scholarly journals Perspectives on Global University Networks

2015 ◽  
pp. 4-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Middlehurst
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global University ◽  
The University ◽  
Over Time

Global networks are proliferating and diversifying between higher education providers and other sectors and groups.  Some authors suggest this represents a process of de-nationalization, others that approaches to internationalization that de-nationalize the university will fail.  Looking to the past, establishing international consortia and networks appears to have been a response to a range of major structural challenges affecting higher education.  Some of these resonate today, but there are also new competitive challenges that encourage institutions to join networks or align themselves with partners for competitive advantage, for substantive and reputational gains.  The consortia and networks that exist today illustrate both diversity and coalescence around multiple themes.  These include functional and activity-based themes as well as shared interests and values.  The question of sustainability over time remains as some networks have survived decades while others have disappeared.  Those that recognise cultural, political and intellectual differences and the need to achieve mutual benefits are more likely to be sustainable.

The Indian University in a Comparative Perspective

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.R. Madhava Menon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
University System ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The purpose of looking at Indian universities in a comparative perspective is obviously to locate it among higher education institutions across the world and to identify its strengths and weaknesses in the advancement of learning and research. In doing so, one can discern the directions for reform in order to put the university system in a competitive advantage for an emerging knowledge society. This chapter looks at the current state of universities in India and highlights the initiatives under way for change and proposes required policy changes.

scholarly journals Investigating Relationship of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Adoption Concept and University Competitive Advantage: A Field Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Abdul Sattar H. Yousif ◽  
Firas Rifai ◽  
Hadeel Alhroot
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Statistical Test ◽  
Adoption Of Innovation ◽  
Main Instrument ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

This paper aims at investigating the relationship between the application of innovation and entrepreneurship system and the university competitive advantage in the Jordanian higher education sector.     To collect the required data, the number of some concerned individuals was surveyed through a carefully designed questionnaire that has become the main instrument to obtain the required data.A random sample of university managerial staff was withdrawn from five private Jordanian universities. The collected data was audited, reviewed and statically analyzed using the most relevant statistical test. The results of the statistical analysis have clearly pointed out that university adoption of innovation and entrepreneurship system has a significant effect on its competitive advantage.

Assembling the Global University

2013 ◽  
pp. 366-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Entrepreneurial University ◽  
First Year ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Global University ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
The University

This chapter examines the emergence of the global artistic-entrepreneurial university, the increasing importance of interdisciplinary and innovative pedagogies, and how these new emphases are shaping institutional change. The first section analyzes the global university as an “assemblage,” a process that gathers ideas, materialities, digitized platforms, and human beings into a new form of higher education. Because of the impacts on higher education of the flows of capital, technology, people, and cultural practices in both the “East” and the “West,” this form of the university transcends regional and national boundaries as it builds networks of learning around the world. The second section of the chapter focuses on the increasing importance of interdisciplinarity and developing active and integrative pedagogies organized around fundamental skills and questions. In order to ground the discussion in particular sites, the authors use examples from the University of Hong Kong’s new Core Curriculum and from the University of Washington Bothell’s Discovery Core for first-year students. In the final section, the chapter addresses what the next steps might look like as institutions change themselves to fit a globalized context. This section returns to the idea of the global university as a “hub of an ecology of studio-labs” (Parks, 2005, p. 57) and suggest that the “managerial” university is transitioning into a more flexible model of the “artistic-entrepreneurial” university in order to prosper in an extremely competitive and generative global environment.

Teacher Fellows

2016 ◽  
pp. 281-294
Author(s):  
Barbara H. Davis ◽  
Terri Cearley-Key
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Teacher Retention ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University ◽  
Collection Methods ◽  
Over Time

This chapter describes the Teacher Fellows Program. This program is a school/university partnership that has provided comprehensive mentoring and induction support to more than 400 teachers over the past 20 years. The program is grounded in social-constructivist, cognitive-developmental and teacher development theories. Both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods have been used to determine the program's effectiveness over time. Results from analyses of the data indicate the program (a) improves teacher retention, (b) increases teacher effectiveness, (c) fosters collaboration between the university and public schools, and (d) impacts student learning.

scholarly journals The Transformation of Traditional Universities into Entrepreneurial Universities to Ensure Sustainable Higher Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Bikse ◽  
Inese Lusena-Ezera ◽  
Baiba Rivza ◽  
Tatjana Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Positive Trend ◽  
Entrepreneurial Universities ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Business Incubation ◽  
The Past ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
The University

Abstract This paper aims to investigate the experience and to identify the drivers of transforming traditional universities into Entrepreneurial Universities for ensuring sustainable higher education in Latvia. Due to the wide scope, Entrepreneurial University characteristics, the present research study is limited and focuses on the university providing access to students to business incubation facilities, relationships with business incubators for students, as well openness of university to collaboration and knowledge co-creation with its external stakeholders. Analyses of the experiences of universities of Latvia business incubators providing services to students, as well cooperation between higher education institutions (HEI) and local governments and entrepreneurs show that there is a positive trend. In opposite, such a trend can’t be observed towards building Entrepreneurial Universities in Latvia over the past 5 years. The results of the survey show that there is a need put higher efforts to assist young entrepreneurs in building cooperation networks and strengthening knowledge co-creation with external stakeholders.

