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Peer reviewedDixon, Richard K. – French Review, 1980
Reports on an investigation of the National Drama Centers (CDN) in the provinces of France discussing the quality of their productions and the history of their decentralization efforts. Also describes the problems involved in maintaining local theaters in view of their continuing dependence on Paris theatrical resources and on government…
Descriptors: City Government, Decentralization, Dramatics, National Programs
Andersson, Lillemor, Ed. – School Research Newsletter, 1983
This School Research Newsletter presents the research program of the National Swedish Board of Education (NBE), as adopted by the NBE Board of Directors in June 1982. The successive decisions on decentralization taken in the educational sector since 1976 have led also to a decision to alter the thrust of the research and development work within at…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Decentralization, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedGislason, Thora – Canadian Library Journal, 1986
Discusses both the advantages and the limitations of the Canadian cataloging-in-publication (CIP) system, a decentralized system which began in January 1976 with three principal library agencies--the University of British Columbia, York University (transferred to the University of Toronto in 1982), and the Bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec in…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Decentralization, Foreign Countries, Library Acquisition
Peer reviewedMarklund, Inger – International Review of Education, 1981
The author explains the role and financing of educational research and development (R&D) in Sweden, as it operates under the central education authority, the National Board of Education. She discusses a government report on R&D effects and considers the potential impact on research of current trends toward decentralization in education.…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational Research, Educational Trends
Peer reviewedUseem, Michael; Chipande, Graham – Evaluation Review, 1991
To identify general principles of implementing a system of evaluation, the experience of Malawi in building a national system for agriculture is described. Applying principles of both centralization and decentralization and principles of trial and error has helped translate theories of evaluation into practice in Malawi. (SLD)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Centralization, Decentralization, Developing Nations
Durance, Cynthia J. – 1981
This paper provides an update on the status of library systems development in Canada and describes the new initiatives which the National Library is undertaking cooperatively with other institutions to facilitate the development of a nationwide decentralized bibliographic communication network. In order to place current network initiatives and the…
Descriptors: Communications, Decentralization, Developmental Programs, Foreign Countries
