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Beach, Dennis; Sernhede, Ove – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
In this article, using data from ethnographic research, we try to present some glimpses of the way education is described as an experience and possibility "from below", by pupils who grow up and study in schools in the most segregated and territorially stigmatized suburbs on the outskirts of our major cities. What we feel they describe…
Descriptors: Citizenship, School Segregation, Disadvantaged, Ethnography
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King, Kenneth – International Journal of Educational Development, 2012
This paper interrogates the drivers and meanings behind the dramatic rise of technical and vocational education and training in the policy and political agenda of India. What are the assumptions about the existing traditions and character of India's culture or cultures of skills development? Is the massive planned expansion of skilled people in…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Skill Development
Smith, Nicola – Adults Learning, 2011
Families across the country are facing hard times. With inflation rising much faster than earnings, unemployment stubbornly high and the government about to embark on the most severe programme of fiscal austerity since the Second World War, living standards are being squeezed and women are on the frontline. With 80 billion British pounds set to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Living Standards, Public Policy
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Khan, Tayyeb Ali; Jabeen, Nasira – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
Tenure track system (TTS) was introduced in higher education institutions of Pakistan in 2002 as part of administrative reforms. The main objectives of the reform were to improve performance of higher education in the country through attracting qualified people and improving performance of academic faculty of higher education institutions…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management Systems, Tenure, Foreign Countries
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Thornton, Andy – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2010
Merseytravel is a large and diverse public sector organisation facing significant changes, but faced with a cultural inertia which is a legacy inherited from historical management styles. Action learning is now being used with great success as part of their change programme, to promote empowerment of the staff, challenge historical ways of working…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Public Sector, Foreign Countries, Organizational Change
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Musial, Joanna – European Education, 2014
This study analyzes degrees of differences between the private and public sectors of Polish higher education. It finds them to be strong: Polish private institutions function very differently from Polish public institutions and these differences correspond with those found in the literature on higher education elsewhere in the world. Polish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Comparative Analysis
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Shreeve, Alison; Smith, Catherine – British Educational Research Journal, 2012
In this article we examine how 19 students in creative arts disciplines in two universities experience work in not-for-profit and public sectors. We explore the notion of transfer from university education and suggest that "creative transfer" is taking place, often in more than one direction. Students draw on their life-wide experiences…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Art Education, Transfer of Training, Creativity
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Glastra, Folke J.; Meerman, Martha – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: The lack of career movement of members of ethnic minority groups in work organizations has been widely documented. The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into conditions for the realization of diversity goals in the case of talent development. Design/methodology/approach: In a case study of management development in the Dutch…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Public Sector, Taxes
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Rasdi, Roziah Mohd; Garavan, Thomas N.; Ismail, Maimunah – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how managerial level moderates the relationships between networking behaviours and career success (objective and subjective) in the context of a public sector organisation in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach: The study utilised a cross-sectional design and investigated these relationships…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Managerial Occupations, Social Networks, Public Sector
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Yau, Hon Keung; Cheng, Alison Lai Fong – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the IT professionals in a Hong Kong public transport company have a general perception of influence of the organisational defensive patterns on learning of ICT; and whether skilled incompetence, organisational defensive routines and fancy footwork are positively associated with each…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transportation, Industry, Information Technology
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Smith, Carol – Academe, 2011
Efforts by state legislators to curtail collective bargaining or destroy public-sector unions, abolish tenure, and decrease funding for education are spreading throughout the country. This author states that the scapegoating and vilification of unions and teachers, however, are not new. The current attacks have historical parallels, when cries of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Legislators, College Administration, Collective Bargaining
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Strathdee, Rob – Journal of Education Policy, 2011
In a recent contribution to this journal, John O'Neill (2011) argues that recent privatisation practices in New Zealand public schooling are evidence of a small, but growing, influence of neo-liberalism on New Zealand's public education. The focus in his paper is on the active enablement of non-government provision of public education through, for…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Public Sector, Public Education
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Li, Fengliang; Zhao, Yandong; Morgan, W. John – Education, Knowledge & Economy: A Journal for Education and Social Enterprise, 2011
This article comments on several features of the rate of return (ROR) to educational investment in China: first, the ROR to educational investment has increased with the expansion of educational provision since the 1980s. Second, the greater the educational provision, the greater the ROR. Third, the ROR in urban areas is more than that in rural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Access to Education, Rural Urban Differences
Thompson, Thomas, II. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Superior performance improvement and productivity gains are normally achieved when labor or ordinary capital is substituted by information technology (IT) in organizations. Consequently, on average, organizations have spent more than 50% of their total capital budget on IT, but have not gained commensurate return on their investments, partly due…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Public Sector, Models, Productivity
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Sarrico, Claudia S. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2010
The paper has a conceptual nature, and will depart from the literatures on performance management in general and public management in particular and confront them with the literature on higher education studies. Higher education mirrors the developments of other sectors, such as the increasing interest in performance measurement and the continuous…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Organizational Objectives, Personnel Management, Measurement
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