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Fairweather, James S. – Higher Education Policy, 2000
Suggests that our combined public, private, corporate, and proprietary system of postsecondary education can be best understood as a complex interaction of various types of markets, governmental policies, disciplinary associations, and institutional actors. Proposes a model for explaining how these factors interact to form the "system" of American…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Educational Policy, Government Role, Higher Education
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Burkhardt, John C.; Zimmerman-Oster, Kathleen – Proteus, 1999
Discussion of leadership development in the nation's institutions of higher education considers the need for a different kind of leadership in a changing nation; new opportunities for leadership particularly in the emerging nongovernmental public sector; increasingly widespread recognition that leaders are developed, not born; and demonstrated…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Leadership, Leadership Training
Brown, Daniel J. – School Business Affairs, 2001
Describes partnership between public and private sectors to build an elementary school in Abbotsford, British Columbia, including the context, the participants, the school, special features of the partnership, the financing, the nature of the relationship, an evaluation by the major partners, and lessons learned and questions raised. Includes five…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Private Sector
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Berends, Mark – Peabody Journal of Education, 2004
Since its publication in 1983, "A Nation at Risk" has caused several waves and ripples of educational reform. This article puts that report in the context of earlier responses to perceived education crises. One such important response was from the private sector: the New American Schools Development Corporation (NAS). NAS attempted to create,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Change, Demonstration Programs, Private Sector
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Davies, Brent; Hentschke, Guilbert – Management in Education, 2005
The last five years have seen a significant increase in the involvement of the private sector in the core areas of education delivery and not just in the provision of educational support services. This growing involvement of the private sector in education has been commented on in the press and in debates on education, but it is often…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Educational Finance, Partnerships in Education, School Districts
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O'Keefe, Sue; Crase, Lin; Dollery, Brian – International Journal of Training Research, 2007
The provision of, and participation in, workplace training and development has received significant recent attention in Australia in the face of rapid technological change, an ageing labour force and a growing skill shortage. Accordingly, many organisations have put in place policies and practices that ostensibly aim to encourage and support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Human Capital, Education Work Relationship
Palmer, Scott; Richards, Femi; Winnick, Steve – Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity, 2006
The importance of diversity and inclusion to higher education was the focus of intense legal and social scientific analysis in the decisions of the United States Supreme Court concerning affirmative action at the University of Michigan. The leadership of higher education and several other sectors of society offered overwhelming support, and a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Evidence, Affirmative Action, Race
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Garfinkel, Irwin; Rainwater, Lee; Smeeding, Timothy M. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2006
Previous studies find large cross-national differences in inequality amongst rich Western nations, due in large part to differences in the generosity of welfare state transfers. The United States is the least generous nation and the one having the most after-tax and transfer inequality. But these analyses are limited to the effects of cash and…
Descriptors: Income, Health Insurance, Poverty, Government Role
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Huang, Futao – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2006
This article is mainly concerned with the impact of incorporation on changes in public sector higher education in both China and Japan since the 1990s. The article deals with the context and the major policies and processes concerning incorporation of the public sector in the two countries. It then examines influences exerted by incorporation on…
Descriptors: Governance, Foreign Countries, Public Sector, Corporations
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Rothstein, Richard – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
Accountability and performance incentive plans in education are compromised by goal distortion, gaming, and corruption. Education policy makers who design such plans have paid insufficient attention to similar experiences in other fields. This paper describes institutions in health care, job training and welfare administration, and in the private…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Sector, Job Performance, Incentives
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Randle, Keith; Brady, Norman – Journal of Vocational Education and Training: The Vocational Aspect of Education, 1997
Interviews with managers and lecturers at a British further education college that had experienced a change in governance found the rise of a "new managerialism." Lecturers opposed this style and its values, perceiving a threat to the professional culture of further education. (SK)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Role, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries
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Slesnick, Donald D., II; Poltrock, Jennifer K. – Journal of Law and Education, 1996
Public-sector management teams and their counterpart labor unions are faced with an ever-increasing myriad of challenges in the quest to produce collective bargaining agreements. Shrinking tax bases, declining levels of federal and state assistance, and public demands for downsizing and privatization are all factors that suggest that financial…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Relations, Privatization
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Bretschneider, Stuart – Public Administration Review, 1990
Consistent differences are identified in the organizational environment and managerial activity of data processing organizations between the public and private sectors. A public organization's environment reflects greater interdependence and accountability, leading to more red tape. (Author)
Descriptors: Data Processing, Equipment, Management Information Systems, Organizational Climate
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Kellough, J. Edward – Public Administration Review, 1990
Examines the employment of minorities and women in individual federal agencies as of September 1988. Focuses on the influence of factors including agency size, union strength, blue collar/clerical employment, and the rate of new hires of Blacks, Hispanics, and women. Finds that contextual variables explain much of the variation in integration.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females, Hispanic Americans
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Leazes, Francis J., Jr. – Public Personnel Management, 1995
The liability of government and nonprofit organizations for failure to train employees has increased. Nonexistent training policies may be seen as deliberate indifference. Public sector administrators should assess the current state of training and establish effective policies. (SK)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Human Services, Legal Responsibility, Nonprofit Organizations
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