Opening remarks

1964 ◽  
Vol 161 (982) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Soil Science ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Biological Interest ◽  
North Borneo ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
Science Investigations

First, I should like to say a word about the objects of the expedition. These were threefold. The most important one, of course, was to study an area of very great biological interest. The second was our belief that such a study would be of substantial aid to the Government in the plans which we understood they were making for the establishment of a National Park in the Mt Kinabalu region. This, I am glad to say, has in fact turned out to be the case. Our third object was to enlist the help of scientists living and working in that region in a co-operative enterprise in the hope that we might establish a tradition of scientific study of natural resources among the research and teaching staff of the Universities in the region. This again we were able to achieve in some measure and we hope to continue our co-operation in the next expedition. The expedition was led by Mr E. J. H. Corner, F. R. S., of the Botany School of Cambridge, and he was accompanied by Mr G. P. Askew of Newcastle, who took charge of the soil science investigations, and by Mr J. A. D. Stainton, who acted as photographer as well as a botanist. Mr Corner was also joined in the botanical work by Dr Chew Wee Lek from the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Professor J. L. Harrison, from the University of Singapore, was with the expedition for part of the time and studied small mammals and their parasites. Mr B. E. Smythies, Conservator of Forests in Sarawak, who is a prominent ornithologist, also spent some time with the expedition. The expedition was visited by interested people working in North Borneo, and this contributed substantially to the development of local understanding of the value of the area and of the scientific work that was being done in it.

Ellen Gleditsch: Duty and responsibility in a research and teaching career, 1916-1946

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNETTE LYKKNES ◽  
LISE KVITTINGEN ◽  
ANNE KRISTINE BØØRRESEN
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
Atomic Weight ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Full Professor ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Grant Applications ◽  
Network Building ◽  
Ellen Gleditsch ◽  
University Of Oslo ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT Ellen Gleditsch (1879-1968) became Norway's first authority of radioactivity and the country's second female professor. After several years in international centers of radiochemistry, Gleditsch returned to Norway, becoming associate professor and later full professor of chemistry. Between 1916 and 1946 Gleditsch tried to establish a laboratory of radiochemistry at the University of Oslo, a career which included network building, grant applications, travels abroad, committee work, research, teaching, supervision, popularization, and war resistance work. Establishing a new field was demanding; only under her student, Alexis Pappas, was her field institutionalized at Oslo. This paper presents Gleditsch's everyday life at the Chemistry Department, with emphasis on her formation of a research and teaching laboratory of radiochemistry. Her main scientific work during this period is presented and discussed, including atomic weight determination of chlorine, age calculations in minerals, the hunt for actinium's ancestor and investigations on 40K.

scholarly journals FACILITATIVE SUPPORT OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING STAFF IN THE PROCESS OF PREPARING AND HOLDING INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-40
Author(s):  
Olena Ostrianska ◽  
Natalia Zernova
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
State Institution ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Direct Participation ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Detailed List ◽  
Higher Educational

The article analyses the experience of organizing International Educational Exhibitions in Ukraine in 2016 – 2020. The essence of such concepts as "international educational exhibition", "international educational exhibition space", "facilitative support of professional development of research and teaching staff" is defined. The structural elements of the International Educational Exhibition and the stages of a higher educational institution participation in the exhibition activity (preparatory, direct participation, analysis of the achieved results) are considered. The authors of the article present systematized experience of facilitative support of professional development of research and teaching staff provided by specialists of the Department of Scientific Work of the State Institution of Higher Education "University of Educational Management" of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine in the process of preparing, holding and analysing results of International Educational Exhibitions, such as "Innovation in Modern Education", "Modern Educational Institutions", "Education and Career – Student's Day", "Education and Career". The types of organizational and coordination activities are determined, a detailed list of actions of the process of facilitative support by the specialists of the Department of Scientific Work of research and teaching staff as exhibitors and visitors of the exhibition is presented. Methodical structuring and algorithmizing of types of organizational and coordination activities and a detailed list of actions of the facilitation process are described in the following stages: 1) preparation of research and teaching staff (exhibitors and visitors) to participate in International Educational Exhibitions; 2) direct participation of research and teaching staff (exhibitors and visitors) in the International Educational Exhibitions; 3) analysis of the results of participation of research and teaching staff (exhibitors and visitors) in International Educational Exhibitions. The authors have created a classification of events of the International Educational Exhibition according to the congress, competition and exponential components. Statistics of the number of planned and conducted events within the International Educational Exhibition activities in Ukraine in 2016 – 2020 are presented. Emphasis is placed on changing the form of exhibitions from offline to online format due to the COVID–19 pandemic and lockdown (quarantine restrictions) in 2020. Recommendations for higher educational institutions to maintain an integrated information base of exhibition educational activities with detailed information on the activities within the exponential, competitive and congress programs of the exhibition.

