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Fredriksson, Ulf – European Educational Research Journal, 2004
This article starts by putting the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) into a general context of privatisation. It is noted that the privatisation process is in many cases complex and not only about full-scale privatisation of schools. The growing trade in education must be seen in this context. GATS is not an agreement which deals with…
Descriptors: Unions, Teacher Associations, Public Education, Treaties
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Rinne, Risto; Kallo, Johanna; Hokka, Sanna – European Educational Research Journal, 2004
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has strongly influenced European education policy and the entire global neo-liberally toned discourse that nowadays prevails in the implementation of national education policy and educational reforms. The educational policy governance of the OECD is based on overall and supranational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Program Implementation
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Daniel, Philip T. K. – Negro Educational Review, The, 2005
The circle of racial segregation in schools has completed itself based on the more recent Supreme Court cases pervasively weakening the welfare of African-American and other students of color as regards an appropriate education. The tenor of the federal courts, though at one ten year period in the 1960's and 1970's serving as a champion of equal…
Descriptors: School District Autonomy, School Desegregation, Racial Segregation, Educational Opportunities
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Welner, Kevin G. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2004
Colorado's voucher law was declared unconstitutional by the Colorado Supreme Court on June 28, 2004. Voucher supporters have begun drafting revised legislation designed to address the legal problem. This article calls into question the key financial claim of revenue neutrality--a claim that was central to the promotion and passage of the departing…
Descriptors: Legal Problems, Eligibility, School Choice, Educational Finance
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Bruner, Darlene Y.; Brantley, Lance Lamar – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2004
Currently, 848 Georgia public elementary schools that house third- and fifth-grades in the same building use the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accreditation as a school improvement model. The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether elementary schools that are SACS accredited increased their levels of academic…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Accreditation (Institutions), Achievement Gains, Academic Standards
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Court, Marian – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2004
When co-principalships were initiated in Aotearoa/New Zealand during the 1990s, they encountered a range of issues around this country's new public management requirements for market, managerial and split governance/management accountabilities. This article draws on a case study of one initiative to discuss how elements of these requirements were…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Foreign Countries, Accountability, Principals
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Rayner, Steve; Gunter, Helen; Thomas, Hywel; Butt, Graham; Lance, Ann – Management in Education, 2005
This article draws upon a case study of a special school (Park Vale) participating in the Department for Education and Science (DfES) Transforming School Workforce (TSW) Pathfinder Pilot Project (2002-2003). The Project was developed as a response by the DfES: firstly, to growing difficulties in the recruitment and retention of teachers in the…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Pilot Projects, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Soobrayan, V. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2003
This article traces the legal challenges and contestations embedded in five recent cases of higher education mergers in South Africa. I am aware that there are a number of forms of mergers. For the purposes of this article I use the term as one that is descriptive of a policy decision. Where necessary I make a brief distinction between a merger…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Legal Problems, Foreign Countries, Court Litigation
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Levine, David I.; Neuhauser, Frank; Petersen, Jeffrey S. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2002
Decentralized regulation has become increasingly important in many areas; examples range from school vouchers to workplace safety committees to alternative dispute resolution procedures replacing courts. Consistent with this trend, in 1993 California permitted construction unions and employers to "carve out" their own workers'…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Data Analysis, Workers Compensation, Unions
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Palfreyman, David – Education and the Law, 2004
Sir Martin Harris, ex-Vice Chancellor of Manchester and of Essex, is appointed as the first Director of the Office for Fair Access (OFFA). The Higher Education Act 2004 creates (s31) "the Director of Fair Access to Higher Education" and then requires (s24) higher education institutions (HEIs) to agree "approved plans" with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Tuition, Access to Education
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Norris, Gill; Williams, Steve; Adam-Smith, Derek – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2003
Two key issues thrown up by the 1999 introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) in the United Kingdom are its likely impact on employers' training practices in low paying sectors of the economy and the implications for skills. Based on a study of the hospitality industry, this article assesses the limited significance of the differential,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hospitality Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Minimum Wage
Sanchez, Heliodoro T., Jr. – Educational Forum, The, 2005
Many educational initiatives have been and continue to be based on a macro-social system understanding of communal roles, values, norms, interactions, perceptions, and realities. This practice neglects the unique impediments and social norms that exist within the myriad of micro-social systems in the United States. This work draws attention to the…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Urban Areas, Educational Improvement, Critical Theory
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Gaona, JeanAnn – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 2004
With the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), redefined expectations and accountability appeared concerning education of students in the nation's schools. The focus of this article is to examine the ramifications of NCLB for students with special needs. In addition, given NCLB, the idea of inclusion--the practice of placing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Federal Legislation, Technical Education, Special Needs Students
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McGrath, Simon; Martins, Johan; Smith, Jocelyn; Cachalia, Fahmida; Kane, Kevin – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2005
This article explores the state of skills development for smaller enterprises in South Africa through a consideration of two recent empirical studies of very small and micro enterprises (VSMEs--those with 2-10 employees). It provides new evidence about the complexity of the VSME sector and the mixed performance of state attempts to engage with it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Job Training, Small Businesses
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Crump, Stephen; Stanley, Gordon – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2005
This article outlines the incorporation of vocational education and training (VET) courses into a senior secondary certificate of education, the New South Wales Higher School Certificate, in the largest state of Australia. VET courses were introduced in 2000 to broaden the offerings available in post-compulsory schooling and to cater better for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Vocational Education, Curriculum Research
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