In this article, the process of ensuring autonomy higher education institutions in developing countries world, main tools, factors and models regard have been studied. Also importance academic freedom quality educational institutions, peculiarities as an institutional form are analyzed by example foreign state experience.

A cross-regional econometric analysis suggests that institutional factors in the form of direct democracy (via initiatives and referenda) and of federal structure (local autonomy) systematically and sizeably raise self-reported individual well-being. This positive effect can be attributed to political outcomes closer to voters' preferences, as well as to the procedural utility of political part...

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A comparative research study was undertaken on Quality Assurance Systems (QAS) in higher education Egypt and the United Kingdom to identify different implementation mechanisms for quality assurance institutions. The principal data sources are based document analyses about both Egyptian institutions, agencies, governments. findings showed slight variations scope of applying their system terms pr...

learner autonomy has become the area of interest by many researchers of foreign language learning in the recent years. however, few studies have been done concerning the case of kurdish learners` autonomy in learning languages. for this reason, the current study addresses this gap. it intends to investigate to what extent kurdish learners are autonomous in learning english language. the study i...

The perception of childhood as a period of dependence and innocence has a long history. Being strongly associated with the Romantic Movement of eighteenth-century Europe it resonates with more recent Western theories of child development, ideas about child rearing and policies relating to the care and education of children. The advent of a global society, however, demands that we examine and re...

Abstract This paper offers a historical analysis of organizational identity development at particular Dutch university, the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. Our contributes to discussion on what factors contribute maintenance and evolution. Whereas literature suggests rather straightforward development, with national institutional governance arrangements offering more autonomy providing signi...

Abstract Political issues sometimes display an intriguing combination of high degrees complexity, low political saliency, and levels administrative autonomy. This article investigates how this type shapes the relationship between politicians public service. More specifically, we advance notion “administrative action space” to describe emergence collaborative governance when directives from leve...