scholarly journals Evaluation of the Significance of the Rankings of Higher Education Institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Evija Rūsīte ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
Extensive Information ◽  
High Level ◽  
Research Function ◽  
The University

More and more attention is being paid to university rankings – for student and financing attraction, and for research and graduate employment of the respective university – the reputation of universities is becoming more and more important. However, it is important to underline, that only approximately 1–3% of the world universities (200–500 universities) are represented in the most popular international rankings. Previous studies confirm that most international rankings focus predominantly on indicators related to the research function of universities. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to search for some possible solutions for more effective research work organisation at the universities and correct reflection of achieved results to raise their position in university rankings. The methods used in this study are scientific publication analysis, investigation of university ranking results with special attention to research organisation at the university and expert interviews and expert survey. Main findings: possible solutions for more effective research work organisation at the universities with aim to raise the position in different university ratings, are innovative encouragement and financial support of academic staff for active scientific publication creation, as well as practical and methodological support in the preparing of high level publication for young scientists. Also significant aspect is support of academic staff for international communication and extensive information on research results.

Adopting a Strategy for Enhancing Generic Skills in Engineering Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelia Krassadaki ◽  
Kleanthi Lakiotaki ◽  
Nikolaos F. Matsatsinis
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Generic Skills ◽  
Team Working ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

It is remarkable how often academic staff discover students' weaknesses in expressing their thoughts in written and oral contexts, and in team working. To examine these weaknesses, a study was conducted in 2009–2010 and 2010–2011 of students taking an engineering course. Students self-reported an initial high level of weakness in both communication skills (writing and speaking), while expressing higher levels of confidence in their team working skills. This suggested that there was significant potential for improvement in both forms of communication skills and a lower potential for the improvement of team-working skills. On that basis the Technical University of Crete organized short training workshops based on experiential learning methods, during the academic year 2012–13. Other factors taken into account were the lack of awareness of such skills in traditionally-organized Greek universities; the inability to redesign all courses, currently dependent on a content-based curriculum, on a competency basis; and findings in the international literature, which highlight specific generic skills of engineering students as essential to their studies and future career prospects. The aim was to enhance the three skills of writing, speaking and team working. Participation was voluntary and open to students from all schools in the university. This paper assesses this initiative and analyses the contribution of the workshops to skills development.

Does sustainability reporting promote university ranking? Australian and New Zealand evidence

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan George Shan ◽  
Junru Zhang ◽  
Manzurul Alam ◽  
Phil Hancock
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The University ◽  
Reporting Channels

Purpose This study aims to investigate the relationship between university rankings and sustainability reporting among Australia and New Zealand universities. Even though sustainability reporting is an established area of investigation, prior research has paid inadequate attention to the nexus of university ranking and sustainability reporting. Design/methodology/approach This study covers 46 Australian and New Zealand universities and uses a data set, which includes sustainability reports and disclosures from four reporting channels including university websites, and university archives, between 2005 and 2018. Ordinary least squares regression was used with Pearson and Spearman’s rank correlations to investigate the likelihood of multi-collinearity and the paper also calculated the variance inflation factor values. Finally, this study uses the generalized method of moments approach to test for endogeneity. Findings The findings suggest that sustainability reporting is significantly and positively associated with university ranking and confirm that the four reporting channels play a vital role when communicating with university stakeholders. Further, this paper documents that sustainability reporting through websites, in addition to the annual report and a separate environment report have a positive impact on the university ranking systems. Originality/value This paper contributes to extant knowledge on the link between university rankings and university sustainability reporting which is considered a vital communication vehicle to meet the expectation of the stakeholder in relevance with the university rankings.

scholarly journals Collecting and Analyzing Academic Publication with UTeMAIR

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 2357-2363
Keyword(s):  
Academic Staff ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
Publication Data ◽  
Practical Tool ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The University

Academic publication has been one of the main requirements in academic research and university ranking to seek research funding and scholarship. Mostly, the publication is published as academic journal article, book or thesis in offline and online distribution. There are variety of tools and services available today to understand academic publication data. However, existing tools is still very limited in the terms of specific institute and academics. In this study, we propose a practical tool, UTeMAIR which retrieve publication information for academic staff of specific institute from online publication repositories sites such as Google Scholar and Scopus. Specifically, UTeMAIR consists of three main components namely, crawling engine, statistical analysis and keywords analysis. The objectives of this system to retrieve and store publication record of academic staff, to continuously update the collected information and to analyze publication data for all academic staff. With the availability of an effective retrieval and analysis tool for publication data, the university can monitor scholarly information in a better way and plan towards increasing the publication index among academics and ultimately improve university visibility.

scholarly journals Book Review. Uricska Erna’s COVIDICTIONARY: Words and Phrases Related to the Global Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nóra Barnucz
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

