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The Coalition of National Health Education Organizations (CNHEO), established in 1972, currently has a membership of ten professional health education organizations. It exists to advance the profession of health education and to foster communication, collaboration and action on issues important to health and health education. Recent accomplishments include two invitational conferences to assess the status of health education and set goals and recommendations for the 21st century, Health Education Advocacy Summit, Health Education Advocate web site, Code of Ethics for the Health Education Profession, Standard Occupational Classification of "health educator" by the federal government, and collaboration to promote National Health Education Week. Information can be found at the CNHEO website, http://www.hsc.usf.edu/CFH/cnheo/.

The article considers the practice of building a corporate project management system in educational organiza-tions of higher education; evaluates the effectiveness and quality of the processes of improving the corporate project management system; substantiates practical recommendations for the creation, implementation and improvement of the corporate project management system in the university of agrarian orientation. The rele-vance of the development of corporate project management systems of higher education organizations is justi-fied by the need for a systematic idea of project management, since the activities of universities are trans-formed towards the introduction of an open project model of student education. The aim of the study is to de-velop the regulatory and methodological foundations of the concept and practical recommendations for the creation, implementation and improvement of corporate project management system in the agrarian university to improve the satisfaction of project activity participants and increase the number of effectively implemented projects.

Preliminary Material --Foreword /Samuel M. Natale --Acknowledgements /Samuel M. Natale , Brian M. Rothschild , Joseph W. Sora , and Tara M. Madden --Introduction /William O'Neill and Samuel M. Natale --Section I /Samuel M. Natale , Brian M. Rothschild , Joseph W. Sora , and Tara M. Madden --The Working Class Spirituality /Joseph M. McShane --Comparative Christian Perspectives on the Meaning of Work /Joseph W. Ford --Work, Spirituality, and the Moral Point of View /Kenneth E. Goodpaster --Can Christian Ethics Inform Business Practice?: A Typological Road Map and Criteria of Adequacy for an Ethic of Capitalism /David A. Krueger --The American and Catholic Models of Worker Rights: A Comparison and Appraisal /Michael A. Zigarelli --Section II /Samuel M. Natale , Brian M. Rothschild , Joseph W. Sora , and Tara M. Madden --The Work Ethic and Notions of Character in Scottish Education /W. A. Gatherer --The Multidimensionality of Values Conflicts in the Organizational Life /Michel Dion --New Organizational Structures: A Chance for Workers or a New Mode of Control? /Jacques Delcourt --Defining Forces in Work Attitudes: Cultural Values and Economic Environment /Eduardo S. Paderon and Charles F. O'Donnell --The Growing Dilemma of Loyalty to the Firm /John C. SJ. Haughey --Section III /Samuel M. Natale , Brian M. Rothschild , Joseph W. Sora , and Tara M. Madden --Values/Work/Education: Definitions and Context /Lee J. Richmond --Six Questions for Ethical Educational Management /Michael Bottery --Values Education: A More Effective Route to Managerial Competence? /W. M. Robb --The Educative Dimensions of Workplace Democracy /W.J. Toth --Influences on the Value-Mediating Work of Educational Leaders /K.D. Walker --Personal and Social Education in Vocational Preparation /Richard Pring --Contributors /Samuel M. Natale , Brian M. Rothschild , Joseph W. Sora , and Tara M. Madden --Index /Samuel M. Natale , Brian M. Rothschild , Joseph W. Sora , and Tara M. Madden --VIBS /Samuel M. Natale , Brian M. Rothschild , Joseph W. Sora , and Tara M. Madden.

PurposeThis paper seeks to point out the relationship between women leadership and their role in the transformation of university organizations, on the basis of eight case studies analysed in the framework of a broader research on women who occupy high‐managerial posts in Spanish universities.Design/methodology/approachTwo of the eight cases studied are more deeply described and discussed in terms of the relationship among the organizational context in which these women leaders perform their managerial functions, the leadership styles that they deploy, as well as the transformations they promoted in critical moments of the organizations that they head.FindingsEven though the differences in all these aspects between the two cases studied do not allow a single and homogeneous "feminine style" of management to be identified, a flexible and adaptive common orientation in terms of leadership was found, which leads one to suggest that leadership style is not a relevant issue when managing loosely coupled organizations. Furthermore, some conclusions were established about the ability of these woman managers both to read organizational culture and to drive such changes, preserving social cohesiveness and the workplace climate. To achieve this, they adopted a flexible leadership style on the basis of a wide range of power sources.Originality/valueThe findings support the idea that the loosely coupled structures characteristic of a higher education organization need "soft" ways of power management, oriented more towards informal social networks than formal issues. This allows one to discuss the innovative role that women potentially and actually play in higher education organizations.

