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Williams, Mutryce A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Public-private partnerships in emergency management are widely encouraged in the academic literature, yet the government of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI) tends to view collaboration from the private sector as an impediment to good policy. This occurs in spite of the island nation's geography that makes it susceptible to natural and human…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Public Sector, Private Sector, Institutional Cooperation
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Breidahl, Karen N.; Gjelstrup, Gunnar; Hansen, Hanne Foss; Hansen, Morten Balle – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
Research on the evaluation of large-scale public-sector reforms is rare. This article sets out to fill that gap in the evaluation literature and argues that it is of vital importance since the impact of such reforms is considerable and they change the context in which evaluations of other and more delimited policy areas take place. In our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Sector, Social Action, Evaluation
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Goldman, Charles A.; Piquado, Tepring; Irwin, J. Luke; Allen, Daniel; Zhou, Ying; Ryu, Sung Ho – RAND Corporation, 2021
Although there is great interest in attracting talented and underrepresented individuals into public-sector careers, there is also concern that graduates of colleges and universities may not be considering the public sector and that government agencies are not doing all they could to attract the next generation of workers. This report seeks to…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Disproportionate Representation, Talent, Public Sector
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Svenson, Nanette; De Gracia, Guillermina – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2018
Over the past twenty years, many sectors have used capacity diagnostics for mapping and analyzing the skills needed for national development at individual, organizational and institutional levels. These diagnostics, also sometimes referred to as "needs assessments" or "gap analyses," are systematic investigations carried out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Capacity Building, Labor Market
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Gan, Dafna; Gal, Adiv – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Self-efficacy is a parameter capable of predicting change in teacher behavior. We designed a questionnaire to investigate self-efficacy for promoting Education for Sustainability (EfS), which includes pro-environmental behaviors and environmental attitudes, to answer the question: "What characteristics of self-efficacy for promoting EfS among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Self Efficacy
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Connolly, John; Reid, Garth; Mooney, Allan – Teaching Public Administration, 2015
It is necessary for public managers to be able to evaluate programmes in the context of complexity. This article offers key learning and reflections based on the experience of facilitating the evaluation of complexity with a range of public sector partners in Scotland. There have been several articles that consider evaluating complexity and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Sector, Program Evaluation, Health Services
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Glatter, Ron – Management in Education, 2015
This paper asks whether schools and colleges should be regarded as institutions as well as organizations, and if so what are the implications. Different conceptions of "institution" are examined including an attempt to distinguish "institution" from "organization". It is suggested that institutions are committed to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutions, Organizations (Groups), Definitions
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Lucas, Norman; Crowther, Norman – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
This paper addresses a particular gap in the further education (FE) literature offering an analysis of Incorporation within a theory of social change developed by Fligstein and McAdam, in their work "A Theory of Fields". The authors argue that FE was subjected to the introduction of a quasi-market in advance of wider neoliberal reforms…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Adult Education, Higher Education, Professionalism
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Jaquette, Ozan; Parra, Edna – Research in Higher Education, 2016
The Integrated Postsecondary Education System (IPEDS) collects data on Title IV institutions. The Delta Cost Project (DCP) integrated data from multiple IPEDS survey components into a public-use longitudinal dataset. The DCP Database was the basis for dozens of journal articles and a series of influential policy reports. Unfortunately, a flaw in…
Descriptors: Databases, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Higher Education
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Chandio, Muhammad Tufail; Pandhiani, Saima Murtaza; Iqbal, Rabia – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2016
This research study critically analyzes the scope and contribution of Bloom's Taxonomy in both assessment and teaching-learning process. Bloom's Taxonomy consists of six stages, namely; remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating and moves from lower degree to the higher degree. The study applies Bloom's Taxonomy to…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Public Sector, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education
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Bern, Lina; Schulmann, Christine; Bastiaens, Theo – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2017
In the study the emphasis is put on web-based trainings (WBT). WBTs are the most common form of e-learning in on-the-job trainings in the private and public sector in Germany, whereas blended-learning scenarios and virtual classrooms are only used by 55% and 41% respectively. In spite of the increasing distribution of e-learning applications in…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Health Education, Nursing Education, Web Based Instruction
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Strode, Derick B.; Roberts, Julia Link; Breedlove, Lynette – Gifted Child Today, 2021
This article profiles public-private partnerships and networks established by the public, residential, STEM-focused Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky. Authors discuss relationships and partnerships cultivated to extend student learning opportunities beyond what public support provides. The article focuses first on…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Public Sector, Private Sector, Residential Schools
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Thamwipat, Kuntida; Princhankol, Pornpapatsorn; Deeyen, Naphat – International Education Studies, 2019
This research was aimed to explore the demands of the people in the communities in order to develop multimedia and activities to promote products made by state enterprise communities in the Bangmod Project 4.0 through Community-Based Learning among undergraduate students of King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, to examine the…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Community Education, Undergraduate Students, Community Attitudes
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Ahmed, Jashim Uddin; Ahmed, Kamal Uddin; Shimul, Md. Anwar Sadat; Zuñiga, Roy – Higher Education for the Future, 2015
This article deals with strategic management issues in the higher education sector in the UK. The core idea is presented here with the argument that the principle and practice of strategic management are not only the concerns of senior management, but also an essential requirement at all levels of management of higher education. It shows that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Strategic Planning, Colleges
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Bridge, Simon – Education & Training, 2015
Purpose: Both enterprise education and social enterprise have become fashionable but what, if any, should be the connections between them? The purpose of this paper is to explore those connections and to reflect on what relevance the two concepts might have for each other. Design/methodology/approach: Both enterprise education and social…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Social Systems, Private Sector, Public Sector
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