Is a Critical Model of Restorative Justice Possible? : A Penal Abolitionist Approach This article presents part of the results of the doctoral thesis developed at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS/Brazil) and at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven/Belgium), with financial support from PUCRS and from Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), Ministry of Education of Brazil (process no. 3770-10-9), between 2009–2012. Currently the research project is developed with the support of Unilasalle (Brazil) and the National Council for Research and Development (CNPq/Brazil). English translation by Simone Hailliot.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
National Council ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Education Personnel ◽  
Critical Model ◽  
The University

Can-Do descriptors – Realigning English Language Curriculum at Higher Education Institution to CEFR

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Erda Wati Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Language Curriculum ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
The Common ◽  
The University

The Common European Framework of Reference for Language (CEFR) has become the standard used to describe and evaluate students’ command of a second or foreign language. It is an internationally acknowledged standard language proficiency framework which many countries have adopted such as China, Thailand, Japan and Taiwan. Malaysia Ministry of Education is aware and realise the need for the current English language curriculum to be validated as to reach the international standard as prescribed by the CEFR. The implementation of CEFR has begun at primary and secondary level since 2017 and now higher education institutions are urged to align their English Language Curriculum to CEFR as part of preparation in receiving students who have been taught using CEFR-aligned curriculum at schools by year 2022. This critical reflection article elucidates the meticulous processes that we have embarked on in re-aligning our English Language Curriculum to the standard and requirements of CEFR. The paper concludes with a remark that the alignment of the English curriculum at the university needs full support from the management in ensuring that all the stakeholders are fully prepared, informed and familiar with the framework.

scholarly journals Threats and vulnerabilities of the academic profession vs university personnel potential development

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 440-450
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Lobova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Profession ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
University Personnel ◽  
Scientific Periodical ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The University

The formation and development of the university's personnel potential is one of the conditions for joining the project to support higher education organizations announced by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in June 2020. The project is called the Strategic Academic Leadership Program. The fulfillment of this condition cannot be carried out without overcoming the limitations and effective responses to the challenges that are associated with the academic profession. The article is a review. Its purpose is to study threats and barriers to the development of the university’s personnel potential. It is shown that as internal threats one should consider the high stressfulness of faculty activities, violation of their personal safety and low loyalty; the barrier is the vulnerability of the academic profession. The research focuses on the current staff of Russian universities. The main research methods are analysis and synthesis of relevant scientific periodical literature. The main result of the study is the position that the presence of threats and vulnerabilities in the academic profession entails consequences that have a devastating effect not only on the personality of the teacher, the university, the academic community, but also on the higher education system as a whole, catalyze the departure of teachers from the academic profession, and prevent the preservation of and the development of the university personnel potential, ensuring the competitiveness and attractiveness of the university.

scholarly journals Apontamentos metodológicos e curriculares discentes para os cursos de pós-graduação em Escrita Criativa no Brasil

Navegações ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil ◽  
Bernardo Bueno ◽  
Luís Roberto de Souza Júnior ◽  
Moema Vilela Pereira ◽  
Ángela María Cuartas Villalobos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Curricular Structure ◽  
Methodological Procedures

Este artigo analisa os resultados da segunda etapa da pesquisa Escrita criativa na Academia: a formação do escritor, desenvolvida desde 2015 no Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras (PPGL) PUCRS, cujo objetivo geral é verificar a estrutura curricular e as condições de ensino oferecidas pelos cursos de mestrado e doutorado voltados para a formação do escritor e do pesquisador na área de Escrita Criativa na universidade. Nesta etapa, procurou-se verificar qual a percepção dos discentes acerca das disciplinas oferecidas, bem como os procedimentos metodológicos adotados no curso, visando melhor adequação dessas propostas, bem como apontar caminhos para uma implantação ampla da Área da Escrita Criativa no Brasil. *** Alumni methodological and curricular notes for postgraduate courses in Creative Writing in Brazil ***This article analyses the results of the second stage of the research Creative Writing in Academia: the writer’s education, developed since 2015 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) Graduate Program in Letters. The general objective is to verify the curricular structure and the teaching conditions offered by the Masters and Doctoral courses focusing on the education of writers and researchers in the area of Creative Writing at PUCRS. At this stage, we sought to ascertain the students’ perceptions about the modules and methodological procedures adopted in the course, aiming at a better development of these proposals, as well as to point out ways for a wider implantation of Creative Writing in Brazil.Keywords: Creative Writing; Higher Education; Graduate Studies; PUCRS; Brazil.

Mathematical models of optimal management of material support of educational and scientific activities of industrial universities

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
N. V. Kalganova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Numerical Solution ◽  
Mathematical Description ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Software Package ◽  
Optimal Management ◽  
Material Support ◽  
Support Strategy ◽  
The University

The paper considers mathematical differential models for managing the achievement of planned values of material support for educational and scientific activities of the university based on the analysis of this area of activity of transport universities. Models contain a mathematical description of the material and financial processes under study, which analytically show their dynamics for a certain period. The models are quite simple and can be used for planning and forecasting the financial support strategy of higher education institutions. In her research, the author relied on the work of Russian scientists, in particular, on [1-5]. This paper presents a mathematical description of the set of possible options for the system, predicting the consequences of the implemented options, and justifying the rational choice of management to achieve optimal educational and material support of the university. In this paper, we used methods for solving and investigating differential equations, as well as the MathCAD 15 software package for their numerical solution [6-8].

