...Salem Alhajeri; Farooq Ahmed AlTameemy Purpose The quality of higher education has become a topic of increasing interest to researchers in recent decades. This study, therefore, aims to investigate the comparative effectiveness of instructors at higher education institutions in Kuwait and the USA...

... in the strategic management of budgets and in the interaction of funding mechanisms at the national, local and institutional levels. This article discusses the effect of resourcing mechanisms for special education and draws on a study across Europe, and other studies based in The Netherlands, the USA and the UK...

... inservice center in the South (USA), high absenteeism was targeted as requiring immediate administrative attention. Thus, the members of the governing board and the director of the center engaged in an action research plan to combat the problem. Over the course of a summer program, the no‐show rate (average...

.... Other school districts and universities are encouraged to form similar partnerships for the benefit of future educational leaders. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Education Partnering Leadership Universities USA Three school superintendents in the metropolitan area of Richmond, Virginia...

... Trade unions Labour law Post‐Fordism Industrial law USA Teacher unions in the USA have broken the bounds of industrial unionism and have created a tentative stake in organizing as mental workers rather than as industrial workers. They have begun to depart from the boundaries of wages, hours...

... schools meeting the goal of a diverse faculty? The purpose of this research was to examine this issue through the analyses of the results of a survey sent to 71 schools of business across the USA. The survey examined ethnic backgrounds, asking for the number of Caucasians, Blacks, Hispanics, Asian‐Pacific...

...D. Church Charles W.   Smith . Market Values in American Higher Education: Pitfalls and Promises . Lanham, MD, USA : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc.   2000 . , ISBN: ISBN: 0‐8476‐9564‐6   Paperback: $22.95 Higher education Market economy USA...

... it. By contrasting the common orientation of today and the one proposed, the paper applies this new perspective to two examples. Examines educational reform in light of the orientation proposed. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Education Change USA During the past nearly two decades, especially since 1983...

... and siblings. As with so many other students attending urban universities in the USA, most were employed to finance transportation and at least part of their educational cost. Not surprisingly, the sophomores were more likely to hold jobs and work longer hours than the first‐year students (a median of 24...

... administrator professional development program. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Improvement Schools Teachers Training USA When calls are made on schools and school districts to engage in major improvements, one activity which becomes a central component of the response is in‐service training...

... Job satisfaction Motivation USA The challenges of the principalship are extensively documented and widely reported. Mackler (1996) reports that respect, recognition, and rewards of the job are critical in effective work relationships. It has also been reported (Lawler, 1986) that motivation...

... for practitioners and researchers. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Autonomy Colleges Effectiveness Strategy Surveys USA These ideas are germane to Miles and Snows’ (1978, pp. 43, 61) explication of their strategic typology. One would thus predict that a prospector strategy is better implemented...

... and three. This number makes sense given the short duration of each message. The numbers of key facts detected by each trainee were not found to be a function of the perceived reasons for the message. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Accountability Management Training USA Conceptual frameworks may...

...Steve O. Michael Suggests that institutions of higher education in the USA encounter problems that are unique to the market environment. These problems include competition for resources, escalating costs, and resource constraints. In response to these problems, higher education systems within...

... four years later (Hirsch and Keniston, 1970). Other manifestations of stress among students include alcohol use, drug abuse, premature pregnancy and suicide (Shipman, 1987). With respect to suicide, statistics from the USA show that every 90 minutes a person between the ages of 15 and 24 years commits...

...Naftaly S. Glasman Examines university‐based training programmes for school management in the USA. Surveys these programmes and opinions about them. Demonstrates how one institution used global information to design changes in its training programme. Describes selected changes in the programme...

...Laurie Mullins; Martyn Roberts Based on the first‐hand experiences of two university lecturers who each spent a year lecturing at universities in the USA, starts with an overview of the US educational system including both high schools and universities and then concentrates on the differences...

... monitoring Profit Schools Texas USA Recent demands for educational accountability and restructuring of schools in the United States have been directed at holding principals accountable for school outcomes. Unfortunately, although the number of states that mandate formal evaluation of principals...

... Continuing education Curriculum Free market Management Marketing strategy Students USA 1 . Freedom from constraints. Compared with government and business, the independent sector is relatively free. A group interested in a particular idea or program does not have the need of government...

... Staff development Teachers Teams Washington State USA © MCB UP Limited 1995 The OBE movement is difficult to evaluate for two main reasons. First, as just discussed, OBE cannot be defined as a specific model but is rather an overall approach to or philosophy of school improvement...