This unique work in its subject matter, genre and language was prepared during the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic. The theoretical background of the author’s research work is perfectly adjusted to Patyi’s “university triangle” model (“Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem, Intézményfejlesztési Terv 2015–2020,” n.d.), which basically illustrates the functioning of a university in a triple system of the activities “research—education—curriculum development,” and Paavola and Hakkarainen’s trialogical model (2005), which—through the competence of cooperation—provides an opportunity todevelop students’ creativity, to keep their motivation at a high level, to develop competencies required by the labour market, and to implement experiential teaching–learning. A questionnaire survey was used with closed and open questions among students who have been learning English for law enforcement at the University of Public ServiceFaculty of Law Enforcement (hereinafter: UPS FLE) using the corpus-based dictionary method. The author’s acquaintances registered on Facebook social media platform were also involved in the research. The 96-page collection of words and phrases based on the theoretical background involves 403 English words, word phrases, neologisms and their definitions related to the coronavirus epidemic and COVID-19 situation during the first wave.

scholarly journals Transição na Carreira Desportiva: Guião de Entrevista para Atletas (TCD-GEA)

Motricidade ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nuno Domingos Garrido
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
World University Rankings ◽  
Research Publications ◽  
The Times ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Sports Sciences

<p>The Journal Motricidade has always been walking in parallel with the scientific communities.</p><p>We found that the affiliation of most authors has, nearly always, a University (Uni) or a Research Center (RC). In fact it is almost impossible to conduct research outside these two universes. In this sense, Uni and RC feed the most, if not all, of scientific journals worldwide. By this I mean that is in the interest of Motricidade to be associated with high-quality RC and Uni equally recognized.</p><p>With regard to RC, Motricidade will publish this year a supplement of the International Congress of Research Centre in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development (CIDESD). This RC has conducted research in a variety of areas within the Sport Sciences and Health and always with high recognition and associated publications. It was not by chance that this RC was evaluated with ‘very good’ by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) panel and has been granted funding.</p><p>This Congress, which takes place every two years, targets to converge research and high level practices within these three areas: Sports, Health and Human Development. The 2016 CIDESD edition is dedicated to "Exercise and Health, Sports and Human Development" and will be held at the University of Évora, between 11 and 12 November of 2016. The readers can check the program in the following link <a href="http://gdoc.uevora.pt/450120" target="_blank">http://gdoc.uevora.pt/450120</a> and get more information in the Congress Site available at <a href="http://www.cidesd2016.uevora.pt/">http://www.cidesd2016.uevora.pt/</a>.</p><p>With regard to Uni, Motricidade signed a cooperation protocol with the University of Beira Interior (UBI) in May of 2016, involving the development and dissemination of scientific knowledge in Sports Sciences, Psychology, Human Development and Health.</p><p>At the present, UBI hosts more than 6,000 students spread across five faculties - Arts &amp; Letters, Sciences, Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences and Engineering.</p><p>When looking at the rankings, for instance the Times Higher Education (THE), v.2016-17 (<a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/universidade-da-beira-interior#ranking-dataset/589595">https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/universidade-da-beira-interior#ranking-dataset/589595</a>), we can see that UBI is growing, mostly in Research publications, in other words, on the number of research publications, where at least one author is affiliated to the university (<a href="http://www.umultirank.org/#!/home?trackType=home&amp;sightMode=undefined">http://www.umultirank.org/#!/home?trackType=home&amp;sightMode=undefined</a>).</p><p>We hope to contribute to maintain or increase this number of publications, since among the various clauses drawn up, in order to encourage research with publication in peer review journals, it was agreed that any manuscript submitted and accepted for publication, whose author or collaborators are affiliated with UBI is due half the rate of publication.</p><p>Union makes us stronger.</p>

scholarly journals University and Political Awareness among Students: A Study in the Role of University in Promoting Political Awareness

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Mohammad Salman Al-Khaza’leh ◽  
Hanene Lahiani
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Team Members ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Descriptive Survey

This research work has aimed at investigating the level of political awareness among the Al Ain University students and the role of the university in boosting it by using the descriptive survey method. Indeed, this study has relied upon the questionnaire and the interview as research tools, as well as on the intentional sample where 10 teaching team members were interviewed to answer the third question, and on the random sample where the questionnaire was distributed among 980 students- males and females to answer the first and second questions. The findings of this study revealed that there was a considerably high level of political awareness among the university students. It was also found that there were differences in the level of political awareness among students depending on the faculty, which favoured the students belonging to faculties of humanities. The differences also favoured male students when the variable was gender and 4th year students when the variable was the year of study. In addition, the study showed that the university played 15 important roles in developing political awareness as was unanimously agreed by the members of the sample. These roles were identified by using recurrences and percentages ranging between 50 and 90%, while those with percentages lower than 50% were not taken into account.   Received: 17 December 2020 / Accepted: 26 January 2021 / Published: 5 March 2021

scholarly journals Hassles and Panacea to Educational Researches in South- South Nigeria

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (25) ◽  
pp. 250
Author(s):  
Dokubo N. Isaac ◽  
Dokubo Chivuikem Isaac
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research Work ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Port Harcourt ◽  
The University ◽  
Rivers State ◽  
Descriptive Survey

