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Cameron, David Hagen – Journal of Education Policy, 2010
This article examines the role of the consultants in secondary schools and local authorities within a large-scale consultancy-based reform, the Secondary National Strategy (SNS), in London, UK. The SNS follows a cascade model of implementation in which nationally created initiatives are introduced and supported within local authorities (LA) and…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Consultants, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Heagney, Margaret; Benson, Robyn – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
This article draws on stories of success in higher education by mature-age students of diverse backgrounds to highlight some key implications for institutional support. We begin by reviewing the post-World War II background of mature-age study in Australian higher education to provide a context for presenting some major findings from a small,…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Success, Higher Education, Student School Relationship
Brew, Angela; Boud, David; Lucas, Lisa; Crawford, Karin – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
How do academics make sense of university policies and strategic initiatives and act on them? Interviews were conducted with 27 mid-career academics in different disciplines, different research-intensive university environments and two countries (England and Australia). Data were analysed iteratively utilising a critical realist perspective,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, School Policy, Universities, Interviews
Opstrup, Niels – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
Pay-for-performance schemes have become a widespread management strategy in the public sector. However, not much is known about the rationales that trigger the adoption of performance-related pay provisions. This article examines managerial and organisational features of university departments in Denmark that use publication incentive payments.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Administration, Incentives, Merit Pay
Gearin, Christopher A. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
This study investigates how new presidents of higher education institutions struggle to understand their organisations, paying special attention to campus resistance, and how new presidents manage institutional dynamics and expectations. A qualitative study using a phenomenological approach is conducted with 11 single-campus presidents of…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Novices, Administrator Attitudes, Qualitative Research
Beckmann, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
Researchers in the field of teaching and learning in higher education have identified concerns with top-down leadership models. Distributed (or shared) leadership approaches may provide more successful engagement with institutional change agendas, and provide more options to reward and recognise staff leading teaching and learning initiatives.…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Participative Decision Making, Transformational Leadership, College Programs
Carbone, Angela; Evans, Julia; Ross, Bella; Drew, Steve; Phelan, Liam; Lindsay, Katherine; Cottman, Caroline; Stoney, Susan; Ye, Jing – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
Distributed leadership has been explored internationally as a leadership model that will promote and advance excellence in learning and teaching in higher education. This paper presents an assessment of how effectively distributed leadership was enabled at five Australian institutions implementing a collaborative teaching quality development…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Leadership Styles, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Jones, Steven; Sutcliffe, Michael J.; Bragg, Joanna; Harris, Diane – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
Capital expenditure at United Kingdom (UK) universities is rapidly rising, with new buildings erected on the premise that national and international competitiveness must be maintained. We examine students' engagement with and conceptualisation of university estate, and explore broader questions about the extent to which building design can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Expenditures, Resource Allocation
Calatrava Moreno, María del Carmen; Danowitz, Mary Ann – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
The aim of this study was to identify how and why doctoral students do interdisciplinary research. A mixed-methods approach utilising bibliometric analysis of the publications of 195 students identified those who had published interdisciplinary research. This objective measurement of the interdisciplinarity, applying the Rao-Stirling index to Web…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Scientists, Student Experience, Computer Science Education
Chan, Sheng-Ju; Lin, Jing-Wen – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
To address the changing needs of the labour market better, higher education institutions have increasingly aimed to enhance their teaching quality and the learning experiences of their students. Therefore, a key concept of the missions of contemporary educational institutions is to improve students' employability after graduation. Although…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Labor Market, Labor Force Development
Mok, Ka Ho; Han, Xiao – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
In the past few decades, the internationalisation of higher education has become an increasingly popular trend across different parts of the globe. The fierce global competition and the aggravating unemployment rate, coupled with low teaching and research quality revealed by universities in mainland China, have inevitably compelled a growing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Brain Drain, Study Abroad, Higher Education
Sidhu, Ravinder Kaur; Taylor, Sandra – Journal of Education Policy, 2009
The ascendency of neoliberal ideas in education and social policy in the 1980s and 1990s was succeeded in the new millennium by a "new" social democratic commitment with emphases on community empowerment, building social capital and a "whole of government" approach to partnering with civil society to meet community needs. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Organizations, Social Capital, Refugees
Tett, Lyn; Riddell, Sheila – Journal of Education Policy, 2009
Concepts of gender equity are changing and the necessity of actively developing a fairer gender balance is now enshrined in the Gender Equality Legislation implemented in 2007 that required public bodies to positively promote equality. This study examines, from the perspectives of educators, their understandings of gendered inequalities in…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Gender Issues
Vander Schee, Carolyn – Journal of Education Policy, 2009
In an era of curricular accountability where everything from reading and math scores to body fat are events to be assembled, scrutinized, and standardized, the health-conscious school plays an ever-important role in community and the nation (or so we are told). This qualitative study analyzes interviews with school leaders in their role in…
Descriptors: Comprehensive School Health Education, Food, Health Promotion, Qualitative Research
Levine-Rasky, Cynthia; Ringrose, Jessica – Journal of Education Policy, 2009
This paper presents a psychosocial analysis of interview data of three Canadian, middle-class, Jewish mothers engaged in processes and practices of "school choice". We consider how middle-class, white identity intersects with Jewish ethnicity. We also examine how commitments to Canadian ideals of multiculturalism sit in contradiction…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Jews, Mothers, School Choice