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Ward, Steven C. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This book examines the influence of neoliberal ideas and practices on the way knowledge has been conceptualized, produced, and disseminated over the last few decades at different levels of public education and in various national contexts around the world. Contents of this book include: (1) Introduction: The Contemporary Politics of Knowing and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Free Enterprise System, Public Education
Schneider, Peter; Sadowski, Dieter – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2010
New public governance emphasises less state, more market and more hierarchy as the cornerstones for effective steering of higher education institutions. Based on an explorative analysis of qualitative and quantitative data of fourteen German and European economics departments, we investigate the steering effects of six new public management…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Public Policy
Enshassi, A.; Ihsen, S.; Al Hallaq, K. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2008
The industrial and occupational distribution of women is such that women are concentrated predominately in a few occupations, mostly in the service sector, such as banking, finance, insurance, public administration, hotel, and catering. Men and women are equal in their capabilities in almost every respect, provided that women are given the same…
Descriptors: Promotion (Occupational), Construction Industry, Females, Public Administration
Mathison, Sandra – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
The author analyzes the growth and nature of internal evaluation from the 1960s to the present and suggests that internal evaluation has been on the increase because of its perceived importance. Although the 1960s were characterized by a rich intellectual development of evaluation theory and practice, the fiscal conservatism of the 1980s ushered…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Accountability, Public Administration, Political Attitudes
Osei, Collins K. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2010
Distance learning has become a recognized method for delivering educational content in institutions of higher education. The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions held by graduate students about distance learning offered by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. The survey utilized a 20 question survey…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Distance Education
Schuhmann, Robert A.; Skopek, Tracy A. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2009
Despite technological and pedagogical improvements, obstacles continue in certain areas of distance education, including a lack of interaction among students and instructors and associated feelings of disconnectedness from the campus community. This article explores the study results of a blended learning, distance education graduate program…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Models, Distance Education, Graduate Study
Dasgupta, Shib Shankar – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the adoption and implementation mechanism of the national e-Governance plan in the regional state of West Bengal in India. The questions that this dissertation seek to illuminate are (i) the various potentials and challenges in integrating the ordinary citizens in the implementation of the national e-Governance plan in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Governance, Internet
Dant, William Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative study looks at the leadership perceptions and practices of career professionals in the public sector across three countries of sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana and Madagascar). All participants were alumni of the Humphrey Fellowship program, a year-long mid-career fellowship in the United States for professional development and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory, Focus Groups, Leadership Training
Watson, Larry; Hegar, Rebecca L.; Patton, Joy D. – Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, 2011
This article presents a model of collaboration between a state child welfare licensing division and a public university to develop and administer online examinations for persons seeking licensure as administrators of residential child care facilities or child placing agencies. The exams assess knowledge of state standards and various practice…
Descriptors: Placement, State Standards, Child Welfare, Cooperation
Martin, Paul – Child Care in Practice, 2007
As public services in Northern Ireland begin to implement the far-reaching changes required by the Review of Public Administration, the likely consequences for social work services, including children's services, are considered. As no change occurs in a vacuum, this paper sets the Review of Public Administration in the context of other significant…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Foreign Countries, Social Work, Children
Livshin, Alexander – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
The SOTL project was based on the goal of developing learning tools that would help students think and act outside the narrow circles of relatives and friends and develop the potential for broader associations through participating in nonprofit organizations and philanthropy. This was done by having students work in groups to invent a charitable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Public Administration Education, Business Administration Education
Yaghi, Abdulfattah; Goodman, Doug; Holton, Elwood F.; Bates, Reid A. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2008
Jordanian policymakers rely on trained supervisors to lead organizational change in public administration. The impact of training, however, remains weak unless trainees apply what they have learned (training transfer). In order to assess training transfer, the present study validates a Classic Arabic version of the Learning Transfer System…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Transfer of Training, Organizational Change, Factor Analysis
Reinders, H. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2008
Background: Recent studies in the development of professionalism suggest that western society witnesses a transformation of professional practices in human services that deeply affects how professionals experience their work. This paper describes key aspects of this development and presents an account of how it can be explained. Method: The paper…
Descriptors: Human Services, Change, Professional Development, Professional Personnel
Tome, Eduardo – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze critically the most important methods that are used in the evaluation of human resource development (HRD). Design/methodology/approach: The approach is to ask two questions: What are the methods available to define the impact of HRD in the economy? How can we evaluate the evaluations that have been…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Evaluation Methods, Job Performance, Personnel Evaluation
US Department of Education, 2010
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) has primary responsibility to ensure that Information Technology (IT) is acquired and information resources are managed in a manner consistent with statutory, regulatory, and Departmental requirements and priorities. This Department Information Resources…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Information Management, Information Technology, Organizational Objectives