scholarly journals Understanding plagiarism in Indonesia from the lens of plagiarism policy: lessons for universities

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akbar Akbar ◽  
Michelle Picard
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
University Policy ◽  
Research Technology ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Institutional Hierarchy

Abstract Plagiarism is viewed as a critical issue that can hinder the development of creativity and innovation in Indonesia. Thus, since the early 2000s the Indonesian government has endeavoured to develop policies to address this issue. In response to national policy, Indonesian educational institutions have made serious institutional efforts to address the plagiarism issue. Research in the Indonesian Higher education context on plagiarism has focussed on reporting prevention and mitigation efforts. However, little has been discussed about the communication of these efforts in policy across the different institutional levels of Indonesian Higher Education. This study aims at exploring the anti-plagiarism efforts by determining the main features (or discourses) reflected in plagiarism policy in Indonesian HE from national to institutional level. Two web-based resources namely the official website of The General Directorate of Research, Technology and Higher Education (retrieved 2015), and the website of Bandung Institute of Technology (retrieved 2015) were used to ascertain the most appropriate policies to include in the study. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was used to reach explanatory understanding of how the policies (discursive events) demonstrate through their linguistic repetitions and other forms intertextuality, their relative positions within the Indonesian Higher Education institutional hierarchy and consequently provide some insight into the social practices and understandings of plagiarism underlying the creation of the documents. This study revealed that perhaps because of the rigid boundaries and hierarchies represented between the documents, the university policy does not show much transformation from the documents at a Ministry level, hence the definition of plagiarism remains broad and the levels of plagiarism and sanctions for plagiarism remain undefined. This can potentially lead to inconsistencies in developing effective practices preventing plagiarism.

Implementing English-Taught Programmes in Higher Education in Spain

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-150
Author(s):  
Victor Pavón-Vázquez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Bilingual Programs ◽  
University Policy ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Institutional Profile ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

The acceptance of English as the lingua franca of the academic world has triggered the flourishing of different approaches to promote the learning of English as a foreign language in higher education. Under the umbrella of supranational regulations (as in the case of Europe), the promise of linguistic gains runs parallel with the necessity to attract international students, to promote the international and institutional profile for the universities, and to enhance employability for graduates. At the university of Córdoba, studies or courses taught through a foreign language are part of a larger university policy, and the decisions were based on clear definition of content and language learning outcomes and human and material resources available. This chapter describes the implementation of bilingual programs at this university, offering a picture of the challenges and problems that emerged and of the initiatives that were adopted.

scholarly journals Academic excellence as “competitiveness enhancement” in Russian higher education

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Tsvetkova ◽  
Sylvie Lomer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
World University Rankings ◽  
Russian Higher Education ◽  
The Government ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Russian Universities

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse critically the Russian Academic Excellence Initiative (the Project 5-100), designed to propel five leading Russian universities into world university rankings (WURs) by 2020, and research it through the lens of neoliberalism. The paper seeks to reveal recurrent discourses and dominant orders of discourse constituting the overall concept of “excellence” in Russian higher education (HE) policy. Design/methodology/approach Since the Project 5-100 has been designed in line with a neoliberal model of academic excellence initiatives, emphasising “competition as a driver of excellence” (Hazelkorn, 2009), Fairclough’s approach to critical discourse analysis (CDA) has been adopted as a qualitative research method. There is no universally accepted definition of “excellence” in HE policy; therefore, this CDA also aims at revealing the Russian government’s vision of the concept and its voice in HE policy. Findings The paper concludes that the government reinforces neoliberal discourse on the HE agenda and transforms the 5-100 Universities’ identities through emphasising the role of WURs in modernising the HE system. Consequently, within the neoliberal paradigm, the Project 5-100 can be regarded as a manifestation of the commodification of “excellence” in Russian HE policy. Originality/value This research intends to broaden knowledge of excellence initiatives in HE policy and reveal their features and neoliberal natures. It also seeks to contribute in terms of showcasing a qualitative study of the Project 5-100 for future comparative analyses of similar HE policies.