Nauczyciele szkół średnich męskich rządowych po 1833 r. – byli pracownicy Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (0) ◽  
pp. 29-55
Author(s):  
Adam Massalski
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Employees ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
The University ◽  
Achievements In Mathematics

After the fall of the November Uprising, the Russian authorities liquidated the University of Warsaw. As a result, the University employees were forced to take up other occupations. Some of them went to male government secondary schools as pedagogical supervisors (principals and inspectors), or teachers. This group numbered 18 people. The functions of principals were performed by two people, the functions of inspectors – by six, the remaining ten found employment as teachers. The period of their employment in secondary education varied widely: from 1 year to over 25 years. On average it was just over nine years. Among the teachers, four taught the humanities, the others taught mathematical and natural sciences. Many members of the described community decided to continue their scientific work. Particular achievements in mathematics were held by A. Frączkiewicz, and I in the field of physics and chemistry – by J. Bełza, A. Radwański, T. Rybicki and S. Zdzitowiecki. Achievements in biological research were noted by W. B. Jastrzębowski, Sz. Pisulewski and A. Waga (interestingly, he taught Polish language and literature in secondary school). Some achievements in the field of the humanities were held by A. Kucharski and F. Kozłowski. The above-mentioned employees of the University of Warsaw significantly strengthened the teaching staff of male government secondary schools in the Kingdom of Poland between 1833 and 1862.

Communications/excommunications: an interview with Armand Mattelart

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (S1) ◽  
pp. 21-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
COSTAS M. CONSTANTINOU
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
University Of Paris ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
The Military

This interview was conducted over the Internet between February and April 2006. Armand Mattelart is Emeritus Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Paris VIII. From 1962 to 1973 he was Professor of Sociology of Population and Communication at the Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, and United Nations expert in social development. During the Popular Unity period (1970–73), he worked with the Government of President Salvador Allende until the military coup of September 1973, when he was expelled from Chile. Between 1975 and 1982, he taught at the University of Paris VII and Paris VIII, and, between 1983 and 1997, as founding member of the Communications Department at the University of Rennes 2 (Haute-Bretagne). He has carried out numerous research and teaching missions in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. His research interests include communication theory and history, media studies and international communication. He has authored and co-authored numerous books, translated into many languages, including: Advertising International: The Privatization of Public Space (1991); Mapping World Communication: War, Progress, Culture (1994), The Invention of Communication (1996), Networking the World 1794–2000 (2000), The Information Society: An Introduction (2003), and, with Michèle Mattelart, Rethinking Media Theory: Signposts and New Directions (1992); The Carnival of Images: Brazilian Television Fiction (1990) and Theories of Communication: A Short Introduction (1998). His most recent book, published in French, is: La Globalisation de la Surveillance: Aux Origines de l’Ordre Sécuritaire (September 2007).

Postgraduate student of the University: the technology of scientific work and pedagogical activity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Семен Резник ◽  
Semen Reznik
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Technology Training ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Postgraduate Student ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Content System ◽  
The University

Examines the content, system and technology training in graduate school, preparing for independent scientific activities, methodology of scientific work, and gives recommendations for the writing, preparation and defense of a thesis. Much attention is paid to the preparation of a graduate student to work at the Department of the University, the organization and planning of his life and work. For graduate students and degree applicants, as well as for students who want to devote themselves to research and teaching.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the activity of scientific and pedagogical staff: domestic experience and vectors of development under the university autonomy

2021 ◽  
pp. 132-143
Author(s):  
Olga Yaroshenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Internal Quality ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The University

The article reveals the evaluation of the activities carried out by scientific and pedagogical staff in domestic higher education institutions from a process point of view and the standpoint of the result. The main types of assessment used in higher education institutions are described. The results obtained during the analysis of scientific publications, normative documents and questionnaires of teachers and managers confirmed the massive rating of the activities of scientific and pedagogical workers, its superiority among other types of assessment. According to the materials available in the open Internet access, a comparative analysis of the rating policy of 20 higher education institutions, located in different regions of Ukraine, was carried out. It was found that in each university the determinant of the rating policy is Development Strategy, according to which the evaluation of research and teaching staff is positioned as an important procedure for internal quality assurance of higher education and a factor in stimulating professional development of teachers. Based on a comparative analysis of the regulatory framework, criteria, indicators and evaluation procedures inherent in different institutions of higher education, common features and characteristics of rating evaluation of research and teaching staff. The personal and institutional dimensions of the significance of various evaluation of the activity of scientific and pedagogical workers are revealed. Emphasis is placed on modern indicators and problematic evaluation issues identified in the process of studying domestic practices. Insufficient use of information collected through rating assessment for prognostic purposes is emphasized. The tendency of updating criteria and indicators of a rating estimation of activities carried out by scientific and pedagogical workers of universities is established. An objective relationship between the establishment of coefficients for the rating of the main types of professional activities of research and teaching staff (educational, scientific, methodological, organizational and educational) and the priority of the holding activities for the university at the time of the rating.