Marjorie Ethel Reeves 1905–2003

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
GILLIAN LEWIS
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Diversity In Higher Education ◽  
Students First ◽  
Small Band ◽  
Post War ◽  
The University

Marjorie Reeves turned her attention to politics and to the education of the young in the 1930s. In 1938 she returned to Oxford as Tutor in History to the Society of Oxford Home Students. Reeves was one of the small band of scholars who kept alive the Oxford Faculty of Modern History during the Second World War, and at the same time she was actively involved in the transformation of the Society of Home Students, first into a permanent Private Hall of the University, and eventually into full collegiate status as St Anne's College. She made a valuable contribution to public policy-making in the post-war years (1947–65). Reeves was an early a member of the Schools' Broadcasting Council, and from 1947 to 1961 of the Central Advisory Council of the Ministry of Education. She sat on the 1961–4 Robbins Committee on Higher Education, which resulted in the establishment of the first post-war wave of new universities including York, Lancaster, Sussex, Essex, Warwick, East Anglia, and Kent. In 1965, Reeves published Eighteen Plus: Unity and Diversity in Higher Education, and in 1988 The Crisis in Higher Education: Competence, Delight and the Common Good.

scholarly journals Tensions in the Sustainability of Higher Education—The Case of Finnish Universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1941 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annina Lattu ◽  
Yuzhuo Cai
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
University System ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The University

Universities are increasingly engaged in marketization and are also expected to transform into more sustainable institutions and be change-agents pushing forward the movement of sustainable development. This article introduces an analytical framework originated by Hahn et al. (2015) for understanding tensions concerning corporate sustainability to the context of the Finnish university system in order to answer the following questions: What are the tensions relating to Finnish universities’ social and economic sustainability, and what strategies might universities use to cope with these tensions? Through analyzing interviews with university managers and officials from the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland, we find that Hahn et al.’s framework is generally applicable in analyzing tensions of sustainability in universities, and we identify six tensions relating to the sustainability of Finnish universities. The tensions are related to (1) academic leadership and management legitimacy, (2) regional political tensions and university profiling, (3) political power over the university system, (4) changing academic work and profession, (5) academic autonomy and the role of the state, and (6) the future role of the university institution. Moreover, the article discusses issues regarding how to adapt the framework of corporate sustainability to the context of higher education.

Sagalassos 1989

1990 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 185-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Waelkens ◽  
Stephen Mitchell ◽  
Edwin Owens
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Flemish Community ◽  
University College ◽  
British Institute

During 1989 the Pisidian survey project continued for its fifth season at Sagalassos. The survey was directed in the first half of the season by Dr. S. Mitchell (University College of Swansea) and in the second half by Prof. M. Waelkens (Catholic University of Leuven and National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium). The team consisted of Prof. W. Viaene (geologist), Dr. M. Lodewijckx, R. Degeest, E. Scheltens, L. Vandeput, H. Bracke, A. De Daele, P. De Jonghe (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium), Dr. E. Owens (University College of Swansea), Dr. Chr. Lightfoot (The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara), Mr. R. Fursdon, R. Harrison and A. Young (topographers, University of Newcastle), and F. Richards (Sydney University). For 3 weeks we were joined by Selçuk Baser, director of the Museum of Burdur, who with M. Waelkens, directed a rescue excavation in the potters' quarter. Muhsin Endoǧru (Boǧazköy Museum) represented the Turkish Antiquities Department. The main financial support came from the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium), the Prime Ministry of the Flemish Community (Belgium), the Flemish Ministry of Education (Belgium), the British Academy and the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.

Inside Running

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-11
Author(s):  
Martin Smith
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Career Education ◽  
Employment Outcomes ◽  
Institutional Performance ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Corporate World ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between the higher education sector and employment is under close examination, with the employment outcomes of graduates being seen as an important indicator of institutional performance. Universities have responded by providing a range of services and programs. One such program, Inside running, has been implemented at the University of Western Sydney, with the financial support of all sectors of the institution, to develop graduates who have a greater awareness of the culture and operations of large corporations. Inside running addresses the integral elements of a career education program through student participation in an intensive six day exposure to the corporate world. This article describes the program and its outcomes.

scholarly journals Usability and value of a digital learning resource in nursing education across European countries: a cross-sectional exploration

BMC Nursing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Hjorthaug Urstad ◽  
Esther Navarro-Illana ◽  
Bjørg Oftedal ◽  
Katharine Whittingham ◽  
Santiago Alamar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University

Abstract Background Higher education is responsible for providing education that meets international benchmarks relevant to the needs of the international community. Due to the increase of digital tools in higher education, the possibility of sharing learning resources across nations has expanded. In the current project, a Norwegian university invited universities in Spain and the United Kingdom to adapt and translate e-learning resources originally developed for Norwegian nursing students for use within their respective Bachelor in Nursing programmes. Aim The aim of the current study was to gain insights into the usability and value for learning of e-compendiums shared and implemented across three European universities. Methods The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional design and included nursing students from the University of Nottingham, Valencia Catholic University, and the University of Stavanger. Data were collected in Autumn 2017 through a questionnaire adapted from the validated “Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Reusable Learning Object evaluation questionnaire” The questionnaire consisted of 19 items that included two aspects: e-compendiums’ value for learning and e-compendiums’ usability. The different study sites were compared using a binary logistic regression analysis. Subgroups of students were compared based on their gender and age. Results A total of 480 nursing students participated in the study. The e -compendiums were overall positively rated, especially for reinforcing and retaining knowledge. Compared to the students from the University of Stavanger, students from Valencia Catholic University rated the e-compendiums more positively in most aspects of learning. Students from University of Nottingham found the e-compendiums to be more important for learning engagement compared to students at the Norwegian study site, and no differences were found in any other aspects of learning. Younger students rated the interactivity and visual components as more important compared to older students. Conclusions Students from the University of Nottingham and Valencia Catholic University seem to accept the e-compendiums despite the fact that they were originally developed for use in another country. We argue that, when sharing e-learning resources across countries, an adaptation and translation process that includes a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective should be carried out.

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