scholarly journals GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CREATIVITY AMONG STUDENTS IN PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Sokić ◽  
Fayyaz Hussain Qureshi ◽  
Sarwar Khawaja
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Creative Behaviour ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Assessment Questionnaire ◽  
General Creativity

<p>The primary purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between openness to experience, creativity, creative behaviour, general creativity, and support for creative behaviour from academic staff (lecturers and professors) and by the environment among students in private higher education. The aim was to investigate the contribution of gender, support for creative behaviour from academics, and the environment in predicting different measures of creativity. Additionally, this study examined the structure of the creative behaviour self-assessment questionnaire. The openness to experience scale, creativity subscale, inventory of creative behaviours, creativity self-assessment questionnaire and assessment of incentives for creative behaviour by academics and the environment were tested on a sample of 346 students (54% female), who were randomly selected from different private higher education institutions (college and universities). Students with different majors participated (70% finance and law, 16% information technology and 14% web design). Consistent with our predictions, the 'openness to experience’ domain was positively related to the creativity facet, creativity behaviour and general creativity. As expected, the openness to experience domain and its creativity facet and creative behaviour and general creativity were associated with supporting creative behaviour by the environment in both males and females. However, contrary to our predictions, support for creative behaviour from academics was unrelated to openness to experience, creativity and general creativity in both males and females. In contrast, support for creative behaviour by academics was related to creative behaviour in females but not in males. Creative behaviour and general creativity were positively associated and supported creative behaviour by academics and the environment. Support for creative behaviour from the environment was positively associated with openness to experience, creativity, creative behaviour and general creativity, while gender only showed independent positive associations with creative behaviour. Gender, support for creative behaviour from academics and support for creative behaviour from the environment together accounted for 9% of the variance in openness to experience, 7% of the variance in creativity, 12% of the variance in creative behaviour and 13% of the variance in general creativity. The results highlight the importance of support for creative behaviour from the environment in explaining openness to experience, creativity, creative behaviour and general creativity. Furthermore, they show that gender is a significant predictor of creative behaviour. The results also provide further validation of the Inventory of Creative Behaviours and further delineate the nomological network of the creativity construct.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0895/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Identities of Chinese Community-Based Higher Education Institutions in Malaysia: an Exploration Study Using the Concept of ‘Roots’

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-88
Author(s):  
Chang Da Wan ◽  
Molly N.N. Lee ◽  
Morshidi Sirat ◽  
Wen Zhuo Heng
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Greater China ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Private Higher Education Institutions

Abstract Malaysia is a multi-racial country where about a quarter of the population are ethnic Chinese. Arguably, Malaysia is also the only country outside of Greater China to have a ‘complete’ Chinese education track from primary to higher education. The Malaysia higher education system, consisting of both public and private higher education institutions, has five private higher education institutions that can be considered as ‘Chinese community-based’. These institutions were established by various interest groups in the Chinese community with seemingly different purposes. Hence, based on interviews with 23 participants, ranging from institutional leaders, administrators, mid-level academic managers and academic staff across three ‘Chinese community-based’ institutions, this paper explores the identities of these ‘Chinese community-based’ institutions. Using the concept of ‘roots’ (根) as an analytical lens, this paper illustrates three distinctive identities of these institutions which can be described as the ethnically proud (寻根问祖), the accommodator (落地生根) and the uprooted (失根群族). The understanding of these different identities illuminated the fact that there are subtle but crucial differences even across the three selected ‘Chinese community-based’ higher education institutions in Malaysia. More importantly, this diversity has crucial implications for policymaking in the governance of higher education institutions, positioning and branding of these institutions, as well as understanding of educational development of the Chinese diaspora outside of Greater China.

scholarly journals APPLIED MANAGEMENT POST-COVID19: IMPLICATIONS FOR ACADEMIC MANAGERS IN PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION, BEYOND CRISES

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hedda Martina Šola ◽  
Fayyaz Hussain Qureshi ◽  
Sarwar Khawaja
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Uk