The study aimed to identify the total number of Students' Intake, Enrolled, and Graduates in ten study levels and three categories, especially in the first wave in Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015-2025 (Higher Education). In the period from 2015 to 2020. The study relied on secondary data issued by the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education. The study assumes increasing Access to a higher education institution due to the implementation for the first wave. There has been a fluctuation in the number of students Intake, Enrolled and graduates in Malaysian higher education institutions, ending with a decrease in the bachelor's and master's programs and a rise in the doctoral program. In the same context, the study also showed fluctuation in the number of international students enrolled in public universities over the period. However, there is fluctuation in the number of international students in private universities in the first three years and a significant decrease in the last two years. The study also illustrated that the ratio of males to females was 1.22, while the ratio of local students to international students was 9:1, while the ratio of faculty members to students was 1:20 approximately. The study recommended that Responsible parties take some measures after the Corona Virus crisis to support the Access of local and international students to higher education institutions, and urges the Malaysian Government to encourage males to complete their education and complete university and post-graduate education to achieve a balance in demand for jobs between males and females.

International audience ; The allocation of scarce resources is a complex problem, specially when it comes to budget constraints. Thus, this work aims to propose a multicriteria web-based Decision Support System for resource allocation in the context of higher education organizations, more precisely, public universities that have budget constraints, such as Brazilian federal universities. To do so, the research is divided into three steps: identify the Brazilian general allocation model and the models from each federal university; find similarities between the models; and, divide the models into categories, according to their similarities. Subsequently, a Brazilian federal university was chosen (the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul / UFMS) as a parameter to make a numerical application to validate the multicriteria model for resource allocation proposed and, afterward, a web-based DSS was developed. For the MCDM resource allocation model, an additive value function was considered to set the percentage of the total budget that every alternative should receive. The problem was seen as a special case of project portfolio selection problem because its approach is deemed to be appropriate for a resource allocation decision context. Also, the study analyzed the effects of possible scaling issues in additive value functions, when considering resource allocation problems and a sensitivity analysis was performed to analyze the robustness of the model. For the web-based DSS, the analysis was carried out by developing a DSS Database model to store and retrieve data, defining the user's interface based on his detailed requirement analysis and using a web platform to transform the prototype into a web-based system. The results were achieved. The system provided a clear vision on how the resource allocation procedure works, the entire process became more transparent to the ones that are affected by it, to the decision makers and to the government, enabling them to take safer and reliable decisions, seeking to reduce ...

International audience ; The allocation of scarce resources is a complex problem, specially when it comes to budget constraints. Thus, this work aims to propose a multicriteria web-based Decision Support System for resource allocation in the context of higher education organizations, more precisely, public universities that have budget constraints, such as Brazilian federal universities. To do so, the research is divided into three steps: identify the Brazilian general allocation model and the models from each federal university; find similarities between the models; and, divide the models into categories, according to their similarities. Subsequently, a Brazilian federal university was chosen (the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul / UFMS) as a parameter to make a numerical application to validate the multicriteria model for resource allocation proposed and, afterward, a web-based DSS was developed. For the MCDM resource allocation model, an additive value function was considered to set the percentage of the total budget that every alternative should receive. The problem was seen as a special case of project portfolio selection problem because its approach is deemed to be appropriate for a resource allocation decision context. Also, the study analyzed the effects of possible scaling issues in additive value functions, when considering resource allocation problems and a sensitivity analysis was performed to analyze the robustness of the model. For the web-based DSS, the analysis was carried out by developing a DSS Database model to store and retrieve data, defining the user's interface based on his detailed requirement analysis and using a web platform to transform the prototype into a web-based system. The results were achieved. The system provided a clear vision on how the resource allocation procedure works, the entire process became more transparent to the ones that are affected by it, to the decision makers and to the government, enabling them to take safer and reliable decisions, seeking to reduce ...

