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Association of Canadian Community Colleges. – 2003
This document was prepared by the Association of Community Colleges in order to describe the relationship between colleges and small- and medium-sized enterprises in Canada. The ACCC collected information for this survey from the 150 Canadian colleges by conducting a literature/data review and a survey of member institutions in addition to on site…
Descriptors: Business, Community Colleges, Community Programs, Educational Improvement
Gruenewald, Anne – 1998
The Forging Collaborative Partnerships Project in Waterloo, Iowa is a collaborative venture to assist voluntary agencies in developing tools and strategies to strengthen collaborative relationships among public and nonprofit child welfare agencies and other key stakeholders as they adopt a family-focused philosophy. This monograph details how the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Child Welfare, Foster Care
Sullivan, Ann – 1998
Over the last several years, state and local governments have increased the privatization of a range of services that historically have been provided by government agencies, including adoption services. This issue brief of the Child Welfare League of America provides adoption professionals with information on the privatization of adoption…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Adoptive Parents, Agencies
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Goldberg, Lenny; And Others – Future of Children, 1996
L. Goldberg, T. W. Schultz, and M. Piel comment on proposed funding strategies for an allowance for child care for poor families, the creation of a parental leave policy to ensure infant care, and a plan to link public schooling and child care. The commentaries suggest proposal refinements or alternatives. (SLD)
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Finance Reform, Financial Support
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Zigler, Edward F.; And Others – Future of Children, 1996
The authors of proposals for a child care allowance for poor families, a parental leave program to ensure infant care, and a linkage of child care and public education systems respond to comments by three reviewers. The commentaries illustrate the diversity of perspectives on child care and the public sector. (SLD)
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Finance Reform, Financial Support
Roberts, Michael M. – EDUCOM Review, 1992
Testimony to a congressional subcommittee stresses the importance of national broadband communications networks such as NREN and NSFNet to the educational community. Approval for a proposed private sector competition for a cooperative agreement with NSFNet is expressed, and the necessity for a common infrastructure for the NREN is discussed. (LAE)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Government School Relationship, Higher Education
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Maule, R. William – Internet Research, 1994
Discusses prototype information infrastructure projects in northern California's Silicon Valley. The strategies of the public and private telecommunications carriers vying for backbone services and industries developing end-user infrastructure technologies via office networks, set-top box networks, Internet multimedia, and "smart homes"…
Descriptors: Business, Cable Television, Computer Networks, Futures (of Society)
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Saitis, Christos – Educational Management and Administration, 1990
Discusses the influence of social and economic factors on the management of the public sector in Greece. Deals with the organization and management practice in the Ministry of National Education and Cults. Proposes steps of reform to ensure that decision-making processes are effective. (12 references) (MLF)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Educational Policy, Efficiency, Foreign Countries
Vergnani, Linda – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2000
Reports on a temporary South African government moratorium on expansion of university distance-education programs while reorganization of higher education in that nation is planned. Notes that several private universities are drawing distance education students away from the nation's two principal public distance-education institutions. Notes a…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Quality, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries
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Lassibille, Gerard – Economics of Education Review, 1998
Estimates separate earnings equations by employment sector and gender in Spain and identifies returns to human capital, based on 1990-91 household survey data. Public wages are higher, and civil servants more highly educated. However, the public sector pays lower returns to education and experience. Earnings advantage is largest for least skilled…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment, Foreign Countries
Barnes, Peter – Horizons, 1998
Examines current issues and trends in the United Kingdom's outdoor education industry as context for discussions about forming a national association for outdoor professionals. Discusses declining state provision of outdoor education in schools, increasing commercialism, recent negative images of the outdoor industry, increasing emphasis on safety…
Descriptors: Business, Careers, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries
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Vickers, Margaret – Australian Journal of Education, 2005
This article considers evidence which suggests that Australia's current approach to the funding of non-government schools does not serve the common good. Educational provision is now segmented and a majority of private schools have resources that are either moderately or highly superior to those available in public schools. The current funding…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Private Sector, Private Schools
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Moore, Mark A.; Boardman, Anthony E.; Vining, Aidan R.; Weimer, David L.; Greenberg, David H. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2004
A major reason the quality of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) varies widely is inconsistent use of the social discount rate (SDR). This article offers guidance about the choice of the SDR. Namely, we recommend the following procedures: If the project is intragenerational (does not have effects beyond 50 years) and there is no crowding out of private…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Public Sector, Cost Effectiveness, Metric System
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Samoff, Joel – International Journal of Educational Development, 2004
Burkina Faso is among the largest recipients of development aid in West Africa. The new aid terminology emphasizes partnership and a sectoral approach. Yet, recent research suggests more continuity than change in the aid relationship. Projects persist. Funding and technical assistance agencies cooperate more but adhere to their interests,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Financial Support, Public Sector, Social Support Groups
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Maynard, Sally; Davies, J. Eric; Robinson, Rachel – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2005
This article reports an investigation of the attitudes and opinions of children's librarians towards poetry, and towards its promotion in the public library. It also reports some attitudes towards literature promotion to young people in general. A series of structured interviews with library professionals currently working in the public sector…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Public Sector, Librarians, Poetry
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