Education for Entrepreneurship in the Curriculum at University Level

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 405-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Career Option ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Entrepreneurial Beliefs

This paper discusses how the higher education system may be used as a mechanism to instil entrepreneurial beliefs and develop entrepreneurial skills among a graduate population. In particular, it examines the objectives, content, teaching method and outcomes of an integrated entrepreneurship programme developed at the University of Limerick in Ireland. A process model of entrepreneurship education is presented. Educating for enterprise promotes an awareness of business ownership as a career option and motivates young people to look creatively at their future opportunities. Graduate expertise is also crucial to many sectors of the economy where increasingly enterprise skills and competencies can stimulate a change philosophy that will foster growth.

scholarly journals Thoughts on the higher education system in Poland. Changes – issues – evaluation. Part 1

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-137
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Grzywacz ◽  
Grażyna Miłkowska ◽  
Magdalena Piorunek ◽  
Lech Sałaciński
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
University Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Education Science

This report is a part of the results of the international project entitled “Studium in Osteuropa: Ausgewählte Aspekte (Analysen, Befunde)” conducted in the years 2013-2015 under supervision of Prof. Wilfried Schubarth and Dr Andreas Seidl from the Potsdam University, Department of Education Science, and Prof. Karsten Speck from the University of Oldenburg, Germany. The project was conducted jointly by representatives of academic centres from Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia. Its general aim was a comparative analysis of the effects of implementation of Bologna Process directives into the higher education systems of the individual countries. The changes introduced into the higher education systems in the countries involved in the project were described and evaluated, discussed was in particular the problems of education of teachers at the university level. The following text is the result of the contribution of the Polish group participating in the project. The report will be presented in two parts. The first part is focused on the macro-societal context of transformations in the higher education system in Poland. The implementation of selected aspects of Bologna Process directives is described and supplemented by empirical comments. The second part deals with selected aspects of university level education of teachers, followed by a polemic against the assumptions and execution of the target transformations of higher education system.

CLIL IN RUSSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION: ADOPTING FOREIGN METHODOLOGY OR ADAPTING IT TO RUSSIAN REALITY

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
A. V. Kudryashova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Adaptation Mechanism ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Russian Higher Education ◽  
Training Plan ◽  
University Level ◽  
Educational Paradigm ◽  
The University

The paper analyzes CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) as a teaching method contributing to training competitive specialists in demand both in the Russian and international labor markets. CLIL has become popular in the Russian system of higher education while insufficient understanding of the conditions for its effective implementation in our country often leads to unsuccessful foreign experience adoption. The paper aims to study the specifics of the Russian educational system and its potential as a platform for CLIL implementation. The foreign practices and CLIL-methodology are analyzed with the objective to identify a number of didactic principles and key factors affecting the choice of a model and form of CLIL for a particular educational paradigm. The specificity of the Russian educational system is analyzed from the standpoint of the obstacles to CLIL implementation. Based on the results of the study, it is determined that CLIL implementation in Russia is possible. However, this methodology should be adapted to the Russian reality. The author suggests an adaptation mechanism that implies the following measures: approving CLIL at the university level, establishing interaction between the university and businesses to jointly develop a training plan, creating a team of CLIL-methodology developers at the university level, providing conditions for professional retraining of subject teachers in CLIL methodology, establishing interaction between subject teachers and linguists for the development of CLIL-courses.

scholarly journals Innovative potential of the youth creative development at the university stage of professional formation

2020 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
Z Kulsharipova ◽  
◽  
G Mardenova ◽  
R Astanov ◽  
A Zhantlessova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Young People ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Innovative Learning ◽  
The University

One of the main directions of modern higher education is the preparation and development of a future specialist as a highly educated, integrated person with a high level of competence, able to build and fulfill creatively his human and social goals regardless of growing tasks. «In accordance with the requirements of society, the state and the labor market, the higher education system is necessary to ensure the education of young people capable to create professional development in the context of automation and modern advanced technologies. An analysis of the scientific and methodological literature shows that young people at the stage of professional development at the university stage are not independent enough and are not informed about the choice of profession insuffi-ciently. Creative development of students in the process of professional development will solve the problem of reproduction and development of human resources in the country effectively. The article explains the concept of «psychological adaptation» including «professional skills» and also discusses some innovative teaching methods at universities. The main approaches to the introduction of innovations in modern higher education are analyzed. It also identifies the differences between traditional and innovative learning and shows the choice of innovative didactic goals, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of using certain methods.

scholarly journals Gedanken zum Hochschulwesen in Polen. Veränderungen – Streitpunkte – Wertungen. Teil 2

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-30
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Grzywacz ◽  
Magdalena Piorunek ◽  
Grażyna Miłkowska ◽  
Lech Sałaciński
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Education System ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
International Project ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
University Department ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University

