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Rijswijk, K.; Brazendale, R. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2017
Purpose: An innovation network, called the Pasture Improvement Leadership Group (PILG), was formed to improve the quality and consistency of advice provided to dairy farmers in New Zealand, after they expressed dissatisfaction with their pastures. The aim of this paper is to better understand the challenges of forming and maintaining networks to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Sector, Private Sector, Extension Education
Goldhaber, Dan; Grout, Cyrus; Holden, Kristian L. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Public pension systems in many U.S. states face large funding short-falls, and policymakers have considered moving toward defined contribution (DC) pension structures in the interest of reducing the likelihood of future shortfalls. Concerns exist, however, that such changes might increase levels of employee turnover. The empirical evidence on the…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Labor Turnover, Public Sector, Employees
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Lin, Chinlon; Huang, Jianping; Lin, Rungtai – Education Sciences, 2021
The purpose of this study is to provide other developing countries in the region a reference on the successful design education reformation in Taiwan. The study first reviews Taiwan's economic and design development to show their interconnection with local culture and the global market. Next, the study explores Taiwan's design education…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Economic Development
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Thompson, Carol; Wolstencroft, Peter – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2018
The role of the middle manager has proved to be a difficult one to define due to the fluid nature of the tasks performed and the heterogeneity of understanding that exists for the term. This is further complicated by the differences associated with the context in which individual manager's work. This research, which explores the drive towards…
Descriptors: Public Sector, Private Sector, Middle Management, Trust (Psychology)
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Filstad, Cathrine; Simeonova, Boyka; Visser, Max – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the crossing of knowledge and power boundaries within a bureaucratic organization by using enterprise social media (ESM). (Carlile's 2002) boundary crossing framework is used to guide this research. Design/methodology/approach: This is a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Administrative Organization, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews
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Sumari, Neema S.; Shao, Zhengfeng; Van Genderen, John L.; Musakwa, Walter; Ujoh, Fanan; Washaya, Prosper; Gumbo, Trynos – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
This paper presents an update on some of the activities that have taken place since a World Bank report; "Guidelines for Education and Training in Environmental Information Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Key Issues" was published and provides details on the current situation. It shows how organizations such as the African…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Geography Instruction, Foreign Countries, Private Sector
Wayne, Earl Anthony – Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2019
As new technology reshapes workplaces and jobs across North America, the United States, Mexico, and Canada need to reinvent the ways that they educate, train, and re-skill their workforces. With Mexico and Canada now the United States' two largest economic partners, more than ever the three countries need to work together to effectively and…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Foreign Countries, Public Sector, Private Sector
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Dumas, Michael J. – Educational Policy, 2016
In this article, the author argues that the Obama Administration's My Brother's Keeper (MBK) initiative serves as an exemplar of neoliberal governmentality, in which Black young men and boys are constructed as essentially damaged, as problems in need of a technocratic public--private solution. More than simply an ideological imposition from above…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, African Americans, Males, National Programs
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Örtenblad, Anders – Learning Organization, 2015
Purpose: The purposes of this paper are to take a closer look at the relevance of the idea of the learning organization for organizations in different generalized organizational contexts; to open up for the existence of multiple, context-adapted models of the learning organization; and to suggest a number of such models.…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Models, Public Sector, Definitions
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Cerf, M.; Bail, Le; Lusson, J. M.; Omon, B. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2017
Purpose: To highlight the way a public policy aiming to achieve a 50% decrease of pesticides use in France reframed advice provision in public and private networks. Design/methodology/approach: We developed a framework to analyze intermediation in a public funded network, a farmers' association, and a network of co-operatives. The framework…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Public Policy, Poisoning
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Nega, Mulu – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This article explores the current issues on the public-private divide in the Ethiopian higher education landscape and their policy implications. It critically examines issues related to legal and regulatory frameworks in order to understand the public-private divide in the Ethiopian higher education context. The article is based on two premises.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Stakeholders
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Berezkina, Maimu – Language Policy, 2018
This article examines language policy in the virtual linguistic landscape (VLL) in Norway and its development over time. The analysis is based on diachronic website data and interviews with state employees concerning the presence or absence of different languages on the websites of three central state institutions. The article reveals a linguistic…
Descriptors: Public Sector, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Virtual Classrooms
Craig, Scotty D.; Schroeder, Noah L.; Roscoe, Rod D. – Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative, 2020
Technology is rapidly transforming how people learn and how training is provided. For example, in higher education, there are estimated to be nearly 6.7 million students enrolled in online education courses (National Center for Education Statistics Fast Facts, 2018). The dynamic and high-stakes nature of education and training software demands…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Technology, Best Practices, Organizations (Groups)
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Cooper, Amanda; Shewchuk, Samantha – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
Interest in how to better connect research to policy and practice is gaining momentum globally. Also gaining widespread agreement is the view that intermediary organizations have an important role to play in facilitating multi-stakeholder partnerships between researchers, practitioners and policymakers in order to increase the mobilization of…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Organizations (Groups), Public Sector
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Rodan, Paul – Australian Universities' Review, 2016
Massive growth in the numbers of fee-paying international students and an increasing private sector role are two of the most salient features of Australian higher education in the past quarter century. Both these trends were evident in a little known partnership, involving a public regional university and a private entrepreneur, which had its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Partnerships in Education, Public Sector
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