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McBain, Lesley – American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2009
Given the current economic turbulence characterized, in part, by unprecedented business consolidations, talk of mergers has spread to higher education. At first glance, merger discussions may seem more appropriate to the corporate world than academe because American colleges and universities were not created in accordance with a centralized…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Organizational Change, Colleges, Partnerships in Education
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Shah, Syed Shafqat Ali – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2009
This research article discusses the impact of teacher's behaviour on the academic achievement of university students. All the teachers and students of public sector universities constituted the population. From the 15 public sector universities, 375 teachers and 1500 students from five departments were selected as a sample. Two questionnaires were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Behavior, Context Effect, Academic Achievement
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Kim, Minkyun; Sharman, Raj; Cook-Cottone, Catherine P.; Rao, H. Raghav; Upadhyaya, Shambhu J. – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2012
Emergency management systems are a critical factor in successful mitigation of natural and man-made disasters, facilitating responder decision making in complex situations. Based on socio-technical systems, have which four components (people, technology, structure and task), this study develops a research framework of factors affecting effective…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Emergency Programs, Public Sector, Systems Analysis
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Ashiedu, Jennifer A.; Scott-Ladd, Brenda D. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
The attraction and retention of teachers is a problem faced by schools worldwide and possibly more so in the public sector. One possible solution to this problem is likely to be better targeting of attraction and retention drivers of value to teachers. This paper presents the findings from a qualitative study conducted in Australia. The study used…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Incentives, Teacher Shortage, Foreign Countries
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Hudson, Peter; English, Lyn D.; Dawes, Les; Macri, Jo – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
Implementing educational reform requires partnerships, and university-school collaborations in the form of investigative and experimental projects can aim to determine the practicalities of reform. However, there are funded projects that do not achieve intended outcomes. In the context of a new reform initiative in education, namely, science,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Expertise
Zeeman, Deane; Jones, Rebecca; Dysart, Jane – Computers in Libraries, 2011
This study reports on the results of interviews conducted in December 2009 and January 2010 to identify innovative service trends in library and information services in the government and corporate arenas. The study was undertaken as part of a Library and Archives Canada (LAC) research project to inform the Government of Canada Assistant Deputy…
Descriptors: Expertise, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Government Libraries
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van Rooij, Shahron Williams – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
This paper reports the results of a study to identify the extent to which organizations that develop educational/training products are committed to project management, as measured by their project management implementation maturity, as a methodology that is separate and distinct from the processes of instructional design. A Web survey was…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Private Sector, Organizations (Groups), Public Sector
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Whitley, Richard – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2011
Major changes in the governance of higher education and the public sciences have taken place over the past 40 or so years in many OECD countries. These have affected the nature of authority relationships governing research priorities and the evaluation of results. In particular, the increasing exogeneity, formalisation and substantive nature of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sciences, Governance, Public Sector
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Selwyn, Neil – Educational Review, 2011
Schools' use of digital technology has so far proved to be a peripheral feature of the Conservative-Liberal education agenda. Through a series of reductions to previously extensive bureaucratic and funding structures, the Coalition administration has presided over a swift but sustained withdrawal of state support for digital technology use in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Policy
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Schweigert, Francis J. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
Internal evaluators encounter risks but also significant opportunities to strengthen organizational and professional ethics. Potential contributions depend, in part, on the conjunction of ethics and evaluation in the role of the internal evaluator as the person specially commissioned to investigate value and render judgment based on evidence…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Risk, Ethics, Guidelines
Goodman, Roger, Ed.; Kariya, Takehiko, Ed.; Taylor, John, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2013
The relationship between the state and higher education institutions has always been a complex one. The "state" itself in this context is a heterogeneous mix of elite people--bureaucrats, politicians, committees of co-opted academics and business leader--and it increasingly faces pressures from diverse stakeholders, including students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Public Sector, Higher Education
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Trappler, Thomas J. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2009
Today's higher education environment is marked by heightened accountability and decreased budgets. In such an environment, no higher education institution can afford to ignore alternative approaches that could result in more effective and less costly solutions. Open-source software (OSS) can serve as a viable alternative to traditional proprietary…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Computer Software, Intellectual Property, Public Sector
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Fusarelli, Lance D. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2011
In their search for magic bullets to fix failing schools, policymakers seldom directly address powerful ecological factors impacting schooling. This article identifies several major demographic, societal, economic, and educational changes and trends in U.S. society over the past several years; analyzes their impact on schoolchildren; and offers a…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Educational Change, Public Sector, Ecological Factors
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Islam, Md. Mofakkarul; Gray, David; Reid, Janet; Kemp, Peter – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2011
The limited effectiveness and fiscal unsustainability of professional-led public sector extension systems in developing countries have aroused considerable interest in Farmer-led Extension (FLE) approaches in the recent decades. A key challenge facing these initiatives is a lack of sustainability of the farmer groups developed through project or…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Human Capital, Agricultural Occupations, Holistic Approach
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Sanyal, Bikas C.; Johnstone, D. Bruce – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2011
Beginning by analyzing the major qualitative and quantitative changes in higher education around the world, this article examines international trends in their financial implications. It then demonstrates the state's inability to bear the entire rising financial burden, and explores the role of self-financing, and of the non-profit and for-profit…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Financial Support, International Education, Educational Trends
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