scholarly journals Mentor or tormentor? A commentary on the fractured role of mentoring in paramedicine

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Bell ◽  
Steve Whitfield
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Specific Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Healthcare Profession ◽  
Growing Pains ◽  
The Individual

The relatively quick evolution of paramedicine and the inevitable ‘growing pains’ associated with an evolving profession has seen mentoring and the role of the mentor become clouded in confusion, ineffective education and a lack of specific research. Paramedicine’s recent development as a registered profession has also seen mentoring explicitly outlined as being a capability expected of all registered paramedics. However, the paramedic-mentoring model in Australia seems to have been mostly left up to the individual paramedic to develop in isolation from adequate training and mentoring themselves. If paramedicine is to continue its evolution as a legitimate healthcare profession, the quality of clinical mentoring must be acknowledged as a significant factor by higher education institutions, and the public and private services who employ paramedics, and nurtured accordingly.

scholarly journals Empowerment in academia: non-academic professional staff's perspectives on employee empowerment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Salome Chitorelidze
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Employee Empowerment ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Professional Employees ◽  
Definition Of

The concept of employee empowerment has long been heralded as advantageous to employees and organizations both in the public and private sectors. However, the concept still remains ambiguous because there is no settled idea about how it should be defined. Furthermore, employees' perspectives about employee empowerment are mostly overlooked in the existing body of research. It is particularly true about non-academic professional employees at higher education institutions and their views, concerns, or expectations with regard to empowerment. This qualitative study aimed to address the existing gaps in the literature on employee empowerment.It intended to explore non-academic professional staff's views about the definition and value of empowerment. The findings of this research study have useful implications for the definition of the concept and for academic institutions and their leaders about the role of empowerment.

scholarly journals The Competencies and Knowledge Entrepreneurship relationship in Higher Education Institutes: Examining the Moderating Role of Organizational Climate

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 390-398
Author(s):  
Nida Kamal ◽  
Bakhtiar Ali ◽  
Hina Samdani
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Social Competencies ◽  
The Public

Higher education institutions, in the knowledge economy, have a significant role in encouraging innovation and ultimately accelerating economic growth by the creation and transfer of knowledge. This study concentrates on the construct of knowledge entrepreneurship in higher education institutions of the public and private sectors in Pakistan. It highlights the competencies required to enhance knowledge entrepreneurship in presence of an encouraging organizational climate. Using the dynamic capability theory, this study theorizes the essential role of Personal, Professional and social competencies of faculty members in Higher education institutions in creating and disseminating various forms of knowledge while the organization maintains support, encouragement, leadership and the vision to accomplish the same. Implications and areas for future research are highlighted for further expansion in literature.

scholarly journals Study and Evaluation of the Factors That Determine the Quality of Marketing Education in Higher Education Institutions in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Somaia Osman Mohamed Abdelgadir ◽  
Ahmed Osman Ibrahim Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Marketing Education ◽  
The Individual

Objective: The tremendous growth in the preparation of higher education institutions for management – marketing, has resulted in the need for and necessity to discuss the quality of that education. From here, the aim of this research was to determine the factors that affect the quality of management education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to clarify its nature and importance, and the mutual effects on the quality of learning outcomes for marketing education at the individual student and program level, and at the level of the educational institution and its competitiveness. Design / Methodology: The determination of the factors affecting the quality of management education through a review of the literature and then testing its validity and its effects on the quality of marketing education outcomes at the individual, program, and institution level through practical study using survey lists for the teaching courses of government and private universities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Findings: The studies showed that almost all of the factors studied are highly reliable among themselves, and that they must be seen as coherent, when analyzing their impact on the learning outcomes of marketing education. Applications: The study provided guidance for, administrators, curriculum and course designers, and marketing teachers, to design high-quality marketing-management education programs, and in developing a self-diagnostic tool in which universities can determine their susceptibility to success and competition. Rooting / value: the current literature has shed light on the factors affecting the quality of management education. However, it was taken separately. Therefore, the research contributes to the existing literature by identifying the interrelationships between these factors, which have a role in improving the quality of marketing education.

scholarly journals Arbeid in publieke en private sectoren vergeleken

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Smulders ◽  
Irene Houtman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Public Sectors ◽  
Emotional Strain

