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Push and pull factors affecting in leaving academia Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Tomi Kallio, Taru Siekkinen, Elias Pekkola, Jussi Kivistö, Terhi Nokkala, Päivikki Kuoppakangas
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Mergers and acquisitions and educational quality of higher education institutions Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Jaison Caetano da Silva, Edson Andrade dos Reis, Rosilene Marcon, Jeferson Lana, Cinara Gambirage
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Between harmonization and unification in the European higher education area: scenarios for the European university initiative Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Jari-Pekka Kanniainen, Elias Pekkola
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Ghanaian private higher education providers: are they becoming endangered species? Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Patrick Swanzy, Francis Ansah, Patrício Langa
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Students’ experiences of the research-teaching nexus Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Nikos Macheridis, Annika Fjelkner Pihl, Alexander Paulsson, Håkan Pihl
Students experience the research-teaching nexus differently as they progress through their first three years of undergraduate study depending on the discipline. The question is if students, within the same discipline, experience the nexus differently depending on the profile of the institution where they study. The present study explored students’ experiences of the research-teaching nexus (RT-nexus)
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Stakeholder influence in university alliance identity – an analysis of European Universities initiative mission statements Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-10-02 C. Hartzell, J. Schueller, Flavia Colus, N. Cristina do Rosário
The European Commission recently incentivized universities to establish alliances in order to institutionalise regional collaboration through the European Universities Initiative (EUI). Alliances are envisioned to maintain Europe’s global position and enhance regional integration. Their mission statements are ways of signalling identity and legitimacy and are used for strategic planning and performance
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The societal role of universities and their alliances: the case of the EuroTeQ Engineering University Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Lukas Fuchs, Carlos Cuevas-Garcia, Gunter Bombaerts
We analyse the creation of European university alliances as an effort to build learning networks between universities in light of newly perceived needs in Europe. The rationales for such alliance formation include cultural integration, grand societal challenges and reforms in the European innovation ecosystem. We consider how alliance formation may be instrumental in achieving closer cooperation and
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Advancing internationalization through an international network: a case study of a European institution Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Pushpa Asia Neupane
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The European University Initiative – investigating alliance formation and initial profile developments Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Bjørn Stensaker, Peter Maassen, Arianna Rosso
The European University Initiative (EUI) – launched by the European Commission in 2018 has been received with considerable interest from higher education institutions in Europe with hundreds of institutions forming new alliances. While the EUI-initiative in many ways is a continuation of a long history of collaboration across national borders in Europe, the initiative also contains novel elements –
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Bullying in higher education: an endemic problem? Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Malcolm Tight
We may think that bullying is a childish behaviour that is left behind on finishing school, or that universities and colleges are too cultured and intellectual as institutions to have room for such behaviour, but these hopes are far from the truth. The research evidence shows that bullying of all kinds is rife in higher education. Indeed, it seems likely that the peculiar nature of higher education
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Degree completion among students with an immigrant background in short-cycle welfare-oriented professional education Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Pål Oskar Hundebo
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Strategic European partnerships for UK universities post-Brexit: navigating a globally contested field of world-class universities Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Ludovic Highman, Simon Marginson, Vassiliki Papatsiba
This paper assesses how UK universities seek to maintain their global dominant position post-Brexit through comprehensive strategic partnerships with key European institutions as part of their internationalisation strategies. Drawing on 24 semi-structured interviews conducted from November 2017 to July 2018 in 12 UK universities vertically differentiated and spread along the highly hierarchised spectrum
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Academic adjustment of first year students and their transition experiences: The moderating effect of social adjustment Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Yaw Owusu-Agyeman, Taabo Mugume
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How do universities’ organizational characteristics, management strategies, and culture influence academic research collaboration? A literature review and research agenda Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Sarah-Rebecca Kienast
In the contemporary science and higher education system, national and supranational governments fund and foster universities to collaborate through specific funding lines and competition in World University Rankings, making it indispensable for universities to demonstrate collaboration at the organizational level. Thus, universities strive to encourage their scientific members to collaborate – and
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Strategic management of internationalization in higher education institutions: the lens of international office professionals Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Betul Bulut-Sahin, Serap Emil, Seda Okur, Fatma Nevra Seggie
