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Liu, Pak-lin. "An evaluative study of the performance appraisal system in government secondary schools." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17596671.
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Rizvi, Meher. "The relationships between school reforms and teacher professionalism in government primary schools in Karachi, Pakistan." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15955/.
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The government primary education system in Karachi, Pakistan, is faced with many problems and dilemmas and each dilemma justifies a reason, but perhaps no problem is as grave as the dejected professional status of the government primary school teachers in Karachi. Schools are only as good as their teachers, regardless of how high their standards, how up-to-date their technology, or how innovative their programs. With a large numbers of under-educated, under-trained, under-paid and, most importantly of all, undervalued government primary school teachers in Karachi, Pakistan (Hoodbhoy, 1998; Shaikh, 1997), only a low percentage of teachers can be effective. Whether the children in Pakistan will be the enlightened and the informed citizens of tomorrow or ignorant members of society will depend on teacher knowledge, teacher education and above all teacher professionalism. If teachers do matter the most, then a series of questions result. What is being done for this section of the society that matters so much? Are efforts being taken to find out what teachers in the government primary schools need to achieve their professional goals? Are these teachers given adequate opportunities to learn, to improve and to become effective teachers? How can these teachers meet the ever increasing demands placed upon them? How will these teachers successfully lead the students into the twenty-first century? Do the primary government school teachers believe that they can successfully lead children into the twenty-first century? Are school reforms geared towards enhancing teachers' professionalism? This research that focuses on the relationships between school reforms and teacher professionalism in government primary schools in Karachi, Pakistan, addresses such questions. In this thesis, I outline some of the measures that have been taken at the government, at the non-government and at the school sector level to restructure and reform primary government schools in Pakistan. A mixed methods research approach was undertaken to investigate the relationships between these reforms and teacher professionalism. Quantitative data were collected by means of questionnaire surveys and qualitative data were collected in the selected four case sites by means of interviews and field notes. In this research it was important to investigate teacher efficacy, teacher practice, teacher leadership and collaborative efforts as the different dimensions of professionalism and the relationships between these and the school reforms for enhanced teacher professionalism. Research was required which addressed the question of "What it actually means to be a professional teacher in government primary schools in Karachi, Pakistan, and how school reforms can actually develop teacher learning for improved teacher professionalism?" Contrary to the detached and noncommittal attitude with which the government primary school teachers are characterized in many contexts, the teachers in this study have indicated that they are confident and capable; they can articulate and communicate ideas; they can make decisions and undertake responsibilities; they understand that it is important to collaborate and learn from one another; and they are willing to undertake leadership roles if they have the opportunities. This has strong implications for policy makers to provide teachers with the opportunities to become active and reflective professionals. It is important to regard teachers as change agents capable of generating knowledge and of making change happen, rather than as passive recipients and users of knowledge. The data provided by the teachers have indicated that it is possible to enhance teacher professionalism within the existing government primary school structures. While the different teachers were at different levels or stages of professionalism, it was quite clear that they had all advanced in terms of their professionalism as a consequence of reform initiatives. These changes in the teachers' levels of professionalism defined the relationships between the school reforms and teacher professionalism. In other words, the school reforms have been able to develop teacher professionalism and take it to a higher level than where it was when the reforms were initiated in the schools. Based on the analysis of the findings, this research theorizes that teacher professionalism is developed when teachers are provided with both the professional knowledge and skills to improve their capabilities, and opportunities to translate professional knowledge and skills into classroom and school activities to make the most of their capabilities. The research proposes that the strength of these relationships between school reforms and teacher professionalism depends on the dynamism with which the reform managers take teachers through the stage of involving them in developmental process, the stage of initiating professional development programmes and the stage of developing schools into collaborative cultures and establishing networks with the help of enlightened principals and hybrid support structures. Based on this proposition a number of principles have been identified for sustaining and further developing teacher professionalism. The study acknowledges that the process of developing teacher professionalism is complex and that it will be the blend of different elements in the schools, the particular school context and political will that will decide how professionalism can best be fostered in the government primary schools. However, since the principles derived from this research are based on grounded research findings and are also supported by literature and other relevant research in the area of teacher development, they may be applicable to other primary schools where similar reforms are being implemented in Pakistan and other developing countries seeking to address similar problems. Policy makers and large private organizations may benefit from the principles of developing and fostering teacher professionalism.
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Liu, Pak-lin, and 廖柏年. "An evaluative study of the performance appraisal system in government secondary schools." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31959027.
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Faulkner, Michael, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Vision and rationalisation : A study of the school psychology profession within the Victorian Government school system." Deakin University. School of Education, 1992. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050719.083810.
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Since its origins in the 19th century, modern schooling has been a continuously contested domain within nation states. Underlying this contestation dynamic lie competing value systems about the social purpose of education; competing values around which are generated different discourses, and which in turn generate inherently contradictory social and organisational structures. As reflected in other areas of society, the 20th century expansion of state-provided schooling has essentially developed around variations of a bureaucratic model Thus, organisational cultures based around bureaucratic values have come to permeate the enterprise of schooling on a world wide scale. Concomitantly, the value for education to be fundamentally associated with human emancipation from psychological, social, political, or economic states of being, persists as a recurring theme in modern schooling. Premised on these understandings, the thesis argues that the development of the practices of school psychology as a profession, like education in general, and special education in particular, has similarly been influenced by tensions between different and competing constellations of values. It is argued that throughout the 20th century, the pervasiveness of formal schooling systems suggest that schooling may be understood as a modernist cultural archetype. As a socially constructed reality, the phenomenon of schooling has become unproblematic the apparent cultural inevitability of formal schooling in the modern era can also be understood as a premise of a systemised way of looking at the world; that of bureaucratic consciousness. Dialectically, bureaucratic consciousness persists in influencing every manifestation of schooling; structurally through its organisational forms, and epistemologically through the institutionalization of teaching and learning. A particular illustration of the dialectical relationship between bureaucratic consciousness and the social forms and social practices of schooling is the school psychology profession which has developed as a part of school systems. The thesis argues that the epistemic archeology of psychology as a knowledge discipline can be traced through an earlier European intellectual and cultural tradition, but in the 20th century, has come to develop a symbiotic yet contradictory relationship with compulsory schooling in the modern nation state. The research study employs historical and fieldwork methods in a study of the development of the school psychology services within the Victorian Education Department, particularly between 1947 and 1987. The thesis also draws upon several usually distinct literatures; the philosophical and theoretical discourse of modernity and post modernity, the history and development of modern schooling, the ethnography of schooling, the international comparative literature on the school psychology profession, and the literature on action research in education practice and curriculum development, As a case study of Victorian school psychology, the research eschews a quantitative statistical approach in favour of qualitative investigatory genres, which have in turn been guided by the values of action research in education, as well as those of critical theory. The important focus of the thesis is its investigation of some aspects of the development and transformations within the Victorian state education bureaucracy, and the dialectical relationship that has persisted between the evolution of change processes and the shifting conceptions of school psychology practices in the 20th century. A history of the organisational development of school psychology services in Victoria constitutes an important part of the thesis. This is complemented by specific illustrations of how some school psychologists have been influenced by and have contributed towards paradigm shifts within the profession, shifts relating to how the changing nature of their work practices have come to be understood and valued by teachers and by school administrators. The work of J. R. MacLeod from the 1950s is noted in this regard. Particular attention is also drawn to the dialectical relationship between bureaucratic consciousness and school psychology's professional orientation in the 1980s. As a means of providing field data to explore this relationship, ethnographic case studies with two school communities are included as part of the fieldwork of the thesis, and are based upon the author's own work in the mid 1980s. These case studies provide a basis for conceptually refraining the school psychologist's professional experience within schooling systems, and an opportunity to examine how competing value systems impact upon the work of the school psychologist. The thesis concludes with some observations about bureaucratic transformations within educational organisations, and about the future relationship of the school psychology profession with schooling systems, as framed by the theoretical parameters of the modernist /post modernist debate. The issue of competing value systems within the administration of public education is re-examined as is the value of promoting human empowerment in the ongoing work of the school psychologist. Finally, some scenario building with reference to the future of school psychology in Victoria in is undertaken.
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Ho, Ming-yan, and 何銘恩. "A critical analysis of the primary one admission system in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B36449441.
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Man, Ngar-man Carmen, and 萬雅雯. "A review on the education voucher system for pre-primary school in HK." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3865264X.
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Campbell, Carol. "'Scottishness', 'Partnership' and 'Efficiency' : exploring devolved school management and local government reorganisation within the local education system." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1999. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23747.
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This thesis explores the reorganisation of schools and education authorities in Scotland. National implementation of Devolved School Management (DSM) began in 1994. Two years later, Local Government Reorganisation (Reorganisation) occurred. Each policy signified a reorganisation of the education system. The thesis argues the need to consider the combination of DSM and Reorganisation in policy and practice, particularly for the roles and relationships of schools and education authorities. Therefore, the initiation, interpretation and implementation of DSM and Reorganisation over time and across 25 schools and 11 education authorities are researched. There is no previous research on this specific area of inquiry. Hence, the thesis is exploratory. The thesis develops debate about research and analyses of education policy. Influenced by and seeking to develop policy sociology, the method is qualitative. DSM and Reorganisation are interpreted within their historical, political, cultural, social, economic and institutional contexts. The need to explore issues of and linkages between structure and agency is debated. Consideration of discourse is developed to explore the nature of policies, perceptions of persons involved, the linkages to previous developments and the discursively articulated influence of structure and agency. It is suggested three central discourses characterise Scottish education policy. 'Scottishness' posits the distinctive, collective and egalitarian nature of Scottish education. The post-war 'Partnership' advocates a 'national system, locally administered' promoting 'equality of opportunity'. Both discourses have been challenged since the 1970s by an economic discourse of 'Efficiency' valuing market forces and managerialism. The thesis explores the developing and dynamic discourses and the perceptions and practices of policies at school and education authority levels. The perception and promotion of a 'Scottish dimension' within a British state and arguably global reorganisation of education indicates the complex inter-relationships between structure and agency, as articulated in discourses and affecting developing policies such as DSM and Reorganisation.