The allocation of scarce resources is a complex problem, specially when it comes to budget constraints. Thus, this work aims to propose a multicriteria web-based Decision Support System for resource allocation in the context of higher education organizations, more precisely, public universities that have budget constraints, such as Brazilian federal universities. To do so, the research is divided into three steps: identify the Brazilian general allocation model and the models from each federal university; find similarities between the models; and, divide the models into categories, according to their similarities. Subsequently, a Brazilian federal university was chosen (the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul / UFMS) as a parameter to make a numerical application to validate the multicriteria model for resource allocation proposed and, afterward, a web-based DSS was developed. For the MCDM resource allocation model, an additive value function was considered to set the percentage of the total budget that every alternative should receive. The problem was seen as a special case of project portfolio selection problem because its approach is deemed to be appropriate for a resource allocation decision context. Also, the study analyzed the effects of possible scaling issues in additive value functions, when considering resource allocation problems and a sensitivity analysis was performed to analyze the robustness of the model. For the web-based DSS, the analysis was carried out by developing a DSS Database model to store and retrieve data, defining the user's interface based on his detailed requirement analysis and using a web platform to transform the prototype into a web-based system. The results were achieved. The system provided a clear vision on how the resource allocation procedure works, the entire process became more transparent to the ones that are affected by it, to the decision makers and to the government, enabling them to take safer and reliable decisions, seeking to reduce uncertainties and to maximize their results. The multicriteria web-based DSS presented here could be extended and applied by other federal universities in Brazil or other countries, adapting the alternatives and criteria for each specific internal allocation model and to the DM needs.

In the past few years, it has been widely accepted that change is the only constant of modern world. In that sense, the process of globalization has had a significant impact on the contemporary society, as well as on the modern business world. A significant shift of core concepts in technological, social, political and economic subsystems has been the determinant of the 21st century accompanied with organizations transforming through the means of the lifelong learning (hereafter LLL) model. It is also a known fact that human capital is crucial for success in the global market competition, and thus it represents the main competitive advantage of propelling societies. The concept of learning organizations and LLL model are the key components of the new paradigm of the management development. The transformation of organizations, society and economy in the era of knowledge is closely tied to educational organizations as one of the pillars. Education is essential for every society and individual since it creates new and improves current value system in order to improve life of every member of society. All higher educational organizations are established to enable an individual to realize his/hers highest goals. The aforementioned changes are also mirrored in the field of education, and are especially true for higher education organizations, which due to their scope, activities, but also their missions, require a business oriented way of thinking and operating. In other words, concepts of strategy and business have to become a part of their modus operandi. Nowadays, the learning process never ends because it is progressive and dynamic as one's skills and potentials are constantly being improved through formal and informal education. The LLL model is bigger than formal education system; it is a concept of strategic thinking, tactic acting and operational surviving. Paradoxically this paper shows both the complexity and simplicity of the LLL model and its application on higher education organizations. The emphasis of the paper is on the fact that today's higher education organizations have to create and implement a quality management system that follows, supports and improves the philosophy of knowledge management.

The article examines national models of higher education organization. The analysis is based on the higher education systems of the USA, Germany, the Netherlands, China and Russia. The authors proposed a number of criteria for differentiating the principles of organizing the higher education system in different countries: classifying higher education as private (satisfied on the basis of private effective consumer demand) or collective (patronized) benefits, organizing financing of the higher education system, barriers (filters) for students «at the entrance» and «at the exit», the degree of commercialization of the activities of universities, the role of the academic community.
On the basis of the conducted research, ideal-typical models of the organization of higher education that exist in developed and rapidly developing countries are distinguished: the market for private services, state paternalism, the market for merit goods, the quasi-market and the hybrid model.
It is concluded that the low level of funding and the total commercialization of the activities of state universities give rise to many problems of Russian higher education, first of all, such as the decline in the quality of educational services and the prestige of this education itself.

The directory is based on a survey of 241 organizations, representing institutions, both non-governmental and governmental, involved in early childhood care, development and education. It contains both analytical and descriptive sections. Articles give an overview of the situation of children and their families in sub-Saharan Africa and provide an insight into the early childhood care and education efforts and strategies of organizations in the region. The organization profiles provide descriptions of the major activities within the Young Child, Family and Community programmes of the organizations. (DÜI-Hff)

The present paper is about issues of improving the management of family non-governmental preschool education organizations in Uzbekistan. Moreover, this paper discusses recent amendments in public and private preschool education in the country.