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Kenan-Smalls, Yottie Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate diversity and inclusion from an age perspective among information technology (IT) professionals that were categorized as 4 different generations in the workforce today: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y. At the same time, this study sought to examine motivational…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Public Sector, Leadership Styles, Motivation
Herbert, Marion – District Administration, 2011
On June 8, News Corp., a media company owned by Rupert Murdoch, snatched two leading school district administrators to head its new education division. Peter Gorman, former superintendent of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Schools, is the unit's new senior vice president, and Kristen Kane, the former chief operating officer of the New York City…
Descriptors: Corporations, School Districts, Local Government, Private Sector
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Lundstrom, Ulf; Holm, Ann-Sofie – Policy Futures in Education, 2011
The development and expansion of market solutions is one of the most important changes in Swedish education in the last 30 years. The aim of the article is to describe and analyse how students and staff in upper secondary schools perceive the impact of market competition on teachers' work. Three groups of actors in two Swedish regions were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role of Education, Educational Change, Secondary Education
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Lane, Jason E.; Kinser, Kevin – Higher Education Policy, 2011
Privatization trends in higher education have typically been analyzed from the perspective of the institution and its relationship with the sponsoring state. The recent phenomenon of international cross-border higher education, however, represents a more complicated picture of privatization. Geographic separation from the sponsoring state is an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
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Livanos, Ilias; Pouliakas, Konstantinos – Education Economics, 2011
This paper examines the wage returns to qualifications and academic disciplines in the Greek labour market. Exploring wage responsiveness across various degree subjects in Greece is interesting, as it is characterised by high levels of graduate unemployment, which vary considerably with the field of study, and relatively low levels of wage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Higher Education, Educational Change
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Nahas, Charbel – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2011
This paper assesses the adequacy, efficiency, and equity of higher education in Lebanon in both the public and private sectors, while highlighting challenges that are specific to Lebanon. It concludes by discussing various approaches and strategies to remedy the challenges facing higher education in Lebanon.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Rashid, Abdul; Bibi, Zainab; Din, Siraj ud – Online Submission, 2012
Using secondary data of Government Schools and literacy department for 10 years that is 2000-2010, this paper assesses the progress on the issue of gender equality within the framework of education related Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in district Quetta. The assessment is based on the selected indicators of goals by applying descriptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Equal Education, Gender Differences
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Carlier, Sandra Idrovo; Llorente, Consuelo Leon; Grau, Marc Grau – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to determine the level of awareness and implementation of family-responsible parameters: policies, enablers, practices, and culture, in Spanish and Latin-American companies, and how they impact work-life balance. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses data from different national IESE's Family-Responsible Employer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Work Relationship, Public Sector, Comparative Analysis
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Hamlin, Robert G.; Patel, Taran – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to report the results of a replication study of perceived managerial and leadership effectiveness within a Romanian public sector hospital, and to discuss the extent to which they are similar to and different from findings from equivalent studies carried out in two British NHS Trust hospitals. Design/methodology/approach:…
Descriptors: Health Services, Leadership Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
MacLaughlin, John; Samson, Ron – Centre for Literacy of Quebec, 2013
The concept of social innovation has recently emerged as an influential approach to address intractable social problems. Increasingly discussed in academia and policy circles, the concept draws on multifaceted practices and ideas from many disciplines. Yet despite widespread discussion and promotion, there is still limited understanding of…
Descriptors: Innovation, Social Change, Social Problems, Literacy Education
Young, Charles Keith – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Owing to the significant structural changes that have occurred in the global marketplace over the past 2 decades, a corresponding increase of public-private partnerships have been established among the business sector, local governments, and public community colleges. This qualitative project sought to identify and substantiate key elements that…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Public Sector, Program Effectiveness, Barriers
Bi, Jing – Online Submission, 2010
This study introduces the concept and characteristics of open access (OA), analyses the status quo and development of OA in foreign countries, and discusses its inspiration to its future development in China.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Control, Internet, Access to Information
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Wilson, Terri S. – Educational Theory, 2010
In this essay, Terri Wilson puts the argument developed by Kathleen Knight Abowitz that charter schools could be considered as counterpublic spaces into interaction with empirical research that explores patterns of voluntary self-segregation in charter schools. Wilson returns to the theoretical tension between Jurgen Habermas and Nancy Fraser over…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Persuasive Discourse, Inclusion, Public Sector
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Sfakianakis, George; Magoutas, Anastasios I.; Georgopoulos, Demosthenes – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
Using a generalized production function approach and insights from empirical research on the determinants of growth, this paper assesses the relative importance of specific factors in explaining differences in the levels of per capita GDP. Emphasis is placed on education, physical capital accumulation, the share of the public sector in economic…
Descriptors: Productivity, Human Capital, Technology Transfer, Public Sector
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Lau, Cheng Man Diana; Yuen, Pong Kau – Frontiers of Education in China, 2010
The development of private higher education in Macau has experienced rapid growth in the past two decades. The purpose of this paper is to understand this trend by investigating the facts and figures supplied by official sources and to analyze the role between the Government and the private sector. This paper shows that the attitude of the Macau…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Private Sector, Quality Control, Public Sector
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