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Wen Xu – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Chinese higher education policy texts appear to suggest that training 'para-diplomats' is a goal of China's international student recruitment. However, few studies have considered the ways such policies are recontextualised and implemented at the institutional (meso-) level and become integral to students' career pathways after graduation. To…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Hidden Curriculum, Classification, Ethnography
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Marini, Giulio – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2021
Reforms in higher education have been passed in many European countries in the last decades, mostly trying to adapt national systems to new European and global challenges. This study examines some consequences of such major reforms in France and Spain. Specifically, these reforms introduced new agencies whose remit was "inter alia" to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, College Faculty
Lawrence, Steven; Hansen, Ulcca Joshi – Grantmakers for Education, 2023
This document is the latest Grantmakers for Education's (EdFunders) study of what's now and what's next for education philanthropy. It aims to give insight into the priorities of the education funding community, and to help funders understand their role in supporting education innovation that benefits the nation's learners. The findings in this…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Educational Finance, Grants, Philanthropic Foundations
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Yitao, Wang; Hua, Wang – Chinese Education & Society, 2019
Research on the group characteristics and channels for selection of party secretaries at private institutions of higher education has important significance in strengthening leadership by party organizations and perfecting internal governance structures at private institutions of higher education. A survey of 293 private institutions of higher…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Private Colleges, Public Officials, Governance
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Vafai, Maliheh Mansuripur – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2016
"College and Career Pathways" is an educational policy initiative widely acclaimed as a commonsensical and effective measure to ease students' transitions between secondary and postsecondary education and into the middle-skill jobs. This article investigates the internal dynamics of the "Pathways'" curricular model as well as…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Skilled Occupations, Education Work Relationship, Neoliberalism
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Menter, Ian; Hextall, Ian; Mahony, Pat – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2003
Following the 1998 Green Paper on teachers' work, the UK government introduced Threshold Assessment of teachers in England and Wales in 2000. Teachers who met the Threshold standards were rewarded with a pay rise and access to an upper pay spine. At the time ministers gave assurances that equal opportunities would be taken very seriously in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Race, Educational Policy, Rhetoric