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Lien, Donald; Keithley, Andrew – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
We apply the gravity model of international trade to country-level panel data on branch campus establishments and closures from 2007-2016. Accordingly, we arrive at the first elasticity estimates of the determinants of international trade in branch campuses, contributing to research in higher education and international trade in services. Our…
Descriptors: International Education, Educational Cooperation, International Cooperation, Multicampus Colleges
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McClure, Kevin R.; Teitelbaum, Kenneth – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
State education policy changes have contributed to a reduced interest in teaching and a decreased enrollment in education degree programs in North Carolina, USA. Pressure to cut budgets and generate revenue has added to a climate of academic capitalism influencing the ways in which deans lead schools of education. The purpose of this mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Social Systems, Deans, Administrator Attitudes
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Jones, Ken – Education Inquiry, 2014
The Conservative-led Coalition government in Britain is strongly committed to a programme of austerity. In the short term, this is a programme which makes more difficult the country's exit from a period of recession and slow growth; in the longer term, it threatens cuts and privatisation which call into question the welfare state. Yet,…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Educational Policy, Program Development, Foreign Countries
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Coram, Stella – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
The athlete role model has emerged as the new pastor invested with the task of leading young people classed "at-risk" from entering into self-destructive pathways. The logic invested in the athlete role model is that young people identify with their sporting heroes and in the process try to emulate them. This holds for the major sporting…
Descriptors: Role Models, Athletes, Young Adults, Foreign Countries
Kallen, Dennis; Bengtsson, Jarl – 1973
The purpose of this report is to clarify the concept, main features, and objectives of the "recurrent education" issue and to spell out the implications that this approach will have for educational and socio-economic policy making. It is suggested that acceptance of the "recurrent education" proposal implies not only a major turning point in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cultural Influences, Economic Factors, Educational Policy