scholarly journals PRACTICES OF MANAGING STUDENTS’ DIVERSITY OF RESIDENTIAL STATUS AND ACHIEVEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL GOALS IN MAKERERE UNIVERSITY (UGANDA)

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Juliet Mukisa ◽  
Dr. Gyaviira Genza Musoke ◽  
Joseph Kimoga
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Residential Status ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
The Social ◽  
Learning Institutions ◽  
Phenomenological Design

Purpose: The Purpose of the study was to explore the management practices that govern students’ residential affairs that enable the pursuit of educational goals in Makerere University. The research objective that guided the study was how management practices regarding residential affairs enabled or disabled on-campus and off-campus students to pursue their educational goals. Methodology: Cushioned by the social justice literature we inquired on how Makerere University managed students’ residential affairs and how such management practices supported the students to achieve their educational goals. We adopted a qualitative approach informed by comparative phenomenological design. A purposive sampling technique was used to obtain 8 informants drawn from the science and humanities schools. Data was analysed qualitatively using thematic analysis. Findings: The study found out that management practices such as allocation and flexibility regarding residential affairs enabled pursuit of educational goals. However, absence of regular supervision contributed to poorly maintained halls of residence, toilets and bathrooms are filthy, dilapidated rooms, poor security and meals. These acted as barriers in the way the students pursued their educational goals.   Contribution to theory, practice and policy: the findings and discussion will contribute to the knowledge required for managing students’ residential affairs for Makerere University and other higher learning institutions through formulation and implementation responsive strategies for convenience that enable students to accomplish their educational goals.

The ecosystem of translator workstation

Babel ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aiping Mo ◽  
Deliang Man
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constructivist Perspective ◽  
Authentic Environment ◽  
Traditional Classroom Teaching ◽  
Learning Institutions

Abstract In 2007, the Commission of Academic Degrees of the State Council of China approved an education program-Master of Translation and Interpreting (henceforth MTI), and in 2014 there are already 206 higher learning institutions started running such a program, aiming at training postgraduate students to be professional translators with advanced translation competence. Part of this translation competence is the ability to use electronic tools and resources, which has not received adequate scholarly attention in the field of translation studies in China. The objective of this research is to construct an ideal learning environment for MTI students from the social constructivist perspective by exploring the possibility and benefit of bringing the students out of the traditional classroom teaching into the authentic environment wherein professional translators use electronic tools on a daily basis. This article addresses the following research questions: (1) What constitutes an ideal environment wherein its various components interact to facilitate the student’s learning? (2) In what way does such an environment assist the MTI students to learn to use electronic tools? (3) How can the gap between the student translator and the professional translator be bridged in terms of the skills to use electronic tools in a 2-year training program? In response to these questions, this article explores the interaction among the various components of the external environment of translator workstation. It proposes an ideal learning environment metaphorically referred to as “the ecosystem of translator workstation”, which aims to enable MTI students to learn to use electronic tools in an environment similar to their future workplace. Such a research has great implications for translator education in present-day China by revealing what is best taught or trained in the workplace rather than the traditional classroom setting.

scholarly journals Exploring Factors that Influence Academics’ Knowledge Sharing Behaviour in Higher Education Institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Ashwaq Rushud Al Rushud
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Learning Institutions ◽  
Snowball Sampling Technique

This study explores the organisational and individual factors that influence knowledge sharing behaviour among UK universities’ academics. Furthermore, the research also aims to provide recommendations on how knowledge sharing can be promoted. Few studies have been conducted to explore Knowledge Sharing behaviour in the context of higher education institutions. This research sheds light on the factors that influence knowledge sharing behaviour in higher learning institutions. Data for this research were collected from sixteen academics from four UK universities using semi-structured interviews and snowball sampling technique. The interview data was thematically analysed using Nvivo12 software. The interviews reveal that there is a positive attitude among academics toward knowledge sharing. Furthermore, there are several factors (organisational and individual) affecting knowledge sharing behaviour, such as unsupportive leadership, lack of facilities and lack of an effective rewards system.

scholarly journals Social Practice Participants in the Independent Graduation in the Family Hope Program (PKH)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-149
Author(s):  
David Prima Darwin ◽  
Azwar ◽  
Indraddin
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Health Checks ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sense Of Shame

