scholarly journals A Study Showing Research Has Been Valued over Teaching in Higher Education

2015 ◽  
pp. 15-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi Yuan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Reward System ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Government ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Vocational Studies

Research has been valued and given priority over teaching for a long time in academia.  In recent decades, the Taiwanese Ministry of Education has pursued objective and quantitative research criteria and has encouraged higher education institutions to ask teachers to publish papers in SSCI or SCI journals as part of the criteria for promotion and evaluation.  This policy strengthens the concept that research has priority over teaching because teachers must devote more time to research than to teaching in order to be promoted and evaluated.The purpose of this study is to explore the influences that cause teachers to value research over teaching.  To achieve this purpose, document analysis, the analysis of Taiwan Higher Education database and interviews were adapted as methods. First of all, our researchers collected and analyzed the documents for promotion and evaluation of twelve different universities whose areas of specialty included general studies, education, medicine, vocational studies, and the arts. Then, the study used and analyzed the empirical data of teachers’ working hours every week for different tasks from the Taiwan Higher Education Database which investigated the working conditions of teachers in higher education in 2004. Additionally, twenty professors who have different areas of study and work in different types of universities were interviewed to collect teachers’ opinions of the task priority of research, teaching, and service duties. The results showed that academia in Taiwan exhibits the phenomenon that research is valued over teaching. The reasons are due to the requirements of the reward system. The reward system emphasizes research over teaching and service. Teachers’ research achievements are judged based on publishing articles in different types of journals and the amount of research funding they can obtain. The results also showed that every week teachers spend the most time on teaching, then on research, and finally on service. However, teachers emphasize research as the most important task, then teaching, and finally service. Although the majority of teachers think research is the most important duty, there is still twenty percent of teachers who think it is the least important. Although teaching has been thought of as the second most important duty after research, it is the task that the most teachers give as the first priority as far as time spent and none of the interviewees thought it is the least important. Universities and teachers all try to use their professionalism as capital to gain financial support from the government. This situation forces teachers to try to put more time and energy into research, but they still need to maintain teaching and service work quality. Some teachers focus more time and energy on research and ignore the needs of students. Working time endlessly increases even for teachers who out value on both teaching and research. Some suggestions based on the findings have been proposed for Taiwanese higher institutions.

scholarly journals Tax justice of the reform of higher education: tuition fees or tax relief?

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (7) ◽  
pp. 259-264
Author(s):  
Pavel Semerád ◽  
Veronika Sobotková
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Dependent Child ◽  
Tax Relief ◽  
Current Reform ◽  
The Government ◽  
University Leaders ◽  
Tuition Fee

This paper deals with the current reform of higher education which is now being discussed in the Czech Republic. The Government and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports propose a tuition fee for students at universities but there is still no clear concept of it. University leaders and students are against the tuition fee because of their fear of getting into debt during their study. The aim of this paper is to show an alternative way of funding higher education without tuition fee loans and from the point of view of tax justice. According to the concept of horizontal justice (Mankiw, 1999) taxpayers should pay taxes at the same rate, but it does not work this way. The result of research is that changes in Act 586/1992 Coll., on income tax and in Act 117/1995 Coll., on state social welfare are required. Abolition of tax relief is proposed where discrimination against other taxpayers and groups of students could occur. By abolition of tax relief for a student and tax relief for a dependent child the amounts of 4,020 CZK and 13,404 CZK respectively could be saved. Changes in legislation could be politically more acceptable than the tuition fee. The solution could also lead to simplification for taxpayers. The target should be equal access to higher education for all students.

scholarly journals Validating the technology-assisted supplemental work scale (TASW)

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 475-481
Author(s):  
Kajal Kotecha ◽  
Wilfred Isioma Ukpere ◽  
Madelyn Geldenhuys
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
The Impact

The traditional advantage of using Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to enhance work flexibility also has a drawback of enabling academics to continue working even after regular working hours. This phenomenon has been referred to as technology-assisted supplemental work (TASW). Although TASW enhances academics’ work productively, they also have a negative impact on their family-life. The impact TASW has on academics and on higher education institutions can be understood by measuring the phenomenon properly by using a reliable and valid scale. The aim of this study is too validate a newly developed TASW scale by Fenner and Renn (2010). This study adopted a quantitative research approach and used an online survey to gather data. The sample included academic from a higher education in South Africa (n = 216). The results indicate that the TASW is a valid and reliable measure of technology among the sample of South African academics.

scholarly journals Sistem Monitoring Kinerja Dosen Pada Institusi Perguruan Tinggi Swasta (Studi Kasus: Universitas Abdurrab)

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-208
Author(s):  
Salamun Salamun ◽  
Diki Arisandi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
System Modeling ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Credit Score ◽  
University Leaders

