scholarly journals Exploring the internationalisation strategy of higher education: A case of Muhammadiyah Higher Institution

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
Dede Iskandar Siregar ◽  
Intan Diane Binangkit ◽  
Agung Prasetyo Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Inhibiting Factors ◽  
Internationalisation Strategy ◽  
Internationalisation Strategies ◽  
University Leaders

This article aimed to identify the inhibiting factors and the internationalisation strategy of higher education in Indonesia. The study deployed a qualitative based on the case study at Muhammadiyah Higher Education Institutions. Data collected through in-depth interviews with key respondents include the leader of Higher Education, Research and Development Council of Muhammadiyah, university chancellors, and International Affairs Office head. Findings illustrate the factors hindering the internationalisation which are generally not much different from those described by previous research but here found one factor which has not been explained before, the geographical location of the university, which mostly located in small urban areas that depicted a condition in which cooperation with external parties, foreign institutions, is challenging. The finding also suggests that the internationalisation strategies formed in a very structured manner, involving internal and external university parties. Therefore, this is significant as it explores inhibiting factors and internationalisation strategy of higher education in Indonesia, where it still prioritises religious and cultural values in their educational systems. Practically, this result expected to be a useful reference for university leaders in formulating internationalisation strategies so that the quality of graduates produced can be further improved.

scholarly journals Transcending borders in higher education: Internationalisation policies in Sweden

2021 ◽  
pp. 147490412098838
Author(s):  
Nafsika Alexiadou ◽  
Linda Rönnberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
European Policy ◽  
Policy Objective ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
Policy Ideas ◽  
The World ◽  
Internationalisation Strategy ◽  
Internationalisation Strategies

This article examines the national and European policy contexts that shaped the Swedish internationalisation agenda in higher education since 2000, the policy ideas that were mobilised to promote it, and the national priorities that steered higher education debates. The analysis highlights how domestic and European policy priorities, as well as discourses around increasing global economic reach and building solidarity across the world, have produced an internationalisation strategy that is distinctly ‘national’. Drawing on the analysis of the most recent internationalisation strategies we argue that the particular Swedish approach to internationalisation has its ideational foundations in viewing higher education as a political instrument to promote social mobility and justice, as well as a means to develop economic competitiveness and employability capacity. In addition, internationalisation has been used to legitimise national reform goals, but also as a policy objective on its own with the ambition to position Sweden as a competitive knowledge nation in a global context.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIO-CULTURAL COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS STUDING ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN PROFESSIONAL PRE-HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Losieva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
English Language ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
English Classes ◽  
Cultural Component ◽  
Country Specific

In the article essence of the concept “sociocultural competense”, certain theoretical principles of its forming and development are analysed and described; the developing system of sociocultural competense is studied; also the complex of tasks for students of pre-higher education is worked out. The linguistic, unlinguistic and country-specific components of sociocultural competence are characterized. It is proved that students should know about the geographical location and economic condition, historical development and features of cultural values of the country, the language they are studying in order to have a foreign socio-cultural competence. In our research we conclude that the structure of socio-cultural competence consists of communicative (balancing existing language forms, which are determined based on the linguistic competence of the communicant on the background of certain social functions), country-specific (set of knowledge about the country whose language is studied), linguistics (to carry out intercultural communication based on knowledge of lexical units with the national-cultural component of semantics and skills of their adequate application in situations of intercultural communication) and sociolinguistic competence (ability to use the rules of delicate speech in communication). Thus, students expand their outlook and work on adequate perception of cultural features of native speakers, their habits, traditions, norms of behavior, etiquette and the ability to understand and use them in intercultural communication. It is proved that for the formation of socio-cultural competence in English classes in pre-higher education institutions students must learn about the achievements of national culture in the development of universal culture and thus enter into a dialogue of cultures, teachers should use certain exercises to develop such skills.

scholarly journals SEJARAH PEMBUATAN KAPAL KAYU DI DESA SANTIRI KECAMATAN TIWORO UTARA KABUPATEN MUNA BARAT (1905 – 2017)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iskandar Iskandar ◽  
Rifai Nur
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Educational Values ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Inhibiting Factors ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Village ◽  
Presence Of People

