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Pankaj Khanna 《Open Learning》2017,32(1):21-35
This paper describes a good governance architecture framework that would bring significant improvements in the overall working of open and distance learning institutions in a well-structured and systematic way. The good governance framework is articulated with seven basic principles which are performance, transparency, accountability, participation, leadership, consensus orientation and fairness. These principles are structured with the good governance practices which relate to performing well for the assigned goals and objectives, promoting values for the organisation, making well-informed and transparent decisions, focusing on the organisation’s purpose and outcomes, capacity building and managing risks effectively. These principles and suggested practices in the framework would become tools for developing an improvement strategy so as to help in the smooth operation and efficient management of the institution concerned. The developed system would bring about significant improvement in the teaching–learning activity as well as in the quality of distance education. It would also enhance the efficiency, effectiveness and overall performance of the institutional management which is crucial to the continuous development of the institution concerned. Thus, the proposed good governance framework when implemented in an open and distance education institution would improve the quality of distance education and also increase its accessibility in a well-organised and structured way. 相似文献
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Ikuko Suzuki 《Compare》2002,32(2):243-259
Participation, a 'buzzword' in social development in both developed and developing countries, has several different interpretations in terms of purpose, form and implication. For instance, parents are encouraged to participate individually in choosing the school for their own children, and they are expected to participate collectively in school development through the work of school governing bodies. Furthermore, participation in education is often considered to be a means of assuring accountability of decentralised institutions. This paper explores the notion of parental participation in school governance, based on data obtained from field research in Uganda. It argues that parents' perceptions of the accountability of the school affect the way they participate in education. Thus, accountability is one of the crucial factors for realising local democracy through decentralisation. 相似文献
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Quality Assurance in UK Higher Education: Issues of Trust, Control, Professional Autonomy and Accountability 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
Andreas Hoecht 《Higher Education》2006,51(4):541-563
This article explores the issues of trust, control, professional autonomy and accountability in higher education quality assurance
in the UK. The main part of this article is conceptual, but it includes results from semi-structured interviews with academic
staff that were conducted at two “new university” business schools. Both institutions are broadly similar in their key characteristics
and have experienced a transformation to university status in the early 1990s. The article argues that there has been a change
from informal “light-touch” quality control systems based on local practices and a significant amount of trust and professional
autonomy in the early 1990s to a highly prescribed process of audit-based quality control today. The article argues that accountability
and transparency are important principles that academics should wholeheartedly embrace, but that the audit format adopted
in the UK introduces a one-way accountability and provides “rituals of verification” (Power 1997) instead of fostering trust,
has high opportunity costs and may well be detrimental to innovative teaching and learning. 相似文献
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This article offers a new approach to quality, focusing on the dimensions that gather around it. The mismatched goals of controlling and improving higher education continue to trouble the conceptual clarity of accountability. Quality in higher education emerges as something agreed upon (to varying efficacy) through accountability measures, rather than dictated or scheduled. A concept of purchase (the connectedness of accountability with quality) informs discussion. Following an overview of what quality means logically and in the operational context of high rates of access to and participation in higher education, the argument proceeds to a schema of complementary types, or personages, of accountability (transactional, political, bureaucratic, institutional and disciplinary). Throughout, the desire to be viewed well and self-awareness interplay, rendering the various approaches to quality assurance presences to be acknowledged in their own right. 相似文献
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Jesús Mauricio Flórez-Parra María Victoria López-Pérez Antonio Manuel López-Hernández 《高等教育研究与发展》2017,36(4):674-687
Over the past decade, one of the demands upon public institutions, among which we find universities, has been for transparency and improvement of accountability. In this context, Colombian universities are introducing different methods of management and governance aimed at addressing the demands of society generally in relation to transparency and quality in the activities that they carry out. The objective of the present study is to analyze and evaluate factors which affect the level of transparency at Colombian universities based on the rectors’ perception of these universities. The results obtained indicate that the level of transparency depends on the type of governance which is adopted, the level of prestige and the level of delimitation of its identity. Other questions such as size, budget or the public or private nature of the university have not proved to be significant explanatory factors of the degree of transparency. 相似文献
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The article discusses the question of student participation in higher education governance at the national and the institutional levels in Norway. Two ideal-type perspectives on governance are developed in order to illuminate the Norwegian case: a democratic perspective and a market perspective. The article provides a brief overview of the historical development of student participation in higher education governance, emphasizing how students view their own role in the governance arenas in which they participate. Close attention is paid to student participation and influence in quality assurance schemes at both the national and the institutional levels. In the conclusion, the article discusses how the recent developments are changing the balance towards the market model of higher education governance, without obliterating significant elements of the hitherto predominant democratic governance model.
