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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
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (NJ1), 2007
As conceived by the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), Lifelong Learning Accounts (LiLAs[SM]) are employer-matched, portable individual accounts used to finance employee education and training. They provide employees with an affordable means of upgrading their skills and knowledge, while helping to meet the needs of employers and…
Descriptors: Employees, Retirement, Manufacturing Industry, Federal Legislation
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Gillies, Donald – Education, Knowledge & Economy: A Journal for Education and Social Enterprise, 2007
"Excellence" has been a prevalent term in New Labour rhetoric on education, most notably in the stated goal of "excellence for all" in education. Despite that, the meaning of the term has remained imprecise, and the implications of universal excellence unclear. In this paper, three distinct definitions of excellence are…
Descriptors: Total Quality Management, Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change
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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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Hays, Steven W.; Kearney, Richard C. – Public Administration Review, 1992
A survey of the 50 state personnel directors found that (1) their attitudes and actions reflect a concern for social equity issues; (2) 21 were women and 6 African American; (3) they experience similar role conflicts and tensions as federal civil servants; and (4) state personnel systems are addressing equity issues and benefit flexibility. (SK)
Descriptors: Government Employees, Individual Characteristics, Personnel Directors, Personnel Management
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Sulock, Joseph M. – Journal of Economic Education, 1990
Presents several time-effective classroom games that can be used to help students discover the consequences of two important concepts in public finance: the free rider problem and the voting paradox. Maintains that these games encourage student involvement and stimulate class discussion. (DB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Economics, Economics Education, Educational Games
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Kiesling, Herbert J. – Journal of Economic Education, 1990
Describes some of the relatively unknown aspects of the concept of public goods and shows how they might be brought into undergraduate textbooks in microeconomic principles, public finance, and welfare economics. Illustrates how these aspects of public goods can be brought into undergraduate instruction. (DB)
Descriptors: Economics, Economics Education, Higher Education, Public Policy
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Greenlaw, Paul S.; Kohl, John P. – Public Personnel Management, 1993
Review of case law in educational administration, hospitals, correctional institutions, and the military shows that, when risk of AIDS transmission is high, courts will support public sector administrators' decisions. Low risk means such decisions as mandatory blood testing will usually be struck down. (SK)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Employer Employee Relationship
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Aronsson, Gunnar; Bejerot, Eva; Harenstam, Annika – Public Personnel Management, 1999
Swedish professionals (n=3,595) ranked their perceptions of healthy work. There was a great discrepancy between the ideal and the real for work intellectuality (stimulus, independence, encouragement of innovation and initiative). The value of work showed more congruence between ideal and real. Lowest-ranked aspects were being well paid and having…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Private Sector
Cook, Keith – Perspectives, 1999
Compares approaches and trends in lifelong learning in Britain, Sweden, and Germany. The centrally planned Swedish approach increasingly needs to curb public expenditure. The German experience, an integrated partnership between the state and the private sector, is particularly sensitive to downturns in the economic cycle. The British approach…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Efficiency, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Kilpatrick, Sue; Bound, Helen – Australian and New Zealand Journal of Vocational Education Research, 2001
Case studies of training brokers who match clients with appropriate training reveal different outcomes for clients of for-profit, market-focused brokers and nonprofit, client-focused brokers. Results suggest the need for public support of training and development of clients as informed consumers of vocational education and training. (Contains 28…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Networks, Nonprofit Organizations, Outcomes of Education
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