Abstrak: Latar belakang pembuatan kapal di Desa Santiri adalah karena letak geografis Desa Santiri yang merupakan pulau kecil yang indah dan untuk menunjang aktivitas pemenuhan kebutuhan hidup, maka mereka membuat sarana/ transportasi untuk menjangkau dari satu pulau ke pulau lainnya, yaitu dengan membuat kapal kayu yang digunakan untuk pelayaran dan perdagangan. Dan keahlian  pembuatan kapal diperoleh secara turun temurun.  Proses pembuatan kapal di Desa Santiri yaitu memiliki tahapan dari awal hingga akhir. Adapun tahapan dalam pembuatan kapal yaitu tahap perencanaan, tahap pemasangan papan dan rangka, tahap pendempulan, dan tahap penyelesaian. Dalam pembuatan kapal memiliki ukuran-ukuran tertentu, sedangkan jenis kayu yang digunakan tidak sembarangan karena dalam pembuatan kapal kayu diperlukan kayu yang tahan terhadap kedap air, dan tahan terhadap tembelu atau rutos, seperti kayu  Biti, Beropa, Tampate, Amaracoppo dan lain-lain. Faktor pendukung dan penghambat dalam pembuatan Kapal kayu di Desa Santiri yaitu faktor pendukung dalam pembuatan kapal kayu adalah adanya tekat dan keinginan yang kuat untuk meningkatkan ekonomi masyarakat, adanya orang-orang yang ahli dalam pembuatan kapal kayu, perkembangan teknologi yang bersifat modern, letak geografis Desa Santiri, adanya pengetahuan tentang dunia pelayaran dan perdagangan dan bertambahnya orang yang ahli dalam pembuatan kapal kayu. Sedangkan faktor penghambat adalah keterbatasan modal, terbatasnya jumlah kayu, adannya kerusakan pada alat yang digunakan, kondisi alam, dan lain-lain. Sedangkan.  Nilai-nilai yang tekandung dalam pembuatan kapal di Desa Santiri adalah nilai ekonomi, nilai gotong royong, nilai budaya, nilai pendidikan dan nilai kemaritiman. Kata kunci: Sejarah, pembuatan kapal kayu, teknologi, perubahanAbstract: The background of shipbuilding in Santiri Village is due to the geographical location of Santiri Village which is a beautiful small island and to support the activities of fulfilling the needs of life, so they make facilities / transportation to reach from one island to another, namely by making wooden ships that used for shipping and trade. And ship building expertise is hereditary. The shipbuilding process in Santiri Village has stages from beginning to end. The stages in shipbuilding are the planning stage, the board and frame installation stage, the landing stage, and the completion stage. In shipbuilding has certain sizes, while the type of wood used is not arbitrary because in shipbuilding wood is needed wood that is resistant to watertight, and resistant to copper or rutos, such as Biti, Beropa, Tampate, Amaracoppo and others. Supporting and inhibiting factors in wooden shipbuilding in Santiri Village are supporting factors in wooden shipbuilding are determination and a strong desire to improve the community's economy, the presence of people who are experts in making wooden ships, technological developments that are modern, geographical location of the Village Santiri, there is knowledge about the world of shipping and commerce and the increasing number of people skilled in shipbuilding. While the inhibiting factors are limited capital, the limited amount of wood, the damage to the tools used, natural conditions, and others. While. Values contained in shipbuilding in Santiri Village are economic values, mutual cooperation values, cultural values, educational values and maritime values.Keywords: History, wooden shipbuilding, technology, change

Factors Affecting Financial Literacy of Vietnamese Adults: A Case Study for Hanoi and Nghe An

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tue Nguyen Dang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Logistic Models ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Financial Behaviors ◽  
Financial Decisions ◽  
Literacy Level

This research examines the factors affecting the financial literacy of Vietnamese adults. Using a sample of 266 observations of adults in 2 big cities in Vietnam (Hanoi and Vinh in Nghe An Province), the author evaluates the literacy level of adults in these urban areas. The financial literacy of the interviewed people is low. The multiple regression results show that lower financial literacy levels associate with higher age and married status and higher financial literacy levels associate with higher education, more family members, the person making financial decisions and the person attending a useful financial course. This research also explores the association between financial literacy and financial behaviors of individuals employing logistic models. It is found that higher financial literacy associates with less probability of overspending and higher probability of saving money and careful spending. Higher financial literacy is also found to associate with higher probability of opening a savings account and making various investments. 

scholarly journals Evaluation of Diversity Programs in Higher Education Training Contexts in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 226
Author(s):  
David Pérez-Jorge ◽  
Eva Ariño-Mateo ◽  
Ana Isabel González-Contreras ◽  
María del Carmen Rodríguez-Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Dropout Rates ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Diversity Programs ◽  
Spanish Universities

Measures adopted by educational systems to improve and adapt the educational response of pupils with disability or diversity conditions arising from their personal and social conditions, have enabled them to gain tenure throughout the various stages of education. Educational institutions have been progressively adapting and responding to the educational needs of students who start university, and this fact highlights the lack of inclusive culture in university institutions. The lack of training of university teachers in the educational response to the needs of students with disabilities is evidenced by the high dropout rates of this group and in successive complaints of teachers who do not have the skills or tools to cope with this situation successfully. The review of a set of 75 programs developed by different Spanish universities to meet the needs of these students shows an insufficient institutional and administrative response while reflecting the lack of unity of jointly developed criteria.

scholarly journals Influence in Technological Innovation Spaces: A Network Science Approach to Understand Innovation for Sustainability in the Global South

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1858
Author(s):  
Daniel Schmitt ◽  
Chisenga Muyoya
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Network Science ◽  
Research Output ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Global South ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Science Approach ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