The need for strategic planning of the internationalization process in universities is inevitable. The key stakeholders in higher education institutions (HEIs) are expected to be involved in the strategy-making process. It is argued that international office professionals (IPs) are one of these key stakeholders and need to be part of strategy development. The study aims to explore IPs’ conceptualization
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Institutional scope to shape persistence and departure among nursing students: re-framing Tinto for professional degrees Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Elisabeth Hovdhaugen, Rachel Sweetman, Liz Thomas
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Initial motivation and drop-out in nursing and business administration programmes Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Kjersti Nesje, Jannecke Wiers-Jenssen
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BS-QUAL: Measuring student perceptions of service quality in business schools, an exploratory study Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Llorenç Bagur-Femenias, Josep Llach, Marian Buil
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Strategising PhD supervision in Ukrainian higher education Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Myroslava Hladchenko
This article explores the implications of the national, organisational and individual cultural dimensions for the strategies of PhD supervisors. The intended outcome of PhD supervision is considered to be a doctoral graduate with advanced research skills as well as an original contribution to knowledge production. Data emanate from the interviews with 12 doctoral supervisors from several disciplines
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Professional or student identity and commitment? Comparing the experiences of nursing students with literature on student success Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Liz Thomas, Elisabeth Hovdhaugen, Rachel Sweetman
Improving the rates of continuation and completion of nursing students is a priority to ensure there are sufficient qualified staff to deliver national healthcare services. In the literature, which is predominantly informed by research undertaken in traditional HE institutions with students studying conventional academic programmes, the development of a student identity and course commitment are identified
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Higher education policies and interdisciplinarity in Germany Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Liudvika Leišytė, Anna-Lena Rose, Nadine Sterk-Zeeman
Universities have increasingly been subjected to policy- and industry demands to produce multi- and interdisciplinary knowledge. This paper explores the extent to which different higher education policy instruments are used to promote interdisciplinarity in teaching and research at universities in the German higher education system comparing them across different federal states. Based on a manifest
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Party school rankings: do we have anything to worry about? Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Matthew Birnbaum, Trent LeLonde, Joseph H. Paris
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It is still about bureaucracy in German faculties Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Ilse Hagerer
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The (dis)integration of nursing students. Multiple transitions, fragmented integration and implications for retention Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-12-17 Rachel Sweetman, Elisabeth Hovdhaugen, Liz Thomas
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Factors impacting on the retention of students from under-represented groups in initial teacher education in Ireland Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Elaine Keane, Manuela Heinz, Andrea Lynch
Initial teacher education (ITE) programmes in Ireland have seen continued high demand for places, reflecting high regard for the teaching profession. However, there is a dearth of diversity amongst Ireland’s student teacher and teaching populations, with the vast majority of entrants to ITE being from majority ethnic groups and a high proportion from higher socio-economic backgrounds. Diversifying
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Perception of strategies by university middle managers: is there any relationship with actual universities’ operations? Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Aleksei Egorov, Daria Platonova
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Enabling educational innovation through complexity leadership? Perspectives from four Dutch universities Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Martine Schophuizen, Aodhán Kelly, Caitlin Utama, Marcus Specht, Marco Kalz
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Toward a competency-based professional development framework for faculty members: insiders’ perspectives Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Tam T. Phuong, Bich-Hang Duong
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Emergence and early institutionalization of competition in higher education: evidence from Finnish business schools Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Kerttu Kettunen, Kimmo Alajoutsijärvi, John Arngrim Hunnes, Rómulo Pinheiro
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Strategy adaptation for sustainable quality management in universities: a systematic literature review Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Tolga Ozsen, Baris Uslu, Ahmet Aypay
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Implementing applied learning: A system view Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Benjamin S. Selznick, Teniell L. Trolian, Elizabeth A. Jach
Applied learning includes a variety of curricular and co-curricular experiences within higher education, including student internships, undergraduate research, cooperative learning, capstone experiences, and independent/directed study. While research has shown the benefits of applied learning experiences related to student outcomes, how to implement applied learning at scale across various disciplines
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Accessing the phenomenon of incompatibility in working students’ experience of university life Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Vladislav H. Grozev, Matthew J. Easterbrook
