Strategic Collaboration for Enhancing Educational Quality : Management Approaches and Challenges
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Strategic Cooperation, Improving Educational Quality, Management Approaches, ChallengesAbstract
High-quality education lays the foundation for inclusive growth. social justice and sustainable development by equipping learners with the knowledge, skills, and values needed to navigate an increasingly complex and interconnected world. Strategic cooperation in education is based on acknowledging the complex and multifaceted challenges facing education systems around the world. Strategic cooperation in education is also consistent with broader goals of social cohesion, economic development and sustainable development. The purpose of this study is to study strategic cooperation issues to raise the quality of education. This study is a study of academic documents related to empowerment in educational organization networks. Analysis by means of content analysis. The results of the study found that 1) Guidelines for strategic cooperation in education were; Government-Industry Partnerships, Inter-Institutional Collaborations, Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), and Cross-Sector Partnerships. 2) Management strategies to increase collaboration efficiency were; Leadership and Governance, Resource Allocation and Management, Communication and Information Sharing, and Monitoring and Evaluation. 3) Challenges and obstacles to effective collaboration were Cultural and Institutional Differences, Power Dynamics and Stakeholder Alignment, Resource Constraints and Funding Issues, Legal and Regulatory Frameworks, and Sustainability and Long-Term Commitment.
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