scholarly journals Staff Development Needs In Pakistan Higher Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hameed Ullah ◽  
Muhammad Naeem Ullah Khan ◽  
Ali Murtaza ◽  
Muhammad Naseer Ud Din
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Professional Attitude ◽  
The University

Staff development is very significant for the achievement of overall goals of higher education in Pakistan. The success of innovations depends largely upon the skills of instructors; but in Pakistan, the people with a simple masters degree (without any pedagogical training) are  inducted as teaching staff at the university level, so it is time to explore whether or not the inducted teachers feel the need for training. Further to be explored are areas in which they are interested in being trained. Therefore, the objectives of study were 1) to explore the training needs for university teaching staff, 2) to identify the areas in which development is needed by the teaching staff of the universities in Pakistan, and 3) formulation of recommendations for staff development in Pakistan to improve education at the higher level.  The sample comprised of 20% randomly-selected teaching staff of ten selected universities, degree-awarding institutions from the public sector, and 40% teaching staff of ten selected universities from the private sector. A self-developed questionnaire, consisting of 41 items to be responded to on a five-point Likert scale and two open-ended questions, was used to collect data.  The principal researcher approached all the respondents personally by repeated visits and got the completed questionnaires, so this questionnaire also served the purpose of an interview. The analysis of data revealed that the university teachers need training in the following areas: philosophy of education, Islamic philosophy of education, educational psychology, research techniques, professional trends, professional competencies, professional attitude, professional ethics ,global innovations in teaching strategies, classroom management, counselling and guidance, student discipline, communication skills, learning theories, and supervision. Therefore, it is recommended that they may be included in the training curriculum of university teachers.

scholarly journals Evaluating the performance of teaching staff members, a step towards teaching performance development of higher education in Sebha University

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Zamzam Amhimmid Mare
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Analytic Description ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Teaching Performance ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Performance Development ◽  
The University

This study aims to show the importance of evaluating the teaching performance level of the University teaching members. It also aims to provide the suggested mechanisms for evaluating the teaching performance of the teaching staff members of Sebha University. This study was based mainly on documents and analytic description to collect information about the importance and ways of evaluating teachers with reference to some of the international experiences on teaching performance development. This study concluded that the absence of an experienced entity that would develop the teaching performance of faculty members is one of the main reasons for the weak teaching performance at Sebha University. Based on the results of the study, it is recommended that there should be a planned system based on measured standards and criteria for evaluating staff members to improve the quality of teaching in the higher education domain. 

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF THE POTENTIAL OF FACULTY MEMBERS

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
Юлия Масалова ◽  
Yuliya Masalova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
High School Teacher ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Employment Potential ◽  
The University

The purpose of the work is to evaluate the potential of a high school teacher; the subject of study is employment potential and competitiveness of the university faculty member; research methods include analysis of statistical data and online-survey. The article presents the results of the research potential of the university teaching staff in the conditions of ongoing reforms in higher education and in connection with changing requirements to higher education institutions forfaculty members. It was determined that faculty members demonstrate high loyalty and commitment, but average engagement. It was revealed that the institution creates proper conditions for development and self-realization, creativity and communication. It was confirmed that university professors have a high scientific and innovative potential and willingness to conduct research. The conclusion is that the employment potential of university staff is not used to the full. It was determined that the majority of the teaching staff appreciates personal competitiveness. And only one out of five is aware of the need to develop their personal competitiveness in line with the new requirements. The results of the study may be useful for university governance within the management of human resources quality.

scholarly journals Competency-Based Approach in Higher Education System: Socio-Psychological Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-34
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Ravilevna Sagitova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Tabular Form ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

The paper presents an analysis of the concept of competence and competency in the works of domestic and foreign authors, and a comparative analysis of the characteristics of the concepts of competence in foreign and domestic science is carried out in tabular form. The author's definition of competence is given, which made it possible to conduct an empirical pilot study of the formed competencies of the university teaching staff.

