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Direct linkPham, Huong Thi; Nguyen, Cuong Huu – Quality in Higher Education, 2020
Quality assurance in higher education has been introduced in Vietnam to improve the quality of the entire sector. Academics are considered key players in the reform plan of the Vietnamese government. This paper discusses the development of the Vietnamese quality assurance approach in higher education reform and how it could be further developed to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Professional Development
Bach, Anabel; Böhnke, Anja; Thiel, Felicitas – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: School improvement and effectiveness depend substantially on teachers developing their professional competencies on an ongoing basis. Germany's new approach to school governance combines instruments borrowed from different theoretical concepts: teacher collaboration (in a sense of professional self-regulation with high autonomy) and…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Individualized Instruction, Staff Development, Instructional Improvement
Podgornik, Vesna; Vogrinc, Janez – SAGE Open, 2017
In many countries in recent decades, great importance has been placed on the concept of quality assurance in education. In Slovenian schools, quality assessment and assurance processes are based on a combination of self-evaluation and external evaluation, although significantly more weight has been attached to self-evaluation than external…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Role, Teacher Role
Weinstein, José; Hernández, Macarena – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2016
School leadership has a core position within education policy worldwide. Comparative research in this area has been mainly focused on developed countries and has tended to neglect the situation of developing nations, including Latin American countries. Considering the above, this article presents the current status of school leadership policies in…
Descriptors: Leadership Responsibility, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Policy Formation
Download full textYarovaya, Yelena B. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2015
The article examines the standardization of primary education as one of the development trends of the British school at the present moment in the context of improving its efficiency and quality. It analyses the positive results of the standard-based reforms (modernization of primary education content, improvement of younger students' outcomes,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Academic Standards, National Standards
European University Association, 2017
In 2017, the European Commission reviewed the EU's Framework of Key Competences for Lifelong Learning. The Framework was designed "to contribute to the development of quality, future-oriented education and training tailored to the needs of European society." Aimed at policymakers, education and training providers, social partners and…
Descriptors: Competence, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Communication Skills
Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; de Beer, Louw, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed.; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Achinewhu-Nworgu, Elizabeth, Ed.; Niemczyk, Ewelina, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2022
This volume contains selected papers submitted to the 20th Jubilee Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), conducted virtually in June 2022. The 20th BCES Conference theme is "Towards the Next Epoch of Education." The theme is focused on problems, discussions, changes, solutions, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational History, Educational Policy, Educational Innovation
Byrne, J.; Shepherd, J.; Dewhirst, S.; Pickett, K.; Speller, V.; Roderick, P.; Grace, M.; Almond, P. – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This paper presents findings from a survey of pre-service teacher training institutions in England with regard to the provision of health and well-being education. It examines factors affecting the inclusion of health and well-being, and explores educational implications in light of the changing landscape of pre-service teacher education in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Health Education
Murphy, David – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2011
This article considers a number of issues facing those involved in counselling and psychotherapy training within United Kingdom Higher Education Institutes. It is proposed that the increasing professionalisation of counselling and psychotherapy has significant implications for lecturers and trainers. The article will explore the tension between…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Regulation, Foreign Countries, Psychotherapy
Wohlstetter, Priscilla; Van Kirk, Amy – 1995
This paper presents findings of a study that explored effective school-based budgeting practices within effective school-based management (SBM) contexts. The sample was comprised of 18 schools across 9 school districts (7 in the United States, 1 Canadian, and 1 Australian)--that had used SBM to improve school performance. During onsite visits,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education
Chung, Chan-young; And Others – 1988
Excessive centralized control begets uniformity, which denies local need and school uniqueness. Further, control, order, and supervision create impassivity and work against autonomy. The decentralization of authority to lower echelons more familar with local needs may provide a more relevant administration that encourages local initiatives; school…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Administration, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Hargreaves, David H., Ed.; Hopkins, David, Ed. – 1994
Development planning has recently become a commonly adopted strategy for school improvement in the United Kingdom. Development planning is a description and more formal explication of the process and actions required to plan and manage change with the intention of improving the school. The chapters in this book report on the "state of the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning
Mathur, M. V., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This book contains 35 papers on varying aspects of the Indian university system and strategies for its renewal. The papers are: (1) "Introduction: Imperatives of System Renewal" (Ramesh K. Arora and Meena Sogani; (2) "The Universities and the State: Global Experience and Lessons for India" (Malcolm S. Adiseshiah); (3)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Change, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role