This report is a part of the outcome of the international project entitled “Studium in Osteuropa: Ausgewählte Aspekte (Analysen, Befunde)” realised in the years 2013-2015 under supervision of Prof. Wilfried Schubarth and Dr Andreas Seidl from the Potsdam University, Department Erziehungswissenschaft and Prof. Karsten Speck from the University of Oldenburg, Germany. The project was realised jointly by representatives of academic centres from Germany, Czech Republic, Poland and Russia. Its general aim was a comparative analysis of the effects of implementation of Bologna Process directives in the higher education organisation in individual countries. The changes introduced into the higher education systems in the countries involved in the project were described and evaluated, in particular the problems of education of teachers at the university level was discussed. The following text is an outcome of the contribution of Polish group engaged in the project realisation. The report will be presented in two parts. The first part is focused on the macro-social context of transformations in the higher education system in Poland. Realisation of selected aspects of Bologna Process directives is described and supplemented with empirical comments. The second part is concerned with selected aspects of university level education of teachers, followed by a polemic against the assumptions and realisation of the target transformations of higher education system.

scholarly journals Effects of Socio-Academic Intervention on Student Performance in Vulnerable Groups

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7673
Author(s):  
Tarquino Sánchez-Almeida ◽  
David Naranjo ◽  
Raquel Gilar-Corbi ◽  
Jessica Reina
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Academic Intervention ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
University System ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
Support Mechanisms ◽  
The University

In Ecuador, affirmative action policies enable students from vulnerable groups to preferentially enter universities. However, these policies are limited to admission and do not include academic or socio-economic support mechanisms that, according to the literature, promote student insertion in the higher education system. In this study, the effects of socio-academic intervention on the academic performance of vulnerable students are presented. For this, 41 students were selected among 164 vulnerable students entering the Escuela Politécnica Nacional in the second term of 2019. The 41 students attended a socio-academic intervention course for one term, while the remaining 123 attended the Escuela Politécnica Nacional levelling course directly. Once both groups of students finished the levelling course, their performance in each of the course subjects was compared. The results showed that the academic performance of the students in the intervention was significantly higher in mathematics and geometry compared to the students who had no intervention. These results show that the socio-academic intervention promotes the real insertion of vulnerable students in the university system.

scholarly journals Risk, Choice and Social Disadvantage: Young People's Decision-Making in a Marketised Higher Education System

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheryl Clark ◽  
Anna Mountford-Zimdars ◽  
Becky Francis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Disadvantage ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
Tuition Fees ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
High Achieving Students ◽  
Risk Choice ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

Rising tuition fees in England have been accompanied by a policy mandate for universities to widen participation by attracting students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. This article focuses on one such group of high achieving students and their responses to rising tuition fees within the context of their participation in an outreach scheme at a research-intensive university in the UK. Our findings suggest that rather than being deterred from attending university as a result of fee increases, these young people demonstrated a detailed and fairly sophisticated understanding of higher education provision as a stratified and marketised system and justified fees within a discourse of ‘private good.’ Our analysis situates their ‘risk’ responses within the discursive tensions of the fees/widening participation mandate. We suggest that this tension highlights an intensified commodification of the relationship between higher education institutions and potential students from disadvantaged backgrounds in which widening participation agendas have shifted towards recruitment exercises. We argue that an ongoing effect of this shift has resulted in increased instrumentalism and a narrowing of choices for young people faced with the task of seeking out ‘value for money’ in their degrees whilst concurrently engaging in a number of personalised strategies aimed at compensating for social disadvantage in a system beset by structural inequalities.

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 Unwaged Posts in UK Universities: Controversies and Campaigns

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 533-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Forkert ◽  
Ana Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Uk Higher Education

This article examines unwaged posts at UK universities, using recent examples of advertised job posts. While unpaid work is common in the UK higher education system, unwaged posts are not. The posts under scrutiny in this article differ from traditional honorary titles as they target early career academics, who are unlikely to have a paid position elsewhere, rather than established scholars. The article contextualizes the appearance of these posts in a climate of increasing marketization of higher education, entrenching managerialism in higher education institutions, and the casualization of academic work. We also discuss resistance to the posts, arguing that the controversy surrounding unpaid internships in the creative industries created a receptive environment for resisting unwaged posts in academia. We analyze the campaigns that were fought against the advertisement of the posts, mostly through social media and the University and College Union. We explore the tactics used and discuss the advantages and limitations of the use of social media, as well as the role of trade unions in the campaigns against these posts, and we reflect on what future campaigns can learn from these experiences.

scholarly journals Faculty Turnover And Salary Compression In Business Schools: Comparing Teaching And Research Missions

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sid Glandon ◽  
TerryAnn Glandon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Hiring Practices ◽  
Unexpected Result ◽  
Turnover Rates ◽  
Faculty Turnover ◽  
University Level ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 37.8pt 0pt 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Batang;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Excessive employee turnover has plagued industry and higher education, increasing the cost of manufacturing a product, delivering a service or providing quality education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Most research conducted in this area has concentrated on industry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The few studies that have investigated turnover in higher education were done at the university level while this paper focuses on faculty turnover in business schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Another difference that distinguishes this paper is that actual turnover figures were used, rather than <span style="text-decoration: underline;">intentions</span> to leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Salary compression was also explored, an issue that concerns many faculty members. This occurs when new doctorates are hired at salaries almost equal to that of existing faculty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Our research found that turnover rates are higher in small, teaching institutions, as anticipated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>An unexpected result was that salary compression was greater in one of the research institutions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>This may be due to abnormal hiring practices of that school.</span></span></span></p>

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