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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... importance of these side effects increases the pressure on education systems for an improved performance. Through these side effects, improving educational opportunities can ameliorate both equality and efficiency in our societies ...
... important divergences remain. This analysis is derived from the European research Reguleduc (Maroy 2004, 2006). Our analysis of the evolution of modes of institutional regulation is founded on studies of the principal morphological and ...
... importance in each national context during 1960s and 1970s. Second, we look at the convergences observed and we refer them to ... important differences in systems, the five countries have all been able to develop to varying degrees an ...
... important structural variation, as much involving the degree of centralisation, standardisation and diversification of curriculum, and the more or less strong presence of free choice. Beyond national particularities regarding ...
... important legislative texts in education policy (like the Education Reform Act of 1988 in England and Wales, “the missions decree” (1997) in the FCB, the laws on decentralisation and deconcentration, as well as a law of orientation ...
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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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