EDUCATIONAL POLICY ISSUES

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Educational Policy and Open Educational Practice in Australian Higher Education

Open Educational Policy has become increasingly the subject of government attention globally, primarily with a focus on reducing educational costs for tax payers. Parallel to, yet rarely convergent with, these initiatives is an espoused sector-wide commitment to broadening participation in higher education, especially for students of low socio-economic backgrounds. Criticism of both open education and social inclusion policy highlights a deficiency in both the metrics used by policy-makers and the maturity of conceptual understanding applied to both notions. This chapter explores the possibilities afforded to social inclusion in universities by open education, and the case for an integrated approach to educational policy that recognizes the impact of a multi-causal foundation on the broader educational ecosystem

Educational policy, policy appropriation and Grameen Bank higher education financial aid policy process

The paper talks about higher educational polices and their process of policy appropriations, policy as practices, policy as symbolic, policy as rituals, policy as myths, policy backward- mapping and policy-forward mapping, multi-stage policy implementation process, street-bureaucrats planners, and policy reform process. It critically looks at pros-and-corns of different educational policy theories and their applications in education, and the higher education student financial aid different policies, strategies and products and their impact on the college students. The paper also narrates the higher educational policies and methods of need-based, merit-based, means-test-based grants allocation and loan disbursement and their impact on student academic achievements. Moreover, it discusses the policy process model that has both agendas and multiple streams that consider looking at policy designing problems, solutions of the problems and their usefulness to SES students. Additionally, the paper narrates the Grameen Bank higher education student loan policy making process, although there is no higher education student financial aid services are not exist in Bangladesh. Literature reviews, conversations with higher education students, contextual analysis, and the author personal working experience incorporate here. The study finds for policy improvement, policy analysis is vital because policy analysis can explores usefulness of the policy for public well being and for effectiveness of the policy appropriation.Center for Social Economy Learning and Workplace, University of Toronto. -- York Center for Asia Research, York University. -- Indiana University Bloomington

Making sense of doctoral training reforms in the social sciences:

Educational reforms are increasingly driven by political and economic forces beyond the university. In this paper I describe how the policy initiatives of the United Kingdom’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have steadily reshaped the length, content and structure of doctoral education in the social sciences. This history of the Council’s willingness to respond to national and international policy concerns about the doctorate dates back to the early years of the Thatcher Government in the 1980s. As well as redefining the doctoral student experience, this interventionist policy environment potentially challenges the institutional autonomy of academics and others involved in educational development. In this article I explore the implications of this for doctoral training provision, and for the meaning of educational development itself. I end by pointing to the possibilities for policy ‘activism’ in responding to these changes

Policy, Performativity and Partnership: an Ethical Leadership Perspective

This article identifies the need to think differently about educational partnerships in a changing and turbulent post compulsory policy environment in England. The policy and institutional contexts in which universities and colleges currently operate seem to be fuelling performativity at the expense of educational values. There appears to be a sharp interruption in the steady increase in educational partnerships as a vehicle for increasing and widening participation in higher education. We are witnessing a marked change in university / college relationships that appears to be a consequence of government calling a halt to increased participation in higher education, creating an increasingly competitive market for a more limited pool of student places. The implication that educational policy at the national level determines a particular pattern or mode of leadership decision making throughout an institution should however be resisted. Policy developments that challenge the moral precepts of education should not be allowed to determine how a leader acts, rather they should prompt actions that are truly educational, rooted in morality, and atached to identifiable educational values. Educational leaders have agency to resist restricted discourses in favour of ethical and principled change strategies that are a precondition for sustainable transformative partnerships in post compulsory education. University leaders in particular are called upon to use their considerable influence to resist narrow policy or managerial instrumentalism or performativity and embrace alternatives that are both educationally worthwhile and can enhance institutional resilience