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Thompson, Nicole. "Square pegs in round holes? : understanding expatriate teachers' lives in the government secondary school system of Grand Cayman from 2005 to 2011." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15580/.
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In the Cayman Islands the majority of government teachers are expatriate. This research study examines the experiences of nine expatriate teachers in the two government secondary schools in Grand Cayman. A case study approach was used with the bounded time from 2005, the year after Hurricane Ivan, to 2011, the second year of the transformation of the government secondary school system in Grand Cayman. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight participants from Caribbean and non-Caribbean nationalities. As an insider, being both an expatriate teacher and working in the government secondary school system in Grand Cayman, my autobiographical account was included in the data collected. The research study examined the reasons given for migration by these teachers as well as their recruitment and orientation into their Caymanian teaching experience. The accounts described, analysed and focused on how they adjusted professionally and personally to the new experiences. A year later a further interview was conducted with each available participant to gather what changes had occurred in their circumstances and the way they viewed their international posting. Push and pull factors such as finances, weather, seeing more of the world, lack of crime, improved family life were all described as important to varying degrees by the participants. An important feature that was recognized was the influence and support offered by having a confidant such as a spouse or close friend/roommate during the adjustment to the new environment. With this in place, there was less of a dependence on the wider community or diaspora. Also viewed as key was the need for the provision of accurate information about the society, the school and the curriculum before the teacher arrived on the island. This study recognises the potential for further research into the views of home country nationals and the impact of migratory practices on small island developing states in a globalised society.
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Seaton, Hugh Van. "The Financial Implications and Organizational Cultural Perceptions of Implementing a Performance Management System in a Government Enterprise." UNF Digital Commons, 2007. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/23.
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Successful organizations continually seek ways to improve productivity, reduce and control costs, and increase efficiency. Governmental entities also are driven by the need for increased efficiency and accountability in public service for their constituents.There is a continuing need for better tools and a number of government entities have turned to performance management systems due to their promise of improvement in various areas of productivity and accountability. This research focused on one such system, Six Sigma, which has recently experienced widespread adoption in industry in the United States, internationally, and in some government organizations. In this study Six Sigma was compared and contrasted with several performance management systems, and its effects and organizational cultural impacts on one organization were examined.The study investigated the financial implications and perceptions of organizational cultural change resulting from the Six Sigma system implementation in a large government enterprise. The first part of the study used the organization’s published financial information from 1997 through 2006 to determine whether there was a tangible financial benefit of implementing Six Sigma. The analysis indicated that the financial implications were statistically significant and quantified them as material and relevant to the organization’s two major business units.The second component of the research explored differences in organizational culture and attitudes among and between selected employee groups through the use of interviews and a survey instrument. Interviews were also conducted with a purposive sample of the executives who were involved in the decisions to implement Six Sigma. The Organizational Culture Inventory© and Organizational Effectiveness Inventory™ survey instruments were used to measure the organizational culture perceptions of the employee groups. Discriminant function analysis results suggested that the various groups shared a common organizational culture, which supports the null hypothesis that there were no differences in the organizational cultural perceptions among the organizational groups investigated.
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Moatlhaping, Segametsi Oreeditse S. "The role of indigenous governance system(s) in sustainable development : case of Moshupa Village, Botswana /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/443.
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Wells, Pamela C. "Primary and secondary school funding in the state of New Hampshire and the effects on the university system." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1045632.
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This study presents the significance of primary and secondary school funding in the State of New Hampshire and its related effects on the University System. Two main research questions are examined. Does the primary and secondary school funding structure impact University System of New Hampshire funding? What impact has the debate around the terms "adequate" and "equitable" had on educational funding? Comparisons between primary and secondary school funding and the University System of New Hampshire funding are examined.With New Hampshire's unique history and large Legislative body, educational funding at all levels can become an often discussed topic. A seventy-five person sample is analyzed and presented in the thesis; as are recommendations for further study.Department of Secondary, Higher, and Foundations of Education
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Monnaesi, Timothy Tiro. "A description of whether the objectives of the performance management system of the Botswana Department of Tribal Administration are being realised." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6761.
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Thesis (MPA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Public sector organisations have to deliver quality services to the people amid budgetary cuts and public disenchantment with the public sector. Delivering these services in the face of dwindling resources has led public sector organisations to introduce performance improvement initiatives in an endeavour to do more with less. The government of Botswana introduced a raft of performance improvement initiatives such as WITS, O & M and Job Evaluation in the public sector with the sole objective of improving performance and driving public service delivery. However, despite the implementation of these initiatives, there was increasing concern that the quality of the delivery of public services was declining. These performance improvement initiatives were criticised for failing to make any meaningful impact on organisational performance, as the problems of poor service delivery remained unchanged. The failure of these earlier public sector reforms to improve organisational performance led the government to introduce a more comprehensive and holistic reform programme, PMS, guided by the national vision – Vision 2016 – in 1999. PMS was seen as the overall framework within which all previous reform initiatives could be integrated. This research sought to determine whether the objectives of PMS of DTA were being realised, given that previous public sector reforms had been deemed to have failed to actually raise organisational performance. A case study of DTA was therefore undertaken to describe the extent to which PMS had delivered on its objectives. Data collection was through structured self-administered questionnaires, comprising 14 closed-ended questions, one ranked question and one open-ended question. This was also augmented by documentary analysis of official reports such as the Annual Statements of Accounts (ASA). The research found that PMS had succeeded only in so far as communicating DTA’s vision, mission and values across the department. There was awareness of PMS within DTA. However, the system had not succeeded in improving DTA’s organisational performance, as it was hampered by various challenges such as lack of leadership commitment, the difficulty in implementing the system and lack of feedback on organisational performance. Recommendations are also made for enhancing DTA’s PMS to actually realise its objectives of improving organisational performance.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Daar word van openbare sektor organisasies verwag om kwaliteit dienste aan die publiek te lewer te midde van ingekorte begrotings en openbare ontnugtering rakende die openbaresektor. In ‘n poging om hierdie dienste te lewer ten spyte van beperkte hulpbronne stel openbaresektor organisasies inisiatiewe in om werkverrigting te verbeter en sodoende meer koste-doeltreffend te werk. Die regering van Botswana het ‘n aantal inisiatiewe, byvoorbeeld Werk Verbetering Spanne (WITS), Organisering en Metodes (O&M) en Posevaluering, in die openbaresektor geïmplementeer met die uitsluitlike doel om werkverrigting te verbeter en openbare dienslewering te dryf. Ten spyte hiervan was daar egter toenemende kommer dat die kwaliteit van dienslewering toenemend verswak. Bogenoemde inisiatiewe is gekritiseer dat hulle gefaal het om enige noemenswaardige impak op organisatoriese prestasie te toon, aangesien probleme rakende swak dienslewering onveranderd was. Die versuim van hierdie aanvanklike hervormings in die openbaresektor om organisatoriese prestasie te verbeter, het daartoe aanleiding gegee dat die regering in 1999 ‘n meer omvattende en holistiese hervormingsprogram, die Prestasie Bestuur Stelsel (PMS), ingestel het, gelei deur die nasionale visie – ‘Vision 2016’. Die PMS is gesien as die omvattende raamwerk waarbinne al die vorige hervormingsinisiatiewe geïntegreer kon word. Hierdie navorsing het gepoog om vas te stel of die doelstellings van die PMS in die Departement van Stam Administrasie realiseer, siende vorige openbaresektor hervormings nie geslaag het om organisatoriese prestasie te verbeter nie. ‘n Gevallestudie van die departement is onderneem om die mate waarin die PMS se doelstellings bereik is te beskryf. Dataversameling is gedoen deur gestruktureerde, selfgeadministreerde vraelyste, bestaande uit 14 geslote vrae, een ranglysvraag en een oopvraag. Dit is aangevul deur dokumentêre analise van amptelike verslae soos Jaarlikse Rekeningstate. Die navorsing het gevind dat die PMS slegs in dié mate geslaag het dat mense dwarsdeur die departement bewusgemaak is van die departement se visie, missie en waardes. Hoewel mense bewus was van die prestasiebestuurstelsel, bevind die navorsing geen daadwerklike verbetering in organisatoriese prestasie nie, aangesien dit belemmer word deur verskeie uitdagings, soos gebrekkige toewyding deur leiers, probleme met die implementering van die sisteem en die tekort aan terugvoer rakende organisatoriese prestasie. Die navorsing stel sekere aanbevelings voor om die departement se prestasiebestuursisteem te verbeter om die doelstelling om organisatoriese prestasie te verwesenlik.
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Oliver, Patrick Andrew. "An analysis of the Staff Performance Management System at the Gene Louw Traffic College /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://etd.sun.ac.za/jspui/handle/10019/886.
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Murakami, Charlotte Victoria Trudy. "Language awareness & knowledge about language : a history of a curriculum reform movement under the Conservatives, 1979-1997." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14539.
