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Predicting performance in exams and deep approach to learning in first year university students: a new look at academic success Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Manuel Bächtold, Jacqueline Papet, Dominique Barbe Asensio, André Mas, Sandra Borne, Appolinaire Ngoua Ondo
This study calls for a broadening of the perspective on academic success. While passing exams is an essential objective of higher education, it should not overshadow another important objective whi...
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The entrepreneurial university concept as a narrative of change in HEIs Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Habtamu Garomssa
The literature on entrepreneurial universities has grown exponentially over the past three decades. Concomitantly, the meanings attached to the terminology of entrepreneurial universities has proli...
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‘It’s like two Europes here, the West and the East’. Belonging and fitting in at an elite graduate school Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Adél Pásztor
While there has been a proliferation of research on the experiences of nonelite students in elite settings, scholarly attention has predominantly focused on institutions like the Ivy League or Oxbr...
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Individual motivation and knowledge sharing: the hindering effect of perceived costs in higher education Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Zhenyu Fan, Loo-See Beh
Knowledge sharing among academic staff allows universities to foster innovation and achieve competitiveness in the higher education industry. Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, this study dev...
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Sexual harassment, bullying, burnout and organisational support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish medical faculty – a survey study Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Caroline Olsson, Anna Toropova, Irene Jensen, Christina Björklund
This study investigated the prevalence of bullying and sexual harassment in Swedish medical faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, associations between these factors and burnout were in...
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Legitimacy deficits in the private higher education sector: categories in evaluating Russian universities Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Katerina Guba, Angelika Tsivinskaya
This paper explores the regulators’ perspective and demonstrates how legitimacy deficits of private universities outweigh performance results in decisions regarding university inspections. We exami...
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Confronting well-being and mental health in the ‘therapeutic university’: implications for educators, students and the curriculum Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Clare Rawdin, Sunny Dhillon
This is a conceptual paper that examines the emergence of the ‘therapeutic university’ and considers its potential implications for policy and practice in Higher Education (HE). Concern over the we...
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Strategic ambitions of external RDI funding in Finnish universities of applied sciences Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Vuokko Kohtamäki, Michael von Boguslawski
This article explores the strategic external funding goals and plans of action of Finnish universities of applied sciences (UASs) as articulated in their institutional strategies using the ecology-...
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‘You could make original contributions, just like them!’: supervisory interactions and a doctoral student’s academic identity construction Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Jie Bao, Dezheng (William) Feng, Guangwei Hu, Junju Wang
Supervision lies at the heart of research-based doctoral education. Existing scholarship has recognized the role of supervision in students’ academic socialization and identity construction but pre...
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‘You certainly don’t get promoted for just teaching’: experiences of education-focused academics in research-intensive universities Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Stephanie Bull, Alison Cooper, Anita Laidlaw, Louise Milne, Shelley Parr
Changes in drivers of academic roles within higher education institutions globally have resulted in increased proportions of academics in education focused (EF) posts. International and UK research...
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Exploring graduate students’ research characteristics, emotional exhaustion, mastery approach, and research career commitment: insights from the JD-R theory Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Jiying Han, Tongyan Wang
The job demands-resources (JD-R) theory has been widely applied to explore relationships between employees’ job characteristics and performance, particularly in contexts of paid work. This study ex...
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Enhancing graduate employability – exploring the influence of experiential simulation learning on life skill development Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Florian Scheuring, Jamie Thompson
Skills and knowledge which increase the likelihood of university graduates finding employment is an increasingly important factor for higher education institutions. Even though subject matter exper...
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How does assessment shape student identities? An integrative review Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Juuso Henrik Nieminen
Assessment of student learning is commonly understood as a seemingly objective measurement of learning outcomes. It is seen as fair that assessment targets students’ abilities – not their identitie...
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Integrating trauma in European history education: debating current issues and future prospects Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Nena Mocnik
This paper explores the evolving role of trauma in history education, particularly within the context of the Council of Europe's vision of ‘understanding the past as vital for a shared future’. The...
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ChatGPT adoption and anxiety: a cross-country analysis utilising the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Tribikram Budhathoki, Araz Zirar, Eric Tchouamou Njoya, Achyut Timsina
The public release of ChatGPT in November 2022 brought excitement and concerns regarding students’ use of language models in higher education. However, little research has empirically investigated ...
