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Buckner, Elizabeth – Comparative Education Review, 2013
Access to higher education in Egypt is expanding in both the public and private sectors. Using a nationally representative sample from the Survey of Young People in Egypt, this article is able to disaggregate patterns of access by both demographic group and university sector. Findings suggest that access in the public sector is governed strongly…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Public Sector, Private Sector, Foreign Countries
Thomas, David E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This executive position paper proposes recommendations for designing reform models between public and private sectors dedicated to improving school reform work in low performing urban high schools. It reviews scholarly research about for-profit educational management organizations, high reliability organizations, American high school reform, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, Low Achievement, Urban Schools
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Woodhead, Martin; Frost, Melanie; James, Zoe – International Journal of Educational Development, 2013
This paper informs debates about the potential role for low-fee private schooling in achieving Education for All goals in India. It reports "Young Lives" longitudinal data for two cohorts (2906 children) in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Eight year olds uptake of private schooling increased from 24 per cent (children born in 1994-5) to 44…
Descriptors: Evidence, Private Sector, Educational Change, Rural Areas
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Daniel, Jamie Owen – Academe, 2011
Like thousands of other people from around the country and around the world, this author was heartened and inspired by the tenacity, immediacy, and creativity of the pushback by Wisconsin's public-sector unions against Governor Scott Walker's efforts to limit their collective bargaining rights. And like many others who made the trek to Madison to…
Descriptors: Democracy, Collective Bargaining, Labor, Unions
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Gulson, Kalervo N.; Fataar, Aslam – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
This paper applies ideas that emanate from the Global North, concerning neoliberalism and neoliberal governmentality, to the case of marketisation in South Africa. It also attends to the limits of Northern ideas that are both intellectual undertakings and policy manifestations. In the first part of the paper, we identify how rationales for school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Political Attitudes, Public Sector
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Agasisti, Tommaso – Education Economics, 2011
The objective of this paper is an efficiency analysis concerning higher education systems in European countries. Data have been extracted from OECD data-sets (Education at a Glance, several years), using a non-parametric technique--data envelopment analysis--to calculate efficiency scores. This paper represents the first attempt to conduct such an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Public Sector, Data Analysis
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Manathunga, Catherine; Pitt, Rachael; Cox, Laura; Boreham, Paul; Mellick, George; Lant, Paul – Studies in Higher Education, 2012
Researchers of the future will need to be able to work across the increasingly porous boundaries between university, industry, government and community sectors. Concerns have been raised internationally for several decades about the content and approaches adopted in doctoral programs. Innovative doctoral programs that facilitate students'…
Descriptors: Graduates, Foreign Countries, Industry, Doctoral Programs
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Biemann, Torsten; Zacher, Hannes; Feldman, Daniel C. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
Using 20years of employment and job mobility data from a representative German sample (N = 1259), we employ optimal matching analysis (OMA) to identify six career patterns which deviate from the traditional career path of long-term, full-time employment in one organization. Then, in further analyses, we examine which socio-demographic predictors…
Descriptors: Employment, Occupational Mobility, Career Development, Predictor Variables
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Lingard, Bob; Sellar, Sam – London Review of Education, 2013
This paper traces developments across Stephen J. Ball's policy sociology in education "oeuvre" and considers their implications for doing research on education policy today. It begins with an account of his policy sociology trilogy from the 1990s, which outlined his conception of the policy cycle consisting of the contexts of influence,…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Educational Policy, Social Theories, Private Sector
Aldeman, Chad; Rotherham, Andrew J. – Bellwether Education Partners, 2014
To shore up the $46 billion pension debt the state has accrued over the past several decades, Illinois has been using its teachers as a piggy bank. New legislation adopted in December 2013 will raise the retirement age for mid-career workers and limit the amount retiree pensions can increase with inflation over time. State and national union…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, State Legislation, Teaching Experience
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Minassians, Henrik P. – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2012
Universities that focus on urban research should exploit the advantage of their location by matching their curricular strengths to the needs of their respective communities. This article describes how Public Sector Programs (PSP) at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) developed extensive graduate degree and certificate programs in…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Curriculum Design, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Public Sector
Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2012
The nation's Roman Catholic schools have labored for decades under increasingly adverse economic and demographic conditions, which have undermined their finances and sapped their enrollment. Today, researchers and supporters say those schools face one of their most complex challenges yet: the continued growth of charter schools. Since they first…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Catholic Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Influences
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Baert, Herman; Govaerts, Natalie – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: With the intention of detecting and describing a series of team learning patterns within a selection of organisations, an extensive exploratory and qualitative research project was conducted in seven phases. The study at hand aims to report on the most recent phase, namely eight case studies in the public employment service of Flanders…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Organizational Development, Pattern Recognition
Labi, Aisha – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
When the global financial crisis hit in 2008, it looked at first as if many European universities were going to escape the worst. Higher education has long been considered a public right and a taxpayer-financed obligation, and there was optimism that universities, which government leaders hail as drivers of economic growth, would emerge relatively…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Brain Drain, Economic Progress
Coleman, David W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Information Technology (IT) provides public sector organizations the capability to provide real increases in organizational effectiveness by aiding in the efficient exchange of information. Adoption of advanced IT such as service oriented environments, Web 2.0, and bespoke systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) promises to markedly…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Public Sector, Web 2.0 Technologies, Case Studies
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