scholarly journals Using global environment trends for adaptating the higher education to changes and increasing the investment attractiveness of the region

2018 ◽  
Vol 212 ◽  
pp. 08018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Kaluzhnova ◽  
Elena Ogarkova ◽  
Mikhail Osipov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
University Training

The work is devoted to the analysis of the possibilities of adaptation of the Russian system of higher education to changing global environment. The main trends of these changes are singled out and characterized. The results of a sociological study of the correspondence of the existing organizational structures of higher education institutions to the needs of students and the requirements of the time are presented. Measures to improve the system of university training with the aim of forming a modern and adaptive organizational structure are proposed in the paper.

scholarly journals The Influences Impacting Staff Turnover in Higher Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Obed Figueroa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Work Productivity ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Faculty Retention ◽  
Staff Turnover ◽  
Multiple Impacts ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Internal Operations ◽  
Stay Behind

<p>So what is happening within Higher Education where the turnover impacts have contributed to workplace costs in 2008 of 68 million dollars? This review will focus on the multiple influences of staff turnover within Higher Education Institutions and those that are affected. The research findings provide evidence of multiple impacts associated with administrative turnover. This phenomenon crosses all institution types, disciplines, genders, races and ethnicities. Some of the hidden influences can be found among the existing employees that stay behind. As a result these employees experienced the sense of a shared loss and a decrease in their work productivity.</p>This review hopes to provide clarity on the issues which are impacting organizational structures within Higher Education Institutions resulting in low administrative and faculty retention. The implications for practice are significant and the solutions offered will strengthen the internal operations for Higher Education institutions.

Sustainability governing entities in higher education throughout Chile

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Mac-lean ◽  
Luis Santiago Vargas ◽  
Gonzalo Uribe ◽  
Cristian Aldea ◽  
Lorna Lares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Campus Network ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Aggregated Data ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Global And Local

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a panoramic and systematic view of 10 Sustainable Campus Network (SCN) universities’ internal entities in charge of the sustainability effort – such as offices, committees, units, programs, or other, showing how some institutions have gained increasing deployment and momentum. However, their appearance and growth pathways have had significant disparities. Design/methodology/approach Global and local agendas have had a strong influence on Chilean higher education institutions. A relevant signal has been the creation of the SCN, formed by 21 Chilean universities, whose vision is to help shape a fair and environmentally healthy civilization contributing from the higher education realm. This work adopts a survey design methodological approach. It describes the following resulting components obtained from the aggregated data: (a) emergence processes and environments, (b) governance models and operational mechanisms, (c) networks and collaboration, and (d) final products generated, for sustainability governing entities within universities in Chile. Findings The main findings indicate that at the institutional level, the Cleaner Production Agreement for higher education institutions and the creation of the SCN have been key drivers in the formalization of several entities leading the sustainability efforts within Chilean universities. Also, regarding the degree of commitment to sustainability, the most active internal stakeholder corresponds to students. Originality/value The present work represents a pioneering effort in the Chilean context to identify and systematize the challenges, organizational structures, and key accomplishments of sustainability governing entities in higher education nationwide.

scholarly journals Readiness of Higher Education Institutions Faculty Staff to Work in Inclusive Groups

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vadim N. Kozlov ◽  
Daria F. Romanenkova ◽  
Elena I. Salganova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Sociological Study

Inclusive education is regarded as a valuable resource for the development of Russian society. Teachers play a distinctive role in its implementation. The study of this role is based on the principles of structural and functional and systemic approaches, as well as the sociology of education, the sociology of culture, pedagogy, psychology, and the monitoring of inclusive education. The empirical basis of the research was formed by the materials of a quantitative, representative sample and sociological study of the readiness of teachers of higher education institutions to work in inclusive groups, in which students with disabilities are studying. A total of 777 teachers from 23 universities in Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, and Kurgan regions were interviewed in November 2019. The analysis showed that most teachers of higher education institutions support the idea of inclusive education, as well as are ready to work in inclusive groups and have a need for professional training on inclusive higher education. The overwhelming majority of teachers of higher education institutions in the region do not experience any particular psychological difficulties and methodological challenges in working with streams and groups with students with disabilities. Teachers with longstanding teaching experience, associate professors, professors, and people with good knowledge of inclusive education express a greater interest in working with inclusive groups. At the same time, a significant number of teachers of higher education institutions in the region do not support the idea of teaching people with disabilities in inclusive groups. Some teachers are not familiar with or lack knowledge in the concept of inclusive higher education, and they also point to psychological and methodological problems when working in inclusive groups, which is particularly characteristic of young teachers and those who have not taken advanced training on inclusive education. In order to increase the role and responsibility of the teaching staff in inclusive education, it is recommended to continue monitoring it by reaching out to every inclusive group, student, and teacher. Keywords: inclusive higher education, monitoring studies, teacher, student, people with disabilities

Organizational structure and procedure barriers to obedizing Philippine higher education: Implications to policies and practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Januard Denola Dagdag
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Learning Performance ◽  
Regular Classroom ◽  
Licensure Examination ◽  
Learning Time ◽  
Outcome Based Education

The claim that higher education institutions are outcome-based education-aligned or obedized necessitates evidence in practice. This policy perspectives article discusses the implications of the following prevailing inputs-based structures and procedures to the implementation of outcome-based education in Philippine higher education: (1) segmenting learning time and prescheduling examination; (2) covering curriculum contents over achieving desired outcomes; (3) imposing regular classroom meetings; (4) quantifying inputs targets; (5) quantifying learning performance using a mark; (6) aligning assessments with the licensure examination; (7) and screening and clustering students through a test. The paper offers insights necessary for strengthening policies and practice to obedizing tertiary education in the Philippines and beyond.

