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Direct linkYe, Rebecca; Nylander, Erik – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
This paper explores the process of transnational institutional matching between elite institutions in Singapore and Great Britain, and the role of state-sponsored scholarships in enabling this process as political and administrative elites are selected and groomed. Using data gathered from in-depth interviews conducted with Singaporean…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reputation, Interviews, Undergraduate Students
Grimminger, Elke – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2014
Although splitting up a class into teams is a consistent didactical element in physical education (PE), it is under-investigated in terms of how students handle the social dynamics in these situations. Therefore, the present study examines the strategies of exclusion as markers for non-recognition when students are split up into teams/pairs. The…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Team Sports, Competitive Selection
Chen, Hsin-Jen – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
This paper aims to investigate the micropolitical actions and strategies employed by the principal in the researched elementary school located in Northern Taiwan. Firstly, the author argues that the mechanism of the principal selection in Taiwan is the product of educational reform affected by policy borrowing. Secondly, drawing on ethnographic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Policy Analysis, Politics of Education, Elementary Education
Schuster, Shannan Boyle – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was threefold: first, to determine the use of specified admission criteria in the independent school admission process; second, to determine admission directors' perceptions of the importance of selected criteria; and third, to determine the nature of the relationship between selected independent measures and the use of…
Descriptors: Siblings, Private Schools, Talent, Standardized Tests
Boyd, Elizabeth Reid – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2008
This study undertook a small preliminary investigation of the contemporary employment practice of "applying for your own job". There has not yet been a specific study into the effect upon individuals and organisations of the practice of existing employees being required to apply for the same or a similar position in a competitive…
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Employee Attitudes, Job Security, Industrial Psychology
Hoover, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
The college admissions process teaches students how to express themselves during interviews, how to describe their best qualities in application essays. It may also make them wary of college marketing campaigns, and skeptical of being treated as a statistics, due to the large role played by standardized-test scores and grade-point averages. Such…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, College Applicants, Standardized Tests, Marketing
