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Flavin, Michael – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
This article analyses speeches made by UK higher education ministers, from the election of the Conservative government in May 2015 through to September 2020. The article uses disruptive innovation as a theoretical framework through which to analyse ministers' perspectives on innovation. The methodology is content analysis with a directed approach.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Innovation, Efficiency
Papatsiba, Vassiliki; Cohen, Eliel – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
Globally, performance-based research funding aims to support the most deserving academic institutions and researchers. However, overcoming entrenched assumptions about quality is a persistent challenge for higher education research policies worldwide; traditionally powerful institutions tend to maintain dominance. Research impact as a performance…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Financial Support, Research, Higher Education
Heiskanen, Noora; Alasuutari, Maarit; Vehkakoski, Tanja – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
The article critically discusses the practice of describing children's special educational needs (SEN) in early childhood education and care (ECEC) pedagogical documents. Documentation is understood as a form of governance. In current practice, documentation is extensively used in educational institutions. Even when the focus of documentation…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Documentation
Souto-Otero, Manuel; Whitworth, Adam – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
"Delayed participation" in higher education (HE) is an increasingly important feature of modern HE systems in many countries. Despite this, surprisingly little empirical research has been undertaken seeking to better understand levels of delayed adult participation in HE across Europe. The present article responds to this gap by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Students, Student Participation, Higher Education
Lambert, Cath – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
Transformational leadership is widely recognised as being central to the implementation of educational reform. In this paper I draw on selected educational speeches made by New Labour politicians in order to locate shifting discourses of leadership within the broader accountability framework through which the terms of the relationship between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformational Leadership, Masculinity, Educational Change
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Walford, Geoffrey – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1983
Data from a study of physics postgraduate research students are used in an attempt to predict the possible effects on university research of any reductions in the numbers of graduate students. Manpower needs are only one important criterion in formulating policy on future numbers of graduate students. (Author/IS)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries