This article provides details about Essential 7, which focuses on "Shared Governance" structures. The shared governance description in "The Nine Essentials, Second Edition" is fundamental to any partnership. PDS partnerships include structures that not only guide the work of the partnership, but also enable collaboration,…

This action research project explores the current university-community school-based partnerships between Paterson community organizations and WU. This study's research question is, "What current university-community school-based partnerships exist between the Paterson community organizations and WU?" This study uses only the first action…

Purpose: This study explores the emergence of district-university partnerships in the context of a multi-year, grant-funded initiative to promote equity-centered school leadership. The initiative involved eight large urban school districts in the United States and began in 2021. Design/methodology/approach: We use an ecological model and…

Every academic year, millions of college students change institutions before degree completion, confronting the challenge of validating credits across colleges. Despite state-level efforts to legislate strategies for smoother transfers, actual credit recognition relies on non-state-regulated bilateral partnerships that are more (i.e., articulation…

This opinion piece argues that Design Thinking (DT) can facilitate a more empathetic and student-centred approach to service development and problem-solving in Learning Development (LD). While DT is already established within higher education, we argue it is still underutilised, especially in the context of LD. We start by unpacking the…

This article explores the experience of U.S. education abroad in Europe from the perspective of local partnership delivery models and addresses the question: How has study abroad in Europe changed over the past decade, what are the current trends, and where is it heading? Two models of university-based education abroad in Europe are highlighted,…

In China, formal school groupings known as 'education collectives' have become one of the most common forms of school-to-school collaboration, promoted by policymakers to narrow the achievement gap between schools and optimise resource allocation. Previous research has focused on the purposes and achievements of education collectives rather than…

Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) in education have been on the political agenda in Sweden during the last years. RPPs are long-term collaborations between higher education institutions and school districts (municipalities) and schools which intend to facilitate teacher-researcher collaboration in close relation to the teaching practice. This…

Partnerships between researchers and educators have become a common mode of working to support processes of school improvement. However, research on the processes and outcomes of long-term partnerships remains marginal. This paper increases our knowledge about the processes and experiences involved when researcher-interventionists introduce…

Innovative financing increases the amount of funding to education and allows for more efficient and equitable financing. Through the GPE Multiplier, the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) has mobilized US$4.7 billion in cofinancing that would not have been available otherwise for education. This factsheet presents how GPE innovative financing…

In 2022, the Staff Educational Development Association (SEDA) developed the Student Partnership Impact Award (SPIA), providing students and recent alumni with an opportunity to be professionally accredited for their leadership abilities through partnership. SEDA is a professional association for educational developers based in the UK. The SPIA…

Our university launched a Student Experience Leader (SEL) initiative in 2022. This initiative aims to amplify the student voice and facilitate participating students to develop graduate competencies. The initiative provides the opportunity for students to work in partnership with faculty or professional service teams to co-develop and deliver…

This research investigates the diversity and typology of Students as Partners (SaP) models across Australian universities, providing a framework for benchmarking institutional engagement with student partnerships. By reviewing public information and employing document and critical discourse analysis (CDA) on 38 university websites, the study…

The Texas Education Agency launched the High-Quality, Sustainable Residencies Program--a grantfunded effort to establish and sustain teacher residencies--in 2021. Part of the Texas COVID Learning Acceleration Supports (TCLAS) initiative, this grant supported residency programs across the state, implemented through partnerships between school…

The past three decades have seen proliferating research on Transnational Higher Education (TNHE), mostly understood through a market-oriented lens as a means of institutional and individual investment in economic and status gains. Less understood is the interplay between the state and the market logic in TNHE. Large-scale research on the…