Dosen dalam aktivitas keseharian memiliki tiga kewajiban yang dikenal dengan “Tridharma perguruan tinggi”. Kurangnya monitoring kinerja dosen dalam beberapa kegiatan yang wajib menyebabkan pimpinan universitas sulit mendapatkan laporan yang rutin dari dosen, sistem ini dibangun berbasis web dengan metode waterfall. Fungsi yang terdapat dalam sistem mencakup input kinerja dosen dalam bidang tri darma perguruan tinggi, yang akan menghasilkan laporan kinerja beserta jam kerja dosen setiap minggu nya. Beberapa pihak seperti atasan Dosen, Asesor, dan pihak kepegawaian di Universitas perlu melakukan monitoring terhadap perkembangan aktivitas setiap dosennya pada tiap semester. Penelitian ini dimulai dari penelusuran referensi pedoman angka kredit dari kementerian pendidikan dan kebudayaan, setelah itu kami melakukan wawancara dengan pihak dari kepegawaian untuk perancangan sistem monitoring yang akan dibuat. sistem yang dibuat menggunakan kerangka kerja waterfall dan pemodelan sistem menggunakan unified modelling language (UML). Sebelum sistem diimplementasikan, pengujian diawali dengan membagikan panduan pengguanaan terlebih dahulu dan memberikan kesempatan kepada entitas yang terlibat untuk mempelajarinya. Pengujian lebih ditekankan pada aspek penguasaan terhadap penggunaan sistem ini. Hasil dari penelitian ini yaitu sistem yang dapat merekam kinerja seluruh dosen secara digital, dan informasi kinerja dosen dapat diakses oleh pihak universitas untuk dijadikan bahan untuk penilaian kinerja dimasa mendatang.   Kata kunci: kinerja, monitoring, sistem, Tridharma perguruan tinggi, dosen.   Abstract Lecturers in their daily activities have three obligations, known as “three pillars of higher education.” Insufficient monitoring of lecturers' performance in their mandatory activities may cause difficulty for university leaders to obtain regular reports from lecturers. We built a system on a web-based basis with the waterfall method, contained an input page for the performance of lecturers in their mandatory activity, which will generate performance reports, including the working hours every week. Some Persons are required to monitor the activities of each lecturer in every semester. We started to trace the reference for the credit score guideline from the ministry of education and culture, then we conduct interviews with Human Resources Department for monitoring system design. The systems created using the waterfall framework and system modeling using the unified modeling language (UML). Before implementation, we were conducting testing by sharing the user guide and giving the involved entities the opportunity to learn it. Testing is more emphasized on aspects of mastery of the use of the system. The outcome of this work is a system that can record the performance of all lecturers digitally, and lecturer performance information can be accessed by the university as a materiall for further assessments. Keywords: performance, monitoring, system, three pillars of higher education, lecturer.

scholarly journals The participation of Ukraine in creating the common european educational space: laws and regulations

2016 ◽  
pp. 144-155
Author(s):  
Evgen Khan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Education Standards ◽  
Regulatory Documents ◽  
The Common ◽  
European Education ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Bologna Process

The article examines the basic legal and regulatory documents, legislative acts in the field of higher education and international agreements signed by Ukraine within the process of creation of the Common European Education Space. It presents and analyses the principal documents which gave rise to the Bologna process and the creation of the Common European Education Space, and those signed and embodied by Ukraine on the way towards the implementation of the European education standards. It as well investigates the legal and regulatory documents within the system of the higher education of Ukraine during the 154 process of its reforming, inter alia the principal regulatory acts, decrees and orders of the Government and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, which were aimed to reform and modernize the system of the higher education of Ukraine, as well as to implement the European education standards, to promote the improvement of academic cooperation, international recognition of the academic documents and the participation of Ukraine in the European educational programs and projects.

Monitoring the State of Inclusive Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Татьяна Ярая ◽  
Tatyana Yaraya ◽  
Леся Рокотянская ◽  
Lesya Rokotyanskaya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government

The results of monitoring the state of inclusive education in educational organizations of higher education of the Republic of Adygea, Astrakhan region, Volgograd region, the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol are presented in the article. The information was collected by fi lling out evaluation maps of the accessibility of higher education educational institutions and analyzing the offi cial websites of educational institutions of higher education. Particular attention was paid to the analysis of the requirements put forward to educational institutions of higher education by normative legal documents in the part of inclusive education, approved by the orders of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals Modern Strategies of Modelling Informational and Analytical Support of Inclusive Higher Education in Russia

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
N.V. Karpushkina
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Strong Motivation ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Free Environment ◽  
Government Contract