MECHANISM OF MOTIVATING PERSONNEL INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1025-1041
Author(s):  
N.V. Shashlo ◽  
◽  
G.V. Petruk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Target Function ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The University ◽  
Constituent Elements ◽  
Classification Structure

The article is aimed at improving conceptual, theoretical, methodological and applied aspects of forming the mechanism for personnel intellectual activity motivation in the context of digital transformations. The relevance of the study is confirmed by the dominance of the intellectual factor in functioning of universities' as a key one in achieving the goals of activities in the prism of digitalization. The article further developed the conceptual and categorical apparatus for the problematic of motivating personnel's intellectual activity. The importance of “intellectualizing” trends in the modern conditions of social development is determined. The fundamental principles of intellectual growth are revealed. The classification aspects of the motives that induce the employee to intellectual and innovative activities are expanded. The classification structure of motives are highlighted, which is represented by the following groups: psychological and cognitive; cognitive-intellectual; emotional and motivational; material and value; social and communicative. The conceptual provisions for the process of forming a mechanism for motivating personnel intellectual activity have been formed. A model for motivating the intellectual activity of personnel based on B. Skinner's motivational theory of reinforcement is proposed. Methodological support for creating a mechanism motivating personnel intellectual activity as a target function of management in the context of digital transformations has been developed. An algorithm for the formation of a mechanism for motivating the intellectual activity of personnel has been formed, including a set of stages with a description of the constituent elements and the processes of their implementation. The tools of the mechanism of motivating the intellectual activity of personnel, used in the management practice of a particular university, are characterized. The obtained effects from the introduction of tools for the mechanism of motivating the intellectual activity of the university staff in the form of certain motives are highlighted. This article is of particular value for the top management of universities, which need to manage the intellectual activity of staff, as well as motivate research and teaching staff in the context of global digital transformations.

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on Educational Sustainability. Initial Perceptions of the University Community of the University of Cádiz

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5938
Author(s):  
María Alonso-García ◽  
Tamara María Garrido-Letrán ◽  
Alberto Sánchez-Alzola
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Sustainable Education ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This research analyses the impact of COVID-19 on the Spanish university system during the period of home lockdown put in place by the government of Spain between 15 March and 21 June 2020. This period did not involve a change to online teaching. Instead, it involved emergency remote teaching, wherein the content of face-to-face teaching was taught through non-classroom training using media, devices and tools available at that time. The main objective of the paper is related to the perceptions of students and teachers on emergency remote teaching regarding the face-to-face model. We applied statistical techniques of descriptive and inferential analysis over a sample of 2778 students and 221 teaching staff from the University of Cádiz. We also analysed the methodologies used, as well as the acquisition of skills, competencies and knowledge by the students in this situation, in order to detect whether this type of action can achieve sustainable education. This term refers to education that is capable of maintaining the continuous quality of the training of each student, who should acquire the required knowledge and competences regardless of unforeseen events. However, according to the results of this research, the sudden transition to e-learning, based on available technological and computer-based methods, did not guarantee sustainable education or its quality. This study establishes different possibilities for improving non-face-to-face teaching in this kind of situation. The results show greatly concerning levels of training and evaluation, as well as worse acquisition of skills. Both teachers and students declared a preference for face-to-face teaching. This perception should prompt the educational authorities to solve the existing problems in e-learning education, improving the transition and guaranteeing the sustainability of non-face-to-face education. This research highlights the areas for improvement in e-learning education in the ongoing situation, the general uncertainty in the transition, the lack of communication and the completion of a fair evaluation system. The results show that the methods used in this period must be improved to achieve sustainable teaching and learning during a pandemic. The results also emphasize the uncertainty in the educational community about the entire process. This study will help the educational authorities to improve the change of paradigm in higher education in the future.

International Congress of African History

1965 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 617-618
Author(s):  
Bakary Kamian
Keyword(s):  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
International Congress ◽  
African History ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
University College ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
The Government ◽  
Working Plan ◽  
The University

This International Congress was organised by the University College, Dar es Salaam, in conjunction with the Government of Tanzania, and with financial assistance from U.N.E.S.C.O. It was concerned with the related problems of research and teaching in African history, and the working plan covered four main points: African historiography, its methods, its emerging themes, and the teaching of African history.

scholarly journals Efectos de la crisis económica en el profesorado universitario novel

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Cristina Goenechea ◽  
Noemi Serrano-Díaz ◽  
Concepción Valero Franco
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Breeding Ground ◽  
University System ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Job Offers ◽  
Employment Situation ◽  
On Line ◽  
The University

This work describes the employment situation of new professors joining the teaching staff of the University of Cadiz over the past 5 years. It examines the situation of this group in 2015, a time in which the economic crisis affected both Spain and the university system, comparing this situation to that of 2019. It is a quantitative study using an on-line questionnaire that was distributed in both 2015 and 2019. Clearly, the university’s economic situation conditioned the professional development of these professors who carry out both research and teaching tasks. For years, the crisis stalled the publication of stable job offers for these new professors, preventing them from having an optimistic outlook with regard to their professional future. This study suggests that the current situation may be creating a sense of burnout in the teaching staff, perhaps due to the university’s failure to intervene in the increased depersonalization and harsh treatment of its students. Given this situation, universities may be turning into a breeding ground for pathologies related to teachers’ malaise.

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