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Bobe, Belete J.; Kober, Ralph – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Drawing on upper echelon theory, we investigate whether university deans' personal characteristics, including age, sex, educational background, and tenure are associated with their use of university management control systems (MCS), financial performance measures, and non-financial performance measures. We surveyed the dean of every faculty across…
Descriptors: Deans, Administrator Characteristics, Age Differences, Gender Differences
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Martino, Wayne; Rezai-Rashti, Goli – Journal of Education Policy, 2013
In this paper, we undertake a particular policy critique and analysis of the gender achievement gap discourse in Ontario and Canada, and situate it within the context of what has been termed "the governance turn" in educational policy with its focus on policy as numbers and its multi-scalar manifestations. We show how this "gap…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Gender Differences, Achievement Gap