A History of U.S. Higher Education in Accounting, Part I: Situating Accounting within the Academy

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Van Wyhe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Accounting Education ◽  
Public Accounting ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World

Where we have been can tell us a great deal about where we are going. If we wish to direct the future, then understanding the past can help us see how much we actually influence that direction. Ignorance of the past, on the other hand, allows unrealistic expectations and creates unnecessary frustration. The history of accounting higher education in the United States is most informative for anyone who wants to influence the future direction of our profession. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the history of accounting higher education in the U.S., from its beginnings to its settled position in the university. This historical overview informs us that the profession of public accounting had everything to do with establishing and growing accounting education. Around the time of the Second World War, however, forces were set in motion that would try to pull accounting education from the grasp of public accounting. The belittling of public accounting, first in the name of the new management accounting and then by the Foundation Reports, combined with public accounting leaders' ongoing desire for a five-year education requirement above all other educational reforms, resulted in accounting higher education's inability to single-mindedly identify its goals and work toward them.

scholarly journals Economic and Higher Education Partnership of Hungary and Kazakhstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinga Magdolna Mandel ◽  
Anargul Belgibayeva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Communications ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University

The aim of our research was to describe, compare, and analyze the development of business and educational co-operation between Kazakhstan and Hungary over the past 19 years. The research was prompted by the university-level co-operation between the two countries that star ted in 2018, which was made possible by the strategic partnership that is the topic of the present article. We started from the hypothesis that both business and educational co-operation has developed linearly and significantly during the last 19 years. Our research methodology was based on gathering and analyzing secondary macroeconomic, trade, and educational co-operation data in the period between 2011 and 2020. The data were obtained from publications, national offices (statistical, commerce, and education), and international bodies (like TempusPublic Foundation, Eurostat, International Monetary Fund [IMF], and the World Bank). In this paper, we intend to link the main political, social, and macroeconomic endowments with business and educational developments of partnership in the two countries, trying to map out prospects for co-operation. One conclusion is that, although in the political communications of the two countries we were able to identify significant governmental efforts on both sides to support and enforce economic and educational co-operation, the data indicate a decrease in the size of business investments. At the same time, however, the educational co-operation between the two parties continues to develop further.

scholarly journals The Impact Of Integration, Affirmative Action, And Diversity On Minority Student Recruitment At The University Of Alabama: A Longitudinal Perspective

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
John L. Festervand ◽  
Troy A. Festervand
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Minority Student ◽  
Minority Faculty ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Minority Representation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Diversity In Higher Education ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This paper explores the University of Alabama's positions, actions, policies, and accomplishments over the past forty years with respect to minority representation among its students and faculty. The impact and progression of these initiatives by the University of Alabama demonstrates strides have been made. The paper also examines the University's recruiting efforts to attract more minority faculty and students. The transition from integration to affirmative action to diversity in higher education also are examined.

What Does Success Look Like for Entrepreneurship Education?

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-206
Author(s):  
Creso Sá
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Critical Case ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Multiple Goals ◽  
Canadian Province ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University

AbstractEntrepreneurship education is a growing field of studies internationally, as a range of curricular and co-curricular programs have emerged in higher education institutions. Considering the multiple goals and motivations of both those supporting and running entrepreneurship programs, how do entrepreneurship educators define “success”? This study explores this question focusing on the Canadian province of Ontario. Ontario is a critical case for investigating entrepreneurship education as programs in the field have proliferated over the past decade. Findings show multiple co-existing views on student success that are far from being reconciled, and speak to broader debates over the goals of entrepreneurship education in the university.

Globalization of Japanese Higher Education and the Case of Hokkaido University

2019 ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Toyoharu Nawa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Education ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Japanese Higher Education ◽  
Global University ◽  
Education Market ◽  
Future Strategy ◽  
The University

Institutions of higher education all over the world are facing the pressure to internationalize their operations and academic programs, to enhance its competitiveness in an international education market. The first part of this chapter presents a review of national policy to incentivize the internationalization of higher education in Japan since 1980s. The second part introduces internalization initiatives of Hokkaido University in the last decade. Under the initiative of the president, university formulated its vision of “Hokkaido University, contributing to the resolution of global issues” in the “Future Strategy for the 150th Anniversary of Hokkaido University,” a blueprint for drastically reforming the university. In the 2014 fiscal year, a strategy to further internationalize education, “Hokkaido Universal Campus Initiative” was chosen by MEXT for the “Top Global University Project.” The author analyzes Hokkaido University's internationalization progress, focusing on the strengths and activities of major projects and the changes in the overall management.

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