…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Change, Public Schools, Privatization
Molnar, Alex; Wilson, Glen; Allen, Daniel – Education Policy Studies Laboratory, Arizona State University College of Education, 2004
The for-profit management of public schools by for-profit corporations continues to be a controversial innovation. Proponents argue for-profit schools will result in educational improvement by harnessing the profit seeking motive of the marketplace. Competition, they maintain, forces companies to earn their profits by reducing administrative…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Improvement, Governance, Private Sector
Hoyle, John R. – School Administrator, 1999
Despite greater job pressures, school system leaders can find their shining moments in advocating for children and their learning. As visionary leaders, superintendents must confront four challenges: local and state school-governance complexities, school funding for teachers and facilities, accountability for student performance, and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Principles, Administrator Effectiveness, Child Advocacy
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Henig, Jeffrey R.; Holyoke, Thomas T.; Brown, Heath; Lacireno-Paquet, Natalie – American Journal of Education, 2005
Much of the literature on charter schools treats them as an undifferentiated mass. Here we present and test a typology of charter schools that is grounded in the norms, traditions, and perspectives of the founding organization or organizers. We suggest that there are two broad categories of charter founders--those who are more mission oriented and…
Descriptors: Classification, Charter Schools, Organizational Culture, Governance
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Sivalingam, G. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
The study will trace the external factors influencing the liberalization, deregulation and privatization of higher education in Malaysia from 1970 to the present and to analyze the effects of liberalization, deregulation and privatization on the modes of privatization and the internal restructuring of institutions of higher learning to increase…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Foreign Countries, School Restructuring
Hill, Paul T. – 1995
The goal of this report is to formulate a true alternative to the current form of governance for public education. Based on studies of governance in other large decentralized service organizations and of local educational reform efforts, the report concludes that there is a real alternative. The alternative allows the schools to be operated by a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bureaucracy, Contracts, Educational Economics
Belfield, Clive R.; Wooten, Amy L. – 2003
This paper reports the findings from an Internet survey of 2,318 school superintendents across the U.S. The superintendents were asked about their experiences with, views of, and attitudes toward privatization of education services. The results of the survey suggested four conclusions. First, private contracts for a range of educational services…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Attitudes, Educational Administration, Educational Assessment
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Miron, Louis F.; Brooks, Cormell – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1993
Explores inherent tensions between the substance of school board reform and the ideology of governance reform. New Orleans's unique culture of privatization has historically constrained grass-roots involvement in educational reform. A recent exception is a highly motivated, parent-based Education Issues Committee that successfully overhauled the…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Lewis, Edward T. – Trusteeship, 1994
Saint Mary's College of Maryland, previously a public college, has become a unique public-private hybrid in response to changes in state support commitments. Although this model could not be applied to most institutions, the experience suggests that college and universities must find new means of financing and relating to the state. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Governance, Higher Education
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Pratt, Graham; Poole, David – Australian Universities' Review, 2000
Discusses the rise of entrepreneurialism in Australian universities as one response to globalization. Examines its positive and negative effects upon educational standards, academic morale, and structure of academic work. Highlights areas of fundamental change in the sector, including changes in university missions and culture and the uneven…
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Finance, Educational Trends, Entrepreneurship
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Daun, Holger – International Review of Education, 2004
The Czech Republic, England, France, Germany and Sweden differ culturally and economically, but they commonly exhibit general trends of decentralisation in the control of educational processes and outcomes. The present contribution looks at these five European countries as the venue for case studies in educational restructuring as well as…
Descriptors: Privatization, Administrative Organization, Foreign Countries, Governance
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Weber, Everard – International Journal of Educational Development, 2002
This paper reviews the development of education governance in South Africa during the 1990s. It outlines ambiguities within and between competing policies, tracing the historical trajectory and explaining its outcome. Apartheid governance, the attempts to reform it, policy options originating within the anti-apartheid movement, and the law passed…
Descriptors: Privatization, International Education, Racial Segregation, Governance
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