Governance and Performance of Education SystemsNils C. Soguel, Pierre Jaccard Springer Science & Business Media, 4. okt. 2007 - 330 sider Education has increasingly become the focus of public discourse and policy, with its methods, resources and achievements widely debated. As a result, educational systems are now more than ever faced with the challenge of improving their performance and of proving that suitable measures are being taken to guarantee greater efficiency regarding equity. This desire for better results requires that better methods for their measurement exist so that they can be better understood and, ultimately, improved. Several disciplines have already developed instruments for this purpose. The educational sciences have been particularly active in this field. Other disciplines, such as sociology, economics, management, information technology, and political science are also making significant contributions to the emergence of a better form of governance. Before one can benefit from these developments, one first must know about their existence and analyse and question them. The proposed book is unique in that it brings together a wide range of disciplines and experience from several countries. What are possible models of governance? How do we measure their effects in terms of efficiency and equity? What type of contribution can financial and information systems make? How do we adapt the prevailing culture to the challenge of better performance? These are some of the concrete questions to which this book provides an answer. |
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... Higher Education, Governance and Management of Higher Education and Research, Higher Education and the World of Work, and the Academic Profession. He has written and (co-)edited numerous books and published Notes on Contributors x.
... Policies, a so-called "Excellence Centre" in the economics of education granted to the University of Geneva in 2005 by the federal office of the professional formation and technology (OFFT). Her main academic Notes on Contributors xiii.
... academic interests are the economics of education and her thesis topic is an empirical application to Switzerland. Beforehand, she wrote several articles about Quebec Province's schooling system, including dropout from and return to ...
... academic journals, and Vice-Chair of the International Federation for Information Processing working group on IT in Educational Management. George Sheldon George Sheldon is Professor of Labour Economics, Industrial Organization and ...
... academics from several disciplines and for civil servants and politicians. Since it reports experience from several countries, it will also interest people in ... academic self-governance (e.g. collegial decision-making Introduction 3.
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Comparing Higher Education Governance Systems in Four European Countries | 35 |
Purpose and Limits of a National Monitoring of the Education System Through Indicators 57 | 56 |
Measuring and Comparing the Equity of Education Systems in Europe | 85 |
The Economic Benefits of Improved Teacher Quality | 107 |
Comments | 131 |
Direct Democracy and Public Education in Swiss Cantons | 137 |
Are Swiss Secondary Schools Efficient? | 187 |
Funding Schools by Formula | 205 |
School Size School Structure and Student Composition 247 | 246 |
The Potential of School Information Systems for Enhancing School Improvement 269 | 267 |
French Principals Strategies | 289 |
Finnish Strategy for HighLevel Education for All | 305 |
Index | 325 |
Multilevel Analysis for Three Swiss Cantons | 155 |
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