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Direct linkElaine Unterhalter – International Review of Education, 2024
This article examines how the distinction between complicated and complex education systems contributes to our understanding of global governance and how "soft power" concerned with gender is used in international development organisations' responses to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, the global goal for education. Four global…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Power Structure, Global Approach, International Organizations
Bjørn Stensaker; Jens Jungblut; Georgiana Mihut – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
Numerous universities throughout the world have established top-level advisory boards -- informal bodies and councils that the institutional leadership may consult on issues perceived as important. Through a series of qualitative interviews with members of such entities as well as representatives of the institutions appointing them, the article…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College Administration, Governance, Universities
Annina Förschler; Mathias Decuypere – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Within the last decades, a new way of policymaking has become increasingly prominent: civic hackathons. However, in education policy research, hackathons have not been broadly addressed so far. With this article, we contribute to closing this research gap by empirically investigating the educational #wirfürschule (#wfs) Hackathons that took place…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Foreign Countries, Programming
Download full textAlex Cortez; Christine Wade; Kateland Beals – Bellwether, 2025
In June 2022, Bellwether published the "Pragmatic Playbook," which explored how organizations can employ three strategies to maximize their impact--Direct Impact, Widespread Impact, and Systemic Impact. Over the past three-plus years, dozens of organizations across the country have adopted this framework for strategic decision-making and…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Educational Change, Power Structure, Governance
Kun Wang; Calvin King Lam Chung; Jiang Xu; Alan Chi Keung Cheung – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Emerging studies on university stratification have often attributed the developmental gaps between universities to the popularization of new public management in contexts where market mechanisms prevail in higher education governance. However, less attention has been paid to how state powers continue to mediate university stratification alongside…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Power Structure, Administrative Organization
Clara Fontdevila; Antoni Verger – Comparative Education Review, 2025
Although the role of international organizations in the diffusion of education policy is widely acknowledged, their role in the articulation of policy ideas remains comparatively underresearched. This article addresses this gap through a case study on the role of the OECD in the construction of the School Autonomy with Accountability policy…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Models, International Organizations
Robinson, John; Alhakim, Andi Darell; Ma, Grace; Alam, Monisha; Brando, Fernanda da Rocha; Braune, Manfred; Brown, Michelle; Côté, Nicolas; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano; Garza, Ana Karen; Gorman, David; Hajer, Maarten; Madden, John; Melnick, Rob; Metras, John; Newman, Julie; Patel, Rutu; Raven, Rob; Sergienko, Kenneth; Smith, Victoria; Tariq, Hoor; van der Lem, Lysanne; Wong, Christina Nga Jing; Wiek, Arnim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Governance, Barriers, Universities
Lei Huang; Chunmei Tang; Manman Li – Evaluation Review, 2025
In modern firms, conflicts may arise between the chief executive officer and board of directors due to the separation of ownership and operations. Such conflicts may weaken listed companies' performance in the short term or affect their development in the long term. Using data on Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies from 2013 to 2022,…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Corporations, Governing Boards, Group Dynamics
Susanne Wiborg – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2025
Why are interest groups on the march in Europe? How do they become so powerful? Why do reformers struggle with plans to overhaul education systems? In Who Controls Education?, Susanne Wiborg investigates the dynamics of educational interest groups across four European countries: England, France, Germany and Sweden, alongside their counterparts in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Teklu Abate Bekele – International Review of Education, 2024
This study interrogates how one of the least-studied regional intergovernmental organisations, the African Union (AU), operationalises or recontextualises the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the process of developing its post-2015 education and development strategies. Employing critical discourse analysis and drawing on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Objectives, Governance
Fiona Margetts; Stephen Jonathan Whitty; Brad Taylor – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
University governing bodies, especially academic boards, play a crucial role in policy formation. However, due to the predominance of managerial values over academic values in the policy-making process, a persistent divide exists between policy formulation and implementation. This divide results from the marginalisation of academics and the…
Descriptors: School Policy, Policy Formation, Colleges, Educational Practices
Katri Eeva – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
This paper discusses the workings of the European Semester (ES) in relation to the policy field of education. My study shows how the ES enables the steering of education policy through encouraging specific economic and employment-related actions by European Union (EU) member states. With a focus on the relationship between the EU institutions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semester System, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Dana Solonean – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
After the fall of the communist regime, Romania launched the first multi-systemic reform in the education sector in 1995. The reform was largely financed through a World Bank loan and closely followed the neo-liberal ideology promoted by Bank officials. It aimed to privatize and to implement private sector management principles in the public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Ideology, Governance
Glenn Colby; Susan T. Kater; Carrie B. Kisker – American Association of University Professors, 2025
In 2024, the AAUP, in partnership with the Center for the Study of Community Colleges, conducted an inaugural shared governance survey focused on community colleges, the institutions educating nearly 40 percent of all undergraduates in the United States. The survey instrument mirrored the one used for four-year institutions, examining faculty…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Governance, State Boards of Education, Decision Making
Katherine Caves; Maria Esther Oswald-Egg – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Education governance networks are increasingly common and very diverse. In a strategic case study, we apply a new social network analysis method to evaluate the sustainability of a public-private education governance network. We examine the balance of satisfaction across public and private sectors and the network's fairness in terms of whether…
Descriptors: Governance, Social Networks, Sustainability, Partnerships in Education
