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Peter Wingrove; Beatrice Zuaro; Marion Nao; Dogan Yuksel; Levente Littvay; Anna Kristina Hultgren – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
Despite extensive research into English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education, few if any studies have explored the role of higher education autonomy in driving EMI. This paper tests the novel hypothesis that university autonomy--spearheaded across European higher education through neoliberally predicated 'steering at a distance'…
Descriptors: Universities, Institutional Autonomy, Predictor Variables, Language of Instruction
Baldacchino, John – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
This paper looks at autonomy through the dynamic relationship between particularity, experience, and subjectivism in the works of Georg Lukács and John Dewey. While the focus on autonomy appears to be initially focused on the relationship between universality and particularity, the ultimate goal is to then situate the discussion on the horizon of…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Art Education
"Beg, Borrow, and Steal": School Division Perspectives of Assessment Policy Creation in Saskatchewan
Hebert, Cristyne; LeNouail, Kent – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study focused on school division needs pertaining to classroom-based assessment policies in Saskatchewan. Using a critical policy analysis framework, this project narrowed in on the creation of assessment policies within school divisions in the province through the lens of superintendents (n = 16). Applying Verhoest et al.'s (2004)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Policy Analysis
Jing, Xiaoli; Ghosh, Ratna; Liu, Baocun – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2023
Since the beginning of the 21st century, international branch campuses have experienced significant growth worldwide, and most of them are established in the Global South by the Global North, reproducing Western hegemony through education. In this context, we conducted a comparative study to analyse the convergence and divergence of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicampus Colleges, Colonialism, Standards
Pavel Zgaga – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023
This article examines the concept of academic autonomy within the "Yugoslav model" of higher education as a peripheral system characterised by an eclectic mix of elements from different systems, resulting in mutations with unique features during its development. The hitherto under-researched history of this higher education model has by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Educational History, European History
Thamrin, Husni; Gaus, Nurdiana; Ritonga, Fajar Utama; Baa, Sultan – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: New Public Management (NPM) has been assumed to be a challenge to patronage and paternalism. However, feminist scholars have challenged such an image and argued that NPM has been the representation of men's languages and bodies from which gender inequality is perpetuated. This paper examines how NPM introduced in academia has perpetuated…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Educational Change, Institutional Autonomy, Gender Differences
Christian Compare; Alžbeta Brozmanová Gregorová; Irene Culcasi; Pilar Aramburuzabala; Cinzia Albanesi – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
Service-learning (SL) represents one of the actions for community engagement institutionalisation and a way to achieve the teaching and learning objectives of the university and answer local organisations' needs identified by the community. Studies on the benefits and impacts of service-learning experiences among community partners (rather than…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries, Community Organizations
Melano Beridze – European Journal of Educational Management, 2025
This study comparatively examines state policies of university autonomy in the Eastern Neighborhood countries of the European Union, with a particular focus on Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova. Guided by the principles outlined in the 2007 Lisbon Declaration, the research investigates how university autonomy is shaped by state policies in these three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Institutional Autonomy, Universities
Kien The Pham; Xuan Van Ha; Thang Dinh Truong; Hong-Van Thi Dinh; Hoang-Yen Thi Duong; Tuan-Vinh Nguyen – European Journal of Education, 2025
School-based management (SBM) enhances decentralisation and autonomy to improve school leadership and management, but in countries like Vietnam, research on its implementation remains limited. This study investigates SBM practices in Vietnamese primary schools, where current education reforms focus on administrative decentralisation and grant…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy
Yusuf Canbolat – Education Finance and Policy, 2025
Portfolio schools have become increasingly prevalent in urban school districts across the United States. These schools exemplify a model where school autonomy is integrated with district oversight, promoting a controlled form of autonomy. This study examines the impact of portfolio schools in Indianapolis on student achievement. To ensure balanced…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Academic Achievement, Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment
Jill Duncan; Renee Punch; Mark Gauntlett; Ruth Talbot-Stokes – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
It is unlawful under the "Disability Discrimination Act 1992" (Cth) for Australian schools to discriminate against students based on disability. Yet discrimination against students with disability is on the increase in Australian schools, and so is the decentralisation and autonomy of schools. This scoping review set out to determine…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Disability Discrimination, Students with Disabilities, Elementary School Students
Bonal, Xavier; Pagès, Marcel; Verger, Antoni; Zancajo, Adrián – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2023
Federal and highly decentralized political systems open different spaces to interpret, adapt, and enact international policy trends and ideas within the same territory. Spain, a country with a highly decentralized educational system and contentious territorial politics, is a very suitable case to analyze these dynamics. Spain and its different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Governance, Educational Change
Keddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina; Blackmore, Jill; Boyask, Ruth; Fitzgerald, Scott; Gavin, Mihajla; Heffernan, Amanda; Hursh, David; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Møller, Jorunn; O'Neill, John; Parding, Karolina; Salokangas, Maija; Skerritt, Craig; Stacey, Meghan; Thomson, Pat; Wilkins, Andrew; Wilson, Rachel; Wylie, Cathy; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, School District Autonomy
Marco Bertoni; Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren; Olmo Silva – Centre for Economic Performance, 2023
We investigate the impact of attending a free school in England -- that is, a new start-up school that enjoys considerable autonomy while remaining in the state sector. We analyse the effects of two secondary free schools with different teaching philosophies: one follows a 'no excuse' paradigm, while the other one adopts a 'classical liberal',…
Descriptors: Influences, Institutional Autonomy, Secondary Schools, Free Schools
Martina Tassone – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
This paper explores the literature related to literacy assessment in the early years of schooling in an era of neoliberalism and reports on a key aspect of a study which focused on the literacy assessment practices of early years teachers and literacy leaders in Australian Catholic schools within the Melbourne archdiocese. Background: The study…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Literacy, Neoliberalism, Catholic Schools

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