Risks in Implementing EU-Funded Projects in Romanian Public Higher Education System

2016 ◽  
pp. 413-441
Author(s):  
Paul Rinderu ◽  
Catalin I. Voiculescu ◽  
Demetra Lupu Visanescu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Education System ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Systemic Risks

The current study, after shortly introducing the manner in which the National Strategic Reference Framework has being conceived for meeting the EU Regional and Cohesion objectives, presents in a concise manner the architecture of the Operational Programmes in Romania for the financing exercises 2007-2013 and 2014-2020. The first financing exercise has been critically analysed and a list of systemic risks is presented, in connection to the lessons learned for the new financing exercise. Further on, the paper presents the main directions under which the public higher education institutions accessed EU funds via various projects and identifies the main institutional risks for their implementation. The authors consider defining risk institutional profiles for a significant lot of public universities by introducing “soft” and “hard” sets of indicators. After assessing these profiles, recommendations for adapting the organizational structure will be depicted in order to help a softer implementation of the accessed projects.

The Management of Process of the Budget Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Mayra Leonor Chancay Mora ◽  
María Sonia Fleitas Triana
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Organizational Processes ◽  
Organizational Complexity ◽  
Budget Planning ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Human Material ◽  
The University ◽  
Budget Execution

The budget area, of the Technical University of Manabí, has an organizational structure that is not coupled with the planning, because it has an organizational complexity according to its technical-administrative dimension, although it complies with all the organizational processes that involve the execution of the institutional budget taking into account the importance of human, material and technological resources, there are links in the budget execution program that are still weak. The research deals with the need to manage the budgetary processes, according to the activities that are planned within the Budget Area, with the objective of fulfilling the institution's priorities and strategies through the amounts assigned to its income and expenses, knowing that the budget planning and execution process is a fundamental tool to fulfill the mission and vision of Higher Education Institutions. The objective of the research is to look for alternatives that allow to solve the insufficiencies that exist in the management of the budgetary processes that affect the development of the activity, difficulties that appear both in income and in expenses; having as a result of these problems: rejections in the budgetary modifications, delays in the execution of the payment processes, actions that are fundamental for the execution of the institutional budget, which may affect the vision of the university.

New Challenges for European Higher Education

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 289-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Taousanidis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Strategic Actions ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
New Challenges

This paper outlines the new global environment in which higher education institutions (HEIs) now have to operate. The author considers the threats and opportunities for institutions in Europe and discusses various strategic actions that need to be taken if the region's HEIs are to sustain their quality and increase their competitiveness. He suggests that structural changes, such as internationalization, the integration of new technologies and the ability to diversify, are essential for their survival. He argues too that there are lessons to be drawn from the responses of the banking sector to significant changes in the markets it serves. Finally, the author considers in more detail two of the key issues that European HEIs need to address – those of academic autonomy and collaboration with other HEIs and other organizations. The paper concludes that, to respond to the changing requirements of their ‘consumers’, HEIs must increase the transparency and accessibility of their programmes and, while protecting the essential principles of education, enhance and stress their market advantages.

Integrating sustainability in higher education: a Swedish case

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 1131-1150
Author(s):  
Daniela Argento ◽  
Daniel Einarson ◽  
Lennart Mårtensson ◽  
Christel Persson ◽  
Karin Wendin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Long Run

Purpose This paper aims to unveil how sustainability is integrated into the courses/programmes of higher education institutions. The research question addressed is: how do academics representing different disciplines cooperate and engage in the work of integrating sustainability into their teaching programmes. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws upon the notions of practise variation and institutional work from institutional theory and empirically focusses on the case of Kristianstad University (Sweden). This case is based on an autoethnographic approach and illustrates the experiences shared by six colleagues, representing different disciplines, engaged in implementing sustainability in their courses/programmes. Findings The findings highlight how academics representing different disciplines, with specific traditions and characteristics, face the sustainability challenge. Despite being bound by similar sustainable development goals, differences across disciplines need to be acknowledged and used as an asset if trans-disciplinarity is the ultimate goal. Research limitations/implications Although the intrinsic motivation of individuals to work with sustainability might be a strong driver, the implementation of sustainability within courses/programmes and across disciplines requires joint efforts and collective institutional work. Practical implications By highlighting how academics engage in the work of integrating sustainability, this study emphasizes that managers of higher education institutions need to account for the time and additional resources needed to ensure that academics effectively cope with sustainability. Intrinsic motivation may not last if organizational structures and leadership are not supportive on a practical level and in the long run. Social implications With the successful implementation of a holistic approach to sustainability, students will have better insights and understanding of both themselves and the surrounding society, laying the ground for an inclusive future society. Originality/value This paper emphasizes the gradual approach to be followed when sustainability becomes part of an organization-wide discourse. Dialogues within and across disciplines are needed to overcome silo thinking and stimulate cooperation within a trans-disciplinary approach.

scholarly journals The change of organizational structure of higher education institutions in Hungary: a contingency theory analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gergely Kováts
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Contingency Theory ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Organizational Responses ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Management Roles ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The management of higher education institutions has changed considerably over the last few decades. Most analyses in Europe usually focus on how the autonomy of institutions evolved, how the governance structure developed, and what kind of management roles and techniques appeared. Less attention has been paid to the change of formal organizational structure which, according to the contingency theory, has a significant impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations. There is even less research on these issues in Central and Eastern European higher education. In this paper, the evolution of the organizational structure of Hungarian institutions is analyzed from a contingency theory perspective. The relationship between environmental factors (such as size, complexity, and stability of environment) and organizational responses (e.g., centralization and decentralization) is examined.

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