Education y Justicia: A Living History of the Latinx Experience in U.T Austin

Social policy in the United States has historically and systematically prevented Latinx students from attaining educational equity. The resistance to this inequality in Austin is located in institutional spaces, the creation of cultural spaces, and the reclamation of erased histories. This has lead to the need for the creation of cultural spaces and legislation that encourage the equity, power, and culture of the Latinx community. We are mapping these living histories of resistance to help form frameworks for rethinking educational social policy. In this case we used U.T. and the greater Austin area to explore the living histories of the struggle for educational justice in our city and propose frameworks for rethinking educational social policy.Mexican American Studie

Educational crisis and educational policy

Der UN-Human Development Report 1990 stellt fest, Brasilien habe seine Chancen für eine menschliche Entwicklung verpasst. Diese Einschätzung geht auf die hohe Analphabetismusrate (18,7%) und die niedrige Lebenserwartung (65 Jahre) zurück. Trifft die Diagnose zu? Wie ist dieser Sachverhalt zu erklären? - In diesem Artikel wird die Bildungskrise als Ergebnis der Politik der Militärregierung (1964-1984) und der darauf folgenden Redemokratisierung (1985-1990) gedeutet. Die Bildungspolitik der letzten 30 Jahre wird anhand von drei Themenschwerpunkten (Finanzierung des Bildungswesens, öffentliche und private Schulen und Hochschulen sowie Bildungsqualität) untersucht. Für den Zeitraum von 1990-2000 werden Chancen einer Verbesserung der „menschlichen Entwicklung" (im Bildungsbereich) gesehen. Dies ist jedoch noch keine Garantie dafür, dass Brasilien im Jahre 2000 zu den reichen Industrienationen zählen wird. (DIPF/Orig.)According to the UN-Human Development Report 1990 Brazil is a country which has missed its opportunities for a human development, taking into account its high illiteracy rate (18,7%) and its low life expectation (65 years). Is this diagnosis correct? How can the problem be explained? This article makes the attempt to explain the educational crisis as a result of the military regime\u27s policy (1964-1984) and further redemocratization efforts (1985-1990). The educational policy in the last 30 years as analysed by foccusing three main aspects (economic resources, relationship between private and public schools and quality of education). There are good possibilities to promote "human development" (especially education) in the next ten years but this does not necessarily mean that Brazil will have a chance to join the rieh industriahzed countries until the year 2000. (DIPF/Orig.

Improving Resident Understanding of Healthcare Business and Policy through the Development of a High-yield and Dynamic Educational Series

Objective: Residents have a strong desire to be engaged in and learn about the financial and societal impact of health care delivery and reform initiatives1,2. In order to address this need, a Business and Health Policy Educational Series was developed, with positive feedback from participating residents. Background: During the Program Evaluation Committee (PEC) meeting, as part of the annual review of the ACGME education curriculum for the Virginia Commonwealth University Neurology Residency Program, a deficiency was identified with regard to resident self-perception of understanding of the business and policy of healthcare and reform initiatives. This deficiency is one shared at many programs across most specialties1. A recommendation was put forth that this was an opportunity for improvement, and the design and rollout of an educational series on business and health policy was undertaken, with positive results. Design/Methods: A high-yield and interactive educational series consisting of 20-30 minute sessions was developed to address certain topics within the business and healthcare policy spectrum. Topics covered included: how does healthcare work?; overview of practice income and expenses; benchmarks; what is an RVU?; impact of rising medication costs; compensation plans and salary realities. Results: Results of the End of the Year Educational Survey by residents showed an overwhelmingly positive response to the curriculum initiative. The PEC recommended continuing the program, with minor modifications for the following year. Topics suggested to be included were: how do residents get paid?; the opiate epidemic; understanding the Affordable Care Act; and developing a hands-on billing and coding workshop. A set of relevant journal articles to provide resources will be included. Conclusions: Having an understanding of the business and policy of healthcare and reform initiatives is important to residents, and effective results are obtainable through the development of a high yield, interactive educational curriculum initiative