Inside the global teaching machine: MOOCs, academic labour and the future of the university

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

This special issue focused on ‘Digital Media and Contested Visions of Education’ provides an opportunity to examine the tendency to hypothesise a rupture in the history of the university. It does so by contrasting the traditional Humboldtian ideals of the university with a neoliberal marketised version and in order to ask questions concerning evaluations of the quality of higher education within a knowledge economy. Theorising the rupture has led to a variety of different accounts most of which start from an approach in political economy and differ according to how theorists picture this change in capitalism. Roughly speaking the question of whether to see the political economy of using social media in higher education from a state perspective or a network perspective is a critical issue. A state-centric approach is predisposed towards a reading that is based on a critical realist approach of Marxist political economy (Jessop 1993). By contrast an approach that decentres the state and focuses on global networked finance capitalism ironically grows out of a military-university research network created by the U.S. government. Arguably, networks, not states, now constitute the organising global structure (Castells 2009) and while state-centric theory with hierarchical structures are still significant, relational, selforganising and flexible market networks have become the new unit of analysis for understanding the circuits of global capital (Peters 2014; Peters 2009). However, states still have a role to play in norming the networks or providing the governing framework in international law.

scholarly journals The Current Conditions of Online Learning in Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Surabaya

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Endang Sulistiyani ◽  
Rizqi Putri Nourma Budiarti
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Hybrid Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Research Technology ◽  
Current State ◽  
Nahdlatul Ulama ◽  
The University ◽  
Successful Change

Online learning in higher education is a necessity. This is in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education. Nahdlatul Ulama University Surabaya is one of the private universities in Surabaya. Since a few years ago, online learning has been implemented by UNUSA. The type of learning applied is blended / hybrid learning. However, Pandemic Covid-19 forced UNUSA to implement online learning fully. The application of online learning in educational institutions often presents challenges. Successful change requires an understanding of the current conditions. This study aims to identifying the current condition of online learning implementation in UNUSA based on Prosci ADKAR Model. This study is conducted into three steps, namely mapping the stakeholder, identifying the list of change , and identyfing the current state of the university. The current conditions are mapped to activities that must be carried out for each ADKAR element.

scholarly journals Competency-Based Approach in Higher Education System: Socio-Psychological Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-34
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Ravilevna Sagitova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Tabular Form ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

The paper presents an analysis of the concept of competence and competency in the works of domestic and foreign authors, and a comparative analysis of the characteristics of the concepts of competence in foreign and domestic science is carried out in tabular form. The author's definition of competence is given, which made it possible to conduct an empirical pilot study of the formed competencies of the university teaching staff.

scholarly journals Design Of The Accounting Course Focusing On The Development Of Competences

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Adelaida Ciudad-Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Central Core ◽  
European Higher Education Area ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Competence Training ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

The aim of this work is to develop a proposal for a methodology in the university environment that enables us to design our course with an approach based on the development and acquisition of competences within the framework of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), allowing a transition from a model focused on teaching to a model focused on student learning. This means, after having established the competences to be acquired by the student during our course, designing the activities that must be undertaken in order to achieve them, so that the central core of our work is made up of three sequential steps: a) selection and definition of the generic and specific competences to be acquired during our course, b) inclusion of competence training activities and distribution amongst the topics of the course, and c) the procedure for the assessment of competences.

scholarly journals Las cuotas en el financiamiento de la educación superior. Historia y actualidad en la Universidad Veracruzana

2012 ◽  
pp. 121-171
Author(s):  
Mtro. Aldo Colorado Carvajal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
University Policy ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sociocultural Differences ◽  
The University ◽  
Estudiantes Universitarios

