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A pipeline crisis or a sustainability crisis? Local and national succession planning for headteachers in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recruiting and retaining school leaders is a challenge in many systems worldwide. Previous research has identified three distinct ways in which succession planning can be conceptualised and approached: a ‘pipeline’ approach seeks to match supply and demand for the posts that need filling; a ‘pool’ strategy involves proactively identifying and ...
Toby Greany   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
wiley   +1 more source

From “Clientelism” to a “Client-centred orientation”? The challenge of public administration reform in Russia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The inefficiency, corruption and lack of accountability that afflict public administration in Russia impose substantial direct costs on both entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens.
Tompson, William
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Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing ...
Marco Pitzalis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The mental health care model in Brazil: analyses of the funding, governance processes, and mechanisms of assessment

open access: yesRevista de Saúde Pública
OBJECTIVE This study aims to analyze the current status of the mental health care model of the Brazilian Unified Health System, according to its funding, governance processes, and mechanisms of assessment.
Thiago Lavras Trapé   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bridging the gap? Corruption, knowledge and foreign ownership [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We argue that in addition to host corruption per se, as accounted for by the existing literature, an explanation of inter-country variation in FDI needs to account for the distance between the host and home corruption, which we call relative corruption.
Driffield, N   +3 more
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Is the well‐known phrase ‘small is beautiful’ true of small transnational education institutions?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this research is to consider the potential attractiveness of operating a small international branch campus (IBC). Drawing upon resource‐based and legitimacy theories, we examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with the business model that is based on having a small institution size.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

‘It's all very well having a diverse curriculum, but if there is no curriculum, it can be as diverse as you like’: Precarity and decolonising in the neoliberal UK higher education system

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

One Agency One Innovation and Study of Its Scope [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Public service improvement measures in Indonesia assessed is slow and can’t keep the community expectations continue to increase with increasing people's income and the advance of information technology Indonesia.
Immanuddin, Muhammad   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Middle Class-Imperial Relationship in the Example of Ancient Greece

open access: yesSkad
This article analyses in detail the relationship between the ‘middle class’ and ‘empire’ in the Ancient Greek context. The basic proposition is that empire gains strength with the weakening of the middle class.
Berkay Gürel
doaj   +1 more source

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