This research investigated the impact of the Distance Learning Accreditation Standards adopted in 2005 by the UAE on the perceived quality of distance learning programs within the UAE's post-secondary education system. An exploratory, single site case study method was utilized, …
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This study investigated the relationship between teachers' perceptions of principals' transformational leadership skills and teachers' job satisfaction. It also revealed the relationship between principals' demographic characteristics and their perceptions of their ability to be…
The UN's Educational for All (EFA) global schooling initiative has been described as "the most ambitious educational promise ever made". Officially launched in 1990 and engaging the efforts of more than 200 nations worldwide, EFA is attempting to dramatically increase global lit…
This research is a qualitative ethnographic case study of Kuwaiti students attending the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The purpose of this research was two-fold: to understand the academic and cultural factors that affected the adjustment of Kuwaiti students sponsored by t…
La gestion scolaire n'est pas statique. Elle est tributaire de situations politiques, administratives, économiques et sociales toujours changeantes. Donc, toute réforme, dans ce cadre, imprime, immanquablement, une démarche nouvelle à l'administration des écoles. En fonction du …
The purpose of this study was to examine the interpretive processes of administrators and staff at individual community colleges in the North Carolina system. The study examines how developmental education policy, established at the state level, is interpreted and applied at the…
The purpose of this thesis is to determine the degree of commitment which the document titled: Ministry of Education of the Republic of Tajikistan National Strategy for Education Development (NSED) of the Republic of Tajikistan (RT); 2006-2015 Dushanbe, August, 2005 demonstrates…
A growing trend in K-12 education is the development of the cyberschool, a full time online learning program and the virtual school, a supplementary online learning program. These campuses replace brick and mortar classrooms with evolving practices of interactive technology. The…
This dissertation investigates goals and efforts of international assistance to Indonesia's higher education from the late 1970s to the late 1990s, and explores how they have affected and responded to changing State-university relations in Indonesia over that period. In depth an…
Schools are a distinctive type of facilities that house a large number of occupants for the purpose of learning, dissemination of knowledge, and developing skills for life. However, a main problem facing today's architects is failure to accommodate the requirements of the 21st c…
The worsening educational standard of Nigeria schools can be traced to the general social, political, and economic depression of the last 3 decades. The series of reforms that have been adopted by the government have yielded far fewer results than expected and the way forward se…
Teaching is professional work that as an occupation is characterized by many of the same rules of employment as other white-collar jobs. It is typically steady work with predictably rising pay, requires limited physical effort, a fixed amount of work time, and occurs in organiza…
The primary objective of this dissertation was to find out why non-returning Nigerian students choose not to return to Nigeria after studying in a United States higher institution of learning and to establish a connection between that phenomenon and the literature reviewed. Prim…
This study examined the relationship between success of small businesses and the educational backgrounds of their owners. A survey composed of questions concerning demographics, educational backgrounds, and business success was mailed to 1100 businesses in Dallas, Denton, and Ta…
In this study, I investigated the current role and function of ESL/EFL program directors in Saudi Arabia. My goal was to ascertain the current role and function of such program directors, the nature and background of the directors themselves, the impact such directors have on th…
During the last three and a half decades of the twentieth century, there was a mass emigration of Iraqis to many of their neighboring countries, as well as the United States and other Western countries. The direct cause of this influx of emigration of Iraqis was because of their…
This study examined the relationships between characteristics of trainer members and their level of information technology implementation at the Institute of Public Administration in Saudi Arabia. The implementation of information technology (IT) deals with a wide variety of iss…
This study investigated the post school outcomes of 279 students with auditory and visual impairments who graduated between 2002 and 2006 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Through a combination of personal and telephone interviews, the study identified relationships between students' bac…
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of faculty members and students towards the obstacles of e-government implementation in educational institutions in Saudi Arabia. To collect data, the researcher developed two surveys and employed a quantitative research t…