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England’s long history of education has witnessed many conflicts in regard to language teaching. In this thesis, I investigate the conflicts surrounding two language education reform movements, Language Awareness and Knowledge About Language, during the Conservative administration between 1979 and 1997. The investigation examines official and non-official plans and policy texts produced by various groups and actors, notably Hawkins and Cox, that detail how the teaching of ‘Language’ should be conducted in England’s state school curriculum. The focus of the research is upon identifying what LA and KAL were as pedagogical concepts; why LA was reconstituted as KAL; what the motives underpinning these various plans and policies were; and finally, why efforts to establish LA and KAL were resisted. In the effort to make sense of this history, I draw theoretically and methodologically upon the work of Foucault, Fairclough, Bernstein and Ager. Limitations of my interpretation of this history notwithstanding, my findings revealed that LA was an educational reform movement that emerged from common schooling discourses, and one that sought to improve its educational provision. While LA was originally intended to be a subject in its own right that bridged the English and Foreign Language subject areas, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate reconstituted LA and placed its responsibility firmly within the English subject area. The motives underpinning LA and KAL planning and policy are varied. Those underpinning the policies, however, are distinctly ideological in nature, drawing a strong relationship between language education and democracy. Nearly all motives pertain to what Bernstein calls a competence model of education, the modes of which are notably attuned to addressing inequality and promoting social integration. LA and KAL were reforms that were both ill understood and resented, for varying and complex reasons, by educators and the Conservatives alike. The thesis closes with directions for future research.
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Peck, Mikaere Michelle S. "Summerhill school is it possible in Aotearoa ??????? New Zealand ???????: Challenging the neo-liberal ideologies in our hegemonic schooling system." The University of Waikato, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2794.
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The original purpose of this thesis is to explore the possibility of setting up a school in Aotearoa (New Zealand) that operates according to the principles and philosophies of Summerhill School in Suffolk, England. An examination of Summerhill School is therefore the purpose of this study, particularly because of its commitment to self-regulation and direct democracy for children. My argument within this study is that Summerhill presents precisely the type of model Māori as Tangata Whenua (Indigenous people of Aotearoa) need in our design of an alternative schooling programme, given that self-regulation and direct democracy are traits conducive to achieving Tino Rangitiratanga (Self-government, autonomy and control). In claiming this however, not only would Tangata Whenua benefit from this model of schooling; indeed it has the potential to serve the purpose of all people regardless of age race or gender. At present, no school in Aotearoa has replicated Summerhill's principles and philosophies in their entirety. Given the constraints of a Master's thesis, this piece of work is therefore only intended as a theoretical background study for a much larger kaupapa (purpose). It is my intention to produce a further and more comprehensive study in the future using Summerhill as a vehicle to initiate a model school in Aotearoa that is completely antithetical to the dominant neo-liberal philosophy of our age. To this end, my study intends to demonstrate how neo-liberal schooling is universally dictated by global money market trends, and how it is an ideology fueled by the indifferent acceptance of the general population. In other words, neo-liberal theory is a theory of capitalist colonisation. In order to address the long term vision, this project will be comprised of two major components. The first will be a study of the principal philosophies that govern Summerhill School. As I will argue, Summerhill creates an environment that is uniquely successful and fulfilling for the children who attend. At the same time, it will also be shown how it is a philosophy that is entirely contrary to a neo-liberal 3 mindset; an antidote, to a certain extent, to the ills of contemporary schooling. The second component will address the historical movement of schooling in Aotearoa since the Labour Party's landslide victory in 1984, and how the New Zealand Curriculum has been affected by these changes. I intend to trace the importation of neo-liberal methodologies into Aotearoa such as the 'Picot Taskforce,' 'Tomorrows Schools' and 'Bulk Funding,' to name but a few. The neo-liberal ideologies that have swept through this country in the last two decades have relentlessly metamorphosised departments into businesses and forced ministries into the marketplace, hence causing the 'ideological reduction of education' and confining it to the parameters of schooling. The purpose of this research project is to act as a catalyst for the ultimate materialization of an original vision; the implementation of a school like Summerhill in Aotearoa. A study of the neo-liberal ideologies that currently dominate this country is imperative in order to understand the current schooling situation in Aotearoa and create an informed comparison between the 'learning for freedom' style of Summerhill and the 'learning to earn' style of our status quo schools. It is my hope to strengthen the argument in favour of Summerhill philosophy by offering an understanding of the difference between the two completely opposing methods of learning.
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Chiang, Jerry Kao. "Reducing government proposal procurement process complexity." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90774.
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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2014. In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT.Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2014. In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 73).
US Aerospace Defense Vehicle Manufacturer (UADVM) sells Assembled Complex Equipment to the US Government through multi-year contracts. According to the Truth in Negotiations Act (TINA), such government defense contracts require cost and pricing data as well as supporting documentation, known as material substantiation, to justify pricing and supplier selection. In order to comply with these government regulations, UADVM needed to estimate material costs provided by its supply chain, in a process known as multi-year procurement process. At UADVM, this process involved substantial time, effort, and rework. Through interviews and surveys, total administrative effort to manage the Multi-Year X (MYX) Procurement Process is estimated to be about 41 full-time equivalents (FTEs) per year for three years, translating to an estimated fully loaded cost of $17.3 million. In order to significantly improve the current process, a key area of opportunity is to reduce the complexity of the entire process through 1) reducing the number of inputs, including the number of parts and bids sent out as well as suppliers and price points solicited, and 2) improving the design of the bid strategy, the determination of which parts are bid out to which suppliers, how to group these suppliers and parts into bids, and who should manage these bids in the most efficient and effective manner. Through the analysis of UADVM's MYX data, input reduction can potentially reduce the number of price points solicited by 99.2% and the number of interactions, also known as the number of unique combinations between parts, bids, and suppliers, by approximately 94%. These efforts can be complemented by an improved bid strategy through the use of a data-driven mixed integer linear programming optimization model, which, in tests on a sub-portion of the data, reduces the number of packages by 43%. These methods and analyses for complexity reduction can be generalized beyond current applications at UADVM, aerospace companies, and government proposals; they may be applied to any procurement process where multiple parts, suppliers, and bids are involved.
by Jerry Kao Chiang.
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Knuppe, Peter Johan. "An evaluation of e–Government as a support system in public schools / Knuppe P.J." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/7356.
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The objective of the study was to develop a framework for the implementation
of a Business Information Management System in order to increase the
efficiency of the knowledge management strategy in the ultimate quest to
deliver administrative support to public schools at the Gauteng Department of
Education within the Sedibeng East District Office geographical area. A
literature investigation was done on the concepts of e–Government, eplatforms,
information technology and enablers to determine if Government
models are working effectively and efficiently. Based on the findings of the
literature study, a questionnaire was designed and used to measure the
efficiency of the knowledge management strategy in the base of
administrative support to public schools.
Government to Government models are the ability to interact and support
services through the availability of e–platforms in the ultimate support, and
sharing of knowledge through effective knowledge management. Knowledge
in an organisation alternates between tacit and explicit knowledge as it goes
from an idea to explicit knowledge that can be shared throughout the whole
organisation and in the process gives the necessary administrative support to
public schools and learners. Proper managed and implemented systems are
important for the management of knowledge in an organisation. Knowledge
management is a never–ending cycle that starts at discovering knowledge and
goes through generating knowledge, evaluating knowledge, sharing the newly
found knowledge to leveraging the knowledge. This cycle forms the heart of a
knowledge management model like the different education e–platforms that is
available. It was concluded that the knowledge in an organisation can be
managed with the help of one standardized e–platform model throughout the
entire Education Department. Knowledge in an organisation is a very
important resource and ought to be strategically managed. The knowledge
management strategy starts by determining what knowledge is needed and
what is available in the organisation. The chosen standardized model will
form the central part of a successful knowledge management strategy. The
test for the success of a knowledge management strategy is determined with
a knowledge audit.
The state of the knowledge management strategy at Gauteng Department of
Education, Sedibeng East District Office was assessed by employing
convenience survey questionnaires to extract the data. Sedibeng East District
Office and therefore the Department of Education, still have a long way to go
in order to optimise the management of knowledge. The key area of concern
is a lack of a written knowledge management strategy and policy which
results in informal e–platform usage and therefore different ways of managing
knowledge. A large portion of the indecisiveness seen in the analysis of the
questionnaires could be attributed to the lack of a formal knowledge
management strategy. It was further concluded that a knowledge gap
assessment is the start of the knowledge management strategy and will give
direction to the strategy. The culture at Sedibeng East District Office was not
tested to determine if the staff will be supportive of a knowledge management
strategy. However, the survey indicated that much needed administrative
support to public schools needs to be formalized in order to optimize the
services and standards of support. A practical knowledge management
framework is proposed in order to assist the Department in the
implementation of a knowledge management strategy and bridging the gaps
found after analysing the questionnaires.Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.
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Filho, Antonio Celso de Paula Albuquerque. "Impacto da interoperabilidade na eficiência de processos intergovernamentais de governo eletrônico: o caso da matrícula escolar no Estado de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12139/tde-15042013-143448/.
