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The Entrepreneurial University: Vision and Metrics
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Etzkowitz, Henry – Industry and Higher Education, 2016
Forged in different academic and national traditions, the university is arriving at a common entrepreneurial format that incorporates and transcends its traditional missions. The academic entrepreneurial transition arises from the confluence of the internal development of higher education institutions and external influences on academic structures…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Universities, Knowledge Economy, Institutional Mission
Public Regulatory Arrangements for Private Higher Education in the Western Balkans
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Papadimitriou, Antigoni; Levy, Daniel C.; Stensaker, Bjørn; Kanazir, Sanja – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
The article presents an analysis of the developments of higher education laws and regulations in the Western Balkans for the period 1990-2015, with the aim of mapping the regulatory arrangements for the private higher education sector and to explore the relationship between public and private higher education in the region. Based on a conceptual…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Private Education, Guidelines, Governance
On the Impact of Government Policy on Programme Design in New Zealand Post-Compulsory Education
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Govers, Elly – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2010
The impact of national education policies on programme design practice in post-compulsory education tends to be marginalised in scholarly literature. This paper reviews and analyses the literature to explore how neo-liberalist discourses introduced in tertiary education and qualifications policies in New Zealand since 1989 continue to influence…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Vocational Education
Autonomy and Accountability in the Assessment of Learning: Tipping the Balance.
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Leach, Linda; Neutze, Guyon; Zepke, Nick – New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning, 2001
Explores the economic and political contexts of assessment in New Zealand adult education. Discusses assessment in relation to power, objectivity, reliability, and validity, suggesting that accountability prevails over autonomy. Advocates a context-dependent learner-teacher partnership for assessment in adult education. (Contains 54 references.)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Economic Development, Educational Assessment
An Overview of China's Ongoing Education Reform.
Junhua, Wang – 1986
During the period from 1949 to 1984, industry's share in the national economy of the Peoples' Republic of China rose from 30 percent to 60 percent. Despite raising literacy over the same period from 20 percent to over 75 percent, the Chinese educational system has failed to keep pace with the economy's rapidly expanding need for trained…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Two Positions in the International Debate about Higher Education: The World Bank and UNESCO.
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Kent, Rollin – 1995
This paper analyzes and compares two 1994 reports on the state of higher education in developing nations, the World Bank's "Higher Education: The Lesson of Experience" and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) "Policy Paper on Change and Development in Higher Education." It examines…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Administration, Educational Attitudes