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A framework for using SET when evaluating faculty Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Nina Zipser, Lisa Mincieli
This paper presents a framework for utilizing Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) in faculty evaluations. Recognizing the ongoing debate about the validity of SET as a measure of teaching effecti...
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Using positioning theory and narrative to explore doctoral students’ developing understandings about theory in educational research Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Cynthia Brock, Kate Muir Welsh, Cara Tarullo, Josh Montgomery, Avia Kelly, April Heaney
Doctoral students' ability to understand, use, and build on theory in educational research is a critical aspect of their learning to be successful scholars. Unfortunately, there is a paucity of wor...
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Affective encounters in higher education Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Karen Gravett, Simon Lygo-Baker
In this article, we examine how thinking with affect theory offers fertility within higher education studies to see and do teaching and learning differently. For many educators in universities, the...
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Portraying a growing field of study: a scientometric review of research on international branch campuses Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Xiaofan Zhang, Kun Dai
International branch campuses (IBCs) are gaining popularity among students, institutions, and countries worldwide. Despite the significant interest in this field, few studies have reviewed and anal...
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From pandemic crisis to recovery and resilience: lessons from COVID-19 at a large urban research university Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Cheryl Regehr, Nicholas O. Rule
The abrupt onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced a dramatic shift in higher education. Over time, the prolonged and cyclical nature of public-health restrictions conditioned students, faculty, and ...
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Correction Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-22
Published in Studies in Higher Education (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Foreword Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Jens Jungblut, Sarah O’Shea
Published in Studies in Higher Education (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Gender pay gaps across STEM fields of study Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Tomasz Zając, Iga Magda, Marek Bożykowski, Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Mikołaj Jasiński
Gender pay gaps in earnings are well-documented in the literature. However, new factors contributing to women’s lower earnings have emerged and remain under-researched. Educational choices are amon...
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Generative AI: is it a paradigm shift for higher education? Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Xianghan O’Dea
In this special issue, we explore the opportunities and challenges of using Generative AI (GenAI), in particular, text generators in higher education learning and teaching. As GenAI has become incr...
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Neoliberalism, institutional change and the new culture of the university professoriate: the Spanish case Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Fernando López-Castellano
Neoliberalism has pervaded almost everywhere in the world, bringing about major changes in institutional frameworks and social relations. Science and university research have not escaped the effect...
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Approach versus avoidance strategies in job crafting and their relationship to prosocial service behavior in university professors Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Teresa Ortega-Egea, Antonia Ruiz-Moreno, Dainelis Cabeza-Pulles
What work strategies must university professors adopt to guarantee the service of higher education and even go beyond the role universities have formally established for them? This article aims to ...
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Asset or liability: exploring undergraduates’ perceptions of faculty-mentored research in Ghana Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Richard Serbeh
This paper explores students’ perceptions of faculty-mentored research by drawing on the experiences of final year undergraduates sampled from a public university in Ghana. Embedded in a qualitativ...
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Australian university student coping profiles and psychosocial distress: a latent profile analysis Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Isabelle Smart, Melinda McCabe, Laura J. Bird, Michelle L. Byrne, Kim Cornish
Compared to the general population, university students experience unique demands and stressors that impact psychosocial distress. High levels of psychosocial distress can affect students academica...
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When artificial intelligence substitutes humans in higher education: the cost of loneliness, student success, and retention Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Joseph Crawford, Kelly-Ann Allen, Bianca Pani, Michael Cowling
Artificial intelligence (AI) may be the new-new-norm in a post-pandemic learning environment. There is a growing number of university students using AI like ChatGPT and Bard to support their academ...
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Better than not starting? Research university project of Turkey Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Cüneyt Belenkuyu, Engin Karadag
Initiatives to build research universities to have world-class universities, the creator and the disseminator of scientific knowledge in knowledge-based economies, are among the most important poli...
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From surface to deep learning approaches with Generative AI in higher education: an analytical framework of student agency Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Yunying Yang, Jinwen Luo, Miaoyan Yang, Runde Yang, Jiayin Chen
Recent emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology has stimulated interests as well as concerns in their potential in teaching and learning. Situated in the new and transform...
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A quantitative exploration of management undergraduates’ readiness for diversity and inclusion in the university environment Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 M.M.N. Chathuranga, H.N.R. Gunawardane, T.W.M.P.S. Dissanayake
Promoting diversity and inclusion is crucial in today’s educational settings for the success of every student. This research delves into the important aspect of undergraduates’ readiness to embrace...