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Neste trabalho é avaliado o impacto da interoperabilidade intergovernamental na melhoria da eficiência nos processos de governo eletrônico, em especial entre estados e municípios. Governo Eletrônico é visto como o uso intensivo de tecnologia da informação para atender às necessidades do Estado com foco nos cidadãos, visando otimizar os processos governamentais. A Interoperabilidade é a capacidade de troca transparente de dados entre sistemas. A união dos dois conceitos, aplicada nas relações intergovernamentais, tem como objetivo propiciar, principalmente ao poder executivo nas três instâncias - união, estados e municípios -, a troca de dados de forma transparente e desburocratizada, buscando a melhoria do atendimento ao cidadão e da eficiência, eficácia e efetividade entre os entes federados. Para compreender a influência da interoperabilidade na eficiência destes processos foi analisado o processo de matrículas escolares entre os sistemas do estado e do município de São Paulo. No Estado de São Paulo são realizadas, anualmente, cerca de dez milhões de matrículas no ensino básico, sendo um terço (três milhões e meio aproximadamente) no município de São Paulo. Partindo-se da descrição histórica do processo de implantação, são apresentadas as motivações que levaram à criação de interoperabilidade entre os sistemas de matrícula dos dois entes federados, barreiras encontradas para a implantação, como foram enfrentadas e o impacto na eficiência tanto nos processos internos quanto no atendimento à população. Além do processo ter sido simplificado com a interoperabilidade, conclui-se que o impacto na eficiência dos processos internos de controle e gestão dos sistemas foi grande, principalmente nas secretarias de escolas, onde foram percebidas melhorias significativas, apesar de persistirem outros problemas no processo como um todo. A inexistência da interoperabilidade entre os sistemas dos outros estados da federação faz com que o tempo de matrícula de um aluno transferido de fora do Estado de São Paulo seja muito superior ao tempo de confirmação de aluno transferido no Estado de São Paulo.In this paper, the impact of intergovernmental interoperability in improving e-government processes efficiency between states and municipalities is evaluated. E-Government is considered the intensive use of information technology to meet the state\'s needs with a focus on citizens in order to optimize governmental processes. Interoperability is the ability of transparent data exchange between systems. The joint of the two concepts, applied to intergovernmental relations, aims to provide, mainly to the executive in three instances -union, states and municipalities-, to exchange data seamlessly, without bureaucracy, seeking to improve public service and the state\'s efficiency, efficacy and effectiveness. In order to understand interoperability\'s influence in the efficiency of these processes we have analyzed school enrollment\'s process among São Paulo city and state\'s systems. In São Paulo state annually about ten million enrollments in primary education are performed, being a third part (three and a half million approximately) in São Paulo city. Based on the historical description of the deployment process, in this paper are presented the motivations that led to the creation of interoperability between registration\'s systems of the two federal entities, the barriers encountered to the deployment and how they were faced, and the impact on efficiency in both internal processes and in the service to population. We also conclude that the impact on efficiency of internal control processes and management systems was of great deal, as well as in the schools secretariats, where significant improvements in efficiency were perceived, although other problems persist in the process as a whole. Due to the lack of interoperability between systems of other federation states, the time of transferring a student registration from outside of São Paulo is higher than the time transferring from São Paulo municipalities. Besides this, interoperability simplified processes between both systems.
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Chan, Wai-fat. "The Hong Kong appraisal system : problems and issues in its implementation and perceived impacts in Government-funded secondary schools." Thesis, Durham University, 2008. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2527/.
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The Education and Manpower Bureau (henceforth EMB) requested that all government and aided schools have an open and fair staff appraisal system put in place by the end of the 2001-02 school year, with a view to enhancing the professional development of teachers. This research was conducted to explore the problems and issues in its implementation and to assess the perceived impacts of the scheme in terms of exactly how the attitudes and behaviours of teachers have altered under the mandatory teacher appraisal scheme. Also, as teacher appraisal is an educational practice lifted from Western societies, whose culture is significantly different from that of Hong Kong, this research attempted to explore how Chinese culture might affect the implementation and practice of teacher appraisal in Hong Kong. In this research, a total of 21 problems was identified. They can be classified into three overlapping categories, namely, problems associated with the accuracy of assessment, problems associated with personnel, and problems associated with the appraisal scheme itself. Three of the Chinese cultural dimensions; low uncertainty avoidance, possessing neither masculinity nor femininity, and high power distance, were perceived to produce a negative impact on the appraisal process. The fourth cultural dimension, collectivism, was perceived to produce a neutral impact on the appraisal process. Among the six Chinese cultural values studied, only the concept of trust between friends was perceived to produce a positive impact on the process of appraisal. The concept of maintaining harmonious relationships and conflict avoidance was perceived to produce a neutral impact on the process of appraisal. The other four Chinese cultural values; the concept of face saving, connection and human feelings, the concept of reciprocation, and respect for age and seniority, were perceived to produce a negative impact on the process of appraisal. The research concluded that the implementation of a teacher appraisal scheme was perceived to produce a positive impact on all aspects of teaching behaviours, teacher relationships, teacher knowledge, teacher attitudes, and summative outcomes.
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Foster, Ian D., and n/a. "The establishment of the Christmas Island Area School: a public policy analysis." University of Canberra. Education, 1990. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050711.124419.
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In 1974 the Australian Government decided that from 1975 all education on its Territory of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, would be integrated into a single service. It further decided that all schools would be
staffed by Australian teachers from its recent1y established
Commonwealth Teaching Service and would implement a curriculum closely reflecting those on the Australian mainland. These were decisive shifts
from the previous system of separating the 'Asian' education system from the 'European' (Australian) system. This thesis sets out to find the
reasons for these decisions and the expectations, or objectives, of those who made them.
The changes to education had many Impacts on the Christmas Island community - both intended or unintended. These impacts are used to assist in evaluations of the policy objectives. The thesis uses the methodology of public policy analysis to examine the links between the government's education policy and its other broader policies regarding the Island. It thus examines operational decisions in the context of strategic considerations.
The mid 1970s saw rapid changes in many Australian Government policies.
Its new Christmas Island policies were responses to a range of complex,
interrelated problems which emerged in the early 1970s - only 15 years
after it assumed sovereignty. At the centre of these policy responses
was Resettlement. The government's education decisions are examined in
the light of the objectives and implications of its Resettlement policy
as well as other inputs to the policy problem.
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Nielson, Pam, and n/a. "A comparative analysis of English as a second language programs and services in government school systems in Australian states and territories and the nexus with Commonwealth funding." University of Canberra. Education, 1988. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060824.132257.
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The study investigates the nature and extent of provision
of English as a Second Language (ESL) programs and
services for students of non-English speaking background
(NESB) in government school systems in the six Australian
states and two territories and the interrelationship of
state/territorial education authority provision and levels
of commonwealth funding. The study further examines
perceptions of state/territorial service providers of
where the onus of responsibility for ESL provision lies.
The study is limited to examination of ESL provision at
the school level in government education systems only and
does not address services for adult NESB learners or
provision in the non-government sector.
The study is set in the context of the impact of
commonwealth immigration policies on the nature of
Australia's multicultural society and on the evolution of
provision of appropriate programs and services for NESB
students in Australian government schools.
The major findings to emerge from this study which bear on
the issues identified in the literature and which are of
significance for the future of ESL service delivery are:
· the existence of overall commonality of definition of
NESB students and identification of such students for
ESL programs on the basis of need, but a degree of variation in procedures used by state and territorial
systems which falls short of standard practice and
renders comparative measurement of perceived shortfalls
in provision difficult;
· variation in definition of intensive programs which
renders comparison of provision difficult;
· strong commonality in overall provision of both
programs and services across all schooling sectors,
with limited local variation in service delivery;
an increasing commitment in all systems to the
mainstreaming of ESL provision through language across
the curriculum programs aimed at complementing
specialist ESL provision by enabling mainstream
teachers to accept responsibility for the language
needs of NESB learners;
· variation in degrees of dependence on commonwealth
funding for provision of programs and services ranging
from almost total dependence on commonwealth funding in
two systems to significant local education authority
provision in four systems;
· commonality of opinion among local service providers of
the commonwealth's responsibility for some degree of
funding of ESL provision, but variations in perceptions
of the extent of the commonwealth's responsibility in
this area;
· commonality of experience of initial identification of
need at the local level, but dependence on commonwealth
intervention to approach adequate provision to meet
identified need;
· a degree of tension between on the one hand,
recognition of individual differences among systems and
the concomitant need, or desire, for state/territorial
autonomy in service delivery; and on the other hand,
recognition of commonality of purpose and provision and
the concomitant need for some standardisation of
practice in the interests of efficiency and
accountability of service delivery.
The study concludes with an examination of the
implications of these findings for policy for future ESL
service delivery.
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Faltys, Miroslav. "Analýza nestátních neziskových organizací v oblasti vzdělávání ve Středočeském kraji." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-71704.
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The topic of this master thesis is focused on the analysis of NGOs in the field of education in the Central Bohemia Region. The thesis points out relationship and development of the private, public and non-profit sector in education. The goal is to capture the development of NGOs active in the field of education in the Central Bohemia Region, to identify their status, analyse the effectiveness of their activities and compare the current non-profit organization with a historic non-profit organization. The first part focuses on the historical development of NGOs in the field of education from 17. century. More specifically, it monitors development and changes in their institutional arrangements, legal environment and financing. Particularly is monitored Piarist college in Slany. Within the second part of work the current state of NGOs in the field of education in the Central Bohemia Region is analysed. It focuses on church schools and publicly beneficial organizations. This analysis is related to the performance of non-profit organizations, economic results and their justification in education. The last part compares historical non-profit organization with current ones.
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Bunker, Beverley. "An investigation into expectations of the Chief Information Officer's role and knowledge, skills and experience that support it a dyadic IT-business perspective in NZ local government : submitted to the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Information Management /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1136.
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Tumbare, Nina. "An internal communication assessment of the Lilongwe City Assembly." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2509.
