scholarly journals A path-dependent analysis of the effect of location on the development of new universities

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-304
Author(s):  
Debananda Misra
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Development Path ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Contingent Event ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Regional Engagement

AbstractThis article examines the effect of location on the development of new universities. The study was conducted in seven new higher education institutions (HEIs) established in India during 1996–2008. I collected the data by conducting semi-structured interviews with 73 faculty members in the HEIs and from official documents, media reports and opinion pieces about the HEIs. Using the conceptual framework of path dependency, I investigated the tensions and challenges faced by the HEIs in their initial years. I find the placement of the HEIs in their respective locations to be a contingent event that can make the development of HEIs path dependent. I find that the initial conditions and decisions of the HEIs were influenced by the location and led to reactive sequential events in their initial years with effects that were hard to shake off, making their development path dependent. I show that having to develop their infrastructure and constrained by resources, the HEIs started their academic programmes first, followed by their research activities, and outreach and regional engagement.

scholarly journals Rethinking the Education Paradigm in Morocco in the Covid-19 Context- Assessment of Resilience Curricula in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Zineb Birrou ◽  
Aziz Kich ◽  
Mohammed Larouz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Past ◽  
Future Situation ◽  
Educational Paradigm

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted mental and emotional health in significant ways, and has worsened the already existing crisis of rising anxiety, chronic stress and depression among the youth. This was particularly marked by the drastic lockdown measures, the incessant stream of bad news, and the sudden shift to online education. Faced with stressors, resilience is a skill-set that aids with adapting, coping, and bouncing back from adversity while maintaining or quickly returning to a relatively healthy psychological functioning. This article therefore aims to explore the past, present and future situation regarding emotional and mental resilience skills in Moroccan higher education curricula. To this end, structured and semi-structured interviews have been conducted with four senior officials at the Ministry of Education in Rabat, Morocco. Furthermore, surveys have been collected from faculty members in eight public universities. The findings reveal that resilience education has not been officially implemented yet in Moroccan universities. However, the national vision shows the rising awareness in the need to shift to a more holistic educational paradigm, especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, to better prepare students for the uncertain and fast-changing future.  

scholarly journals Factors Differentiating Research Involvement among Faculty Members: A Perspective from Cambodia

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1&2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Phyrom Eam
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Research Involvement ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

Despite very low research involvement and productivity of its faculty, research activities are not totally absent at Cambodian higher education institutions. This study seeks to diagnose influential factors that differentiate between Cambodian faculty who get involved in research activities and those who do not, with special emphases placed on involvement in research activities that are decently context-specific. Self-reported survey questionnaires were administered to faculty at ten selected Cambodian universities; the total sample (with usable returned questionnaire sets) amounted to 444 faculty members. Drawing on logistic regression analysis, the study detected that faculty obtaining their terminal degrees abroad, being full-timers, spending more time on research, and having high research self-efficacy were more likely to engage in research activities. As for institutional characteristics, large faculty size and available research funding sources were also correlated with research involvement. This study situates the findings in the research context of Cambodian higher education and discusses the practical meanings that the statistically significant variables imply.

scholarly journals Cultural Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Higher Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris M Yob
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Faculty Recruitment ◽  
Student Preparation ◽  
Cultural Perspectives

<p>The writers of the UNESCO document, <em>Rethinking education: Towards a global common good? </em>challenge educators to address their efforts to meet the current threats to sustainable life for all who share this planet. One way that higher education has been attempting to do this is through campus-community partnerships working to solve social problems locally or further afield. In this exploratory study, answers were sought to the question of why faculty members and administrators participate in these service partnerships, both in terms of what motivates them to do so and what they hope to accomplish, and how cultural context may influence their answers. Answers to these questions may have implications for faculty recruitment and support and for curriculum design and student preparation for serving the common good as well as for the larger vision of how institutions might fulfill their social responsibility. Using one-on-one semi-structured interviews in a number of different countries, some trends could be identified. Responding to a sense of duty was found across all cultural contexts as a primary motivator for faculty members and administrators, but how duty was interpreted and legitimized depended on their various religious and political grounds. Cultural context also influenced whether participants saw their impact as empowering their service partners or establishing social justice. </p>

