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Exclusion and Neoliberal Public Sector Management
Issues of illegal and strategic exclusion are contextualised within wider policy changes as new forms of public sector management and governance...
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Do professional staff in universities really challenge academic norms? A perspective from the Netherlands
Traditionally, universities stand for independent, high-quality, and curiosity-driven research and education. Yet, since neoliberal reforms in the...
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Does quality matter in determining child care prices? Evidence from private child care provision in Turkey
Child care prices are expected to reflect the quality of provision. However, in contexts where there are high information asymmetries between the...
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Brokering School-Community Partnerships: Cross-Sector Advocacy and Hard Work
Collaboration within government and across sectors can be challenging due to differing priorities, disciplinary perspectives and funding cycles. This...
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Public Financing of Private Education Though Fee Reimbursement Scheme (FRS): A Case Study of Engineering Education in Andhra Pradesh
Traditionally, there existed three sectors of higher education based on their funding and management. They have been the government-funded...
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Public and Private Partnerships for Higher Education Financing
The trend in funding higher education indicates that there is gradual shift towards greater reliance on non-government sources. The notable and...
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Private Education in Ancient Times and the Republic of China
This chapter introduces the development of private education from ancient times to 1949 when the People’s Republic of China was established. The...
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Blended teaching mode based on small private online course and case-based learning in analgesia and sedation education in China: a comparison with an offline mode
BackgroundStandardized training for pain, agitation-sedation, and delirium (PAD) management is urgently needed for Chinese intensivists’ continuing...
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Shadow Education in Asia and the Pacific: Features and Implications of Private Supplementary Tutoring
Increasing amounts of structured teaching and learning take place outside formal school systems. Much of this teaching and learning takes the form of...
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Development of Private Higher Education in the People’s Republic of China
This chapter introduces the development and policies of private universities in the People’s Republic of China, including the stagnation in the...
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Theoretical Framework for Effective Communication Processes for the Agile Project Management Approach in the UAE Utility Sector
The goal of this study is to find out how well the communication processes in the UAE Utility Industry work with the Agile Project Management...
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Role of the Private Sector and Technology for Future-Ready Education and Training
For much of history, education was a private and exclusive activity. Centuries of social, political, geological, economic, and technological changes...
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Financialisation of schooling in Australia through private debt: a case study of Edstart
In Australia, a range of financial services, including education bonds, high interest personal loans and credit card debt, have long been used to...
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New Stories for an Old Sector
This chapter explores how positive narratives might be reclaimed. I argue that higher education is more essential than ever at this point in its long...
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Working and Learning in the Retail Sector: A Cross-Country Comparative View
Europe’s retail sector provides early career workers with a first entry into gainful employment, though often employing them on a part-time and/or...
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Work and Learning in the Adult Education Sector: A Cross Country Comparative View
The adult learning sector is particularly diverse. Evidence on how its employees access workplace learning is very limited. Focussing on learning by...
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ICT Transformation in Vietnam’s Higher Education Sector: From Policy to Reality
This paper addresses the transformation of information and communication technology (ICT) in Vietnam’s higher education (HE) sector. A qualitative...
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Organisational and Individual Agency in Workplace Learning in the European Metal Sector
This chapter compares the evolution of day-to-day, informal, workplace learning and work-based training arrangements in the metals sector in Bulgaria...
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Trends and Challenges the Higher Education Sector Face in Sub-Saharan Africa: Introduction
Higher education is critical to any nation’s capacity development and economic growth. Nations globally heavily invest in the development of the...
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Private providers and market exit in UK higher education
The sudden closure of higher education providers is virtually unknown among publicly funded higher education institutions in the UK, but “market...