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Thesis (MA (Public and Development Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.Internal communication has the potential of improving the ability of local authorities to deliver effective and efficient basic services. Local authorities are the pillar upon which governments rely to champion the decentralisation process which has been widely hailed as enabling service delivery to the communities. The Lilongwe City Assembly recognises the need to address internal communication issues, but have neither carried out any meaningful analysis of its internal communication nor has it developed an internal communication plan or guidelines. The communication audit methodology is relatively unknown in the public sector in Malawi and it is hoped that this study brings to light the advantages of giving organisational communication its deserved role in activities of the public sector. It is hoped that this study would be replicated in the remaining 38 local assemblies with a view to improving service delivery. This study assessed the internal communication of the Assembly as part of a broader perspective of organisational communication. Specifically, it measured the effectiveness of internal communication at the Lilongwe City Assembly. The methodology involved measuring the perceived current and ideal amounts of information in eight fundamental areas of internal communication, namely receiving information from others, sending information to others, action on information sent, channels of communication, communication relationships, communication and work satisfaction, timeliness of information received from key sources and sources of information. Findings from a sample of 186 respondents of the Assembly indicated a great need to receive information and to interact with Assembly management more frequently than what is happening currently. The communication between subordinates and co-workers seems to be satisfactory. However, the majority of respondents expressed the need to engage with Assembly management on a number of key issues, including staff welfare, salaries and benefits. In addition, a concern about the inability of employees to master the English language was cited as reducing the capacity of the Assembly to fully implement its work activities.
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Lucas, D. Pulane. "Disruptive Transformations in Health Care: Technological Innovation and the Acute Care General Hospital." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2996.
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Advances in medical technology have altered the need for certain types of surgery to be performed in traditional inpatient hospital settings. Less invasive surgical procedures allow a growing number of medical treatments to take place on an outpatient basis. Hospitals face growing competition from ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). The competitive threats posed by ASCs are important, given that inpatient surgery has been the cornerstone of hospital services for over a century. Additional research is needed to understand how surgical volume shifts between and within acute care general hospitals (ACGHs) and ASCs. This study investigates how medical technology within the hospital industry is changing medical services delivery. The main purposes of this study are to (1) test Clayton M. Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation in health care, and (2) examine the effects of disruptive innovation on appendectomy, cholecystectomy, and bariatric surgery (ACBS) utilization. Disruptive innovation theory contends that advanced technology combined with innovative business models—located outside of traditional product markets or delivery systems—will produce simplified, quality products and services at lower costs with broader accessibility. Consequently, new markets will emerge, and conventional industry leaders will experience a loss of market share to “non-traditional” new entrants into the marketplace. The underlying assumption of this work is that ASCs (innovative business models) have adopted laparoscopy (innovative technology) and their unification has initiated disruptive innovation within the hospital industry. The disruptive effects have spawned shifts in surgical volumes from open to laparoscopic procedures, from inpatient to ambulatory settings, and from hospitals to ASCs. The research hypothesizes that: (1) there will be larger increases in the percentage of laparoscopic ACBS performed than open ACBS procedures; (2) ambulatory ACBS will experience larger percent increases than inpatient ACBS procedures; and (3) ASCs will experience larger percent increases than ACGHs. The study tracks the utilization of open, laparoscopic, inpatient and ambulatory ACBS. The research questions that guide the inquiry are: 1. How has ACBS utilization changed over this time? 2. Do ACGHs and ASCs differ in the utilization of ACBS? 3. How do states differ in the utilization of ACBS? 4. Do study findings support disruptive innovation theory in the hospital industry? The quantitative study employs a panel design using hospital discharge data from 2004 and 2009. The unit of analysis is the facility. The sampling frame is comprised of ACGHs and ASCs in Florida and Wisconsin. The study employs exploratory and confirmatory data analysis. This work finds that disruptive innovation theory is an effective model for assessing the hospital industry. The model provides a useful framework for analyzing the interplay between ACGHs and ASCs. While study findings did not support the stated hypotheses, the impact of government interventions into the competitive marketplace supports the claims of disruptive innovation theory. Regulations that intervened in the hospital industry facilitated interactions between ASCs and ACGHs, reducing the number of ASCs performing ACBS and altering the trajectory of ACBS volume by shifting surgeries from ASCs to ACGHs.
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Wu, Tzung-Shian, and 吳宗憲. "A study of equitable government funding to compulsory school system." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11183269493044862743.
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碩士逢甲大學
會計與財稅所
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For a long time, the per-pupil expenditure levels of compulsory education are difference among counties and cities. After the enforcement of Compilation and Management of Education Expenditure Act, the most important function of subsidy system is how the Central Government equalizes per-pupil expenditure among counties and cities, and subsidizes the poorest local government by means of subsidy system. The major purposes of this study are to establish a new general grant formula based on Compilation and Management of Education Expenditure Act and to find out whether the governments that are poorer in school finance can obtain more general grant on the basis of the new formula. Furthermore, the study also analyzes the effect of country region integration program on the improvement the per-pupil expenditure level. The result reveals that the governments that are poorer in school finance obtain more general grants than do others if applying the formula. However, the Chiayi city and Tainan city, the two poorest governments are small district and insufficient fiscal revenue, to cause per-pupil expenditure levels low. From country region integration analysis, the per-pupil expenditure level of the two cities can increase greatly. In other words, to achieve the goal of equalizing education opportunity, the subsidy system is not the only way. Integrating inter-school, reforming school administration, increasing education economies of scale, and improving school efficiency and effect are all also important subjects of equalizing education opportunity.
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李繼來. "A Study on the Policy of Tuition Fees and Government Subsidiary system for private Senior High and Vocational School." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14938136586628506343.
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碩士國立臺北科技大學
技術及職業教育研究所
89
This study aims at research in the current tuition policy between public senior high schools and private senior high schools and the current subsidiary measures taken by the government for private senior high schools in our country and whether they are suitable for our educational development of senior high schools. Through practical research in literature analysis and experts’ interview, the defects of the current system can be found out. On the premise of considering the citizens economic burden, the government’s financial burden, and the healthy development of private senior high schools, this study can imitate a more concrete and useful method of handing in tuition fees and the government’s subsidiary measures for the government’s relevant educational authorities’ reference when they work out relevant policies. The conclusions of this study are as follows: A. Tuition fees 1. The tuition fees in public senior high schools had started to make a structural adjustment since the school year of 1991. The average tuition fees in private senior high schools in the school year of 2000 were NT$52,840, which was about 3.37 times of the average tuition fees in public senior high schools. This differential still didn’t obtain the goal of 1:3 in the school year of 2001 as scheduled. 2. In pursuit of reasonable reflection cost, a tuition policy of “reflected education cost” should be adopted during the stage of non-compulsory education, and the tuition fees in public senior high schools should reach above 20% of unit education cost. In this way, it would correspond to the principle of social justice. 3. In the school year of 2000, the average tuition fees in private senior high schools were NT$52,840, but the unit education cost in private senior high schools were NT$98,682. The differential between the two was still quite large. Because of the insufficient subsidies from the government, it is very difficult for private senior high schools to upgrade the quality of education only through the tuition fees from the students. 4. On the premise that if the government’s subsidiary funds provided for private senior high and vocational schools reached 20% of unit education cost in private senior high and vocational schools and the unit education cost in public senior high and vocational schools remained unchanged at NT$146,076, the annual tuition fees in public senior high and vocational schools would structurally adjust 9.3% and those in private senior high and vocational schools would adjust 1.6%. The differential of the tuition fees between a public senior high and a private senior high would draw close to 1:2 and the tuition fees in public senior high schools would get to 20% of unit education cost by the school year of 2007. 5. Nowadays the number of public senior high schools increased every year, while the number of school-age children decreased very quickly. At present every student who graduated from junior high school had an average above 1.3 opportunities of attending senior high school. Some areas even had above 1.5 chances. As a result, the public property of private senior high schools was reducing each year. In order to let some of the private senior high schools be able to develop its own characteristics to upgrade its competivity and make room for students with multiple choices, a conditional tuition liberalization for private senior high schools should be agreed by the government. B. Government’s subsidies 1. High school education had become a circle of basic one, and the students attending private senior high schools occupied half of the students attending senior high and vocational school. According to the principle of the proper distribution of educational resources and the equality of educational opportunities, the government should provide rational subsidies for private senior high schools, and these subsidies should at least occupy above 20% of unit education cost in private senior high schools. This was also the subsidiary goal mentioned in the educational report of ROC. 2. The subsidiary policy of education substitute which the government directly offered the students attending a private senior high school was fully supported by the students’ parents and public opinion. In order to draw close to the burden of the students’ parents between public senior high schools and private senior high schools as well as the proper distribution of educational resources, the government should supply a subsidy of education substitute to all students who attended private senior high schools.
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Chan, Tun-chih, and 詹敦智. "A Study of Satisfaction Survey to the Government Electron Procurement System in Construction Procurement-an Example of Yunlin County Elementary School." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32707800335168845262.
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碩士南華大學
資訊管理學系
100
The purpose of this thesis is to research the satisfaction of using the the government e-procurement system with the procurement of construction.It compares the satisfaction of the government procurement system in the different situations among various General Director. This research provides the system improvements and suggestions for the user needs. The goal of this study is to provide a system as references which are base on the results of the satisfaction survey. Another benefit is using the future E-procurement system is adequate to support the General Director for the Construction Procurement. By this method, it not only enforces the professional knowledge but also assisted procurement staff to make purchases. This achieves the users’ anticipations. The method of this study is questionnaire survey. The research examinee are from 154 primary schools in 20 townships in the county. The total issued questionnaires are 154, but 138 questionnaires are retrieved. The percentage of recovery is about 89.61%. The valid questionnaires are 138. The questionnaires can be 100% usable.After analyzing the results of questionnaires, the conclusion is as follow: 1. The age of the General Director i is mostly between 41-50 years and are male in Yunlin County Elementary school. The education backgrounds are more master degree. Most of them serve in the school around 11-20 years. They normally work in the common places. The class of a school has the latest 12 classes. The majority of the directors have been doing this work about 2-5 years. The seniority of the year is tending to be low and mobility. A half of the respondents is capable and has the electronic application certificates 2. The elementary General Directors present their highly satisfied with the quality of information and then service quality. Lastly, the system quality gets the lowest results. 3. There is no significant difference among the gender, school area, age, education background, serve seniority, and purchased seniority while there is a remarkable different in the school scale variables. 4. The qualities of the information, system, service and government E-purchase system show the positive correspondent. 5. The quality of information system and service gains the higher level of cognitions and also the satisfaction of the Government E-purchased System is higher.
