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"Pillars of Finland Remarkable Educational System: Is This Model Transferable?"
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Fakhoury, Hayel – College Student Journal, 2022
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018 list top 1,000 universities in the world which represent only 5% of the 20,000 higher education institutions of the world. Out of these world countries, Finnish youth were the best young readers in the world according to results from the Programme for International Student Assessment…
Descriptors: Reputation, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
The Changing Role of the School Principal
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Ediger, Marlow – College Student Journal, 2014
The role of the school principal has changed much in the recent intervening years. He/she was formerly thought of as a manager and management of the local school. Today the principal is seen as the leader of curriculum improvement. School principals must believe in pupils being able to achieve optimally in school and in life. Principals must…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
The "Dana Decision" and Its Impact Relative to On-Line Universities
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Snell, Joel C. – College Student Journal, 2012
Dana College (Dana.edu) was dying. A corporation was willing to buy it. However, Dana did not teach in the main, 21st century technical skills which is true of most little liberal arts colleges. Dana's demise first came in cuts for faculty in terms of benefits (Manghan, K. 1/16/2009). The entrance of the federal government was an attempt to stop a…
Descriptors: Institutional Survival, Retrenchment, Change Strategies, Organizational Change