Supporting English competence development in university teachers: Principles and practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 256-268
Author(s):  
Irina V. Kulamikhina ◽  
Zhanbota B. Esmurzaeva ◽  
Dinara G. Vasbieva ◽  
Aleksei Yu Alipichev
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Visual Thinking ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Content Design

In today’s world, the English language communicative competence is a major soft skill of university teachers which is needed for personal and professional fulfilment and career development. This study aimed at the design and practical realisation of the 72-hour English course stimulating the teaching staff’s engagement in language learning and English communicative competence development at the Omsk State Agrarian University. The authors have discussed the principles and approaches to the course content design and efficacy of four classroom management strategies: the use of real life communication situations, making presentations, visual thinking strategy and short-film-based discussions for developing EFL communicative competence in university teachers. The situational approach to the content design introduced ‘real-life’ communicative situations serving as a teaching method and an assessment tool. The participants of the course took an online test: ‘Evaluation of Readiness for The Certificate Exam in English’, developed by the Tomsk Polytechnic University, at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the course. Keywords: Communicative competence, adult language learning, university teaching staff, visual thinking, situational approach, communicative environment.

scholarly journals Toward Inclusive Higher Education in a Global Context

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Ortiz Colón ◽  
Miriam Agreda Montoro ◽  
María Colmenero Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The University ◽  
Students With A Disability

The aim of this study was to analyse the perception of teaching staff at the University of Jaen regarding the integration of students with a disability, and to describe the interventions they use to respond to the specific needs of these students, to examine the differences that exist in teachers’ interventions for students with a disability based on their faculty. To this end, a descriptive methodology was used (n =300 teachers), and the data were gathered using a Tutoring and Attention to Special Needs in the Classroom Questionnaire (TASN-Q). The results were organised in terms of the tool’s different dimensions and, in general, revealed that the teaching staff do not consider themselves sufficiently prepared to provide an educational response to students with a disability. The best-prepared teaching staff belonged to the Faculties of Social and Legal Sciences and Health Sciences. This study confirms the need for training in special needs processes to enable university teaching staff to participate in an inclusive model.

scholarly journals Perceptions about the Future of Integrating Emerging Technologies into Higher Education—The Case of Robotics with Artificial Intelligence

Computers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Janika Leoste ◽  
Larissa Jõgi ◽  
Tiia Õun ◽  
Luis Pastor ◽  
José San Martín López ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
University Level

Emerging technologies (ETs) will most likely have a strong impact on education (starting with higher education), just like they have already had in so many economic and social areas. This paper is based on the results obtained in the project “My Future Colleague Robot”, an initiative that aimed to improve the competence of university teaching staff regarding the introduction of ETs in teaching practices at university level. In this paper, we identified the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that are related to the adoption in higher education of the combination of two ETs: robotics together with artificial intelligence (AI). Additionally, we analyzed the perceptions of university-level teaching staff about the potential of introducing ETs in education. The empirical data presented here were collected using written essays from 18 university teachers and students. Deductive and inductive approaches with thematic analysis were used for the data analysis. The findings support the idea that previous ET-related experience can support positive attitudes and the implementations of ETs in university teaching; in this study, university teachers had optimistic expectations towards ETs, accepting them as part of teaching practice development, while discussion about the negative effects of ETs was negligible.

scholarly journals Teaching Resilience: Enabling Factors for Effective Responses to COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Baumber ◽  
Lucy Allen ◽  
Tyler Key ◽  
Giedre Kligyte ◽  
Jacqueline Melvold ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Success ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Sydney Australia

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted higher education globally. Teaching staff have pivoted to online learning and employed a range of strategies to facilitate student success. Aside from offering a testing ground for innovative teaching strategies, the pandemic has also provided an opportunity to better understand the pre-existing conditions that enable higher education systems to be resilient - that is, to respond and adapt to disturbances in ways that retain the functions and structures essential for student success. This article presents a case study covering two transdisciplinary undergraduate courses at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. The results highlight the importance of information flows, feedbacks, self-organisation, leadership, openness, trust, equity, diversity, reserves, social learning and nestedness. These results show that resilience frameworks developed by previous scholars are relevant to university teaching systems and offer guidance on which system features require protection and strengthening to enable effective responses to future disturbances.

