Higher Education Collaboration in Kenya

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Aggarwal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Collaborative Partnership ◽  
Transnational Education ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Higher education in developing countries presents an opportunity both for investment and development, if specific challenges can be overcome. This article looks at the opportunities for higher education in a developing country, Kenya, and how these experiences have enabled an identification of issues that must be dealt with for higher education to grow both as an investment and capacity-building opportunity for developing countries. It offers a brief narrative on the history of higher education in Kenya, and the types of higher education collaborations. Using a case study of a long established transnational education collaborative partnership between INtel College, Kenya, and the University of Sunderland, UK, it explores the framework for such operations and challenges and perspectives of the partnership. Finally, it presents a view of the future of transnational education in a nation which indeed may have relevance in any developing country.

Widening Access to Higher Education – An Australian Case Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-212
Author(s):  
Glen Postle ◽  
Andrew Sturman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
History Of ◽  
Australian Case ◽  
Open And Distance Learning

In this paper the authors trace the development of equity within the Australian higher education context over the latter part of the last century. In particular they focus on the ways different perspectives (liberalist-individualist and social democratic) have shaped what has been a dramatic increase in the number and diversity of students accessing higher education in Australia. The adoption of a specific perspective has influenced the formation of policies concerning equity and consequently the way universities have responded to the pressures to accept more and different students. These responses are captured under two main headings – ‘restructuring the entry into higher education’ and ‘changing the curriculum within higher education’. Several examples of current programs and procedures based upon these are explained. The paper concludes with the identification of three ‘dilemmas' which have emerged as a result of the development and implementation of equity processes and procedures in higher education in Australia. These are: (a) While there has been an increase in the number and range of students accessing higher education, this has been accompanied by a financial cost to the more disadvantaged students, a cost which has the potential to exacerbate equity principles. (b) For one of the first times in the history of higher education, a focus is being placed on its teaching and learning functions, as opposed to its research functions. The problem is that those universities that have been obliged to broaden their base radically have also been obliged to review their teaching and learning practices without any budgetary compensation. (c) A third consequence of these changes relates to the life of a traditional academic. Universities that have been at the forefront of ‘changing their curriculum’ to cope with more diverse student groups (open and distance learning) have seen the loss of ‘lecturer autonomy’ as they work more as members of teams and less as individuals.

scholarly journals Strengthening Higher Education in Laos

2015 ◽  
pp. 24-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Knight
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
National Development ◽  
Development Cooperation

Internationalization plays a critical role in building university capacity, especially in developing countries. In the current world of higher education-with competitiveness, branding, and commercialization front and center-inter- national development cooperation is often relegated to a low priority. Status building networks with elite partners are receiving more attention and support than capacity- building initiatives with developing country institutions.

The Metropolitan and provincial professors of Russian universities: the experience of prosopographic research (1884—1917)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11-2) ◽  
pp. 237-249
Author(s):  
Evgeniy Rostovtsev ◽  
Dmitriy Barinov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
University Lecturers ◽  
The University ◽  
The Given ◽  
Scientific Degree ◽  
Russian Universities

Drawing up a collective portrait of the faculty corporation using prosopography and statistical analysis is one of the most popular approaches among specialists in the history of higher education in the Russian Empire. However, mostly such researches concern only one of the existed educational institutions. At the same time, comparative analysis of various universities allows to get a more complete picture of the specifics of higher education. Authors of the given paper try to compare the main features of the career path and academic mobility of the university lecturers at the capital (St. Petersburg) and provincial (Novorossiysk and Tomsk) universities. Among the compared aspects: the length of work, the availability of a scientific degree, the ratio ofprofessors and junior teachers, the number of own graduates, etc. These and other data made it possible to identify the main models of a scientific career typical for the capital and the province.

History of Universities

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Original Research ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
History Of Universities ◽  
The University

This double issue of The History of Universities series contains the customary mix of learned texts and book review chapters which look further into the history of higher education. The volume is a combination of original research and invaluable reference material. The texts include those by George Rust, Benet Perera, John Warren, Andrew Reeves, and John W. Boyer. Topics include anatomy, religious education in thirteenth-century England, teaching and debating in medieval Paris, and the history of the University of Chicago and University of Oxford.

scholarly journals The Project «Digital History of St.Petersburg Polytechnic University» and Prospects for Modeling the Institutional History of Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ulyanova ◽  
◽  
I. Aladyshkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Dynamic Structure ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Genealogical Tree ◽  
Online Resource ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

The report represents the implementation of the project «Digital History of St.Petersburg Polytechnic University» and analyzes related opportunities in the representation and the study of the institutional history of high schools. The authors dwell on the description and characteristics of the online resource that represents a virtual dynamic structure of the University in the form of an interactive genealogical tree, supplemented by reference materials, full-text historical sources, scientific commentary.

scholarly journals Reclaiming the Idea of the University as a Possible Solution to Today’s Crisis

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-104
Author(s):  
Sonia Pavlenko ◽  
Cristina Bojan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
The Bologna Process ◽  
Idea Of The University