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Fořtová, Michaela. "Vybrané problémy normativní regulace školství." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-306089.
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TITLE: Selected questions of normative regulation of the Czech educational system AUTHOR: Michaela Fořtová DEPARTMENT: Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy SUPERVISOR: JUDr. Stanislav Sádovský, PhD., LLM, MSc ABSTRACT: The thesis is devoted to the problems of normative regulation in the sphere of the Czech educational system. At the very beginning it defines regulation and its influence within the framework of jurisprudence in the form of normative regulation. Therefore the dissertation deals with the term of legal standard, its structure and the types of legal norms. It indicates normative regulation in practice, thus in selected laws. Thereafter it performs classification of normative instruments in education, which is made on the basis of law sources difference. The end of this thesis is dedicated to normative regulation of the educational system, which is illustrated by selected documents. Then regulation is evaluated and possibilities of its improvement suggested. KEYWORDS: school system, rule-making, law sources, self-government, inspection
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Skosana, Delphia Sibongile. "An integrated communication strategy as an enabling tool for increasing graduate employment potential." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25707.
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Text in EnglishIn its proposal of a communication strategy that will be of use as an enabling tool for increasing graduate employment potential, this study contributes uniquely to the discipline of communication. It envisages that communication takes into consideration the involvement of the key stakeholders, namely: government, labour market, education system, and media. Amid unemployment challenges that affect the majority of the population, media is regarded as a powerful tool to reach the majority of the population. With specific regard to graduate unemployment, media-driven interaction with unemployed graduates is not as efficient as it should be. Factors contributing to graduate unemployment are identified as career choices, skills shortage, job opportunities, career development, work experience, skills development, entrepreneurial skills, internships, and access to the labour market. It is also important to note that media is regarded as tool for disseminating information about such factors. In order to address this problem, the study establishes an integrated communication strategy that will be of use as an enabling tool for increasing the potential of graduate employment. The role of such communication could be applicable in various ways, such as organisational communication, business communication, public communication, personal communication, interpersonal communication, etc. This study locates itself in the domain of public communication because information about unemployment issues is a matter of public concern. This study adopts mixed research methodologies, with a survey research design—in order to gather data from the graduate students at a University of Technology. The study found that while social and print media are highly preferred and used due to their accessibility, there is a need to stress their use with regard to employment search. The main concepts that contributed to the establishment of the strategy included strategic communication, unemployment and media. It must be here noted that, for purposes of this study, strategic communication was informed by a confluence of the constitutive model of communication, systems theory, and situational theory of publics. The phenomenon of unemployment is informed by unemployment approaches, on the one hand, and the Maslow theory of needs, on the other. Furthermore, the understanding of the concept of media is informed by mass communication approaches and media richness theory. This thesis expects that, as an outcome, such a communication strategy would increase graduate employment potential. Public relations planning model is applied in the study in order to guide the implementation of the proposed communication strategy.
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AlShihi, Hafedh. "Critical Factors in the Adoption and Diffusion of E-Government Initiatives in Oman." 2006. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/483/1/483contents.pdf.
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Many significant barriers must be faced in the adoption and dissemination of e-government systems regardless of how advanced or modest a country is in terms of ICT infrastructure and deployment. This research has endeavored to investigate the impediments associated with the development and diffusion of e-government with a concentration on non-technical and country-specific factors. The focus of the research was on Oman's efforts to develop an e-government system, using advanced nations' experiences in the same domain to establish benchmarks. Initially, this research undertook a general literature review to define the barriers to the uptake of e-government and to set and refine aims, scope and questions asked of the research. Subsequently, a more focused literature review was conducted on the experiences of advanced nation with e-government, to identify possible lessons for and solutions to barriers facing the take-up of e-government. In parallel, an exploratory case study of the Oman e-government project was conducted that aimed to test the extent to which the barriers and solutions drawn from the largely Western-centric literature apply in the Omani situation, and to investigate other possible cultural and country-specific barriers. Semi-structured interviews and face-to-face administered questionnaires were the primary data collection strategies used throughout the case study phase. The study found that non-technical barriers in Oman, such as users' lack of IT knowledge and the absence of marketing campaigns, have negatively affected people's decisions to use the technology and inhibited decision makers from implementing or adopting technology initiatives. In addition, several country-specific limits to e-government growth were identified. Government decision makers in Oman were found to be prone to short-term planning, which prevents them from anticipating the long-term potential of e-government. Additionally, frequent structural changes within ministries, and the fact that the e-government project is not given high priority nor urgently needed at present, have contributed in delaying development of and improvements to such a system. Ultimately, this research delivered a socio-technical framework for adoption, detailing causes and effects of the critical factors in the adoption and diffusion of e-government initiatives in Oman.
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Tsai, Yee-feng, and 蔡奕豐. "Civil servants performance appraisal system study - Taichung City Government and its subordinate agencies and schools." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98949953373484999989.
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碩士東海大學
公共事務碩士在職專班
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Performance appraisal system in our country since ancient times as the weapon of the evaluation of officials at all levels, is also an important means of modern human resource management is used to monitor civil servants, administrative efficiency, but also government agencies award superior and eliminating the inferior, promoted to an important parameter of the talents According to. Through the performance appraisal theory literature, understanding of the assessment of the appraisal system design features, principles of the assessment process and assessment methods. Understanding of the History of the appraisal system and the current appraisal system content. Through an overview of the national appraisal system to be a comparative analysis of some benefit my hope that the improvement of the performance appraisal system in China. By the interaction depth interviews with relevant staff, will be the result of the interviews to explore the analysis in order to understand the official view of the performance appraisal system and the innovation opinions than the current performance appraisal system may encounter problems due to various performance appraisal, etc. There is no specific the ratio of the conditional deeds, due to limited, most of the qualifications, level, taking into consideration nature. The current performance appraisal system is fair and impartial and objective laws alone is not sufficient on their own, even if we have good law and good intentions of the absence of executive officers objective and fair and impartial examination, no matter how good the system would no longer serve their purposes. Be seen, the existing performance appraisal system is expressly provided, but because of the subjective, objective, realistic, and implementation of surface reasons, coupled with capping times ratio, did not achieve satisfactory results, performance appraisal system, such as universal access to satisfactory, it should be have a more reasonable, more comprehensive measures to the job. Be able to collect in this study through interviews of the true view of the more civil servants heart, and proposed findings and recommendations of this study was able to solve the current performance appraisal system exists irrational, our performance appraisal system to a more complete, the Public Service more law-abiding, to enhance administrative efficiency.
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HUNG, CHENG-YING, and 洪誠應. "Informal Rules and Performance Evaluation System - With Tainan City Government Owned Agencies and Schools as Example." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80109305120012833555.
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碩士國立中正大學
政治學系政府與公共事務碩士在職專班
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Abstract Civil servants performance evaluation system as the hub of the civil service system, but is accountable for the performance of civil servants. However, due to the performance evaluation system for a long time we could not really assess, causing increasingly serious problem of excessive Class A. In order to solve such problems and made "the proportion of handicapping" requirements. Performance evaluation system has also led to produce "goal displacement" and deviate from the original target, but also contributed to the prevalence of informal rules. Therefore, by viewing Evaluation theory, the existing norms to discuss the lack of civil servants performance evaluation system facing, effect of informal rules for the operation of the performance evaluation system, the proportion of handicapping specifications and ability to achieve the purpose of the assessment. Additionally, the draft amendments to civil servants Act performance evaluation that the Examination Yuan of ROC setting, whether it can reduce the incidence of informal rules effectively, so that the performance evaluation system towards the target "award and eliminating the inferior" towards the main objective of the present study. This study in " document analysis " and " in-depth interview " and other research methods through to sum up the plight of the performance evaluation system were faced with the problem, and the reason why deviation informal rules for the cause of performance evaluation system. Further clarify the civil servants performance evaluation system ought to have gaps between the Real and to complement the decree, and the inadequacies of the theory of literature, and to recommend future ordinance amendments of Time. This analysis found thatnot only can the proportion of handicapping quickly suppress excessive Class A issues, but also it led to the performance evaluation system under the human subjective judgment, resulting in differential treatment of different categories of personnel, not only difficult to reflect the employee's work performance, derived via informal rules, a more serious impact on the performance evaluation system correctness and fairness. The informal rules in forming a more long-term operation of path dependence, lead to old habits difficult to change. In addition, our study also found that the link reward does affect the effectiveness of the performance evaluation system. The routine is not only a mere formality, but also it did not have a substantial impact on the annual performance evaluations. Because "the act" and "artificial" are caused by the interaction of the deviation of the current system. Personnel officers not only did not become a defender of the performance appraisal system, but also became become the executor of informal rules. The draft amendments to civil servants Act performance appraisal fail to incorporate interested parties comments. Reward measures becoming recompense and political considerations reward. It’s good for different and other official’s duty of assessment, because of differential treatment and raise questions. Eliminating the inferior measures not only contributes to the prevalence of informal rules, but it becomes phased out and eliminated exclusionary tool. The mandatory periodic interviews also become the routine paperwork. Thus, draft amendments to civil servants Act performance appraisal if the proportion of handicapping thinking the same goal award and eliminating the inferior fear will be difficult to achieve. The performance evaluation system, there are many worth exploring the topic, this study only for the existing performance evaluation system content, informal rules and the draft amendments to civil servants Act performance to explore, In order to find the relevant issues, and to make appropriate recommendations correction performance evaluation system.