This study aims to describe the social practice of independent graduation participants in the Family Hope Program (PKH) in Nagari Batu Balang, Harau District, Lima Puluh Kota District. This study uses a descriptive-based qualitative approach with the informants selected using a purposive sampling technique. In collecting data used in-depth interview techniques, involved observation, and documentation studies. The results of this study indicate that habitus plays a role in encouraging PKH participants in independent graduation from persistence in working, having a sense of shame, discipline, frugal, and honest. The forms of capital owned by PKH participants in independent graduation are social capital, economic capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital. The form of the PKH arena that plays PKH participants in independent graduation is to hold monthly meetings to add insight, monthly meetings as a first step to starting a household business, conducting health checks at the Polindes and Puskesmas, paying attention to the presence of children at school, saving to open a household business, dare to open a household business, and use the land around the neighbourhood to grow vegetables and medicinal plants.

scholarly journals A Check on Planning Access for Blended Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S8) ◽  
pp. 1338-1345
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Learning Institutions ◽  
Communication And Technology ◽  
Actual Life ◽  
The Ideal

Higher learning institutions favor implementing blended learning to achieve their educational goals and learning objectives. The purpose of this review is to analyze the ideal blended learning model and the recommendations for planning future blended learning activities. Nine articles published from 2013 to 2018 which provided the frameworks or models and future suggestions were appraised. This review revealed that blended learning is not about using Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) tools anymore but how the learning process is being blended to deliver effectiveness in learning. The review also discovered that in future blended learning design has to include collaboration among educators and how is the learning process can be applied to actual life. The culture of an educational organization is also an important focus.

scholarly journals Determinants of Teachers’ Attitudes Towards E-Learning in Tanzanian Higher Learning Institutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalton Hebert Kisanga
Keyword(s):  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Learning Institutions

<p class="3">This survey research study presents the findings on determinants of teachers’ attitudes towards e-learning in Tanzanian higher learning institutions. The study involved 258 teachers from 4 higher learning institutions obtained through stratified, simple random sampling.  Questionnaires and documentary review were used in data collection. Data were analysed using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS). Chi-square was performed to examine the association of variables.</p><p class="3">It was found that teachers have positive attitudes towards e-learning where computer exposure played a statistically significant contribution to their attitudes.  It is recommended that training in e-learning needs to be provided to teachers to widen their understanding of e-learning. There is also a need to strengthen factors associated with teachers’ positive attitudes towards e-learning. Results from this study are of particular importance to both teachers and the education stakeholders in Tanzania.</p>

scholarly journals Analyzing Universities Service Quality to Student Satisfaction; Academic and Non-Academic Analyses

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Kardoyo Kardoyo ◽  
Lola Kurnia Pitaloka ◽  
Rozman Rozman ◽  
Bayu Bagas Hapsoro
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Economics Faculty ◽  
Academic Service Quality ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Learning Institutions

Indonesia has many higher learning institutions both public and private sectors such as colleges, polytechnics, institutes and universities and they are competing among them to get students to enroll in their institutions. It has become competitive among them to get students than before. The growing competition among higher learning institutions had forced them to strive to improve their service quality provided to students. The student satisfaction of service quality can be divided into two parts, namely satisfaction in academic and non-academic. The purpose of this research is to determine whether the academic and non-academic service quality affect student satisfaction of Economics Faculty Universitas Negeri Semarang. This research used an exploratory method that explaining the relationship between hypothesis testing, making prediction and getting the implicit meaning of problems that want to be solved. This study was conducted at the Economics Faculty of Universitas Negeri Semarang. The data analysis used SEM PLS. The population in this study were students from the Economics Faculty of Universitas Negeri Semarang who registered in 2015 and graduated in 2018. The total number of population in this study were 3,596 students majoring in Economics Education, Accounting, Management, and Economic Development. This study used a stratified sampling technique where students from all disciplines and levels were determined using the Slovin formula. Questionnaires were distributed to a sample of 360 students and were administered by trained enumerators. Data were collected using self-administered assessment questionnaires of a five Likert scale and analyzed using SEM PLS 6.0 Warp PLS.  The results of this research were, first, academic service quality did not influence student satisfaction. Second, the non-academic service quality has a positive and significant influence on student satisfaction. This is because the supported learning infrastructure was found to be a factor that satisfied the students compared to teaching methods that was carried out by faculty members. It was also found that attitude and behavior in academic aspect were not significant in improving the students’ satisfaction. Therefore, it is suggested that Faculty of Economics of UNNES should focus on maintaining and improving the service quality of non-academic aspects in order to compete with other higher learning institutions.