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Successful Quality Assurance Implementation in Vietnamese Higher Education: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loc Thi My Nguyen ◽  
Trung Tran ◽  
Thuan Van Pham ◽  
Tien-Trung Nguyen ◽  
Hien Thi Thu Le ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Internal Quality ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
University Management ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Teaching Learning

Quality assurance and accreditation was officially introduced into the higher education system in Vietnam over ten years ago. It is evident that quality assurance has resulted in positive impacts on university management, teaching, learning and research activities. This paper aims to explore factors that aid the successful implementation of higher education quality assurance and accreditation in Vietnam. Through semi-structured interviews with 32 participants, this study identified a number of factors that contributed to quality assurance processes, including awareness of the importance of quality assurance, better institutional manager leadership, support of university lecturers, staff, and students, and the vital responsibility of internal quality assurance staff. These confirm that internal stakeholders play an important role in undertaking quality assurance programmes and activities.

scholarly journals Higher education in nursing: the faculty work process in different institutional contexts

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 1093-1102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valéria Marli Leonello ◽  
Maria Amélia de Campos Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Work Process ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Analytical Category

Objective To analyze the characteristics of faculty work in nursing higher education. Method An exploratory qualitative study with a theoretical-methodological framework of dialectical and historical materialism. The faculty work process was adopted as the analytical category, grounded on conceptions of work and professionalism. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 faculty members from three higher education institutions in the city of São Paulo, classified according to the typology of institutional contexts. Results The faculty members at these higher education institutions are a heterogeneous group, under different working conditions. Intensification and precarious conditions of the faculty work is common to all three contexts, although there are important distinctions in the practices related to teaching, research and extension. Conclusion Faculty professionalization can be the starting point for analyzing and coping with such a distinct reality of faculty work and practice.


scholarly journals Brain Gain in Fiji? How do past emigrants’ experiences shape the education decisions and emigration plans of tertiary students in Fiji?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lakshmin Aashnum Mudaliar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Imperfect Information ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Brain Gain ◽  
Education Decisions ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Brain

<p>This thesis examines the case of Fijian youths’ increasing demand for higher education in order to explore the brain gain theorem. Its primary aim is to understand how past emigrants’ experiences shape the education decisions and emigration intentions of tertiary students in Fiji. This is achieved through semi-structured interviews with Fijian youths as well as an examination of policy and media reports. The research questions through which these aims are achieved are: Why do Fijian students enter higher education? Do Fijian students intend to migrate, and if so, why or why not? And what are the constraints and obstacles to Fijian students’ emigration intentions? The central conclusion of this thesis is that the brain gain effect is present in Fiji because half of the student-participants responded to the incentive effect, defined as the prospect of migration raising the expected returns to higher education, which is created by two distinct cultures of migration and three of the Fijian governments’ initiatives. The strength of their social ties determined whether they had perfect or imperfect information about the constraints and obstacles to their emigration intentions which in turn, determined the type of brain gain effect Fijian communities may be experiencing.  In this thesis, the relationship between emigration and human capital formation is understood through the notion of the brain gain effect, defined as prospect of migration leads to a higher average level of education per individual in origin countries. Existing empirical studies have employed quantitative methods to establish the correlation between past emigration rates and current enrolment rates. The significance and novelty of this thesis lies in its adoption of qualitative case study methods in which real people were asked what they are doing and why, thus bringing us closer to a causal understanding of the relationship between higher education and emigration. In addition, by including ethnic and skill-level variables in the research design, this thesis shows that those remaining behind after upskilling may be some of Fiji’s ‘best and brightest.’</p>

scholarly journals The Role of Faculty Members in the Internationalization of Medical Universities of Iran

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Valimoghaddam zanjani ◽  
F damirchili ◽  
M Zolghadr
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
University Management ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Fit Index