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Blumfield, Brian Alfred. "A historical review of the assessment of English Home Language at senior secondary school level in KwaZulu-Natal." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2412.
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The National Curriculum Statement (NCS) heralds the beginning of a new curriculum for Grades 10 to
12 in South Africa. Underpinned by the South African Constitution, and based on the tenets of
Outcomes-based Education, the NCS seeks to provide contextually-relevant education for all South
African learners, so that they are able to embrace inevitable change. Although the NCS highlights the
importance of assessment, an analysis of the English Home Language (EHL) NCS reveals tensions
between policy and practice. This study attempts to contextualise the role of relevant assessment for the
21st century. It then proceeds to engage in a historical evaluation of assessment within the NSC in terms
of how assessment was conducted in the former Natal Education Department, a liberal education
department within former apartheid South Africa. The conclusions drawn from the evaluation are used
to provide recommendations to relieve the tensions identified within the EHL NSC.Educational Studies
M.Ed.
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Yang, Ya-yun, and 楊雅雲. "Study on the Level of Satisfaction for the Official Document Integration System Employed by Fundamental Government Institutions – An Example of the Schools of Kaohsiung County Government." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9gb37r.
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碩士國立中山大學
高階公共政策碩士班
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Abstract This study aims to investigate the level of user satisfaction of the official document integration system for fundamental government institutions. Subjects of this study include administrative personnel of each level of schools of Kaohsiung County Government. Adopting the questionnaire method, a total of 156 effective questionnaires were collected with a return rate at 77.61%. Through a self-designed questionnaire entitled, “Questionnaire on the level of satisfaction for the use of official document integration system” with items including information quality, system quality and service quality as the research tool, this study employs SPSS as the analysis tool and the statistic methods include reliability analysis, factor analysis, descriptive analysis, one-way ANOVA, independent t-test and Pearson product moment correlation analysis. The findings include: 1. There are no significant differences among each factor of variables such as information quality, system quality and service quality for the subjects of different “gender”, “educational level”, “years of service”, “number of changes” and “number of years of using the system”. 2. Other than a significant difference on the level of satisfaction for the use of information, there are no significant differences among each aspects of variables such as system quality and service quality for subjects of different “position”, “scale of school” and “location of school”. 3. Other than a significant difference on the level of satisfaction for electrical exchange and function operation, there are no significant differences in other factors in the service quality aspect for subjects “with or without file management personnel”. 4. Other than a significant difference on the level of satisfaction on the use of interface and customer service quality, there are no significant differences in the factors in the information quality aspect for subjects at different “level of use of the system”. 5. There are positive correlations among information quality, system quality and service quality. When the correlation index increases, it influences the level of satisfaction for the users on the official document integration system. In addition, the conclusions, limitations and suggestions are furthered described and investigated according the research findings.
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Huang, Polan, and 黃柏嵐. "Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Government Electronic Procurement System for Schools Using DeLone and McLean IS Success Model." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81962973259010976741.
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碩士開南大學
資訊學院碩士在職專班
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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Government Electronic Procurement System for Schools Using DeLone and McLean IS Success Model Abstract The government procurement system is intended to provide a fair and open procedure that can improve procurement efficiency of public agencies and ensure the quality of purchased items. To facilitate development of government procurement and meet the purpose of legislating the Government Procurement Act, it is necessary to adopt an electronic procurement system. The usage, effectiveness, and related factors of the Government Electronic Procurement System are important for both users and the system administrator. The objective of this study was to investigate utility and user satisfaction of the Government Electronic Procurement System and their relations to net benefits based on DeLone and McLean Information System Success Model. The research data were collected from a questionnaire survey, and the results could be a reference for the authority of the Government Electronic Procurement System. The main conclusions were as follows: 1. When system quality, information quality, service quality, product quality, and system utility were all considered, the effect of system quality or service quality was overshadowed by the effect of information quality and product quality, indicating that information quality and product quality were a significant determinant of utility of the system. 2. Among the quality factors of items purchased through the Government Electronic Procurement System, users were most satisfied with durability, serviceability, and conformance, followed by information quality, system quality, and service quality. 3. Utility of the Government Electronic Procurement System was affected by users’ post-usage satisfaction with the system. 4. The net benefits of the Government Electronic Procurement System were critically determined by users’ post-usage satisfaction with the system. Keywords: Government Electronic Procurement System, Information System Success Model
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Lee, Ming-Hsiao, and 李明霞. "Research on the Behavior of Using Official Document Integration System for Fundamental Government Institutions–Primary and Secondary Schools in Yunlin County." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5rhh27.
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碩士國立虎尾科技大學
資訊管理研究所
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Abstract Recently, our government promotes ideas such as “e-government,” and “energy saving and carbon emission reduction.” Therefore, promoting electronization of documents becomes an important issue. This thesis first introduced the system of Official Document Integration, explored related government policies and decrees, and collected related literature and information from the web. After that, the researcher analyzed related data to decide theories taken into consideration when designing the questionnaire. Variables such as demographic data, system quality, information quality, service quality, information-using status, users’satisfaction were analyzed, so as to explore how they correlate to each other. The study includes clerical personnel working in primary and secondary schools, and also those working at fundamental government institutions in Yunlin County as respondents. The researcher distributed the questionnaires when civilian personnel were gathered together for in-service education. SPSS 12.0 for Windows was used to analyze the raw data. The researcher used descriptive statistics, estimation of reliability and validity, T test, one-way ANOVA, post hoc, linear regression to examine the hypotheses. Last, the researcher tried to explain the final data and made conclusions. Conclusions: 1. Most civilian personnel in fundamental government institutions and primary and secondary schools are satisfied with the system. 2. Background has a significant influence in evaluating system quality,information quality,and service quality of the system. 3. Background has a significant influence on user attitude and satisfaction toward the system. 4. “System quality”of the system influences “user satisfaction”toward the system. 5. “Information quality”of the system does not influence how the personnel evaluate “user satisfaction.” 6. The overall service quality of the personnel would influence user utilization but not user satisfaction toward the system. 7. There is a significant positive correlation between user utilization and user satisfaction toward the system. Hopefully the thesis will provide information to improve the efficiency in system operation.
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Haiplik, Brenda Mary. "An educational success story from Bangladesh: Understanding the BRAC Non-Formal Primary Education model and its teacher training and development system." 2004. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=94518&T=F.
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Ncube, Thato. "Investigating experiences of foundation phase educators and the support they receive in teaching HIV and AIDS topics in the classroom : a case study of two public schools in Johannesburg." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19016.
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The problem this research seeks to address is the support educators receive in teaching HIV and AIDS topics in the classroom. The reason for the choice of topic is to contribute to the revival of HIV and AIDS education in all schools in South Africa. This exploratory study uses the empowerment theory and presents the qualitative research findings based on in-depth interviews with six educators, four school managers and two parents. Thematic content analysis is used to analyse the data.
The study found out that the Department of Education had in the past two years provided training workshops for principals of schools, educators and peer educators in the last two years yet the findings from the two schools under study painted a different picture all together. Findings from the interviews show that any support from the Department of Education or any other stakeholder involved in education, such as the Teacher Unions, happened some years ago. Some of the respondents were not very comfortable on this topic as to most of them HIV and AIDS education is not really being taught as it used to years ago.
Finally, the research made some recommendations to these two schools on what could be done as a way of reviving HIV and AIDS education to help children and youths to grow up better able to challenge HIV and AIDS. This is in line with the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEC) 2011 report that the education sector has a critical role to play in terms of the delivery of effective HIV and AIDS prevention and awareness programmes.
The findings were important as they highlighted the need for the Department of Education to monitor and evaluate the implementation of HIV and AIDS policies in all public schools. They also they gave recommendations on the way forward on HIV and AIDS education in primary schools.Health Studies
M.A. (Social Behaviour Studies in HIV and AIDS)
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Chao, Yi-Lung, and 趙怡蓉. "The Research of User''s Satisfaction on "Government Employees and Teachers'' Personnel Management Information System"– Case Study of the National Middle and Primary Schools in Taichung County." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64491049691725351984.