scholarly journals Determinants of Self-Employment Intentions among Students in Tanzania Higher Learning Institutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Kelvin M. Mwita
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Learning Institutions

This study aimed at examining determinants of self-employment intentions among students in Tanzania higher learning institutions. The study was guided by the theory of planned behavior which postulates that an intention is influenced by the attitude toward behavior, the subjective norms of the behavior, and the individual’s control of the behavior. The study used Mzumbe University as a case study from which 400 respondents were drawn by using a simple random sampling technique. A standard questionnaire was used to collect data and a study attained a response rate of 82%. Data analysis involved multiple linear regression analysis. The study found that gender (β=-.028, p=.751) and academic performance (β=.016, p=.671) had no significant relationship with self-employment intentions of students while entrepreneurship education (β=.303, p=.000) and having parents who are self-employed (β=.211, p=.031) had significant relationship with self-employment intentions. The study recommends higher learning institutions to have curriculums that help students to acquire entrepreneurship education sufficiently. Moreover, students are advised to have personal initiatives in looking for entrepreneurship knowledge and skills. Parents are also recommended to establish businesses as their main or alternative sources of income in order to influence entrepreneurial tendencies in the current and coming generations as a solution towards unemployment problem.

scholarly journals Management of intellectual capital held by Tanzania’s higher learning institutions: Strategies and challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Iwata ◽  
Ruth Hoskins
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Structural Capital ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Learning Institutions ◽  
Economic Well Being

Background: The economic well-being of any organisation in the world today significantly depends on the intellectual capital possessed by these institutions. However, with its richness in intellectual capital, some higher learning institutions in Tanzania are facing financial hardships.Objectives: To establish methods used by Tanzania’s higher learning institutions in managing the intellectual capital in their possession, with the focus of establishing a link between such practices and the financial performance of such institutions.Methods: This study was conducted using a multiple case study design, employing a purely qualitative research approach. Purposive sampling technique was used to involve respondents in this study. Collected data were analysed using thematic content analysis.Results: The visited institutions had a wide range of intellectual capital such as human, relational and structural capital. The intellectual capital found was managed using various methods, including careful recruitment of staff and knowledge-sharing strategies. Although the practices of managing some aspects of such capital were at a very basic level at the registry points, the practice was found to be very important for the economic well-being of the institution.Conclusion: Tanzania’s higher learning institutions possess a wide range of intellectual capital, and its management methods vary depending on the aspect of such capital. More importantly, the intellectual capital had a significant link with the financial performance of the institutions. However, the process of managing intellectual capital faced some challenges, including improper succession planning and the lack of a sharing culture.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Reports by The Illustrated London News (ILN) and The Graphic against Social Activities in Malaya in the 19th Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Azian Tahir ◽  
◽  
Arba’iyah Mohd Noor ◽  
Mohd Firdaus Abdullah ◽  
Suffian Mansor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
National Archive ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Social ◽  
Visual Approach ◽  
Learning Institutions ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum

Unlike in the West, the emergence of visual printing and printing press in Malaya was comparatively lagged behind. Publication and printing reached the Malayan shore through the Straits Settlements after the first publication was brought in and introduced by A. B. Bone in 1806. Since then, various visual reports regarding Malaya made their way into the well-known newspapers in Britain, The Illustrated London News (ILN) and The Graphic. Social activities in Malaya became part of the main visual report in these newspapers. Nonetheless, it was found that these newspapers were not objective in reporting the news on social activities in Malaya. In lieu of this, the current research attempted to find out the extent of the action of ILN and The Graphic in manipulating visual news report about the social activities in Malaya in the 19th century. In addition, this research also aimed to find out how far the ideas and thoughts of both newspapers in describing the news reports related to social activities in Malaya in the 19th century. This research focuses on the 19th century, within the specified period, of which the two respective presses released many visual news reports regarding social activities in Malaya. The qualitative method and visual approach were chosen as the research itself was conducted in London, especially at the National Art Library, situated in the Victoria and Albert Museum. In Malaysia, materials and resources were obtained from the Malaysian National Archive, National Museum, National Library, and libraries at higher learning institutions.

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