Malaysian nurses’ views: Local versus Transnational Higher Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-205
Author(s):  
Nirmala Devi Arunasalam
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Transnational Higher Education ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
Degree Level

This paper reports the findings of a study undertaken with Malaysian nurses who studied for a locally provided part-time post-registration top-up Nursing Degree versus those who studied on a Transnational Higher Education (TNHE) programme. Both types of programmes are bridging courses that allow registered nurses to upgrade their Diploma qualifications to Degree level. What is not sufficiently explored in available literature is nurses’ rationales for choosing a local programme over TNHE programme. Using hermeneutic phenomenology, six Malaysian nurses (chosen by snowball sampling method) were interviewed, in English and Bahasa Malaysia (Malaysian language). Thematic analysis was used to analyse data. The structure of the course and taught theory influenced the nurses’ choice to study on a local programme: the deciding factor was the practice component that ensured a theory-practice connection. The findings principally provide insights to TNHE providers and may guide them to enhance their teaching delivery, support and courses.

scholarly journals Orphans’ Motivation for Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
Omidullah Akbari ◽  
Javed Sahibzada
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Financial Problem

The purpose of this study was to find the level of orphans’ motivation for higher education and factors contributing their motivation for higher education. Since Kandahar is one of the historically and strategically important provinces of Afghanistan in which four-decade war have adversely affected different aspects of lives of its population. Orphan and education seem two contradictory terms in a country like Afghanistan with four-decade war history. The study is descriptive in nature where a quantitative questionnaire was designed to collect data from randomly selected 112 students studying in 10th, 11th and 12th of Shaikh Zaid orphanage and from 15 graduates through snowball sampling method. The findings revealed that orphans are motivated for higher education transportation, financial problem, daydreaming, distraction during study are the major challenges that prevent orphans from getting higher education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3382821

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on higher education institutions of Myanmar

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 2378-2388
Author(s):  
Daw Mary ◽  
Ni Ni Hlaing
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Student Relationships ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The World ◽  
Higher Institutions

As connectivity throughout the world is increasing, we are to face a lot of risks. The spread of COVID-19 has caused an unprecedented test on education and most students are faced with a lot of challenges. This study aims to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in higher institutions in Myanmar. For this purpose, the data were accumulated through a questionnaire responded by 249 participants consisting of 127 university teachers and 122 students. The participants were chosen using the non-probability sampling method. The data was analyzed using thematic analysis. This method has also improved the reliability and reduced the biasness. Overall, it was found that there was a very large undesirable impact upon the humankind development especially on education system to continue the routine personal and professional lives. Myanmar universities need to reinvent learning environments so that digitalization expands and complements, but does not replace, student-teacher and student-student relationships.   Keywords: COVID-19, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), Myanmar  

The rise of transnational higher education and changing educational governance in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ka Ho Mok ◽  
Xiao Han
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Educational Governance ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Transnational Higher Education

Purpose – Although the existing literature indicates the strategy of decentralization adopted by the Chinese government has permitted the introduction of transnational higher education (TNHE) into mainland China at its very beginning in the 1980s, relatively little research has been conducted to explore the effects of the ensuing-released policies on the development of TNHE after then, especially at institutional level. The purpose of this paper is to fill this research gap by presenting data/information about recent development of TNHE in China and analyzing teachers’/students’ perceptions of autonomy enjoyed by the newly emerging cooperation type, Sino-foreign cooperation universities. Design/methodology/approach – Based upon the purposive sampling method, we chose University A and B as case studies in this research to ensure the representativeness, since they cooperate separately with the major exporters of TNHE in China. In addition, key informants and snowball sampling were adopted to select our respondents. In total 5 administrative staff and 12 students were interviewed to evaluate their working/ learning experience there. The detailed information about the interviewees are listed as Appendix. Findings – The fieldwork conducted in 2014 and 2015 reveals the governance model toward Sino-foreign cooperation universities could be categorized as predominantly decentralized. Specifically, the authors listed the most obvious aspects showing the different level of autonomy enjoyed by different cooperation types below: the internal administrative structure, the enrollment capacity, the criteria of admission and the quality assurance method. Originality/value – This paper critically explores how local education bureaus regulate these TNHE programs in general and monitor the operation of the overseas university campuses being founded in China in particular. In addition, this paper also reports the field interviews with faculty members and students, particularly their evaluation of working/learning experiences in the field of TNHE. Most important of all, this paper critically reflects upon the changing educational governance and explores what regulatory regime could better conceptualize the changing state-TNHE relations in China.

From classroom to library: What are the transferable knowledge and skills teachers bring to library work

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-670
Author(s):  
Franklin Gyamfi Agyemang
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Second Career ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Analysis Technique

This paper explores the transferable knowledge, experience or skills second-career librarians with a teaching background bring to bear or utilize in the discharge of their library work. It also explores how the transferable knowledge helps librarians and teaching librarians to discharge the roles delineated by ACRL’s (2017) document. Snowball sampling method was used to locate 17 participants for this study in Ghana. Mixed methods were used for data collection; questionnaire (open-ended questions) and interview. The data were analyzed using the thematic analysis technique. The study found the following transferable knowledge, skills and experiences to library work: methodology of teaching, questioning and listening skills, knowledge of courses content, presentation, communication and good public speaking skills and human relational skills. The study found that transferable knowledge from the teaching profession help second-career (teaching) librarian to discharge to their library role effectively.