scholarly journals Teaching in Higher Education: Theories, Realities and Future Controversies

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Katerina R. Toka ◽  
Labrina Gioti
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the field of University Pedagogy and specifically the relationship between theory (learning theories university teachers adopt) and practice (actual teaching) in Higher Education Institutions. To this end, we conducted a mixed methodology research (triangulation) by implicating both the students and the university teachers of post graduate programs of the former Alexander Technological Educational Institute–ATEI-of Thessaloniki (current International Hellenic University-IHU). The data collection methods were:7 semi-structured interviews with the teaching staff, student questionnaires (n=98) and non-participatory observation. Results show that teachers’ views about learning and teaching are consistent mostly with person-centered humanistic learning theories and cognitive constructivism. Learning is viewed as a dynamic process revolving around students and their needs. Their student-centered approach and the theories they embrace are consistent with their teaching practice to a satisfactory degree (role, climate, teacher-student relationship, objectives, connection to reality). However, an issue detected is the relatively limited use of the most active teaching techniques.

scholarly journals Dynamics of the gender structure of teaching staff in modern Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 02001
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Alekseevna Brushkova ◽  
Ivan Andreevich Vladimirov ◽  
Niginakhon Arslanovna Shermukhamedova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Pay Gap ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The University

The subject of the article is the dynamics of the gender structure of university staff in modern Russia. The purpose of the article is to reveal the changes that have occurred in the gender structure of university teachers over the past 20 years. Research methods include the analysis of statistical and sociological data, cross-tabulation and calculation of the feminization index. The authors note that over the twenty-year period, the feminization of Russian universities has intensified. It captures increasingly higher levels of the university job hierarchy, which is manifested in an increase in the number of women in the positions of associate professors, professors, heads of departments, vice-rectors, etc. The significant predominance of women in the positions of assistants, teachers and senior teachers is the basis for the further feminization of university staff in Russia. The analysis of the gender structure of postgraduate and doctoral students shows that women lag behind men only in the youngest age categories of postgraduate students (up to 27 years old) and doctoral students (up to 39 years old) and the oldest category of doctoral students (over 60 years old). This is explained by the fact that at these ages, women are likely to perform their reproductive and educational functions. Women dominate in all other age cohorts of postgraduate and doctoral students. The authors conclude that, despite the existing manifestations of discrimination against women in higher education (gender pay gap, low representation of women at the highest level of university administration, the glass ceiling effect in promoting women up the career ladder, etc.) In general, women are making progress in higher education, making the industry increasingly feminized.

scholarly journals What do university teachers do all day (and often into the night)?'

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-23
Author(s):  
Josie Arnold ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
University Research ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Teaching and the student experience are interlocked. This paper takes a personal look at the pleasures and pressures of teaching in contemporary higher education. In doing so it adds to the definition of teachers’ work in higher education, surveys some of the creative and positive sides of University teaching and shines a light upon the impact of increased commercialisation and managerial approaches upon academic work. It focuses upon the teaching and learning activities that academics undertake in the service of the university, including the research that adds to and updates their own knowledge, and hence underpins their teaching, so as to enable and enrich the learning journeys of their students. This paper has been written as a personal narrative, as what I have come to call a ‘subjective academic narrative’. The ‘subjective’ refers to acknowledgement of the inevitability of the personal being an integral part of research; the ‘academic’ refers to the analytical and the intellectual ambience in which university research takes place; and the ‘narrative’ refers to the story, that is, the way in which we re-tell all of our research. Above all, this paper contributes to a sense of understanding some of the elements of teaching that are involved in student engagement.

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