scholarly journals On Markovian Aspect of Academic Staff Structure in Private Higher Institutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (05) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Magbagbeola Adekunle O.
Keyword(s):  
Academic Staff ◽  
Stochastic Matrix ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Performance Criterion ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Bench Mark ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Higher Institution ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Staff Mix

Frustrations, agony and tales of woes that greeted the aftermath of any concluded accreditation exercise informed our interest in addressing this ugly trend that has bedeviled our higher educational system. The dearth or otherwise absence of an appropriate model(s) that will satisfy both the starting matrix and the NUCs staff mix by rank matrix explains this disconnect. A typical challenge here is to reach a desired structure by a certain time in a changing environment or with the smallest possible cost in other to meet up with NUC accreditation minimum bench mark requirement for any higher educational institution. The main objective was to reach a desired structure by a certain time in a changing environment or with the smallest possible cost. Therefore a certain degree of control is sensible at various points in time to the attainment of the desired academic staff structure of any higher institution to monitor the academic staff-mix by rank of Academic staff structure of universities not to fall short of NUC requirements for accreditation. In our work, the concept of time as an optimality performance criterion was used to obtain an optimal recruitment control vector for a manpower system modelled by a stochastic differential equation through the necessary condition of Pontryagin theorem. Desired transition matrix P was obtained that is not stochastic but could be further developed into a stochastic matrix as required.

A Proposed Effective Leadership Model for the Malaysian Higher Educational Institutions of Majlis Amanah Rakyat

2021 ◽  
pp. 126-139
Keyword(s):  
Effective Leadership ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Effective Leader ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Higher Educational

Effective institutional leaderis the crucial player to the successful or failureof an educational institution. However, the expectation to own an effective leader often in vain. The reason is because leaders lack of a standard guideline that based on the local context.Therefore, this studyis to develop a proposed model of effective leadership for Malaysian higher educational institutions, in particular, higher educational institutions which are owned by Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA). To achieve the research purpose, the questionnaires instrument were distributed to 240 academic staff from the selected higher educational institutions of Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA)innorthern Perak, Malaysia. The data were analysed using a statistical method called Partial Least Square (PLS)to develop a proposed model of effective leadership.The effective leadership design model can provide guidelines and encourage leadersto enhance and bring positive change that helps educational institutions succeed and be effective.

scholarly journals WEBOMETRICS RANKING OF UNIVERSITIES AS A FACTOR OF GAINING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN THE MARKET FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-336
Author(s):  
Володимир Олександрович Уманець ◽  
Людмила Станіславівна Шевченко ◽  
Андрій Іванович Безуглий
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Educational Establishment ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
The Difference

Being a “window on the world”, the official website of an educational institution is among the most important means of promoting its activities, thus increasing its competitive advantage in the market for educational services. Providing a framework for efficient marketing, the functioning of the official website of a higher educational establishment represents a format of public relations, the outcomes of which depend heavily upon numerous factors. Presenting unbiased assessment of a university’s image formalised in terms of officially approved procedures is crucial for winning a respective market share. The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (also known as Ranking Web of Universities) represents validated data that must not be overlooked by both website administrators and those interested in evaluating a university’s image. Though taken with a great deal of scepticism by some universities, webometrics ranking nevertheless can make the difference when it goes about sprucing up a university’s image and successful appealing to its target audience. The research work considers the issue of representing global rankings of educational institutions on their official websites as an element of marketing policies devised with the view of gaining a competitive advantage in the global educational space. It is highlighted that university ranks are based on applying diverse criteria and indicators as well as measuring respective values. Criticised are dishonest practices of providing false information aimed at increasing ranks of some educational establishments. The measuring indicators (availability, visibility, transparency (or openness), and excellence (or scientific character)) are analysed based on cybermetric data of research findings obtained by bibliometric methods. The authors elaborated a set of recommendations as for increasing the efficiency of university website functioning. The key point is to comprehensively select, verify, present and expand contents of a website. It is highlighted that information on the official website of a higher educational establishment should reflect the whole range of educational, scientific research and administrative activities carried out by the academic staff and students. Blended together, they represent the business reputation of the university, which includes its reputation, prestige, partnering relationships, business contacts etc. The authors share their experience in implementing the above measures at Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University.

scholarly journals Management perceptions of a higher educational brand for the attraction of talented academic staf

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Musa Saurombe ◽  
E. Nicolene Barkhuizen ◽  
Nico E. Schutte
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Higher Education Management ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Higher Educational

