The costs of grandiosity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Alvesson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Brand Names ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
The People ◽  
University Colleges ◽  
Marketing Director ◽  
Better Than

A critical reader might well ask at this point: What is the real problem? Why is this author so worried about what most people may see as positive things in life: increased consumption, more education, promises about a working life with stronger ingredients of milk and honey? The sceptical reader may want to challenge this text and pose the following critical questions: . Why not just accept what people want? Isn’t it natural that people want more—and more? Of course, people are looking for more things and want to increase their consumption. And if they want to pay the earth for things with certain brand names, maybe they will be more satisfied with that? . So what if there is a lot of higher education, even if all the graduates do not get jobs? It’s good to keep people occupied and out of the way in a cheap and agreeable manner. And don’t the students always learn something in all these courses? They don’t perhaps become smarter, but education is better than unemployment. . Why not permit new and finer titles and labels? Why not make elites and others happy through using knowledge vocabulary to describe society, economy, and the population? And if all these university colleges, polytechnics, and other higher education institutions want to call themselves universities, why not be generous? The division between universities and university colleges only favours those snobs who work or study at the former places. And the liberal awarding of titles like ‘marketing director’ and ‘professor’ might give the people concerned a nice title on their business cards and make them happier, perhaps more motivated, and make their spouses proud. . Who cares about ‘real’ equality of opportunity for women and minorities if there are fine equal opportunity policies and programmes? If we have a sufficient number of women who are promoted to fill their quotas on the board and in higher education, we will have sufficient equality to comply with the statistics, and then everyone can be happy.

scholarly journals PEMBELAJARAN NILAI NILAI KARAKTER ISLAM MODERAT DI PERGURUAN TINGGI

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Gusnarib
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Face ◽  
Better Than

This study discusses how to integrate the values ​​of moderate Islamic character in Islamic higher education institutions. Integration of the value of moderate Islamic character values ​​can be implemented through learning in all subjects in Islamic higher education. Integration of Islamic character values ​​can be done on all subjects in Islamic higher education by referring to the concepts, systems and theories of learning. Learning the value of moderate Islamic characters can give students a personality color better than before and can inspire lecturers as learners. in carrying out enlightenment and intelligence in shaping tough, courageous, honest, tolerant, responsible and consistent students, in order to answer the challenges of powerlessness and inability to build national identity, inability to reconstruct the nation's potential responsively and dynamically. The hope of the writer, with the integration of the value of moderate Islamic character in all courses in Islamic higher education, can be the basis for the formation of adherent behavior, and the value of character can be a declarator of glory on the face of the earth

scholarly journals Reformer i UH-sektoren. Det muliges kunst

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-98
Author(s):  
Nicoline Frølich ◽  
Jarle Trondal ◽  
Joakim Caspersen ◽  
Ingvild Reymert
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Structural Reform ◽  
Organizational Redesign ◽  
Academic Environments ◽  
High Quality Education ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
University Colleges

Public sector reform tends to harbour competing ambitions, problems and solutions. Reforms in higher education policy are no exception. They are often multi-faceted phenomena, partly because higher education institutions are complex organizations with wide-ranging expectations and demands from a variety of stakeholders. This chapter argues that higher education institutions cannot ‘organize away’ competing objectives, but rather aim to create organizational designs which help complex institutions to live with complex reforms. The chapter examines the ‘Structural Reform’ in Norwegian higher education and how higher education institutions responded. Launched in April 2015, it resulted in a large-scale organizational redesign of the higher education landscape through merger processes between university colleges as well as between universities and university colleges. As with other reforms in higher education, the Structural Reform focused on several desirable but competing objectives such as high-quality education and research, regional development and world leading academic environments.

Psychological Readiness for Mobile Learning among Maldivian Students at Higher Education Institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-27
Author(s):  
Fathimath Mumthaz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
The People ◽  
Psychological Acceptance

Mobile technology, associated with mobility has led to the fluidity of knowledge transfer from any part of the globe. The rise in technology-enabled mobile devices tend to impact teaching and learning one or the other way. The fast-growing mobile learning (mLearning) and its instructional strategies are reaching learners anytime anywhere. Thereby, mLearning and its learning activities engage students passively, behaviorally, intellectually and emotionally in learning (Yao & Wang, 2018). Especially, in a country like Maldives where the people live in small islands separated by sea, mLearning could be an advantageous mode that can be adopted in the higher education of Maldives. The dispersed institutional students were were reached using mobile technology creating a psychological acceptance towards mLearning. Therefore, the study was developed to explore psychological readiness of institutional distance learning students to adopt mobile learning in Maldives. Keywords: Mobile learning, psychological readiness, paradigm shift, higher education institutions, Maldives.

