scholarly journals Entrepreneurship Approach to Higher Education Policy Aspects

Economics ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 1460-1498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukund Deshpande
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
University Education ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Societal Challenge ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

To disseminate higher education and provide new alternatives to traditional models, an entrepreneurial approach to university education is desirable. Researchers have pleaded that learning and teaching in higher education over the last two decades has provided a variety of concepts, methods, and findings that are of both theoretical interest and practical relevance. Stimulating innovative and growth-oriented entrepreneurship is a key to economic and societal challenge to which universities and colleges have much to contribute. The intent of this chapter is to educate the institutions, students, learners, and the public in general about the path to higher education that is intended in today's globalization scenario to meet with diverse needs of profession, business, and government. In short, the chapter highlights and elaborates the grouping of policies used to achieve higher education leading to elevated standard in the society. This chapter provides material to institutions, universities, and researchers to understand better the growing importance of the MENA region in today's global economy that would facilitate acquiring knowledge for developing the relatively understudied MENA region. This province is looking for prospects in developing higher education owing to its budding significance in the world economy. In particular, the chapter explores how global higher education and technological advancements are influencing the progress and prosperity of this region.

Entrepreneurship Approach to Higher Education Policy Aspects

2014 ◽  
pp. 148-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukund Deshpande
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
University Education ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Societal Challenge ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

To disseminate higher education and provide new alternatives to traditional models, an entrepreneurial approach to university education is desirable. Researchers have pleaded that learning and teaching in higher education over the last two decades has provided a variety of concepts, methods, and findings that are of both theoretical interest and practical relevance. Stimulating innovative and growth-oriented entrepreneurship is a key to economic and societal challenge to which universities and colleges have much to contribute. The intent of this chapter is to educate the institutions, students, learners, and the public in general about the path to higher education that is intended in today's globalization scenario to meet with diverse needs of profession, business, and government. In short, the chapter highlights and elaborates the grouping of policies used to achieve higher education leading to elevated standard in the society. This chapter provides material to institutions, universities, and researchers to understand better the growing importance of the MENA region in today's global economy that would facilitate acquiring knowledge for developing the relatively understudied MENA region. This province is looking for prospects in developing higher education owing to its budding significance in the world economy. In particular, the chapter explores how global higher education and technological advancements are influencing the progress and prosperity of this region.

scholarly journals Assessing Higher Education Policy in Brazil: A Mixed Oligopoly Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Del Rey ◽  
Fernanda Estevan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Private University ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Education ◽  
Mixed Oligopoly ◽  
High Ability ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Enrolment ◽  
Education Participation

Abstract Higher education is increasingly provided by both public and private universities, in particular in the developing world. Considering a mixed oligopoly setting and inspired by the Brazilian context, we explore the relative merits of some frequently used higher education policies in a context where a high-quality public university interacts with a lower-quality private university. We calibrate the model to match relevant values of Brazilian earnings and educational distribution. Subsidising private university tuition fees increases participation, but many high ability students remain excluded, especially if the subsidy is substantial. Affirmative action improves the surplus associated with the public university system, as more high ability individuals attend the public university, but virtually does not increase higher education participation. Although an expansion of public university places induces a reduction in private university fees, total university enrolment grows slowly, and many high-ability individuals cannot obtain a university education.

scholarly journals Exploring visual representation of concepts in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Buckley ◽  
Chrissi Nerantzi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Doctoral Level ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education ◽  
Access Issue

This Special Issue aims to go deeper in exploring the potential uses of visual representation in teaching and learning and the implications for practice in the context of higher education while showcasing the emerging work and research in this area from around the world. We welcome articles from new and more experienced academic writers, practitioners and researchers who have been creating, using and adapting various forms of visual representation across the disciplines and professional areas. We also invitestudents who are using them for their learning at undergraduate, postgraduate or doctoral level, from around the world and would like to share their work with a wider audience through an open access issue to help us all gain new insights and deepen our understandings in this area.

scholarly journals Statistical analysis of the structure and dynamics of material and human resources in public education over the past two academic years in Bacau

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia Harja
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Education ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
Material Basis

