Academic Work and Life of Public Administration Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Slovenia

The COVID-19 pandemic has radically transformed the lives of people, including higher education students. Thus, the main aim of the chapter is to present the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic work and life of public administration students in Slovenia compared with their counterparts from other fields of study. The analysis is based on 1,049 Slovenian respondents, covering 211 students from public administration and 838 students from other fields of study. The results show that at the time of the lockdown public administration students were the most satisfied with real-time online lectures, followed by asynchronous forms of lectures. Compared with the students from other fields of study, they were in general more satisfied with provided course assignments and feedback on performance but less satisfied with lecturers' response, openness, and information. They also found it more difficult to focus, adapt, and achieve better performance in the online environment and were in general less confident in computer skills compared to their counterparts from other fields of study.

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Engineers or Lawyers? Institutions and Demand for Higher Education

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2012-10-30-51 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 30-51 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

T. Natkhov ◽

L. Polishchuk

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Public Administration ◽

Rule Of Law ◽

Transmission Channel ◽

Demand For Education ◽

Fields Of Study ◽

Quality Of Institutions ◽

Cross Country ◽

Rules Of The Game

Law and public administration schools in Russia vastly exceed in their popularity sciences and engineering. We relate such lopsided demand for higher education to the quality of institutions setting “rules of the game” in economy and society. Cross-country and Russian interregional data indicate the quality of institutions (rule of law, protection of property rights etc.) is negatively associated with the demand for education in law, and positively — in sciences and engineering. More gifted younger people are particularly sensitive to the quality of institutions in choosing their fields of study, and such selection is an important transmission channel between institutions and economic growth.

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Impacting Networked Technologies on Teaching Practices

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'18) ◽

10.4995/head18.2018.8066 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Maria Cutajar ◽

Matthew Montebello

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Teaching Practices ◽

Exploratory Research ◽

Higher Education Administrators ◽

Online Environment ◽

Teaching Experiences ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Education Administrators ◽

Shed Light ◽

Work And Life

Networked technologies are found permeating all work and life activities even in the education realm. Today’s networked technologies are changing the way we interact within the online environment and amongst themselves. Networked technologies have unleashed a plethora of possibilities for educators to take advantage of by employing them as part of their teaching practices. In this paper are presented findings related to how academics are experiencing networked technologies for teaching and their relation to learning. A phenomenographic approach and subsequently a quantitative stance was employed to shed light on the nature and the current dynamic of such practices. This paper recounts the phenomenographic outcome, but it particularly attends to subsequent quantitative findings obtained from consideration of learning experiences against the phenomenographic map of variation in teaching experiences whereby an unexpected clustering trend was exposed. The outcomes of this exploratory research provide crucial and essential insights for higher education administrators and policy makers on how to regulate themselves with regards to the adoption of networked technologies within their institution.

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Academic work demands and resources and higher education students' well-being

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e572992012-078 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

A. M. Pinto

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Well Being ◽

Academic Work ◽

Work Demands ◽

Education Students

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Reporting on academic work and life: A year of The Times Higher Education Supplement

International Perspectives on Higher Education Research - Academic Work and Life: What it is to be an Academic, and How this is Changing ◽

10.1016/s1479-3628(00)80107-0 ◽

2004 ◽

pp. 371-406 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Malcolm Tight

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Academic Work ◽

The Times ◽

Work And Life

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ACADEMIC YOUTH’S HEALTH BEHAVIOR

Physical Education of Students ◽

10.15561/20755279.2016.0607 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 20 (6) ◽

pp. 55-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Agnieszka Radzimińska ◽

Magdalena Weber-Rajek ◽

Ewelina Lulińska-Kuklik ◽

Urszula Kaźmierczak ◽

Waldemar Moska

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Medical Students ◽

Health Behavior ◽

Early Adulthood ◽

Education Students ◽

Fields Of Study ◽

Health Related ◽

Research Findings ◽

Selection Of

Introduction: A very important role in the protection of human health is their life style, their habits and patterns of conduct. Early adulthood is the best period to achieve long-term benefits from a selection of healthy living. However, the results of studies on health-related behavior of youth in Poland and in the world are not satisfactory. The purpose of the study: The purpose of the research was to assess the health behaviors of students of higher education in Bydgoszcz. Material: The study involved 272 students (124 women and 148 men) Bydgoszcz higher education students in the following fields of study: physiotherapy, nutrition, logistics and national security. The Inventory of Health-Related Behavior by Zygfryd Juczyński has been used in the research. The statistical analysis was performed using the package PQ Stat 1.6.2. Results: Throughout the treatment group an average level of health-related behavior has been shown. The results of the different categories of health-related behavior were lower than the results of the standardization groups. A higher level of health behavior has been shown in a group of medical students compared to non-medical students. The results for women were higher than men's results. Conclusions: The results of personal research and the research findings of other authors demonstrate that there is a need for implementation of programs of health promotion and health education in all fields of study.

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