The paper gives a description of modern approaches to the modelling of informational and analytical support of higher education in persons with disabilities. It proposes a model of such support depending on the type of disability and provides a detailed description of structure components of informational and analytical support. It is argued that the main areas of support of individuals with disabilities are the following: adaptational and orientating (pre-university); organizational and coordinative; psychological and educational; academic; sociocultural; medical and health-improving; vocational (postgraduate) etc. Each area is comprehensively defined. The paper reveals the principles underlying the modelling of informational and analytical support of higher inclusive education, such as: the principle of expanding and shaping a tolerant ‘barrier-free’ environment; the principle of subjectivity and socialization; the principle of strong motivation and activity; the principle of dialogue; the principle of variation; and, finally, the principle of informational openness. This work was carried out with the support of the Government Contract of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (project 2016- 01.04- 05- 020 – F- 35.001) “Monitoring and Informational/Analytical Support of Regional Resource Centers for Higher Education for the Disabled”.

Reforming the Public Universities Financing Scheme: The Case of Ghana’s Higher Education Transformation Agenda

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Justice Ray Achoanya Ayam
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Financial Sustainability ◽  
National Council ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Funding Policy ◽  
Policy Direction ◽  
Higher Education Transformation

Public higher education institutions in Ghana are confronted with unending financing constrains every academic year thus affecting the financial health of these institutions. The financial sustainability of these institutions has become increasingly critical due to the persistent reported funding gaps and the weak funding allocation regime. Countries the world over have begun implementing reform programmes to deal with issues of financial sustainability of higher education. The study employed quantitative research methodology with a well-validated research instrument. This correlational study attempts to measure the relationship between the financing scheme variables and financial sustainability. The outcome of the study revealed that there was statistically significant relationship between the combined effects of the variables while three variables out of the seven were found to be significant in predicting best fit equation for financial sustainability. The study recommends to the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE), a review of the funding policy direction with a precise focus on addressing Ghana’s higher education infrastructural deficit, skills gap, improving research, science and technology.

scholarly journals JÓZEFAT ZIELONACKI ZAPOMNIANY POLSKI ROMANISTA XIX W. SZKIC DO BIOGRAFII

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Zięba
Keyword(s):  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Active Member ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

Józefat Zielonacki - A Forgotten Polish Romanist of XIX C. An Outline of a BiographySummaryJ. Zielonacki was born on 28 November 1818 in a village called Goniczki, situated the Grand Duchy of Poznan, which belonged to his family.He spent his childhood in his family estate. After completing education in schools in Trzemeszno and Poznan he studied in Berlin, where he graduated in 1845 and conferred a doctor degree (dr) in both laws. In 1848 (or 1849) he was qualified as an assistant professor (dr hab) at Wroclaw University, where he subsequently lectured the Roman law.In 1850 Prof. Zielonacki succeeded to be a head of the Roman law department at the Jagiellonian University.At that time Galicia was in the period of absolutist reaction after the People’s Spring, distinguished by the suppression of civil liberties and a regime of terror. The declaration of a state of siege on 10.01.1849 led to handing over a full authority to Austrian generals, subsequent military commanders of the country, to whose authority - legitimately and in practice - (in these circumstances) the Galician governor - Agenor hr. Goluchowski was - submitted. The University was in practice deprived of its autonomy; all important matters were meticulously directed and supervised by the central authorities in Vienna. Appointments to professorships depended exclusively on the Austrian Ministry of Education, which also examined in detail ‘the political conformity’ of each candidate. Prof. Zielonacki was put up as a candidate by the minister Leon hr. Thun, who wrote in the application to the Emperor about a “great talent” but also “unblemished political attitude” of the candidate.J. Zielonacki lectured the Roman law in Cracow for two years and a half - until the end of December 1852. He was popular amongst the students and was respected amongst scholars as an eminent expert of the Roman law.On 1.01.1853 - without giving any justification, Prof. Zielonacki was removed from the University together with the following Professors: A. Malecki, W. Pol, A. Z. Helcel. The reasons for the dismissal have not been fully explained; at present it is considered as a revenge of the authorities for “the national attitude of the university full of dignity and visible efforts to maintain the Polish character” or even “acts of terror”. The direct reason for dismissing the “inconvenient” Professors was a denunciation against Prof. Malecki and Prof. Pol (and possibly Kremer), which drew the attention of the police to the whole academic environment. The head of the police in Cracow - Carol Neusser - who was commissioned to check the grounds of the denunciation, invigilated all university professors. It was claimed in his report (written on 21.03.1852) that some of the lecturers were particularly dangerous for the authorities. Prof. Zielonacki was described to be an impulsive person, having - “apart from Polish revolutionary tendencies, plenty of Prussian prejudices against Austria”, behaving “always unfriendly” towards the government. Thus, the removal of the professors had a clear political context - no particular accusations were however formulated. After the dismissal from the Jagiellonian University, Prof. Zielonacki was moved to Innsbruck, where he was the head of the Roman law department (until 1855), and afterwards he took over the same post at the Karol University in Prague.In 1857 Prof. Zielonacki, at his own request, was moved to the Lwow University, where he taught Roman law until he retired in 1870.In 1861 he tried to go back to Cracow to take over a vacant post in the Roman Law department but the authorities rejected his candidacy.Prof. Zielonacki made major contributions to the polonization of the Lwow University - he was the first and - for a long time - the only professor lecturing in Polish. In intense disputes with German professors he managed to win the right to use the Polish legal terminology during the lectures, subsequently a right for lectures in Polish, and afterwards to use Polish during exams. Fighting for the polonization of the university had an impact on his professorship career - after he was elected to be the dean of the Law Faculty for the first time for the academic year 1861/61 - he was ostentatiously neglected by his colleagues in elections to this post.Prof. Zielonacki, apart from his work with students, was also active in other areas: between 1867 and 1873 he was a member of the Autrian State Tribunal, and above all an active member of the Science Academy (from 1873 - since it was established). After Prof. Kramers death, from 1875 to 1878, he was a director of the Philosophy and History Faculty and played a significant role in establishing the Commission of Law in the Science Academy.Prof. Zielonacki died in his family estate in Goniczki on 28.04.1884.His scientific output is very ample - he wrote numerous articles and dissertations (in Latin, German and Polish) mainly on possession and usucaption. He is also an author of two monographs on servitudes (Wroclaw 1849) and on possession (Poznan 1854). The latter was also issued in Polish. The work of his lifetime was a two pans manual “Pandekta, i.e. a lecture on the Roman private law as it is the basis of the new laws” published in Polish in Cracow (1862/63, issue II 1870/1871), dedicated to “Polish youth devoting to the legal profession”. This work was greatly appreciated at his times.At present Prof. Zielonacki is groundlessly forgotten. He belonged to the most eminent Romanists of his times, he was an expen in Latin and German literature on the Roman law. He also substantially contributed to the polonization of law teaching. His personage - as an eminent scholar and patriot - it worth recalling. 