People, Processes and Politics in Quality Assurance: Changing Pathways of Quality Assurance

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-211
Author(s):  
Kevin M. McConkey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
The People

Abstract Quality assurance is about getting people to think and behave in ways that may be different from what they are used to. In other words, quality assurance is about changing individuals and through them the institutions with which they are associated. Different countries and different higher education institutions approach the processes and the politics of effective quality assurance differently. I draw out major issues that help or hinder effective quality assurance. I point to information that needs to be provided about quality assurance, and also emphasise the need for evaluation of how quality assurance is undertaken. I emphasize the importance of recognizing the people and processes of quality assurance that lead to positive outcomes. I argue that whereas there is no single way to approach quality assurance, there are principles that need to be understood and applied in ways that are appropriate to the individuals, institutions and countries involved.

scholarly journals PERAN LEMBAGA PENDIDIKAN DALAM PEMBERANTASAN TINDAK PIDANA KORUPSI DI INDONESIA

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ridwan Ridwan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Serious Crime ◽  
The People ◽  
Science Of Religion

Corruption act in Indonesia is a very serious crime and has serious consequences for the nation of Indonesia, and the most disadvantaged are the people, welfare of the people is the desire of every person difficult to realize, while eradication is very slow. Combating corruption is a very important part in saving the nation from the threat of destruction is therefore a serious effort is needed in its eradication. Educational institutions have an important role for the eradication of corruption in Indonesia, because of the higher education institutions by law forming the character of each person for anti-corruption can be done, for it's efforts to improve the science of divinity to be very important, so the morality of everyone, including law enforcement becomes an important part in real life can be maintained, the science of religion without science is incomplete. Key words: corruption, moral, education, divinity

scholarly journals DMS Implications for Universities

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 6945-6952
Author(s):  
Vasile Paul Bresfelean ◽  
Loredana Mocean ◽  
Claudia Andreea Urean
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cloud Storage ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Document Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Document Management System ◽  
Better Than

Organizations have long been struggling with the large amount of paper documents to be effectively administered, stored and organized so as to allow their easy and fast retrieval. Furthermore, energy and paper costs, security, destruction or loss and the volume of space occupied by numerous documents, folders and cabinets are also challenging problems. Digitization of paper documents and Document Management Systems (DMS) emerged as a solution to these issues with numerous advantages (eco-friendly, decreased operational costs, increased productivity, better and fast service etc.) leading to more efficient organization processes. Cloud storage and applications are an up-to-date approach with lower costs for higher education institutions, which aspire to enhance their documents and records management from creation throughout their whole lifecycle (store, capture, distribute, retrieve). While knowledge management (KM) has a demanding mission in higher education institutions, ontologies are another novel ground for document management applications in education. This paper is an extended version of our latest research study [4] and aims to extend our university’s existing applications to a multifaceted Document Management System-as-a-Service (DMSaaS) with many benefits for the institution, where records and documents are to be managed based on novel technologies. DMSaaS can address the issues related to cost, environment, space, security, operability better than a classic DMS.

scholarly journals Methodological considerations for identifying questionable publishing in a national context: The case of Swedish Higher Education Institutions

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Gustaf Nelhans ◽  
Theo Bodin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quantitative Estimation ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
National Level ◽  
Journal Publication ◽  
Publication Data ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
University Colleges ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Cross National

The overall scope of this study is an attempt at a methodological framework for matching publication lists at the national level against a combined set of blacklists for questionable publishing. Using the total verified set of publications from Swedish Higher Education Institutions (HEI) as a case, we examined the number, distribution, and proportion of publishing in questionable journals at the national level. Journal publication data was extracted from the national SwePub database and matched against three curated blacklists of questionable publishing. For the period 2012–2017, we identified 1,743 published papers in blacklisted journals, equal to an average of 0.5–0.9% of the total publications from Swedish HEIs. There was high variability between different HEI categories, with more established universities at the lower end of the spectrum, while university colleges and new universities had a much higher proportion (∼2%). There was a general decreasing trend during the study period (ρ = 0.83) for all categories of HEIs. The study presents a methodology to identify questionable publishing in academia that could be applied to other countries with similar infrastructure. Thus, it could serve as a starting point for the development of a general framework for cross-national quantitative estimation of questionable publishing.

scholarly journals Reflections on an action-oriented workshop: How can more of our professors be Māori and Pasifika?

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
Hine Funaki ◽  
Avery Smith ◽  
Nayantara Sheoran Appleton ◽  
Emily Beausoleil ◽  
Meegan Hall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The People

There is a chronic underrepresentation of Māori and Pacific academics in our university sector in Aotearoa New Zealand. Sitting behind the disparity are a range of practices that support some groups in Aotearoa New Zealand to succeed and move more freely through higher education institutions than others. In response to scholarship highlighting this issue, a collective of students and staff at Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington came together to organise an action-oriented workshop to draw attention to ways that universities are governed through power relations. Attention was also paid to mitigating power imbalances in the organisation, format, and delivery of the event, and between attendees, presenters, and event facilitators from dominant and non-dominant ethnic and cultural groups. This reflection piece is not so much a recounting of the event itself but rather an opportunity to share with the wider academic world ways in which the collective attempted to hold our university accountable for failing in their responsibilities to the people on whose ancestral lands they exist.

Batik in Malaysia and Indonesia: A collaboration for reconciling issues of cultural heritage

2022 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Wahida ◽  
Muhammad Hendra Himawan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Art Educators ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The People ◽  
Collaborative Art ◽  
Conflict Reconciliation ◽  
Reconciliation Method

Conflict claims for the cultural heritage of batik between Indonesia and Malaysia have created tensions between the people of these two countries. The Indonesian and Malaysian governments have never involved academics and arts education institutions in resolving such conflict claims, yet, these communities can play a significant role in post-conflict reconciliation efforts. This article describes a conflict reconciliation method initiated by academics, artists and art educators through a collaborative art project between art higher education institutions in Malaysia and Indonesia. Ways in which collaborations within and across the art and education communities may address the understanding and reconciliation of issues related to cultural heritage conflict are explored.

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