Higher education has always been associated in one way or another with crisis. One could even argue that the university has always faced one type of crisis or another. The one debated the most is the economic crisis; however, there are many debates focusing on other types of crisis. Furthermore, all major reforms in the history of higher education (from Humboldt’s reform in 19th century Prussia to the views promoted by Y Gasset against the background of the Spanish revolution, or even the Bologna Process) have arisen as a result of a crisis. Today, the global economic crisis has yet again highlighted the fact that the idea of the university, the very foundation on which it was built, is no longer present when addressing contemporary issues in higher education. Our paper argues that there is an imperative need to reclaim and reconsider the idea of the university, as this could provide a possible solution to today’s crisis in higher education. Furthermore, we will attempt to show the reasons why this should occur, as well as the manner in which it could be achieved. The focus today is on too many minute, detailed aspects of higher education institutions, which are managed, evaluated, quality assured, ranked, assessed and so forth, while the global perspective on the university has been lost/ignored. Today’s crisis could be used as an opportunity to reassess and re-establish a relevant idea for today’s university. 

scholarly journals Applying Hagedorn’s Conceptual Framework to Examine Job Satisfaction among Faculty at the University of Sarajevo

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Marijanovic
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Faculty Satisfaction ◽  
Faculty Socialization ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Faculty around the world shares some underlying commonalities by virtue of sharing a profession, but we cannot draw informed parallels because culture, style and history of higher education, and faculty socialization play a significant role in how the faculty life is lived and experienced. We know quite a bit about faculty working in developed and developing nations, but the current snapshot lacks perspectives from academics living in transitional nations. This in-progress study will survey faculty employed at the University of Sarajevo, located in Bosnia and Hercegovina, to establish a baseline of their demographic profile and to describe their job satisfaction using Hagedorn’s conceptual framework. This study will test the applicability of Hagedorn’s framework in non-US settings and expand our understanding of the causes and outcomes related to faculty satisfaction.

scholarly journals ”A MULHER CULTA TEM MAIS POSSIBILIDADES DE UMA VIDA MELHOR”: presença e interação de mulheres nas faculdades de direito, farmácia e odontologia no Maranhão (1940-1970)

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (29) ◽  
pp. 159-180
Author(s):  
TATIANE DA SILVA SALES
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
History Of ◽  
Female Presence ◽  
The University ◽  
Siglo Xx

O início do século XX marca o estabelecimento das faculdades isoladas no Maranhão. Essas escolas de curso superior consagraram-se como espaço majoritariamente masculino, e a partir de década de 1940 há uma maior presença feminina nos cursos superiores, criando um marco de maior participação e interação feminina entre 1940 e 1970. Neste sentido, este trabalho busca escrever a história do ensino superior no Maranhão com ênfase na análise da presença feminina, na condição de alunas e professoras, notabilizando os espaços que ocuparam, suas atuações, conflitos envolvendo questões de gênero e disputas de poder por meio da educação. A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo compreender a organização, o processo e a inserção da mulher no ensino superior, sendo a universidade um espaço de educação, instrução e poder, com ênfase nos três primeiros cursos fundados no Maranhão - Odontologia, Farmácia e Direito. Palavras-chave: Mulheres. Ensino Superior. Maranhão. “THE CULTURED WOMAN HAS MORE POSSIBILITIES FOR A BETTER LIFE”: presence and interaction of women in law schools, pharmacy and dentistry in Maranhão (1940-1970). Abstract: The beginning of the twentieth century marks the establishment of the isolated colleges in Maranhão. These higher education schools were consecrated as a mostly male space and from the 1940s a greater female presence in higher education, creating a milestone of greater female participation and interaction between 1940 and 1970. In this sense, this paperseeks to write the history of higher education in Maranhão with emphasis on the analysis of female presence, as students and teachers, highlighting the spaces they occupied, their actions, conflicts involving gender issues and power disputes through education. This research aims to understand the organization, process and insertion of women in higher education, being the university a space of education, instruction and power, with emphasis on the first three courses founded in Maranhão -Dentistry, Pharmacy and Law. Keywords: Women. University Education. Maranhão. “LA MUJER CULTA TIENE MÁS POSIBILIDADES DE UNA MEJOR VIDA”:presencia e interacción de mujeres en las facultades de derecho, farmacia y odontología enMaranhão (1940-1970) Resumen: El comienzo del siglo XX marca el establecimiento de facultades aisladas en Maranhão. Eses colegios de curso superior fueron consagrados como un espacio mayormente masculino, y desde ladécada de 1940 hay una mayor presencia femenina en la educación superior, creando un marco para una mayor participación e interacción femenina entre 1940 y 1970. En este sentido, este artículo busca escribir la historia de la educación superior en Maranhão con énfasis en el análisis de la presencia femenina, como estudiantes y profesores, resaltando los espacios que ocuparon, sus acciones, conflictos relacionados con cuestiones de género y disputas de poder a través de la educación. Esta investigación tiene como objetivo comprender la organización, el proceso y la inserción de la mujer en la educación superior con énfasis en los primeros tres cursos fundados en Maranhão –Odontología, Farmacia y Derecho. Palabras claves: Mujeres. Enseñanza Superior. Maranhão.

Thyrsa Wealtheow Amos: The Dean of Deans

NASPA Journal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Herdlein
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Student Personnel ◽  
Dean Of Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personnel Administration ◽  
The University

The scholarship of student affairs has neglected to carefully review its contextual past and, in the process, failed to fully integrate historical research into practice. The story of Thyrsa Wealtheow Amos and the history of the Dean of Women’s Program at the University of Pittsburgh,1919–41, helps us to reflect on the true reality of our work in higher education. Although seemingly a time in the distant past, Thyrsa Amos embodied the spirit of student personnel administration that shines ever so bright to thisd ay. The purpose of this research is to provide some of thatcontext and remind us of the values that serve as foundations of the profession.

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