scholarly journals Vocational Higher Education and Training in Brazil and the Quality Control

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Domenes Zapparoli ◽  
Ferdinando Vinicius Domenes Zapparoli
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Vocational Higher Education ◽  
Brazilian Students ◽  
The Government ◽  
In The Beginning

This research focuses the sequential courses, a way of vocational higher education introduced in Brazil in 1999. The aim of this study is to show a general overview on vocational education in Brazil, the development of sequential courses, about the Brazilian universities and the representative institutions of category (syndicates, regional counseling, federations and confederations) and the quality control. These courses, with two years lasting, were implemented to develop in the students older than sixteen the professional background. These sequential courses are in the beginning phases of implementation, so there are not researches about them yet. However, the interest in sequential courses is increasing since they were implemented. Data from Ministry of Education point that in 1999 were offered one hundred seventy-eight courses in Brazil, meantime in 2002 the offering was six hundred twelve courses. Although the data show the sequential courses have been well accepted by Brazilian students, it is not possible to notice, if they fulfill the students’ expectations. The methodology to this work was developed through a bibliographic review about vocational education. Beyond the students, this research considers other important institutions or involved elements with this pattern of education and sequential courses, among them the government, the representative counseling of category, the teachers and the universities. We observed that there are many relevant questions those deserve some reflection related to different parts of these courses such as: a) the lack of links between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Labour, which leads to problems of recognition of the sequential courses in the labour market; b) the different points of view of trade unions, with some against and others in favour of this new kind of training workforce in Brazil; and c) the controversy among universities whether it is their role to offer sequential courses in addition to regular undergraduate degrees, partly because of their concerns regarding the quality of these courses. Key words: vocational education - sequential courses - workforce.

scholarly journals Human Resource Management is a Prerequisite for Enhancing the Quality of Higher Education in Kosovo

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Shqiponja Nallbani
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Government ◽  
Central Level

Given its problematic past, Kosovo’s economic and social development and its current resolve for a European integration process, will be a challenge that will follow for a long time. Because of the burden that state institutions carry in this mission, it is easily verifiable that the process of reform of public administration staff, both at local and central level, is failing. This is primarily because their number is too large and the government has no plans to either reduce this number or to increase their capacity and competence through educational programs of higher education. So far, the Kosovo government, specifically the Ministries of Education, Social Welfare, Labor, etc., and the local governments have no plans on how to achieve this task and the providers of higher education have not provided any program that would adequately enable employees to get re-qualified, in order to carry out their public duties more efficiently and professionally. Therefore, the requalification of staff at a higher education level is one of the essential factors that should be implemented immediately.

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