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Kiyong Byun 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2008,9(2):190-205
The purpose of this study is to analyze changing patterns of governance in Korean higher education through the window of the NPM, so as to compare policy developments in Korea to wider international trends. Building upon Braun & Merrien (1999)’s earlier analytical framework on university governance, the study focuses on the following dimensions in analyzing the Korean case: (1) the belief system of the government regarding the role of universities; (2) the university-state relationship in terms of both ‘procedural’ and ‘substantive’ autonomy; and (3) the distribution of power and authority within individual universities. The results of the analysis suggest that, although some typical elements of the NPM governance model can be found, the NPM principles have yet to be firmly incorporated into Korean higher education. The study argues that the main reasons for this retardation in the implementation of the NPM driven reforms in Korea would be: (1) the general cynical attitude of professors towards the NPM governance model which was considered as the legacy of the former military regime and (2) the lack of a necessary coherence of government policies over the past two decades (i.e., the heavy emphasis on accountability without an accompanying increase in institutional autonomy). The study recommends, as a conclusion, that a more systematic and integrated implementation strategy would be needed so as to create the necessary preconditions for the NPM principles to be able to work properly in Korean higher education. 相似文献
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苏联解体以来,自治与问责历史性地结合在一起,成为俄罗斯高等教育治理变革的双重向度。一方面,俄罗斯发生了史无前例的扩大大学自主权的变革,大学获得了前所未有的学术自主权、行政自主权和财政自主权;另一方面,发生了大规模的"问责运动",强调利益相关者共同参与,以质量为问责核心内容,多种问责方式并存,以应答和奖惩相结合的方式处理问责结果。同时,这一变革注重在自治与问责之间建立相对平衡,这种平衡彰显了自治与问责之间天然对立冲突而又统一共生的富有张力的关系。 相似文献
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Caitlin Porter 《Compare》2014,44(3):356-378
Accountability is increasingly recognised as the key mediating variable that encourages service providers to deliver efficient and effective local services. In the context of education, accountability strategies do not always explicitly consider young citizens as the primary users of education services. In this paper, a client approach to accountability is compared to a citizenship approach. Drawing on community scorecard and social audit research in Malawi and Kenya, the author explores whether education services are more responsive and accountable when young people access information and exercise their voice. The paper outlines a refreshed ‘accountability framework’ for education, placing young citizens at the centre, and argues that a citizenship-led approach in education governance is likely to be more realistic and effective than a ‘client power’ approach. This article makes an important contribution to the development community’s understanding of what constitutes an effective approach for promoting more transparent and responsive education governance. 相似文献
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在体制内萌芽和发展起来的高等教育中介组织存在自主性不足、社会合法性缺失、运行机制不畅、专业化程度不够等诸多问题。由于自由竞争的经济社会体制不健全以及社会自主自治程度不高,因此,我国高等教育中介组织适宜采用准国家合作主义与社会合作主义的双重混合模式进行公共治理。需要以"民营官督"为核心重新定位政府与高等教育中介组织的行政关系;建立政府与行业参与的双重管理制度来完善高等教育中介组织的外部治理结构;通过政府设立发展基金与购买服务、实行问责制以及建立内部董事会来完善高等教育中介组织的内部治理机制。 相似文献
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Antoni Verger Clara Fontdevila Lluís Parcerisa 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2019,40(2):248-270
ABSTRACTIn the last decades, most countries have adopted data-intensive policy instruments aimed at modernizing the governance of education systems, and strengthening their competitiveness. Instruments such as national large-scale assessments and test-based accountabilities have disseminated widely, to the point that they are being enacted in countries with very different administrative traditions and levels of economic development. Nonetheless, comparative research on the trajectories that governance instruments follow in different institutional and socio-economic contexts is still scarce. On the basis of a systematic literature review (n?=?158), this paper enquires into the scope and modalities of educational governance change that national large-scale assessments and test-based accountability instruments have triggered in a broad range of institutional settings. The paper shows that, internationally, educational governance reforms advance through path-dependent and contingent processes of policy instrumentation that are markedly conditioned by prevailing politico-administrative regimes. The paper also reflects on the additive and evolving nature of educational governance reforms. 相似文献
