The Holy Child Sisters, a Catholic religious order founded by the American, Sister Cornelia Connelly, made one of the first and most significant attempts at women's education in Nigeria. This study investigated for the first time, the thirty-seven year history of the Sister's wo…
The purpose of this study was to determine the critical competencies needed by management chief negotiators as perceived by superintendents, school board members, union leaders, and management chief negotiators. The study examined the competencies that the school board negotiato…
A national campaign to "eradicate" illiteracy from Ethiopia by 1994 was launched on July 8, 1979. The purpose of this dissertation has been to critically examine the Ethiopian National Literacy Campaign (ENLC) in relation to the problems it encountered, the successes it scored, …
The intention of this study was to investigate whether leadership principles formulated by experts in the United States were applicable cross-culturally in extant leadership practices in Iran. This study was designed to compare the attitudes of samples of American and Iranian gr…
This thesis focuses on efforts to develop a computer-based education management information system (EMIS) in Egypt. An EMIS is a formally structured data collection, storage, retrieval, processing, and dissemination system used to support the main activities of educational manag…
The purpose of this analytic paper is to examine how the Ministry of Education, Malaysia, was able to implement a broad, complex, centrally designed, and politically charged educational policy through a fragmented bureaucracy in a multi-racial society. This policy involved the R…
Statement of the Problem. The purpose of this study was to determine the primary objective and competencies desired by practicing business managers for entry level managers in Nigeria. The rapid increase in the number of business school graduates from Nigerian universities and p…
This study identified and examined the implementation process of Saudi Arabian elementary, intermediate, and secondary educational planning in terms of its three-year Development Plans (1970-85). Three questions were examined: (1) What has been the implementation process of Saud…
Problem. The large number of Malaysian students studying overseas indicates that there is a paucity of extant institutions of higher learning in Malaysia to cater to the increasing number of secondary school graduates. It was therefore the purpose of this study to develop a mode…
In 1986 Nommensen University, a large Christian institution in Indonesia, undertook a study of its Community Service Institute. For six months a committee examined the functions, programs, strategies and structural relationships among five University groups involved with service…
The purpose of this study was to develop a mathematical model for educational planning in Egypt. The model was concerned with two aspects of educational planning--school enrollments and teaching staff demand. The model that was developed can be applied to both public and private…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the evolution and development of the field of public administration in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Factors which brought about programs of public administration and which have been influential in the development of these programs wer…
The study demonstrated that Malaysia became a multicultural country as a result of the British Colonial government's policies of unrestricted immigration and stultifying educational policies. It then examined the measures taken since independence to rectify the results of the ap…
The purpose of this study was to determine how certain major events and influences contributed to the establishment of university education in the Federal Republic of Nigeria between 1960 and 1982. Answers to questions on educational, political, geopolitical, economical, nationa…