scholarly journals The role and function of sport economic studies on higher education

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 53-55
Author(s):  
Attila Borbély
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
International Higher Education ◽  
Master Program ◽  
Jel Code ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function ◽  
Economic Studies

Sport economy is a new discipline in domestic and international higher education. In this paper I would like to introduce the present situation and experiencies of sport correlation with economic sciences. I am looking for the answer, for what role and possibilities does sport economic master program in Hungary have. JEL code: Z2

scholarly journals The Role of Library Councils in Canadian Higher Education: An Exploratory Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-158
Author(s):  
Eva Revitt ◽  
Sean Luyk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Governance Structures ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Canadian Higher Education ◽  
Governance Practice ◽  
And Function ◽  
The University ◽  
Role And Function

Scholarship exploring the makeup, function, and efficacy of collegial governance structures within the context of Canadian higher education is limited and primarily focused on the board or the senate. This paper expands that scholarship by focusing on the governance structures of the university library. The objective of this study was to determine the extent of library councils in Canadian universities and to examine their composition, role, and function as evidenced in their governing documents. Using Karl Mannheim’s document method to analyze the terms of reference of 23 library councils, findings reveal that, overwhelmingly, library councils function as information-sharing and discussion forums rather than decision-making bodies. The paper concludes with a review of progressive language and governance practice as gathered from the document analysis.

scholarly journals DIGITAL REORIENTATION OF ISLAMIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Kastolani Kastolani
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Times ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function

The digital era and rapid technological developments require responses from various institutions to be able to survive and be able to use it well. Islamic education also needs to respond to this. Therefore, the reorientation of Islamic education in the digital era is important to discuss. This article aims to discuss various thoughts related to the reorientation of Islamic education in the digital era. The discussion is focused on approaches, models, and methods in Islamic studies at Islamic higher education using descriptive analysis. This article recommends the reorientation of Islamic education in the digital era can be done through three things, namely first, with a historical approach, second, by avoiding pseudo-diversification models, and third, by using Blended e-learning methods. Thus the Islamic Higher Education institutions can carry out its role and function in education that is sensitive to the times and at the same time the manifestation of Islam as rahmatanlil 'alamin in the digital era. Keywords: Blended E-Learning, Digital Era, and Technology.

The spectral scientists of corridor B: Neoliberalization and its ghosts in higher education

2021 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2110548
Author(s):  
Kerry Holden
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Institutional Management ◽  
New Public ◽  
Moral Economies ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function

This paper examines the role and function of science as a vocation in contemporary higher education. In recent decades, universities have expanded and reorganized their resources and expertise around commercially viable research avenues. All the signs point towards the creep of new public management coupled with neoliberal economic policy that starting in the 1980s had introduced accountability, standardization and internal competitiveness into public sector institutions. In this paper, I examine how the idea of the vocation is produced in higher education institutes using the example of an internal research audit that was carried out in a major research-led university between 2002 and 2005. I examine its impacts on biomedical scientists who lost access to laboratory space, a move that effectively ended their research careers. These scientists were redeployed to teaching-only positions and shortly thereafter, resurrected as ghostly reminders of the effects of audit. While teaching-only staff echoed Foucauldian critique in exposing the power/knowledge matrices of institutional management, it was their spatialization as spectres stalking the edges of research that revealed how the moral economies of science are valorized not in resistance to neoliberalization but as constitutive of it.

scholarly journals Pedagogies of Academic Writing in Teacher Education: from Epistemology to Practice and back again

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Beighton ◽  
Alison Blackman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
And Function ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
Role And Function

TThis paper discusses barriers to the development of academic writing, in the area of teacher education in UK higher education . We first situate these issues in a higher education context increasingly defined by new technologies and diverse cohorts of higher education students. Drawing on empirical data obtained from interviews with both students and teachers (N=21), we then critically examine a range of perspectives on the definition, role and function of academic literacy in this contemporary context. Findings include useful insights into the development of writing skills and teacher identity, but they also reveal fundamental differences in the epistemological presuppositions of those teaching academic writing. These accounts are reflected in significant differences in pedagogy, and raise important questions for practice which, although potentially irresolvable, may help to explain some of the difficulties which emerge when trying to teach academic writing. Such fundamental issues, we argue, need to be at least recognized if  teachers hope to develop the writing capacity of trainee teachers in an academic context.

Higher education—an image-boosting business?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Alvesson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Abstract Thinking ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Academic Degree ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function ◽  
Business And Management

In this chapter, I continue to address higher education. A key question is the role and function of higher education, especially the universities, in contemporary society. Is it primarily a vehicle for the improvement of knowledge and intellectual qualifications? Or is it about other issues? As hinted at in Chapter 4, there seems to be a lot of variation and a lot of shakiness concerning learning and improvement of cognitive capacities for all or the vast majority of students. A second key question is what the signifier ‘university’ means (in the context of education). Does it mean anything particular or is it just a label intended to trigger positive responses and then work as an umbrella for all kinds of activities? This raises the question as to what extent the entire sector in itself, rather than merely certain arrangements within higher education institutions, can be viewed as an illusion (i.e., not accomplishing what it increasingly claims that it represents and achieves). Higher education is perhaps better at producing degrees, documentation for CVs, and keeping young people out of unemployment for a few years than producing knowledge and people who are good at critical and abstract thinking, seeing patterns, and analysing problems. A third key question concerns the benefits of higher education for individuals. Do people, on the whole, gain from higher education and, if so, in what ways? This chapter is rather broad in scope. It starts with critically examining to what extent higher education—here,meaning primarily university education— leads to qualifications and whether an academic degree offers a clear message about the graduate’s ability. These questions are related to, and trigger further consideration of, inflation tendencies in the entire educational sector, but in particular in universities. One potentially significant and problematic outcome of the inflation is over-education; i.e., the number of graduates strongly exceeds the number of jobs for which their formal education and degrees indicate they are qualified. A heavily expanded, and often dominating, area of education is business and management studies. I give this sector some extra attention in the chapter, as it is my own sector.

scholarly journals Human Capital in Online Higher Education Settings: A Socio-Educative Perspective Applied to Graduates of an Online University

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Riccardo Valente ◽  
Albert Sanchez Gelabert ◽  
Josep M Duart
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
University Departments ◽  
Online Higher Education ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
Spanish Educational System

In recent decades, a series of changes has shaped a model for universities backing new ways of understanding education and educational institutions in our societies. The appearance of completely online universities and traditional university departments offering online programmes, openly and en masse, bear witness to this. All these changes are an opportunity to rethink the role and function of universities in our increasingly interconnected and global societies. In what follows, we propose our contribution to this debate by focusing on the specific case of the “Universitat Oberta de Catalunya” (UOC), an online university of the Spanish educational system.

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