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Auditing, accountability, and transparency are concepts that greatly impact the working conditions of today’s public sector professionals, including teachers. Documentation requirements have been on the increase for some time, which can be seen in the education sector’s Individual Development Plans (IDPs), for example. These IDPs are pedagogical tools, but can also be seen as governance tools, which is how we will treat them here. In this conceptual paper, we argue that to improve knowledge of education policy changes, there is a need to consider the changed documentation requirements from the perspective of sociology of professions. To this end, we use Evetts’ occupational and organisational logics and Abbott’s three aspects of professional work. 相似文献
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Peter Colenso 《Compare》2005,35(4):411-428
There is increasing interest in understanding and describing the links between education and ‘social cohesion’. However, the theoretical and empirical base for understanding these links is limited. There is also a shortage of practical tools for education policy‐makers and planners, to help them assess the impact of policies and investments, and to plan for future reform. This paper describes the initial development of an analytical and planning framework for addressing education and social cohesion within the context of a sector‐wide approach to education reform in Sri Lanka. A brief literature review suggests three inter‐connected domains in which links between education and social cohesion might be usefully analysed, together with three working hypotheses: (i) political economy/governance: education affects social cohesion through transparency and participation in education policy formulation, planning and management; (ii) equity/equality of opportunity: education affects social cohesion through the distribution of education resources, opportunities and outcomes; (iii) teaching/learning: education affects social cohesion through the development of certain competencies in students. Drawing on this analytical framework, research conducted in Sri Lanka is used to identify a set of interventions to promote social cohesion, with corresponding baseline, process and outcome indicators as benchmarks for measuring the progress and impact of intended policy measures. This process is described within the context of a ‘sector‐wide approach’ to education reform, intended to bring together the activities of the government and external partners within a single comprehensive medium‐term planning and budgetary framework. 相似文献
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Sam Sellar 《Educational Philosophy and Theory》2015,47(2):118-132
AbstractThis article draws on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas to consider, from an ethical perspective, the current transparency and accountability agenda in Australian schooling. It focuses on the case of the My School website and the argument that transparent publication of comparative performance data via the website provides a basis for making things better in schooling. The article argues that while technologies of accountability may have potential benefits, they cannot provide a basis for this ethical project. Instead, the ethical experience described by Levinas arises from an encounter with opacity in the face-to-face relation with the Other, who is harshly illuminated by the transparency promised through calculation and comparison. Such encounters with opacity hold the potential to disrupt the politics of visibility promoted by transparency agendas and provide an alternative to the growing practice of ‘accountability at a distance’ based on performance data. 相似文献
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新时期乡村治理注重多元主体的共同参与和协作,民间组织参与环境治理是多元主体参与乡村治理的表现形式之一。实地调研发现,民间组织参与环境治理存在法律地位不明确、资金匮乏和缺乏制度保障等问题。从法学的角度,对以上问题展开法律分析,并结合实地调研和文献研究,提出实现民间组织参与环境治理的法治化路径:明确民间组织的法律地位,完善政府购买公共服务的制度建设,健全环境信息公开机制与环境保护问责追责机制。 相似文献
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Andrew Wilkins 《教育政策杂志》2013,28(2):182-200
Since the 1980s, state schools in England have been required to ensure transparency and accountability through the use of indicators and templates derived from the private sector and, more recently, globally circulating discourses of ‘good governance’ (an appeal to professional standards, technical expertise, and performance evaluation as mechanisms for improving public service delivery). The rise of academies and free schools (‘state-funded independent schools’) has increased demand for good governance, notably as a means by which to discipline schools, in particular school governors – those tasked with the legal responsibility of holding senior leadership to account for the financial and educational performance of schools. A condition and effect of school autonomy, therefore, is increased monitoring and surveillance of all school governing bodies. In this paper, I demonstrate how these twin processes combine to produce a new modality of state power and intervention; a dominant or organizing principle by which government steer the performance of governors through disciplinary tools of professionalization and inspection, with the aim of achieving the ‘control of control’. To explain these trends, I explore how various established and emerging school governing bodies are (re)constituting themselves to meet demands for good governance. 相似文献