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Social network analysis and educational change: unravelling the role of innovative teaching staff in a higher education environment Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Dario Blumenschein, Bjarte Hannisdal
As the higher education landscape has shifted and calls for change and improvements have grown louder, researchers have turned to empirical investigations of what makes change possible in higher ed...
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Manifestations of professional identity work: an integrative review of research in professional identity formation Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Stefanie Reissner, Elizabeth Armitage-Chan
Professional identity formation (PIF) is an integral part of educating professionals. A well-formed professional identity helps individuals to develop a meaningful professional self-understanding t...
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Ask ChatGPT first! Transforming learning experiences in the age of artificial intelligence Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Lily (Xuehui) Gao, María Eugenia López-Pérez, Iguácel Melero-Polo, Andreea Trifu
Chatbots have transformed educational practices, and ChatGPT represents a significant development in this domain. However, more research is needed to determine how user perceptions influence the ov...
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Why honors?: a qualitative investigation and taxonomy of student motivations for enrolling in honors programs Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Matthew D. Deeg, Amy L. Boone, Anna Chen, Trey Shirley
Involvement in honors programs provides students an opportunity to grow academically, connect with like-minded peers, and reap tangible and intangible benefits. Understanding the motivations drivin...
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Human-AI collaboration patterns in AI-assisted academic writing Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Andy Nguyen, Yvonne Hong, Belle Dang, Xiaoshan Huang
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has increasingly influenced higher education, notably in academic writing where AI-powered assisting tools offer both opportunities and challenges. Recently, the rapid ...
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Social moderation and calibration versus codification: a way forward for academic standards in higher education? Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Berry O’Donovan, Ian Sadler, Nicola Reimann
A key responsibility of higher education providers is the accurate certification of the knowledge and skills attained by their students. However, despite an intense focus on developing relevant qua...
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Constructing a women-friendly academic ecology: understanding the push and pull forces on Pakistani women academics’ research productivity Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Sabika Khalid, Chunhai Gao, Gulnar Orynbek, Endale Tadesse
While it is often acknowledged that women academics encounter challenges in research, motivation, and collaboration compared to their male counterparts, this narrative perpetuates the widening scho...
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Academic work, hyper-performativity and the professoriate: an agenda to re-conceptualise the higher doctorate as an integrated higher doctorate Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 David William Stoten
How can we better support the professional development of the professoriate? This paper reports on the proposal to introduce an integrated higher doctorate to develop and recognise expert leadershi...
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Peer-aggressive humor and cyberbullying among Chinese and American university students: mediating and moderating roles of frustration and peer norms Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Hong Zhu, Siqi Hu, Zhizai Dai
The impact of aggressive humor on workplace dynamics has been extensively examined; however, its implications for university students remain underexplored. Drawing on frustration–aggression theory,...
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Antagonistic identity discourses in career transitions: an autoethnographic study in higher education Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Michelle Gander
Using an analytical-interpretative autoethnographic account of my move from a professional staff manager to an academic manager in a university, I highlight how career transitions can result in oth...
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Transdisciplinarity from the grassroots: exploring student-led dialogues for sustainability Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter O, Sarah Glozer, Anica Zeyen
The responses of higher education (HE) institutions towards the climate crisis and escalating social inequalities have been researched from either ‘top-down’ (i.e. institutionally-led) or ‘bottom-u...
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Management scholars’ perception of barriers and bridges to use crowdsourcing in science: qualitative research Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Regina Lenart-Gansiniec
Crowdsourcing in science is one of the ways of conducting scientific research which responses to the postulates of the democratization, openness, and inclusiveness of science. Although much is know...
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The influence of AI text generators on critical thinking skills in UK business schools Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Aniekan Essien, Oyegoke Teslim Bukoye, Christine O’Dea, Marios Kremantzis
This study investigates the influence of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), specifically AI text generators (ChatGPT), on critical thinking skills in UK postgraduate business school students...
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Player, Purist, Pragmatist: a comparison of employability strategies in access to the solicitors’ profession via alternative degree pathways Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Caroline Casey, Anna Mountford-Zimdars, Sally Hancock
Degree apprenticeships offer a new route to a degree in UK higher education, with policymakers emphasising their social mobility potential to widen access to graduate professions. In this context, ...