Development and Use of The Organizational Framework For Exploring Nutrition Narratives

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-42
Author(s):  
Catherine Morley
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Physical Appearance ◽  
Dietary Change ◽  
Role Identification ◽  
Dietetics Education ◽  
Physical Deterioration ◽  
Organizational Framework

A hermeneutic phenomenology was undertaken to explore eating and feeding experiences with 11 women living with changed health status and who had household feeding responsibilities. Thematic analysis yielded two distinct narratives; those in Life-the-Same (LS) group (n=3; participants whose lives were relatively the same after a period of adjustment), and the Life Altered (LA) group (n=8) (those whose lives were completely altered as a result of their condition). Participants in the LS group had adjusted to new dietary, exercise, and medication routines, achieved physiologic goals, and retained eating and feeding routines at and away from home. Participants in the LA group experienced profound changes in ingesting and digesting food, and eliminating waste, physical appearance, and in enjoyment of eating, and rarely left home. Anticipated physiologic effects of dietary change were not achieved due to physical deterioration. Family and friends took on feeding duties when the regular ‘feeder’ was acutely ill, however, participants resumed these roles as soon as they were able (even though they remained unwell) owing to the strength of role identification. The Organizational Framework for Exploring Nutrition Narratives (OFFENN) emerged from the analysis, and is comprised of four domains (Personal; Household; Beyond Household; and Unthoughts), and four filters (Events/Facts; Values/Beliefs; Actions; Emotions and Reflections). The framework offers a means to explore clients’ narratives and to invite conversations about eating and feeding; it is not meant to be prescriptive of dietary guidance, and has application in dietetics education (in preparing students for their counselling roles and in informing research).

THE EFFECT OF REPUTATION AND COMPETENCE ON CUSTOMER LOYALTY THROUGH CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

2020 ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
Ari Dwi Astono ◽  
Widji Astuti ◽  
Harianto Respati
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Analysis Technique

This study aims to analyze the effect of reputation, competence on customer loyalty with customer satisfaction as an intervening variable. The population in this study were students of private tertiary institutions in Central Java who are members of Services for Higher Education Institutions Region VI, while a sample of 5 private universities, using the purposive sampling method, was taken with the Slovin formula of 190 respondents. The analysis technique uses regression analysis. Research results show the customer satisfaction variable can be an intervening variable or able to mediate between the direct influence of the reputation variable and the competency variable on customer loyalty variables.

Leadership in Academia of Pakistan: Perception of Crisis Situation and Solutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 671-692
Author(s):  
Shehla A. Yasin ◽  
Syeda Shahida Batool ◽  
Muhammad Asir Ajmal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Academic Leadership ◽  
Crisis Situation ◽  
Academic Leader ◽  
Leadership Crisis ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
Age Range

In current study, aim was to explore effective academic leadership in Pakistani higher education institutes. It was an attempt to understand how people in academia perceive effective academic leadership and what are the qualities expected in an effective academic leader? It was also attempted to explore if academicians feel that there is a crisis of leadership in Pakistani higher education institutes? What are the reasons and solution for this crisis situation? Purposive sampling technique was used to select a sample of teachers, students, and psychologists. Three focus groups were conducted one after another. Sample (N = 21) included 13 women and 8 men with age range 21-50 years. Sample was selected from different private and public universities and hospitals of Lahore. Emerging themes were analyzed using bottom up thematic analysis. Results indicated that an effective academic leader should have IQ and EQ, be visionary, and should bring everyone together. The participants mostly agreed that there is leadership crisis in Pakistani higher education institutes. They described various reasons for the crisis situation which mainly implied the responsibility to existing leaders, infrastructure, social decline, and policies.

ANALISIS TATANIAGA TANDAN BUAH SEGAR KELAPA SAWIT DI DESA TEMPAKAN KECAMATAN BATU ENGAU KABUPATEN PASER (Marketing Analysis of Fresh Fruit Bunches of Oil Palm in Tempakan Village, Batu Engau Subregency, Paser Regency)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
SIMON SUTRADO SIMANJUNTAK ◽  
ACHMAD ZAINI
Keyword(s):  
Oil Palm ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Fresh Fruit ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Level Zero ◽  
Average Share ◽  
Marketing Analysis ◽  
Fresh Fruit Bunches

The purposes of this study were to know marketing channel, marketing margin, share, and marketing profit of fresh fruit bunches of oil palm in Tempakan Village, Batu Engau Subregency, Paser Regency. The study was conducted from June to August 2016. The sampling method was done with two ways as random sampling in farmer level and in marketing channel as snowball sampling. Data analysis were done by calculating marketing margin, share, and marketing profit. The results of this study showed that there are two marketing channels in reserach location are channel of level zero and channel of level one. Marketing margin in farmer level was Rp40.39 kg-1 and margin in whole trader level was Rp314.44 kg-1. The average share of farmer level was 97.58% and in trader level was 81.48%. Margin and share that profitable for farmer is at channel of level zero. The average of profit in whole trader level of fresh fruit bunches was 112.75%, that meant marketing by whole trader is profitable.

Studi Penangkapan Ayam Hutan Merah di Kabupaten Kaur Bengkulu

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miki Suhadi
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Red Jungle Fowl

The objective of this research was to gather information about capturing techniques used by the local communities in Kaur District. Respondents were chosen by using snowball sampling method. Variables observed were equipment used by respondents, the time and location of capturing red jungle fowl. The result showed that the equipment used by the respondents are food supplies (rice and water), weapons (machetes, knives, matches), and clothing (hats , jackets, trousers, raincoats) and red jungle fowl hooks, nets, racit, sangkek and bags. Most of respondents chose the location of luring jungle fowl in the plantation area. Keywords: catching, equipment, red jungle fowl

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