scholarly journals The discipline and craft of academic writing: Building writing capacity in Institutions of Higher Education

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Janks
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Writing Workshop ◽  
First Person ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Person Account

This article offers a first-person account of an academic writing workshop from the perspective of a participant. What is significant is that the workshop combines traditional and creative writing approaches to the teaching of academic writing. This provides new insights into a process of academic writing that can have a significant effect on the quality of the writing and a reader’s engagement with it.

Improving the Quality of Survey Data on College Campus Woman Abuse: The Contribution of a Supplementary Open-Ended Question

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780122097549
Author(s):  
Walter S. DeKeseredy ◽  
Danielle M. Stoneberg ◽  
James Nolan ◽  
Gabrielle L. Lory
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Woman Abuse ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Prevalence Rates ◽  
Methodological Challenge ◽  
Using Data

Obtaining accurate survey data on the prevalence of woman abuse in institutions of higher education continues to be a major methodological challenge. Underreporting is difficult to overcome; yet, there may be effective ways of minimizing this problem. One is adding a supplementary open-ended question to a primarily quantitative questionnaire. Using data derived from the Campus Quality of Life Survey (CQLS), this article examines whether asking respondents to complete such a question increases the prevalence rates of four types of woman abuse and provides information on behaviors that are not included in widely used and validated measures of these harms.

Learning to Use Students’ Scholarship Support Efficiently

10.12737/2867 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Артемьева ◽  
Svetlana Artemyeva ◽  
Шишов ◽  
Cergey Shishov ◽  
Гринько ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Quality Of Learning

The paper discusses several aspects of constructing a model of monitoring effectiveness of scholarship funds use in institutions of higher education. The authors consider prospects to train to-be members of Scholarship commissions in legal issues to get them prepared to use scholarship provision mechanism as a leverage for motivating students to improve the quality of learning.

scholarly journals Internationalizing Higher Education

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
Rolv Lyngstad
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
National Education ◽  
University College ◽  
Faculty Meeting ◽  
Why Questions

Why are institutions of higher education interested in internationalization? The question was asked at a faculty meeting in our university college. A variety of arguments and opinions were expressed. Many “when”, “what”, “how”, “who” and “why” questions were asked. Some arguments were normative and altruistic emphasizing the need of helping to develop countries in improving their educational system, others took a more ideological stand explaining internationalization within a neo-liberal and globalized frame, and some arguments emphasized the importance of a comparative approach to improve the quality of national education.

scholarly journals RATING AS ASSESSMENT TOOL OF QUALITY AND COMPETITIVENESS OF UNIVERSITY

2018 ◽  
pp. 16-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Buinytska ◽  
Bohdan Hrytseliak ◽  
Valeriia Smirnova ◽  
◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
World University Rankings ◽  
The University

The main tasks of the modern university are to increase the quality of educational services and to step up activities in the international educational space. One way related to providing quality education, creating an open information and educational environment through which participants of educational process receive open access to resources from any point and at any convenient time. Openness and publicity activities of the university contributes to its competitiveness, i.e. its rating among higher education institutions, including born healthy competition that fosters competitiveness training specialists. The article analyzes the methodology, relationship and position Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University in the most authoritative international and Ukrainian ratings: Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), QS World University Rankings, Times Higher Education, Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, Ukrainian Rating institutions of higher education by Scopus indicators, «Top-200 Ukraine», Consolidated ranking of universities in Ukraine, Transparency rating of universities (CEDOS), «Bibliometric of Ukrainian science». The indexes and tendencies of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University on the key ratings and their influence on the quality of education are researched. Discovered mutual performance rating among themselves, including ranking on indicators of performance in Scopus on indicators of Openness and Excellence of Webometrics rating and the rating «Bibliometric of Ukrainian science»; Direct effect of Transparent ranking: Top Universities by Google Scholar Citations on the Webometrics rating. The article describes the ways of influencing on the main indicators of the University's activities in order to increase the positions in international and native ratings and, accordingly, the competitiveness of the University in the educational space.

scholarly journals La Sensitividad. La Fijación del Estado Visionario

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
María Pilar Rivera Guiral
Keyword(s):  
Wave Spectrum ◽  
The Other ◽  
First Person ◽  
Scientific Rigor ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Mention ◽  
Person Account

We believe that the visionary experience is the seed of genuine creation. This is the reason why in this article we explore the human ability to perceive reality in an extraordinary way. Through the first-person account of neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor that suffered a stroke, we discovered that the world might be revealed fluid, vibrant and bright. But above all, we rely on the concept of sensitivity, the ability to see beyond the sensible, that the neuropsychiatrist Shafica Karagulla investigated with scientific rigor. Sensitives are people who have natural gifts to see, colors, fields and energy vortexes, they capture greater wave spectrum, they modify as many vibrations, frames, interconnections and interactions and increased quantity and quality of phenomena. We make a special mention in the savants, sensitive people with amazing talents on one hand, which were often accompanied by dysfunction on the other hand.

scholarly journals Monitoring and diagnostics of the quality of scientific and methodological work in the context of competence approach in higher pedagogical education

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Competence Structure ◽  
Monitoring And Diagnostics ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Distinguishing Features