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碩士逢甲大學
公共政策所
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The Research of User’s Satisfaction on “Government Employees and Teachers'' Personnel Management Information System”– Case Study of the National Middle and Primary Schools in Taichung County Student：Yi-Lung Chao Advisor：Fong-Seng Hu Feng Chia University Graduate Institute of Public Policy Thesis Abstract This research probes into the satisfaction of each subsystem of “Government Employees and Teachers'' Personnel Management Information System”, and whole user satisfaction, and also tries to understand reasons of not using, encountered difficulties and space of improvement. In order to reach this research purposes, analytic approach of document and questionnaire investigation method will be the main approach of this research. First of all, collect relevant theories, such as the personnel concept, user''s satisfaction theory, influencing user''s satisfaction factors of information system, working efficiency, and researches. Construct the surface in meaning and measurement of probing into user''s satisfaction from it. Through the discussion, analysis, putting in order of relevant documents, sum up, and weigh construct the asking one of the surface. Secondly, collect the real example materials with the investigation method of the questionnaire. Direct against every national middle school and primary school personnel staffs of Taichung County, and generally investigate in an all-round way the network questionnaire, in order to understand that interviewees use satisfactory degree and difference to ”Government Employees and Teachers'' Personnel Management Information System”. Send out 208 questionnaires altogether. Count and retrieve 168 interviewees to fill out and answer the materials, 156 effective samples, availability is 75.00 percentage, sum up, put in order, analysis to the open questions again in addition. Analysis and discussions obtain the following conclusions of comprehensive documents and materials, questionnaire investigation: 1、 “Government Employees and Teachers'' Personnel Management Information System” using number of people and satisfaction becomes to be relevant. 2、Become with background ”Government Employees and Teachers'' Personnel Management Information System” whole user of item three satisfaction heavy is to it construct surface to weigh, the difference is not significant. 3、The whole user''s satisfaction of ”Government Employees and Teachers'' Personnel Management Information System” not changing one with the background has difference of showing. 4、Value working efficiency and demand of ”Government Employees and Teachers'' Personnel Management Information System” that personnel are sure, but think that convenience and education and training respect wait to be strengthen. 5、Short of training to educate and operate knowing well is user''s greatest difficulty. According to the above conclusions, the relevant suggestion item, and thinking deeply in the direction can be proposed, and suggestions of studying will be regarded as further in follow-up. 【Key words】Satisfaction, Working effectiveness, Information system
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Lin, Chia-ming, and 林家銘. "The Study on the Promotion System of Civil Service in Local Authorities - Take the Changhua County Government and its Subordinate Offices and Schools as the Research Object." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99535919058261425360.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
科技法律研究所
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In recent years, due to social changes, technological development and improve people''s needs, making the people demand that government needs to have a reaction force, accountable, effective governance. So, build a competitive advantage for the times required for government departments. Authoritarian government to become the embodiment of public opinion, the people all of the democratic government must maintain a fair, justice, merit-based civil service system system mechanism. How to encourage outstanding public service, enhance administrative efficiency, modernize and enhance the advantages of promoting national competitiveness, is anxious for the current levels of government when the services. Especially since 25 December 2005, the Taipei City, the new Taipei, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung, "five are" new Board starts, is bound to move to move the relationship between central and local governments, the local Civil Service Promotion problem, more worthy of attention. The Examination Yuan is able to really cultivate the talents, security or performance of senior civil servants of the promotion remarkable interest, since 89 years to set and implement <Civil Service Promotion Law "that the authority for transfer of personnel, according to the principles and standards. Only <Civil Service Promotion Law "implementation of the decade, the public servants of local authorities are really able to open, fair and impartial manner and to the principle of merit system for promotions, merit-based promotion to, or for transfer of experience, to Bazhuo or nurture talent enhance administrative efficiency? Effectiveness of local authorities have to play it? Performance is excellent both in human capital is really to be promoted it? L and external fill in both? Adopt an open, fair and impartial manner, preferentially promoted or moved to adjust life experiences? Study found that, like too many abstract definitions, nor the proportion of clear provisions inconsistent with the principle of『legal certainty』. Also, the provisions of Article V of the Act, the Department for promotion by merit system for the promotion of principles. However, if: delineation of promotion and replacement candidate, returned to re-consider, may be exempted by the validation functions, such as head of the agency employing 『administrative discretion』design of many privileges, like with the『merit system』conflicting. The organs to exercise their discretion, with or without discretionary flaws? Or contrary to general principles of law? If the principle of equality, a clear principle, the principle of law is superior, discretionary sanctions, procedural justice and so on. In addition to this literature review of theory and academics outside, and to Japan, Singapore and other countries of the Civil Service promotion system for analysis of the advantages and disadvantages, and with the System of Civil Service Promotion compare gains and losses, in addition to <Civil Service Promotion Law " review the status of implementation, and served from the local authority level and above recommended interview public servants, from the empirical analysis and discussion to strengthen the credibility of this article. Finally, from the legal and practical aspects of the operation of recommendations to improve the local authorities on better promotion of the public service law, to enhance their own public service morale and promote local government administration.
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Ou, Hung-hui, and 歐宏輝. "A Study on the User Satisfaction of the short-term cram schools information management system in each municipality directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Government and each county/city." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11230478663542178289.
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碩士南華大學
資訊管理學系碩士班
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The curriculum for grades 1-9 uses a "one outline, multiple textbook edition" policy to enhance the creation of new teaching and multiple assessments. There was an issue between the students and parents for the new textbook as the new ingredient, which is not connected to the old ones. They often used the relevant education services from cram schools to help them and as a result, the cram schools became more numerous. For this reason, in order to offer parents and cram school pupils a suitable and convenient website, the education authority has set up a system:「the short-term cram schools information management system in each municipality directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Government and each county/city」by the BOT. However, there still are some problems for people to surf the new website on line. The research uses the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to assess users'' behaviour and in order to understand how they felt when visiting the web site. This provides information that can be used by the system editor when improving the system in the future. The owners of the cram schools in Tainan county are the subject of this research which uses the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), to confirm with the Study Model whether each hypothesis has been demonstrated. The results reveal that the enhanced the perceived usefulness is much better than the perceived ease of use for the former can affect the users willingness to use this website rather than the latter. Thus, if the people in the authority in the relevant departments want people to use the website, they should add more the perceived usefulness from the perceived ease of use and then it could then be more successful.
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Ndlovu, Lovemore. "Religious education in Zimbabwe secondary schools : the quest for a multi-faith approach." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1447.
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This study explores the problem of a bibliocentric Religious Education curriculum in Zimbabwe amid the quest for a multi-faith curriculum. It traces the history of Religious Education, how it was started and crafted by the so-called missionary propagandists in order to suit their dogmatic interests. Two main aspects of the christianization of the Religious Education curriculum are highlighted, namely cultural alienation and indoctrination.
Two post-independence teaching approaches, the life experience approach and the multi-faith approach are discussed in a comprehensive manner as possible solutions to the problem of Religious Education in Zimbabwe. An empirical analysis and evaluation of the views of various stakeholders about post-independence developments in Religious Education is also presented. Finally, relevant findings, conclusions and recommendations critical to successful Religious Education teaching are presented.Teacher Education
M. Ed. (Didactics)
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Likalimba, Makhaliha Bernard Nkhoma. "The influence of indigenous knowledge on the local goverment politicians in engaging with HIV/AIDS." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24967.
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This study was influenced by two sociological theories namely: Durkheim’s Structural
Functionalism and Relativism. In terms of Durkheim’s Structural Functionalism, I claim
that the aspects of social structures, cultural norms and values, which are among its main
components, are also among the main components of Indigenous Knowledge Systems
(IKS). In line with Relativism, this study argues against Durkheim’s claim that social
structures, and cultural norms and values determine human choices and behaviour. It is
claimed that in line with my understanding of IKS in this study social structures, cultural
norms and values are relative aspects, because they change and differ from context to
context even if their carriers are the same, and human choice in different times and places
play a vital role in determining decisions.
These theories have been applied practically by examining the relationship between
Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and good governance. The study asserts that IKS
has the potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of policies at the local
municipality level. Thus, the study has sought to understand the extent to which IKS is
incorporated in the policy development and implementation at the local municipality level.
This investigation has been undertaken in the thematic context of HIV/AIDS. I investigated
the extent to which IKS is incorporated into policy development and implementation
related to HIV/AIDS at the local municipality level.
The study has argued that the extent to which IKS is appropriated into policy development
and implementation relies on the power dynamics between the provincial and national
spheres of government on the one hand, and the local municipality leaders and officials
on the other. The study has found that local municipality leaders and officials have a
strong affinity to the IKS due to their proximity to the local citizens. But, political leaders
at the national and provincial spheres of the South African government exert influence on
the local municipality leaders and officials to exercise their power with limited response
to the IKS needs of the local communities.Sociology
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Tyler, John. "A Pragmatic Standard of Legal Validity." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10885.
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American jurisprudence currently applies two incompatible validity standards to determine which laws are enforceable. The natural law tradition evaluates validity by an uncertain standard of divine law, and its methodology relies on contradictory views of human reason. Legal positivism, on the other hand, relies on a methodology that commits the analytic fallacy, separates law from its application, and produces an incomplete model of law.
These incompatible standards have created a schism in American jurisprudence that impairs the delivery of justice. This dissertation therefore formulates a new standard for legal validity. This new standard rejects the uncertainties and inconsistencies inherent in natural law theory. It also rejects the narrow linguistic methodology of legal positivism.
In their stead, this dissertation adopts a pragmatic methodology that develops a standard for legal validity based on actual legal experience. This approach focuses on the operations of law and its effects upon ongoing human activities, and it evaluates legal principles by applying the experimental method to the social consequences they produce. Because legal history provides a long record of past experimentation with legal principles, legal history is an essential feature of this method.
This new validity standard contains three principles. The principle of reason requires legal systems to respect every subject as a rational creature with a free will. The principle of reason also requires procedural due process to protect against the punishment of the innocent and the tyranny of the majority. Legal systems that respect their subjects' status as rational creatures with free wills permit their subjects to orient their own behavior. The principle of reason therefore requires substantive due process to ensure that laws provide dependable guideposts to individuals in orienting their behavior.
The principle of consent recognizes that the legitimacy of law derives from the consent of those subject to its power. Common law custom, the doctrine of stare decisis, and legislation sanctioned by the subjects' legitimate representatives all evidence consent.
The principle of autonomy establishes the authority of law. Laws must wield supremacy over political rulers, and political rulers must be subject to the same laws as other citizens. Political rulers may not arbitrarily alter the law to accord to their will.
Legal history demonstrates that, in the absence of a validity standard based on these principles, legal systems will not treat their subjects as ends in themselves. They will inevitably treat their subjects as mere means to other ends. Once laws do this, men have no rest from evil.