This study examined the problems affecting educational researches in South-South Nigeria. The research work was conducted at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers state (UNIPORT); Niger Delta University, Amasoma, Bayelsa state (NDU); and the University of Calabar, Cross Rivers state (UNICAL). Descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population for the study was 3000 which comprised of final year students and academic staff in the above mentioned institutions. A sample size of 600 was drawn from the population. Four research questions guided the study. A 30- item questionnaire was developed and administered. The study revealed governmental factors, tertiary institutional factors, and researchers’ factors affecting educational researches in South-South Nigeria. Recommendations were made such as: the various state governments should improve on the security condition in their respective regions; the managements of the South- South tertiary institutions should encourage lecturers to carry out researches by making funds available to them through Tertiary Education Trust (TET) fund; e-libraries should be introduced, etc.

scholarly journals An Informetric Analysis of Relationship between Open Access Presence and Ranking of African Universities

Webology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Ifeanyi J. Ezema ◽  
Richard N.C Ugwuanyi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Moderate Correlation ◽  
Ranking Data ◽  
African Countries ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between open access presence and ranking of African universities. It adopted descriptive informetric to examine open access presence of African countries using Directory of Open Access Repositories (DOAR) and Research Gate scores (RGs) of the universities. Data was also extracted from the Journal Consortium (an African university ranking organisation) for metrics on African university ranking. Data on African open access presence was correlated with university rankings. Findings reveal that only twenty-four countries in Africa have records in DOAR and Research gate. Four of the countries (South Africa, Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria) contribute more over 85% of open access records in Africa and the same produced 68% of the top 100 universities in Africa. The study found a highly significant positive but moderate correlation between open access presence and ranking of African universities. It concludes that African universities need to review their science policy in line with open access initiative to enhance the visibility and ranking of the university globally.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Teacher Training Needs in Engineering Pedagogy

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
D. Gormaz-Lobos ◽  
C. Galarce-Miranda ◽  
H. Hortsch
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Russian Higher Education ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
High Level ◽  
Engineering Pedagogy ◽  
The University ◽  
Interest And Motivation ◽  
Engineering Training

In European countries, primarily in German-speaking countries, first of all, in Germany (Dresden), the concept of engineering pedagogy (EP) has existed for more than 70 years. In Eastern Europe, particularly in the Russian Federation, the tradition of EP has more than 20 years and shows an extensive network of universities actively participating in IGIP (International Society of Engineering Pedagogy). Several universities offer the IGIP curricula and work on various projects  related to majoring in engineering education and pedagogy in Russian Higher Education Institutions. In Spanish-speaking countries the concept of EP is relatively recent. Particularly, since 2014, the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden) works in cooperation with Chilean universities to strengthen engineering pedagogy and education in the university context. This goal was concretized through two cooperation projects “Engineering Didactics at Chilean Universities” (PEDING-Project) and “Strengthening engineering training at Chilean universities through practice partner-ships” (STING-Project), both financially supported by DAAD. The main goal of this paper is to present the results of a survey about teaching needs in engineering pedagogy in a Chilean university. In general, the results showed the high level of interest and motivation that a training course on engineering pedagogy specifically oriented for the academic staff of engineering faculties may have. The project was led by the International Center of Engineering Education (CIEI) at the University of Talca (Chile) under the pedagogical support of the TU Dresden (Germany). 

scholarly journals El concepto de excelencia universitaria medido a través de los rankings internacionales / The Concept of University Excellence Measured by International Rankings

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Jairo Alexander González Bueno ◽  
Gladys Elena Rueda Barrios
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
International Context ◽  
Academic Ranking ◽  
The Times ◽  
The University

ABSTRACTDespite ongoing discussions and reviews regarding their application and validity, the university rankings are a popular means for comparing the Institutions of Higher Education at national and international level. These classification systems cover only 1 % of universities worldwide and focuses mostly on scientific research of these entities. Through this article will be presented a brief investigation of the origins of university rankings. Likewise, the position of Latin American universities will be discussed, in particular the Colombian in the international context. This descriptive analysis will be based on the results of the 2013 Academic Ranking of World University, the Times Higher Education Ranking, QS World University Ranking and SIR Scimago Institutions Rankings. Finally, will be analyzed the effects and impacts of using rankings to classify, compare and rank universities globally analyzed.RESUMENA pesar de los debates y críticas continuas con respecto a su validez y aplicación, los rankings universitarios son un medio popular para comparar las Instituciones de Educación Superior a nivel nacional e internacional. Estos sistemas de clasificación sólo abarcan el 1% de las universidades a nivel mundial y se enfocan en su gran mayoría en la investigación científica de estas instituciones. A través del presente artículo se realizará una breve investigación de los orígenes de los rankings universitarios. Así mismo, se analizará la posición de las universidades latinoamericanas, y en particular las colombianas, en el contexto internacional. Para ello se realizará un análisis descriptivo tomando como base los resultados al año 2013 del Academic Ranking of World University, del Times Higher Education Ranking, del QS World University Ranking y del SIR Scimago Institutions Rankings. Por último, se analizarán los efectos e impactos de usar los rankings para clasificar, comparar y calificar las universidades a nivel mundial. Contacto principal: [email protected]

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