Work in public and private sectors compared Work in public and private sectors compared During the past years, Dutch media made mention of work problems and social unrest in the public sectors. However, research did not focus very strongly on the quality of work in these sectors. Therefore the aim of this article is to describe working conditions and terms of employment in the public sectors in comparison with the private sectors in the Netherlands. The data used were gathered by TNO and Statistics Netherlands in 2010 with the annual Netherlands Working Conditions Survey. The 2010-sample contained 23.000 workers, representative for the Dutch work force.The analyses – centered on 10 public and 10 private sectors – show clearly that mental-emotional strain is higher in the public sectors than in private sectors. On the other hand, physical strain, dangerous work and irregular working hours, are encountered more frequently in the private sectors. In the public sectors employees work more with permanent contracts and in shorter working weeks. Work uncertainty is seen above average in the financial and commercial services and in the transportation sector, but also in government departments, the judiciary and the police. Feelings of burn out are found most often in the three educational sectors. Pay satisfaction is highest among workers in the financial services, higher education and government departments, and lowest in the police and the hotel and catering industry. On average overall work satisfaction is highest in the public sectors.In addition, the analyses show that the 10 public sectors cannot be seen as one whole; the same is true for the 10 private sectors. As far as the quality of work is concerned, government departments, local governments, provinces and higher education resemble commercial and financial services. But primary and secondary education, health care and the police differ significantly from the other public sectors.

scholarly journals JOKOWI’S INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITION TO CUT INDONESIAN REGULATIONS: RECOMMENDATIONS AND THE ROLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 355
Author(s):  
Handa S Abidin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Direct Benefits ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Laws And Regulations

<p>This research provides recommendations for the development of an initiative of the President of the Republic of Indonesia (Presiden Republik Indonesia), Joko Widodo (Jokowi), namely the implementation of a competition to cut Indonesian regulations, and relates these recommendations to the role of higher education institutions in Indonesia. The concept of “cutting” regulations should be developed into “managing.” The competition should also widen the scope of what should be managed. Rather than being limited only to “regulations,” the scope should include “laws and regulations as well as other relevant law and policy products.” Furthermore, the competition could be a trigger for developing other related collaborations. The collaboration between relevant parties in the competition and other future collaborations can be classified as a form of mutual cooperation (<em>gotong royong</em>) which could contribute to the development of the quality of Indonesian law in general and specifically to the quality of laws and regulations and other relevant law and policy products in the context of Indonesia. This mutual cooperation could also bring direct benefits to the Central Government of the Republic of Indonesia (Pemerintah Pusat Republik Indonesia) and other relevant state-related institutions as well as to higher education institutions in Indonesia that are expected to be involved in the competition and in other future collaborations.</p><p> </p>

Internationalization of higher education institutions: the underestimated role of faculty

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcello Romani-Dias ◽  
Jorge Carneiro ◽  
Aline dos Santos Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Internationalization Of Higher Education ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
The Individual

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to deal with the topic internationalization of higher education institutions (IHEI), in terms of the research they engage in. The main motivation for the study is to understand the role of researchers in the internationalization of the institutions in which they work through the academic activities they perform. Based on the assumption that each of the researcher’s internationalization activities leads, to some extent, to a greater internationalization of HEI in which it operates, the following question was proposed: Do researchers’ personal characteristics and academic activities affect the internationalization of their (higher education) institutions? Design/methodology/approach This qualitative study adopted as main methods a review of the literature on internationalization of higher education and in-depth interviews based on a semi-structured script with an intentional sample. A sample of 16 researchers was selected for interview using the snowball technique of sample selection. Findings The paper provides theoretical and empirical insights into the characteristics of researchers that influence the internationalization of HEIs. These include the researchers’ international academic experience; insertion in international collaboration networks; international co-authorship; and experience in international publications. These are the four main factors that emerge at the individual level (researcher) that positively impact IHEI. Originality/value The paper responds to a gap found in the literature on the underestimated role of researchers in the internationalization process of HEIs in which they work.

scholarly journals Is There a Role for Higher Education Institutions in Improving the Quality of First Employment?

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seamus McGuinness ◽  
Adele Whelan ◽  
Adele Bergin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Job Placement ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
New Graduates ◽  
Private Employment

Abstract: This paper examines the potential role of higher education institutions in reducing labour market mismatch amongst new graduates. The research suggests that increasing the practical aspects of degree programmes, irrespective of the field of study, will reduce the incidence of initial mismatch. In terms of routes into the labour market, higher education work placements with the potential to develop into permanent posts and the provision of higher education job placement assistance were found to have substantial impacts in reducing the incidence of graduate mismatch. The use of private employment agencies was found to significantly heighten the risk of subsequent mismatch.

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