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Beveridge, Scott; Garcia, Jorge; Siblo, Matt – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2015
Purpose: To examine the nature of ethical dilemmas most frequently reported by rehabilitation counselors in the private and public sectors and determine if significant differences exist in how practitioners experience ethical dilemmas in these two settings. Method: A mixed-methods internet-based survey design was utilized and included descriptive,…
Descriptors: Ethics, Public Sector, Private Sector, Rehabilitation Counseling
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Rivers, William P.; Brecht, Richard D. – Foreign Language Annals, 2018
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of "Foreign Language Annals," and recognizing the seminal role this journal has in informing the language education profession about policies and programs, we sketch a future for advocacy for language education in the United States. Drawing on the Languages for All initiative and the work of the…
Descriptors: Role, Periodicals, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Golding, David – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2018
The controversy surrounding Sri Lanka's privatising education system is one of the most pressing social and political issues facing the country today. This paper explores the history of this debate by drawing connections to broader processes of colonialism and neoliberalism. Particularly, this paper traces the shifting sociocultural functions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
Dorléans, Marie – European Training Foundation, 2018
This document provides a brief description of the context for, and use of, the European Training Foundation (ETF) Financing Prism, and includes a call for evidence regarding the development and implementation of vocational education and training (VET) financing policies, as well as the use of the prism itself. The components of the prism are…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Vocational Education, Financial Policy, Policy Formation
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Hoefer, Richard A.; Sliva, Shannon M. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2016
Social enterprise is a burgeoning, although nebulously defined, strategy for linking market-based revenues with social good in nonprofit, for-profit, and public organizations. This article offers a unifying definition of social enterprise, tracks its development throughout traditional sectors, and takes a first step in extending the concepts of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Work, Citizen Participation, Nonprofit Organizations
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Crossman, H. Anthony – Accounting Education, 2017
This research assesses what knowledge upper-level accounting students possess about the distinctions between the public and private branches of accounting, as well as the influence such knowledge might have on their accounting branch choice. Overall, the study concluded that, before they were aware of the pros and cons of each career path,…
Descriptors: Accounting, Career Choice, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
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Mejlgaard, Niels; Ryan, Thomas Kjeldager – Research Evaluation, 2017
In the context of growing societal demand and interdependency, universities need to prioritize their "third mission" activities and balance them against core functions. Individual researchers too are faced with multiple external constituencies and various mechanisms for interaction. The degree, target, and mode of their involvement with…
Descriptors: Scientists, Engineering, Researchers, College Faculty
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Schray, Vickie L.; Sheets, Robert G. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
American businesses will increasingly need to compete on innovation in the new global economy. They will need to compete on how well they recruit, develop, and utilize the best talent in the world to develop new and improved business models, products, services, and processes as well as push forward scientific and technological advances (Sheets…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Innovation, Business, Higher Education
US House of Representatives, 2018
This document records testimony from a joint meeting of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection and the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development regarding public-private solutions to educating a cyber workforce. Member statements were presented by: (1) Honorable John Ratcliffe, Chairman, Subcommittee on…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Computer Security, Higher Education, Hearings
Wood, Perry N., III – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Policymakers in small and midsize communities (populations under 200,000) throughout the Rust Belt are searching for ways to reinvent their region to be competitive in the global, knowledge-based economy. Universities can play an increasingly important role in a region's economic development approach if they can effectively engage with their…
Descriptors: Activism, Geographic Regions, Competition, College Role
Altammami, Abdullah – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study focused on schools' principals and their connections with community. Because schools' principals play an important role in schools' community relations, the purpose of this study was to investigate the Saudi school principals' perceptions regarding their engagement with the community. This study investigated the school principals'…
Descriptors: School Administration, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, School Community Relationship
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Sami Ullah Sabri, Pirzada; Ilyas, Muhammad; Amjad, Zahra – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2015
Present study determines the effects of organizational learning culture on female teachers' critical thinking skills of public sector higher education institutes (HEI) of the Punjab, Pakistan. The questionnaire from Yang (2003) (21-item) of organizational learning culture and from Naieni (2005) (30-item) questionnaire on critical thinking skills…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries
Goldhaber, Dan; Grout, Cyrus; Holden, Kris – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2015
Public pension systems in many U.S. states face large funding shortfalls. Movement toward defined contribution (DC) pension structures may reduce the likelihood of future shortfalls. We address some limitations of the existing literature by studying public-sector employees who are enrolled in either a defined benefit (DB) plan or hybrid DB-DC…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Labor Turnover, Public Sector, Employees
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Adebayo, Florence Aduke; Ayegbusi, Emmanuel Taiwo – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Public-Private Partnership could be defined as the collaboration between two for improved services to bring about change that will influence employment creation and boost the economy of any country. In this paper, it is perceived as a twin sister that could work together for effectiveness and efficiency to promote employment creation. While on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Employment Opportunities, Private Sector
OECD Publishing, 2017
Despite the obvious benefits derived from education, governments face difficult trade-offs when balancing the share of public and private contributions to education. Understanding how private expenditure is sourced, through public transfers or through private funds, can make a difference in enabling access to education and provide insights into…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Expenditure per Student, Access to Education, Private Sector
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