Introduction: The internationalization of higher education has been identified as a priority and necessity for universities in the country. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of faculty members in internationalization of medical universities in Iran. Methods: In this qualitative study using grounded theory through literature review and semi-structured interviews with 20 experts, the role of faculty members was identified and a questionnaire by 124 experts with qualitative theory was used. Structural equation modeling analysis method was determined. Result: Four factors were identified as individual competencies, teaching and research activities, empowerment and teacher mobility along with 28 indicators. Based on the first and second order factor analysis. The indexes of fitness measurement of final model showed that Chi-square ratio to the degree of freedom (CMIN/DF) equals 2.092. Furthermore, the value of the index of square root of reminder squares mean (RMSE(, equals 0.54. The value of goodness of fit index (GFI), adjusted goodness of fit index (AGFI), correlation of fit index (CFI), normalized fit index of Bentler Bonette (NNFI), fit index of Toker – Loise (TLI), increased fit index (IFI), and relative fit index (RFI) in the presented model is higher than 90%, so the data of this study fit the factor structure of this scale. Conclusion: Faculty members play a key role in the internationalization of medical universities in Iran, and university management should facilitate the process of internationalization through organizational support, participatory management, and investment through professors.

scholarly journals Brain Gain in Fiji? How do past emigrants’ experiences shape the education decisions and emigration plans of tertiary students in Fiji?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lakshmin Aashnum Mudaliar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Imperfect Information ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Brain Gain ◽  
Education Decisions ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Brain

<p>This thesis examines the case of Fijian youths’ increasing demand for higher education in order to explore the brain gain theorem. Its primary aim is to understand how past emigrants’ experiences shape the education decisions and emigration intentions of tertiary students in Fiji. This is achieved through semi-structured interviews with Fijian youths as well as an examination of policy and media reports. The research questions through which these aims are achieved are: Why do Fijian students enter higher education? Do Fijian students intend to migrate, and if so, why or why not? And what are the constraints and obstacles to Fijian students’ emigration intentions? The central conclusion of this thesis is that the brain gain effect is present in Fiji because half of the student-participants responded to the incentive effect, defined as the prospect of migration raising the expected returns to higher education, which is created by two distinct cultures of migration and three of the Fijian governments’ initiatives. The strength of their social ties determined whether they had perfect or imperfect information about the constraints and obstacles to their emigration intentions which in turn, determined the type of brain gain effect Fijian communities may be experiencing.  In this thesis, the relationship between emigration and human capital formation is understood through the notion of the brain gain effect, defined as prospect of migration leads to a higher average level of education per individual in origin countries. Existing empirical studies have employed quantitative methods to establish the correlation between past emigration rates and current enrolment rates. The significance and novelty of this thesis lies in its adoption of qualitative case study methods in which real people were asked what they are doing and why, thus bringing us closer to a causal understanding of the relationship between higher education and emigration. In addition, by including ethnic and skill-level variables in the research design, this thesis shows that those remaining behind after upskilling may be some of Fiji’s ‘best and brightest.’</p>

Diversity and Inclusion in the Academy

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-65
Author(s):  
Susan Swayze ◽  
Rick C. Jakeman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Inclusive Classroom ◽  
Classroom Environments ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Graduate Students Of Color ◽  
Lgb Students

This chapter describes how graduate students of color and lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) students define diversity and inclusion and describe their classroom experiences with diversity and inclusion. In semi-structured interviews with graduate students of color and students who self-identified as LGB, differing views of diversity and inclusion emerged—diversity was described numerically, while inclusion was discussed in terms of action. Further, graduate students of color described diversity based on visible signs of representation while LGB graduate students emphasized inclusion and the need for voice. This chapter concludes with recommendations that faculty members can enact to create more inclusive classroom environments in higher education.

scholarly journals Academic English education through research-informed teaching: Capturing perceptions of Bangladeshi university students and faculty members

2020 ◽  
pp. 136216882094381
Author(s):  
Md Golam Jamil
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
English Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Academic English ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Conceptual Base ◽  
Research Literacy ◽  
Guiding Principles

This article arose in response to the recent impetus for embedding inquiry-based approaches in higher education. It draws upon the perceptions of students and faculty members regarding inquiry-based education in Academic English (AE) programmes at universities in Bangladesh within an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Research-informed teaching (RIT), an intellectually stimulating and inquiry-based learning approach, is the conceptual base of the study. Data were collected from four Bangladeshi universities using a learning experience survey with students ( n = 319) and semi-structured interviews with six EFL faculty members. The findings provide four guiding principles on the design and implementation of RIT-based AE programmes: (1) addressing wider educational objectives in AE education, (2) incorporating applied features in the learning activities, (3) building faculty members’ research literacy and practice, and (4) establishing academic collaboration across disciplines. While the findings are derived from Bangladesh higher education, the guiding principles and strategies have resonance internationally.

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