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What impacts matriculation decisions? Identifying students’ university choice factors on a global scale with Artificial Intelligence Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Ilker Cingillioglu
This study provides an empirical approach to utilizing an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based system for identifying students’ university choice factors that impact their matriculation decision. We ...
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A lucky draw? Theorising how work placements develop diverse university students’ career stories Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Mollie Dollinger, Juuso Henrik Nieminen, Rachel Finneran
Universities can prepare students for work, and universities can educate increasingly diverse student cohorts, but can they do both concurrently? This question of whether universities can offer equ...
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The association between course selection and academic performance: exploring psychological interpretations Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Tianwei Gong, Jian Li, Jia Yu Yeung, Xiaohui Zhang
Course selection is an important issue for university students. This study investigates the relationship between course selection and overall academic performance among university students. Using a...
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Student loan debt and family formation of youth in Japan Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Jie Wang, Hideo Akabayashi, Masayuki Kobayashi, Shinpei Sano
Since the late 1990s, the number of college student loan debtors has increased rapidly in Japan. Despite the uniqueness of Japanese higher education policies in terms of tuition levels and heavy re...
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How university teachers’ authenticity and domestic university brand can reduce students’ intention to migrate? Evidence from Iranian higher education institutions Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Asal Aghaz, Alireza Sheikh, Mohammadreza Mirzaee
This study investigates the impact of university teachers’ authenticity on Iranian students’ intention to migrate. Moreover, the mediating role of students’ authenticity and the moderation of domes...
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A relational approach to knowledge exchange in higher education Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Harriet Dismore, Verity Campbell-Barr, Rachel Manning, Paul Warwick
Reference to Knowledge Exchange (KE) in UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) has become common place, reflecting the continued changing role of universities within society. Arguably, KE draws to...
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Research independence: drivers and impact on PhD students’ careers Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Sofia Patsali, Michele Pezzoni, Fabiana Visentin
Drawing upon data on the entire population of French STEM PhD students, we explore the factors leading PhDs to pursue independent research from their supervisors during the PhD and how independence...
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‘Decent work’ as a higher education policy myopia: an ecosystem framework for policy-making Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Tony Wall, Nga Thi Hang Ngo, Phuong Minh Luong, Tien Thi Hanh Ho, Ann Hindley
Globally, higher education policy is typically framed in terms of the technical employability capabilities to advance the economic productivity of nations, and as such, can be myopic to the wider s...
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Explaining academic researchers’ performance from the Ability–Motivation–Opportunity (AMO) perspective Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Claudia Benítez-Núñez, Nieves Lidia Díaz-Díaz, José Luis Ballesteros-Rodríguez, Petra de Saá-Pérez
Drawing from the Ability–Motivation–Opportunity (AMO) framework, this paper aims to study the influence of academic researchers’ ability, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and opportunity on thei...
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Curricular, interactional, and structural diversity: identifying factors affecting learning outcomes Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jo–Ying Chu, Andy D. Huang
Discussions of ‘diversity’ in higher education are often limited to structural diversity (i.e. access to higher education based on demographic variables), which is just one form of diversity that i...
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Balancing control and legitimacy in higher education policy implementation Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Debananda Misra, Bjørn Stensaker
A key policy challenge in establishing new universities is the potential risk of lower academic standards and mission drift, which can affect policy effectiveness and outcomes. While regulation and...
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Developing employability competences through career coaching in higher education: supporting students’ learning process Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Niels van der Baan, Wendy Nuis, Simon Beausaert, Wim Gijselaers, Inken Gast
Higher education plays a pivotal role in preparing students for the dynamic and complex labour market. Helping students develop employability competences supports them in obtaining the necessary ex...
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Understanding the impact of biased student evaluations: an intersectional analysis of academics’ experiences in the UK higher education context Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Athanasia Daskalopoulou
This paper aims to offer an understanding of how (intersectional) bias in student evaluations of teaching affects academics’ mental health and career progression. Despite the widespread acceptance ...
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The sustainability-to-employment pipeline: the impact of SDG-related curricula on graduates’ employability Stud. High. Educ. (IF 4.017) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Genc Alimehmeti, Magalì Fia, Angelo Paletta
Public and private organizations—including higher education institutions—frequently adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to facilitate a better future. In their efforts to realize the Age...