Information Overload of Academic Staff in Higher Education Institutions in Estonia

Author(s):  
Liia Lauri ◽  
Sirje Virkus
Author(s):  
Olha Pavlenko

The article discusses the current state of professional training of engineers, in particular, electronics engineers in Ukrainian higher education institutions (HEIs) and explores best practices from US HEIs. The research outlines the features of professional training of electronics engineers and recent changes in Ukrainian HEIs. Such challenges for Ukrainian HEIs as lack of collaboration between higher education and science with industry, R&D cost reduction for HEIs, and downsizing the research and academic staff, the disparity between the available quality of human capital training and the demanded are addressed. The study attempts to identify successful practices of US HEIs professional training of engineers in order to suggest potential improvements in education, research, and innovation for training electronics engineers in Ukraine.


Author(s):  
Philmore Alleyne ◽  
Renée M. Thompson

Academic dishonesty (AD) has plagued many higher education institutions (HEIs). This chapter examines AD among accounting students in business schools and discusses possible mechanisms to reduce misconduct among students, as well as staff. Today's students are tomorrow's accounting professionals. Yet, some HE students strive to succeed at all costs by using unethical means including being aided by dishonest academic staff. For example, the unethical and corrupt practices in Enron, and the subsequent closure of one of the leading international accounting firms, Arthur Andersen, raised questions pertaining to codes of conduct, ethics, and morality being taught in business schools. This chapter reviews the literature, identifies issues from an internet search of actual cases, and then offers recommendations for reducing such detrimental behaviors.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mehmet Ali Ekemen ◽  
Gozde Inal Cavlan

<p>This study aims to reveal the antecedents of growth in Higher Education Institutions of North Cyprus, using Resource Based Approach. Research in this field is limited to developed economies and there is a need for more research in the developing country settings. North Cyprus is a unique location for this study since it is a developing country which is geographically located in between Europe, Africa and Middle East harmonizing several different cultures in its unique settings. An explanatory research design was adopted using a questionnaire survey to collect data and test the hypotheses. Data was collected from 343 respondents, consisting of 172 administrative and 171 academic staff, in five universities which have 10 years of history in higher education sector. The results of the study showed that Marketing resources, Human resources, Research and Development resources, Organizational resources and accessibility of these resources have been shown to positively influence the university growth.</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 559 (10) ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Matuszczak ◽  
Ewa Chmielecka

Shaping social competences of university graduates constitutes one of the most important contemporary challenges. The cognitive objectives of the Erasmus + DASCHE project, the selected results of which are presented in this article, were (1) to identify good practices in shaping social competences of students in selected higher education institutions, (2) to support public policies with regard to higher education at both European and national levels, as well as at higher education institutions (HEIs) in the area of designing, shaping and verifying students’ social competences and formulating recommendations in this regard. For these purposes, case studies at 26 selected HEIs were carried out within the project. This article presents an analysis of public policies in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Latvia, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom in the context of influence of these policies on whether and how HEIs shape students’ social competences and whether HEIs are obliged, encouraged or supported by legal regulations and other instruments in this regard. The research shows a large diversity of national public policies in this respect and - with the widespread recognition by the academic staff of the importance of shaping student attitudes - a significant lack of intentional actions leading to shaping students’ competences at the national, institutional and European level.


Author(s):  
Nataliia Vinnikova

Nowadays, higher education is not only an essential condition for the spiritual and professional development of the individual, but also a decisive factor in socio-economic transformation.Taking into consideration changing nature of learning and teaching at higher education institutions, the need for professional development of teachers is increasing. The main purpose of the thesis is to highlight the problem of professional development of academic staff, its relevance and importance for improving learning and teaching. There will be presented a model of teachers’ skills improvement implemented at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University (Ukraine), as well as new approaches to the organization of training for higher school teachers that combine different training strategies for their development.


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