Orientation: Academic staff members have a crucial role in the success of higher education institutions (HEIs). Therefore, it is imperative to cultivate an appealing organisational brand that will attract them to HEIs as an employer of choice.Research purpose: The main objective of this study was to explore management perceptions on a higher educational institution as a brand for the attraction of talented academic staff.Motivation for the study: Although a substantial amount of research has been conducted on organisational branding, not much has emphasised the higher educational sector.Research approach, design and method: A qualitative research approach was adopted, using semi-structured interviews to collect data from management (N = 12) of a merged South African HEI.Main findings: The findings revealed six themes that should form the core of a higher educational brand for academic staff: reputation and image, organisational culture and identity, strategic vision, corporate social responsibility and work and surrounding environment.Practical/managerial implications: The findings of the study will assist higher education management to create a compelling organisational brand and work environment to attract and retain talented academic staff members.Contribution/value-add: This research makes a valuable contribution towards creating new knowledge in the key that should form part of an appealing higher education brand that will attract and retain current and future talent.

scholarly journals THE CONUNDRUM OF INTERNET OF THINGS ADOPTION IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-94
Author(s):  
Yeo Chu May Amy ◽  
Gim Guan Tan ◽  
Steve Carter
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Adoption Intention

This study aims to extend the evaluation and understanding of an individuals’ adoption intention towards the Internet of Things (IoT) in a higher educational context and also to assess the relationship between Perceived Benefits, Digital Culture and Mindset, Technological Motivator, Technological Inhibitor and Attitude and how these factors relate to the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) behavior. The research employed a quantitative and cross-sectional approach.  A sample of 202 respondents from a Malaysian educational institution was collected through a self-designed questionnaire based on a snowball sampling technique. The data collected were analyzed using SmartPLS. The results indicate that attitude, technological motivator and digital mindset have a significant effect on the IoT adoption intention. Of these, attitude has the greatest influence with regard to the decision to adopt any IoT products or services. Digital mindset was a salient factor that explained user’s adoption intention behaviour on IoT technologies. Perceived benefits, however, showed insignificant direct effect whereas the technological inhibitor perspective affects the IoT adoption intention through attitude factor. The research provides further evidence that attitude and digital mindset built up within the individual are crucial elements to be considered in justifying the adoption behavior of IoT. The research findings show how the adoption of IoT could help academic staff and students leverage technologies' benefits to improve work and academic performance. It also highlights the importance of trust and builds the required attitude to support the technology to industry players. This study did not account for motivators such as incentives or influence from authority figures (leaders, top management, government and policy maker) as well as environmental conditions, namely the readiness of the infrastructure and the commonality of the usage in the social group.

THE KEY FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGIES: NATURAL AND GRAMMATICAL TRANSLATION

2019 ◽  
pp. 270-272
Author(s):  
L.V. Pavlyuk
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Methodologies ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
Economic Profile ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Student Audience

This article is devoted to the analysis of the concepts of «methodology» in general, and «methodology in education» in particular. The analysis of the main classical methods in the field of teaching a foreign language such as «natural» and «grammatical-translation», indicate the urgent need for training and application of the student audience to achieve conscious foreign language knowledge in a non-linguistic higher educational institution of general economic profile.

Digitalization of production in Altium Designer software

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-42
Author(s):  
S. S. Yudachev ◽  
S. S. Sitnikov ◽  
F. M. Bosy
Keyword(s):  
Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Electronic Device ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Electrical Circuit ◽  
Circuit Board ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Printed Circuit ◽  
Higher Educational

A method for modeling and printed circuit board layout in the form of a 3D model in one of the digital solutions designed for this task, Altium Designer, is proposed. The practical significance of the work is the study of the basic software libraries in terms of their creation, filling and application when working with the project, as well as of the algorithm for constructing an electrical circuit in the Altium Designer program, layout and design of the simplest circuit on the board. In the course of the work, the algorithm and rules for creating a library of three-dimensional models of components, a library containing conditional graphic designations of the corresponding components, a schematic diagram of the device, a three-dimensional model of the board and the construction of conducting tracks on it are described. The components and circuits used in the work are publicly available on the Internet, which allows anyone to work over the entire algorithm for studying and honing the skills of designing printed circuit boards, both by students studying at a higher educational institution and by fully-fledged specialists. This work can be used not only for teaching students in the field of electronic device development in terms of their design and for organizing laboratory work, but also for creating and designing real devices both in production and within a higher educational institution, for example, for creating a laboratory bench. The introduction and study of this software is carried out at the Department of Radio-Electronic Systems and Complexes of one of the leading engineering universities of the Russian Federation — the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

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