The article is devoted to the problem of monitoring scientific and methodological work in institutions of higher pedagogical education, in particular to the question of diagnostics of its quality in the context of the of the competence approach. The terminolog ical field of research is defined, the main purpose and tasks of creation of the monitoring system of scientific and methodological work in pedagogical institutions of higher education are outlined. Some features of monitoring research in the field of higher pedagogical education are characterized on the basis of consideration of the origin and development of the “monitoring” phenomenon, its classification, the identification of common and distinguishing features in definitions by different authors. Pedagogical diagnostics is considered as a factor in the development of scientific and methodological work, the elements of the model, directions of implementation and stages of diagnostic examination of various aspects of scientific and methodical work realization are named, and its results are predicted. On the basis of the results of scientific generalization, analysis of scientific and methodological work practice in pedagogical institutions of higher education, the key criteria of its quality are identified and the relationship of professional as well as scientific and methodological competence is established. The contradictions that determine the implementation and the main categories of competency approach, the place of scientific and methodological competence in the system of competences of the teacher of a pedagogical institution of higher education are determined. The connection of the process of forming the scientific and methodological competence of the teacher with the innovativeness of his activity at certain stages was fixed. The components of scientific and methodological competence structure are distinguished: epistemological, axiological, traseological, professional and personal. In the context of the conducted research, the object and indicators of the scientific and methodological competence formation of the teacher of a pedagogical institution of higher education were determined, the scheme of its formation was developed and the characteristics of individual levels were drawn up.

scholarly journals ORGANIZATIONAL AND INFORMATION DESIGN OF TECHNICAL HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol - (1(16)) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
S. L. Volkov ◽  
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L. V. Kolomiets ◽  
O. I. Kiseleva ◽  
А. М. Prokopenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Information Design ◽  
Coordination Mechanism ◽  
Coordination Mechanisms ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
The Law

The educational services provided to applicants for higher education in accordance with the Law of Ukraine on Education and the Law of Ukraine on Higher Education are analyzed in the article. The provision of educational services as a separate type of commercial activity, where the leading role is played by the quality of educational services as a key point of competitiveness is defined. The general approach and a kind of organizational design of institutions of higher education which corresponds to the necessary commercial character of their activity is offered; the content and structure of organizational and information design of technical institutions of higher education are determined; the role of each structure in the coordination of the functioning of higher education institutions and the differences in the coordination mechanisms used by them (information links) are analyzed; it is shown that one of the differences in terms of organizational design of technical institutions of higher education from ordinary commercial organizations is the presence of legally defined collegial and advisory authorities at all hierarchical levels of the organizational structure; it is proposed on the basis of these authorities to create a new coordination mechanism that allows the transformation of existing information links into a single information flow of decision-making, thus eliminating contradictions in their approaches, which will coordinate the activities of all departments to maximize the achievement of expected learning outcomes. The general structure of organizational design of technical institution of higher education and the simplified example (variant) of the coordination mechanism of activity of the specified structures are given. Further development of the proposed approach to the organizational design of institution of higher education is the study of the quality of processes that provide coordination mechanisms (information links) and the development of methods for estimating their quality and quality of educational services.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study on the Predictors of the Perceived Quality of Learning at Institutions of Higher Education: 2D Model Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (15) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Mmatlou Matlakala ◽  
Norman Chiliya ◽  
Tinashe Chuchu ◽  
Tinashe Ndoro
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Quality Of Learning ◽  
Model Approach

The purpose of the present study was to conduct an empirical investigation into the predictors of the perceived quality of learning at institutions of higher education from the student’s perspective. The research was based on a conceptual model consisting of six proposed hypotheses. A quantitative study that utilised the survey methodology was adopted is it was imperative to obtain objective findings that would be later used for statistical purposes. In terms of selection of suit-able participants for the study, non-probability sampling, a form of convenience sampling was adopted. Perceptions of students regarding the quality of education were tested empirically. The 2 D Model approach was adopted to investigate this phenomenon. Data was collected from a total of 300 students from a selected university in South Africa. To analyse the data SPSS 24 and AMOS 24 were utilised for descriptive statistics and hypotheses testing respectively. A university’s reputation and the geographic region a student originated from were observed as having the greatest influence on those students’ perception of quality of education that a higher education institution provided.

Factors Contributing Towards Research Productivity and Visibility: a Case Study of Pakistan

Libri ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hafiz Muhammad Iqbal ◽  
Khalid Mahmood ◽  
Saad Arsalan Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Education Commission

Abstract During the last two decades or so we have witnessed unprecedented growth and expansion in higher education not only in the high income countries but in middle income and low income countries as well, Pakistan being no exception. In 2002 a new apex body, Higher Education Commission was established to manage affairs of higher education which adopted measures to improve the quality of higher education in the country. The HEC adopted a new framework and policy towards higher education and made strenuous efforts not only to bring quantitative expansion but to improve the quality of higher education in the country as well. Consequently, the academic community has witnessed an unprecedented expansion in higher education in terms of number of higher education institutions and its enrolment. One of the goals of Higher Education Commission was to develop research culture within the country and enhance research productivity of the universities and higher education institutions to help achieve the objectives of knowledge economy. This paper attempts to analyse the available data to assess the research productivity of Pakistani institutions of higher education, trends over the last decade or so in the number of articles produced and their citation index and to see what factors have contributed towards increasing the number of research articles, enhancing the visibility of research produced by Pakistani universities and identifying the most productive institutions in this regard. Results of the study may help in framing a policy and developing a strategy increase the research productivity of Pakistani institutions of higher education and improving its visibility and impact.

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