The public university education in Bacau, represented by “Vasile Alecsandri” University from Bacau has developed over the past two years not only in terms of student numbers, but as human and material resources available to them. After the number of students per teacher, public higher education from Bacau is situated on the second place after Iasi, the number of teachers representing 1% of the country. The structure by scientific degrees of teachers has improved in the last year, reaching over 36% professors and lecturers and 144 PhDs. Over 55% of the teachers are younger than 40 years. The material basis has improved both quantitatively and qualitatively by putting into use a new building, bringing an additional 27 classrooms and 11 seminar rooms and providing the conditions of modern higher education.

scholarly journals Student Loans Financing in Tanza:

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-115
Author(s):  
Hillary A. Dachi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Student Loans ◽  
Student Loan ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Means Testing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Financing Higher Education

This study examined the mechanisms employed to finance student loans in Tanzania and who benefits and how. The findings show that student loans are financed by the public exchequer. The number of students fromhigh-income families accessing these loans is disproportionate to their representation in Higher Education Institutions, while the share for middle and low-income students reflects their representation. There is also animbalance between male and female beneficiaries across programmes, notably in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines. It is concluded that such disparities are the result of the fact thatthe student loan scheme seeks to satisfy a number of government policy objectives in relation to higher education beyond access and equity, and that means testing is not rigorously conducted. Key words: Higher Education, higher education policy, financing higher education, higher education student loans, public subsidisation of higher education

scholarly journals Sharing quality resources for teaching and learning: A peer review model for the ALTC Exchange in Australia

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraldine Lefoe ◽  
Robyn Philip ◽  
Meg O'Reilly ◽  
Dominique Parrish
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Work Spaces ◽  
Review Model ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

<span>The ALTC Exchange (formerly the Carrick Exchange), is a national repository and networking service for Australian higher education. The Exchange was designed to provide access to a repository of shared learning and teaching resources, work spaces for team members engaged in collaborative projects, and communication and networking services. The Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) established the Exchange for those who teach, manage and lead learning and teaching in higher education. As part of the research conducted to inform the development of the Exchange, models for peer review of educational resources were evaluated. For this, a design based research approach was adopted. Findings from the literature and feedback from key practitioners and leaders within the sector are discussed in this paper. Finally, key recommendations for implementation are identified.</span>

scholarly journals Adding to the mix: Students use of Facebook groups and blackboard discussion forums in higher education

2016 ◽  
pp. 444-463
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Discussion Forum ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Sustained Activity ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
Unit Design ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

This paper reports on a case study of the use of Facebook in learning and teaching in higher education. Facebook was used as a venue for online discussion to support the existing Learning Management System (in this case Blackboard) in the unit Internet Collaboration and Organisation as part of the Internet Communications degree taught fully online through Open Universities Australia (OUA). Students’ posts to both Facebook and the Blackboard discussion forum were analysed for content, length, and when throughout the study period they were posted. This is significant as much of the previous work in this area has relied on students self-reporting, rather than direct observation of student behaviour. These results were then compared to earlier instances of the same unit that ran within the previous twelve months, one fully online with OUA only using the Blackboard discussion group, and a second taught at Curtin University with both blended learning for students at the University’s Bentley campus as well as fully online for external students, that utilised both Blackboard and Facebook. The results show that Facebook greatly increases the level of student activity in online discussions, both absolutely and in the level of sustained activity across the unit’s study period. Facebook groups also had a different pattern of content from Blackboard. In Blackboard discussion is more focused on the set unit learning content, in Facebook students were using the groups to discuss administration and assignments and also bring in additional material from outside the units set learning materials. Facebook posts, while more sustained over the semester, were shorter in length. This study found that the addition of a Facebook discussion forum does not noticeably impact on the use of Blackboard’s discussion forum, but rather adds a new dimension to the mix of online interaction. The paper concludes that there is value in using both of these forums for student interaction, but unit design needs to take into account the different affordances of each to maximise their utility.

scholarly journals Mobile Learning Technologies

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 298
Author(s):  
Khalil Alsaadat
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Environment

<p>Technological development  have altered the way we communicate, learn, think, share, and spread information. Mobile technologies are those that make use of wireless technologies to gain some sort of data. As mobile connectedness continues to spread across the world, the value of employing mobile technologies in the arena of learning and teaching seems to be both self-evident and unavoidable The fast deployment of mobile devices and wireless networks in university campuses makes higher education a good environment  to integrate learners-centered m-learning . this paper discusses mobile learning technologies that are being used for educational purposes and the effect they have on teaching and learning methods.</p>

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