<p>The outbreak of COVID-19 caused severe disruption to most sectors of the global economy, creating a spectre of fear, anxiety and uncertainty. The education sector has been one of the worst affected by the pandemic. The education sector is one of the heavily affected sectors. The pandemic forced educational institutions worldwide to close, cancel classes and shift towards remote working and online teaching. The purpose of this study is to investigate the implication of the COVID-19 pandemic on private higher education. Moreover, the study's main objective is to assess the pandemic's academic management, especially in private higher education. For this, different landscapes were examined, including pre, during and Post COVID-19, focusing on the post-COVID-19 implications. In addition, various publications and surveys have been analysed to find out about the COVID-19 followed-up changes happening in higher education and its management. For this particular study, qualitative research was employed by conducting nine semi-structured interviews with academic managers working in the private higher education sector in the UK to capture their experience insights about the implications, advantages, disadvantages, and challenges faced during the pandemic. The findings showed that workplace accessibility was the most affected factor; during the lockdown, the private higher education institutions (PrHEIs) could recruit highly qualified and experienced part-time academic staff, as they need to teach online. However, most of these part-time academic staff wanted to quit when face-to-face teaching starts, as they live far from their institutions. Only online teaching motivated them to join during the lockdown because it provided ease and convenience, no travelling time &amp; cost, freedom and autonomy. In addition, the online teaching amazingly increased the student attendance; higher pass rates but difficulties in engaging students in group activities. Another one of the challenges was the immediate adoption of online teaching and training of academic staff. Moreover, the reinvention of a new workplace approach and the high level of technology implementation to abide by the safety regulations will permanently transform the work routine. Therefore, most of the employees want to continue remote working in future.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0891/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Compulsory Citizenship Behaviour among Academic Staff of Private Higher Education Institutions in Melaka, Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3S2) ◽  
pp. 448-453
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Intention To Leave ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Human Capital Management ◽  
Private Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Organisational Politics

Compulsory citizenship behaviour (CCB) refers to employees who perform extra-role behaviour against their will. The study is among one of a handful on compulsory citizenship behaviour if compared with organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB), which are directed toward individuals (OCBI) and an organisation (OCBO) as a whole. Thus, this study mainly focuses examining the effect of intention to leave, job stress, sucker effect, burnout, organisational politics, negligent behaviour, and conflict between colleagues on compulsory citizenship behaviour. A total of 100 academic staff from private higher education institutions in Melaka participated in this study. Self-administered questionnaires were used for data collection and SmartPLS was employed to perform the analysis. The findings of this study reveal that negligent behaviour and organisational politics have a significant direct relationship with compulsory citizenship behaviour. This study not only has noteworthy contributions on enriching the available literature on compulsory citizenship behaviour, but also provides some important insights to employers in private higher education institutions in relation to their human capital management, which focuses on compulsory citizenship behaviour.

The Resilience of Japan’s Private Universities

2020 ◽  
pp. 151-188
Author(s):  
Jeremy Breaden ◽  
Roger Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Alternative Markets ◽  
Student Fees ◽  
Almost All

This chapter returns to the dire predictions made in the early 2000s for the future of private higher education in Japan and finds that, while individual examples can be found on a micro level which support them, on a macro scale the evidence almost all points in the opposite direction. The number of private universities, students in private universities, the proportion of students going to private universities, full-time academic staff, revenue from student fees, and government subsidies are all greater and larger in 2018 than they were in 2004. The value of a university credential can be argued to have improved rather than to have been devalued. The development of alternative markets and modes of operation have been much more muted than predicted. Finally, predictions of the number of universities which would go bankrupt have proven spectacularly inaccurate. This chapter not only outlines these trends but also explains some of the reasons for them at the macro level. The final section of the chapter examines some of the key actions which have allowed private universities to survive the last fifteen years. It suggests that the power of various actors to contend with the macro forces in the early 2000s was greatly underestimated. It may well have been the dominant theoretical assumptions which commentators and academics brought to their analysis in the early 2000s which explains why their predictions for private higher education have not come to pass.