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This article aims at analysing and discussing student participation in Portuguese higher education institutions and, specifically, in university governance. In a first moment, it describes this participation under both the previous (1988–2007) and the new legal frameworks (since 2007). A discussion of the changes introduced by this last framework and the extent to which it has contributed to the erosion of student participation in governance is undertaken. Next, the article deals with the ways students are involved in quality assessment at both its systemic and institutional levels. The case of a specific Portuguese university is used as an example of how this involvement takes place. The article concludes with a discussion on the main features of Portuguese student participation in governance, focusing on its effectiveness and suggesting measures for improvement.
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Michael Knight 《Higher Education Quarterly》2002,56(3):276-286
This article argues that the constitutions of higher education corporations created by the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act are flawed. It argues that the constitutions were created with insufficient regard both for precedents for the creation of universities and also for emerging problems and principles of corporate governance. This resulted in a model of governance which maximised the role of the vice–chancellor or chief executive and 'independent members' of governing bodies, limited the participation of staff and students, and allocated a restricted role to academic boards. This article examines a number of the problems arising from inadequacies in governance in a number of post–1992 universities and their similarity with problems arising in further education colleges who shared common governance arrangements from the 1992 Act. This article compares these problems with governance problems in Australian universities and concludes that there is a need to reform the governance arrangements created by the 1992 Act. 相似文献
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Merle Jacob 《Tertiary Education and Management》2006,12(1):21-36
The ideal of bildung as a goal for higher education and research (HER) in European Union member states is losing ground to more pragmatic goals
such as innovation and growth. This shift in the policy perspective about the role of science in society has given rise to
a system of multi layered governance which in turn is progressively giving rise to the emergence of a new normative regime
for the HER sector. This normative regime involves the blurring of boundaries between the public and the private and the introduction
of social accountability as a criterion for evaluating scientific knowledge. The paper concludes that the elision of the boundary
between private and public disguises real problems about defining who owns what particularly in the light of the increasing
commercialisation of public funded science. Further, the limitation of social accountability to select groups of actors who
can afford to pay for influencing research raises questions about the ability of the new governance regime for HER to achieve
the democratic aims that it purports to pursue. 相似文献
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Raquel Garde Sánchez Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar Antonio M. López-Hernández 《Environmental Education Research》2013,19(6):709-746
Public and private universities tasked with incorporating principles of social responsibility (SR) into their activities face the multiple challenges of addressing expectations of diverse stakeholders, establishing mechanisms for dialogue, and achieving greater information transparency. This article has two goals: first, to analyze whether SR has become an essential element in activities associated with university accountability, information transparency, and the use of the Internet; second, to analyze whether SR is used by universities as a differentiating factor in relation to their status. A comparative study of public and private US universities shows that neither is strongly committed to the online disclosure of SR information, including in relation to sustainability-related activities. Moreover, there is a uniformity in the accountability activities of both university types, suggesting that the challenges are not being faced, and SR is not being used as a differentiating factor in the pursuit of positional or competitive advantage. 相似文献