scholarly journals NET COSTS OF CLASS-SIZE REDUCTION: THE PORTUGUESE CASE

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (172) ◽  
pp. 164-181
Author(s):  
Pedro Ribeiro Mucharreira ◽  
Belmiro Gil Cabrito ◽  
Luís Capucha
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Class Size ◽  
Class Size Reduction ◽  
Size Reduction ◽  
Public Education System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Indirect Benefits ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Direct And Indirect Benefits ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article aims to promote further reflection on the benefits derived from class-size reduction, seeking to demonstrate that the expenditures resulting from this are usually overestimated when they are determined on the basis of gross employee cost to the State, and not taking into account the corresponding net costs. This scholarly exercise analyzes the Portuguese case and the costs of a teacher in the public education system in Portugal. This work intends to contribute to a better understanding of this subject, raising awareness of different educational actors of the relationship between cost and direct and indirect benefits of a class-size reduction policy.

Provincial Governance of Education—The Western Cape Experience

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron Robert ◽  
Brian Levy
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Political Party ◽  
School Level ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Public Education System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Bureaucracy

The focus of this chapter is the management and governance of education at provincial level—specifically on efforts to introduce performance management into education by the Western Cape Education Department (WCED), and their impact. Post-1994 the WCED inherited a bureaucracy that was well placed to manage the province’s large public education system. Subsequently, irrespective of which political party has been in power, the WCED consistently has sought to implement performance management. This chapter explores to what extent determined, top-down efforts, led by the public sector, can improve dismal educational performance. It concludes that the WCED is a relatively well-run public bureaucracy. However, efforts to strengthen the operation of the WCED’s bureaucracy have not translated into systematic improvements in schools in poorer areas. One possible implication is that efforts to strengthen hierarchy might usefully be complemented with additional effort to support more horizontal, peer-to-peer governance at the school level.

Class-Size Reduction in California

2001 ◽  
Vol 82 (9) ◽  
pp. 670-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Stecher ◽  
George Bohrnstedt ◽  
Michael Kirst ◽  
Joan McRobbie ◽  
Trish Williams
Keyword(s):  
Class Size ◽  
Class Size Reduction ◽  
Size Reduction

Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS‐SPSL Collaboration

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Phillips
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Indirect Benefits ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Direct And Indirect Benefits ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter describes the author's contacts with the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) in the 1970s when, as the Secretary of the World University of Students (WUS), he worked closely with Esther Simpson and the SPSL in finding support in the universities for the refugees from Pinochet's Chile. Scholarship and bursary programmes were established for Chilean academics and students, which had many direct and indirect benefits for Chilean and later other refugees coming to the United Kingdom. The relationship that had begun between WUS and SPSL through the links with Esther Simpson and Lord Ashby, then Chairman of SPSL and also Vice-President of WUS, was strengthened through the collaborative work undertaken by the two organizations. Mutual trust and community of purpose led in due course to a compact between the SPSL and WUS, which assured the continuation of the SPSL as an independent body.

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