University quality and emotional attachment of undergraduate students in a private higher education in Malaysia

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (7) ◽  
pp. 644-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aznur Hajar Abdullah ◽  
Shaista Wasiuzzaman ◽  
Rosidah Musa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Emotional Attachment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Management Quality

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to measure the influence of six university qualities, namely academic quality, academic staff quality, management quality, industrial linkage quality and facilities’ quality, on students’ total experience (STE) and emotional attachment. Design/methodology/approach – Judgmental sampling is used to collect data from a sample of 489 undergraduate students of a private higher academic institution. The data are then analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings – This study finds that only management quality forms a significant direct relationship with emotional attachment, whereas facility quality and industrial linkage form a significant relationship with emotional attachment only when mediated with STE. Originality/value – The results provide important findings to researchers and management of higher education institutions for future research directions.

scholarly journals “Let Me Enjoy Teaching” Improving Academic Quality Assurance Practices to Attain Teaching Excellence: Case Study of Selected Private Higher Education Institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 237-254
Author(s):  
Randa Hariri
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Teaching Excellence ◽  
Private Higher Education Institutions

The purpose of this study was to identify the academic quality assurance practices that should be employed to attain teaching excellence at selected private higher education institutions in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The study adopted a qualitative interpretive research design and utilized one-to-one, in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 12 participants. The sample was purposefully selected and comprised six faculty members, four program directors, one senior academic staff member, and one junior non-academic administrator, from three private higher education institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Findings revealed four categories of practices: a) Must-keep practices, b) Must-modify practices, c) Must-add practices, and d) Must-avoid practices. Some of the practices relating to quality assurance that the study identified are maintaining important evaluation-related practices while providing feedback for improvement, closing the loop, educating all employees about and increasing their reengagement in quality assurance practice, and reducing paperwork and work duplication. This study concludes by recommending that higher education institutions employ the strategies discussed in the findings to promote teaching creativity and to improve the quality of teaching and learning, to achieve teaching excellence.

scholarly journals SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION IN ALBANIA IN LIEU OF THE BOLOGNA PROCESS: THE CASE OF THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 238-246
Author(s):  
Tomi Treska
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Bologna Process ◽  
European University

This paper intends to explore the scientific research model developed at the European University of Tirana (UET), a private higher education institution in Albania. This requires for a reconsideration of the position of private universities in the higher education system in Albania, not just as profitable entities, but as institutions that provide public services for citizens in the country. The paper adopts a qualitative methodology approach, i.e. it applies document analysis and literature review in order to explore the development of the scientific research model in UET. The materials consulted include documents related to the Bologna Process; legislation of higher education in Albania; policies, guidelines and procedures of UET regarding scientific research. The paper suggests that private universities in Albania, albeit being recently established, enjoy more opportunities and freedom to develop new models for conducting scientific research. The analysis of the UET scientific research model shows that UET has adopted the most advanced Western approaches and the best practices from the Anglo-Saxon universities, bringing innovation in vision, research policies, procedures, practices and forms. The paper identifies the main principles upon which the scientific research of UET is built: (i) the connection and reflection of scientific research activities in the teaching process; (ii) the students’ involvement in research activities; (iii) further qualification of academic staff including doctoral candidates; (iv) the connection between scientific research and the market. The paper argues that this model should be supported by new policies to better regulate the financing scheme of higher education in Albania, in order to provide private universities with more opportunities to further develop their scientific research. This will also lead to an increased confidence from the side of the business sector to trust private universities with their market research and other related projects. 

Issues related to personal and social self-development of academic staff members of higher education institutions in today's Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (32) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Tatiana A. Vekovtceva ◽  
Vera D. Mishina ◽  
Anna B. Cherednyakova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Higher Education Professionals

The issues addressed in the article are of particular relevance due to the growing role of teachers of higher education institutions in the modern society. The article is dedicated to the current issues of self-development of teachers and is aimed to identify the main reasons for their poor social and personal self-development. The most important research method used by the authors was the pedagogic experiment, including such particular empirical methods as monitoring, tests, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, self-assessment and psychological diagnostics. As a result of the study, it was found out that teachers' leisure time is not properly organised, therefore they have no opportunities for rehabilitation and recreation in their free time, which considerably reduces effectiveness of their personal self-development. The article describes a set of measures aimed to enhance the effectiveness of teachers' self-development through the organization of cultural and creative associations in higher education institutions, including four stages and six spheres of activity that can be implemented in such cultural and creative associations. Materials of this article may be useful for the management of higher education institutions and department heads, advanced training centres for higher education professionals and for all academic staff members.

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