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Oketch, Moses O. – Higher Education Policy, 2003
Examines some of the rationales for financial diversification and partial privatization of state universities in Kenya and the different manifestations of market-driven approaches to university education. Explores whether the market model can address increased demand while maintaining educational quality. (EV)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System
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Barber, Benjamin R. – Liberal Education, 2002
Asserts that the interdependence that characterizes the contemporary world is undermined by the commercialization and privatization pervading U.S. society with consumerist pressures reaching even into school programs, but that terrorism has dramatically underlined global interdependence and public responsibilities. Explores what makes an adequate…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, College Role, Corporations, Free Enterprise System
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Burnell, Alan; Briggs, Adrian – Adoption & Fostering, 1995
Discusses postplacement adoption service contracts between East Sussex Social Services and the Post-Adoption Centre (PAC). Describes how PAC originally provided subscription services to local authorities, but when limitations of the subscription service were recognized, a collaborative service with more local authority was developed. (AJH)
Descriptors: Adoption, Agency Cooperation, Contracts, Counseling Services
Pullen, Buddy; Pitts, Carroll, Jr. – School Administrator, 1995
The Cobb County (Georgia) School District, which transports 61,000 students to 88 schools on 763 buses daily, avidly studied privatization possibilities. Since the bus fleet is relatively new and drivers' wages compare favorably with metropolitan Atlanta's, the district concluded it could transport students better and more cheaply. A sidebar lists…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Privatization
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Iqbal, Zafar; Davies, Lynn – Journal of Education Policy, 1994
Explores the financial and administrative autonomy granted to selected colleges in Punjab, Pakistan. Analyzes the rationale and organizational structure of the privatization scheme. Describes a pilot study of two autonomous colleges, focusing on participants' reactions to implementation problems. Autonomy is not working as intended, and negative…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System
Harter, Don – Learning (Canada), 1993
Britain's decision to commercialize the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service has implications for extension programs in other countries. If programs now offered were commercialized, extension would no longer be an agency responsive to the public interest as a whole but would be driven by interests of paying clients. (JOW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Extension Education, Foreign Countries, Privatization
Rist, Marilee C. – American School Board Journal, 1991
Whittle Communications, Inc. plans to launch a nationwide chain of private, for-profit schools and sell its proprietary educational products, instructional technology, and management services to school boards. Whittle schools will enroll children aged 3 months to 18 years, schedule hours coinciding with parents' working days, and operate…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Franchising, Marketing
Hill, Paul T. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
Most "systemic" reforms try to align different public education segments via mandated goals, tests, curriculum frameworks, and teacher certification methods but fail to eliminate political, contractual constraints that create fragmented, unresponsive schools. Contracting, alternative form of public education governance building on…
Descriptors: Contracts, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Whiddon, Philip – School Business Affairs, 1994
Contract management of school maintenance and operations is a growing trend. In-house departments need to be prepared to justify their positions. Describes a Texas school district's request for proposal for contract management and includes the specifications for bidding with comments about the wording of the document. (MLF)
Descriptors: Bids, Contracts, Elementary Secondary Education, Privatization
Ordovensky, Pat – Executive Educator, 1993
At a low-income elementary school in Miami Beach, children learn for themselves, not to impress others. Guided by a privately developed instructional package, the school has embraced such tradition-smashing reforms as teacher-coaches, cooperative learning, whole-language and whole-math curricula, computer-assisted instruction, small classes, and…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Education, Principals, Privatization
Lerner, Norman C. – Telecommunications, 1998
Presents a country-by-country analysis of investment opportunities in Latin American telecommunications. Concludes: Brazil and Mexico are the major focus of interest and expectations; wireless and cellular are expanding rapidly; the expansion of regulatory reform, as promised to the World Trade Organization (WTO) should foster necessary monopolies…
Descriptors: Competition, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Investment
Gose, Ben – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999
For-profit college-admissions counseling and college-preparation companies are expanding, and existing test-preparation centers are planning to begin offering admissions-counseling services. One company envisions a national chain. Some educators welcome the trend, while others feel the commercial enterprises may take an inappropriate approach to…
Descriptors: Admissions Counseling, College Admission, College Preparation, Educational Trends
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Hoatson, Lesley; And Others – Community Development Journal, 1996
The Australian state of Victoria has adopted a privatization approach to human services that is destroying the infrastructure of community services. Without a dynamic community services core, it is difficult for social citizenship to flourish. (SK)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Services, Contracts
Furst, Lyndon G. – West's Education Law Quarterly, 1996
During its 1993 session, the Michigan legislature enacted two statutes for the organization and operation of public school academies, Michigan's name for charter schools. A circuit court judge declared the charter schools were unconstitutional. In response, the legislature amended its original enactment. Traces the short but curious history of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Contracts, Court Litigation, Privatization
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Carnoy, Martin – Educational Researcher, 2000
Responds to an article on school choice by suggesting that much more is known about the politics of issues related to school choice and privatization than the article reveals, partly from what has occurred with educational vouchers and charter schools in the United States and partly from lessons learned from voucher plans in other countries. (SM)
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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