El presente trabajo, elaborado desde una perspectiva sociológica, tiene dos objetivos principales: debatir la supuesta gratuidad de la educación superior, mediante una revisión histórica de las cuotas escolares en la Universidad Veracruzana, así como criticar la supuesta igualdad de los estudiantes universitarios que está implícita en la política universitaria de cuotas escolares. En el primer punto, elaboramos una periodización de la historia de las cuotas a partir de la legislación que sobre ellas se encontró en los archivos de la Universidad. En lo que respecta a la política de cuotas, ésta supone una igualdad de los estudiantes que debatimos a partir de las diferencias socio-culturales de los estudiantes de primer ingreso en la UV en 2003. A partir de estos dos elementos revisados, presentamos al final del artículo una propuesta de cuotas diferenciadas que reconoce dichas diferencias de los estudiantes en la UV.AbstractThe present work, elaborated from a sociological perspective, has two primary targets: to debate the supposed gratuity of the higher  education, by means of an historical revision of the scholastic quotas in the Universidad Veracruzana, as well as to criticize the supposed equality of the university students that is implicit in the university policy of scholastic quotas. In the first point, we elaborated a periodization of the history of the quotas from the legislation that on them was found in the archives of the University. With regard to the policy of quotas, this one supposes an equality of the students that we debated from the sociocultural differences of the students of first entrance in the UV in 2003. From these two reviewed elements, we present at the end of the article a proposal of differentiated quotas that recognizes these differences of the students in the UV.

The Collegial Tradition in English Higher Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 145-158
Author(s):  
David Palfreyman ◽  
Ted Tapper
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
State Control ◽  
University Policy ◽  
Competition And Cooperation ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
The University

The basic structure of the Oxbridge type evolved historically as a federal set of multi-disciplinary and largely self-governing colleges. Each set was balanced between competition and cooperation. A distinct feature is that teaching is divided between the university role of organizing and examining taught courses, and the college role of organizing the attendant processes of student learning, especially via the system of tutorials/supervisions, a form of apprenticeship in critical thinking. University policy is strongly influenced by faculty assemblies. This formula is now under pressure from greater dependence on government research funding, and from new performance criteria in evaluation. There are fears that new forms of state control will result in a decline of autonomy, and so the capacity for academic initiative, as universities as a whole become more market-driven.

Globalization of Japanese Higher Education and the Case of Hokkaido University

2019 ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Toyoharu Nawa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Education ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Japanese Higher Education ◽  
Global University ◽  
Education Market ◽  
Future Strategy ◽  
The University

Institutions of higher education all over the world are facing the pressure to internationalize their operations and academic programs, to enhance its competitiveness in an international education market. The first part of this chapter presents a review of national policy to incentivize the internationalization of higher education in Japan since 1980s. The second part introduces internalization initiatives of Hokkaido University in the last decade. Under the initiative of the president, university formulated its vision of “Hokkaido University, contributing to the resolution of global issues” in the “Future Strategy for the 150th Anniversary of Hokkaido University,” a blueprint for drastically reforming the university. In the 2014 fiscal year, a strategy to further internationalize education, “Hokkaido Universal Campus Initiative” was chosen by MEXT for the “Top Global University Project.” The author analyzes Hokkaido University's internationalization progress, focusing on the strengths and activities of major projects and the changes in the overall management.

Exploring how a ‘Sense of Belonging’ is facilitated at different stages of the student journey in Higher Education.

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen Humphrey ◽  
Tom Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Initial Data ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
National Policy ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
The University ◽  
Uk Higher Education

This paper gives an overview of a study conducted at the University of Winchester to explore students’ ‘sense of belonging’ at one particular UK institution. The project was completed in two phases: first, an investigation via a ‘Feedback Forum’ of the different stages and factors contributing to a ‘sense of belonging’ and the points in time during the student journey where this was achieved. Second, this initial data was coded to provide a series of categories which informed the creation of an institution-wide survey to investigate further which types of engagement led to a ’sense of belonging’, and to what extent, for each category identified. This research was influenced by the national policy and market economy within current UK Higher Education (HE), with a focus on retention and student satisfaction, which has, in turn, been linked to belonging (Thomas, 2012; Morgan, 2003). The study was undertaken, and the paper authored, through a student-staff partnership within the Winchester Student Fellows Scheme (described by Sims et al, 2014).

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