The number of scholars working on transition concepts in the Global South is rapidly increasing. In this context, a substantial amount of research output particularly focusses on niches and how they affect transition towards sustainability in a wider framework of the multi-level-perspective. At the same time, there is a growing interest in digital technology and its effect on sustainability challenges. In this article, we combine the two fields, and by utilizing social media data, we create an innovative network science approach to analyze the production environment of digital innovations in Africa. We focus on three innovation hubs that we conceptualize as niches and innovation intermediaries that not only create communities to develop, test and implement new technology but also function as networks to discuss and form new ideas around innovations. Our key findings show how local communities are embedded in larger innovation structures. The connections between local stakeholders and global actors are predominantly created through bridge actors, who hold key positions in their communities. With tools from network science, we demonstrate that these linking elements can regulate and steer discussions and therefore, strongly influence digital niche environments. Utilizing geographical location data, we can also see that the online space of technological innovations in Africa is heavily cantered in urban areas.

A Discussion of Suzanne Mettler’s Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 486-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Science ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Education Politics ◽  
University Leaders

The discipline of political science in the United States evolved in tandem with the development of democratic education and the modern university system. Since the early years of the twentieth century, political science has been an academic discipline housed in universities and colleges, and most political scientists earn their living as university or college teachers. And yet as individual academics or as a discipline, we rarely stand back from our institutional environment and ask hard questions about what is happening with higher education and what this means for the practice of political science. Suzanne Mettler does precisely this in Degrees of Inequality: How Higher Education Politics Sabotaged the American Dream. And so we have invited a range of political science scholars, many with extensive experience as university leaders, to comment on her book and its implications for the future of political science.

EFEKTIVITAS METODE WAFA SEBAGAI INOVASI DALAM PEMBELAJARAN MEMBACA AL-QUR’AN DI TPQ AL-IKHLASH PALA’AN NGAJUM MALANG

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
Alif Achadah ◽  
Ilma Fahmi Aziza ◽  
Siti Muawanatul Hasanah
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Learning Time ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Inhibiting Factors ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Methods Of Learning

In Islamic religious education, the Qur'an is a source that is used as the foundation of the Islamic religion. Therefore, the Qur'an has an urgent position in guiding and directing people in their daily lives. However, there is a large gap between the importance of reading the Qur'an with the ability to read the Qur'an in Muslim communities in Indonesia. . The Chancellor of the al-Qur'an Institute of Higher Education (PTIQ) Jakarta, Nazaruddin Umar assessed that people who are illiterate al-Qur'an are still high in Indonesia. therefore it is necessary to apply effective and innovative methods of learning the the al-Qur'an. The supporting factors for the application of the waqa method include: the material taught is not much different from the material that has usually been studied, the TPQ Al-Ikhlash assistants help researchers during the process of applying the "Wafa" method at TPQ Al-Ikhlash, the students are orderly and cooperative during the experimental activities. This is certainly very helpful in carrying out the activities of teaching the Koran with the "Wafa" method. While the inhibiting factors for the application of the "Wafa" method include: Santri in one class are 42 children. This is certainly too much because learning the Qur'an is ideally done in small classes. Learning time becomes insufficient because of the sufficient quantity of students.

Analysis of educational migration processes: regional aspect

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-71
Author(s):  
Mariya V. Bachynska ◽  
Lyubov K. Semiv ◽  
Serhiy R. Semiv
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Interstate Migration ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Migration System ◽  
Educational Migration

Analysis and consideration of current migration trends in our country, in particular mass interstate migration movements in the context of Ukraine's participation in the European and world migration space, are considered among the important factors in shaping its national policy. Educational migration is a special threat to the socio-economic development of the country and sustainable development of society, as the formation of highly qualified personnel, accumulation of intellectual capital, and increasing scientific and technological potential of the country are among the important factors of economic and social progress. Due to the intensification of interstate migration flows and the development of the quality of the higher education system in foreign educational institutions, migration for education takes a larger share, which is mostly accompanied by constant migration and departure of Ukrainian citizens for permanent residence abroad. The analysis of publications on this issue proves the urgency of educational migration research, and today it remains important to analyze trends in educational migration, find mechanisms to counter the transformation of Ukraine into a country of origin of educational migrants, as well as their repatriation. The article analyzes the educational migration processes in Ukraine in the regional context. The main regional centers of higher education are identified. The focus is on the migration intentions of the population to study abroad and a comparative description of the educational systems of different countries. The order and stages of the admission campaign in foreign educational institutions are described. The essence and features of educational migration are studied and the main reasons that help Ukrainian students to choose foreign higher education institutions are highlighted. The main causes and consequences of educational migration, as well as potential opportunities for educational migration, are identified. Certain benefits and costs associated with educational migration processes are justified. The directions of development of educational migration and effective migration system in Ukraine and its regions, which should take a worthy place in the migration policy of the state, are offered.

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