University students in paid employment have less time for studying, report more stress, and participate in fewer extracurricular activities than non-employed students. These negative outcomes that result from combining work and study can cause employed students to experience the domains of work, study, and social life as practically incompatible, but also to experience a sense of identity incompatibility
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The impact of system contraction on the rural youth access to higher education in Poland Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Dominik Antonowicz, Krzysztof Wasielewski, Jarosław Domalewski
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Moving from Blue Ocean Strategy to Blue Ocean Shift in Higher Education Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-07-13 O. Homer Erekson, Gerald B. Williams
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Gender (im)balance in the pool of graduate talent: the portuguese case Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Sónia Cardoso, Teresa Carvalho, Maria J. Rosa, Diana Soares
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Alleviating cross-cultural challenges of Indian subcontinent students: University staff perspectives Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Monika Kansal, Ritesh Chugh, Anthony Weber, Stephanie Macht, Robert Grose, Mahsood Shah
The growth in student numbers from the Indian subcontinent countries has increased exponentially in the Australian higher education system over the past decade. Unfortunately, this growth has not been accompanied by initiatives to address the distinctive cross-cultural challenges faced by this cohort. This paper seeks to identify academic and professional staff perceptions of how they can help alleviate
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A heuristic perspective on organizational strategizing in complex and coherent higher education fields Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Sandra Hasanefendic, Davide Donina
This article addresses how higher education organizations strategize in complex and coherent fields. Unlike previous studies which looked at either exogenous (field) or endogenous causes in strategizing, this article integrates them to explain organizational responses. We devise a conceptual framework under the premises of new institutional theory in order to connect macro-transformation in the institutional
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More students and more diverse: new trends in international mobility to Portugal Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Cristina Sin, Orlanda Tavares, Joyce Aguiar, Alberto Amaral
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Scholarship, management, and leadership in academic administration: The case of Canadian university presidents and provosts Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Eric Lavigne, Summer Cowley, Creso M. Sá
In the last three decades, Canadian universities have grown in size and complexity and undergone deep transformations. Meanwhile, who should be appointed as highest-ranking administrative officers and what they ought to be doing once appointed has remained hotly debated. This paper examines how Canadian universities’ understanding and framing of their presidents and provosts in job advertisements has
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Corporate reputation antecedents and stakeholder loyalty in malawi higher education institutions: employees’ and students’ perspectives Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Sufyan Rashid, Hasrina Mustafa
The proliferation of private and public universities in Malawi has increased competition for excellent employees and competent students. It is argued that corporate reputation has the potential to promote the competitive advantages of the HEIs by attracting and retaining employees and students. This study aims to identify how the quality of students, faculty expertise, media exposure, degree prestige
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Higher education internationalisation at the crossroads: effects of the coronavirus pandemic Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Jin Liu, Yuan Gao
The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced nearly every aspect of people’s lives, and has set new conditions for universities to operate their internationalisation practices. Together with the rapidly changing global environment, higher education internationalisation has reached a crossroads. Through a constructivist grounded theory design, this study explores experts’ thoughts about the coronavirus crisis’s
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Promoting educational innovations and change through networks between higher education teachers Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Elena Stasewitsch, Sofia Dokuka, Simone Kauffeld
Innovation in higher education teaching is essential to respond to global challenges and actively improve teaching (e.g. through new technologies), necessitating the implementation of educational reform programmes that fund educational innovations. Although currently deployed strategies frequently promote networks between innovators to diffuse educational innovations, little is known about the efficiency
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Student participation in university administration: factors, approaches and impact Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Haque Shahabul, Abdulghani Muthanna, Monira Sultana
What motivates students to participate in student organizations, how students participate in university administration decision-making, and how such participation influences students’ overall development is under-researched in Bangladesh. Therefore, to uncover such dynamics we employed document analyses, observations, and in-depth interviews with 25 university administrators, teachers, students, and
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Correction to: Evaluating research performance of research institutes within Malaysian universities: an alternative assessment framework Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Goh Choo Ta,Sharina Abdul Halim,Norzaini Azman,Ibrahim Komoo,Mazlin Mokhtar
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Quality in higher education: what do students in Cambodia perceive? Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-11-10 Nhem, Davut
The role of higher education to produce qualified graduates with high competence for competitive and borderless job markets has become solemnly complicated in the current globalized world. In parallel, the persistent paradox of what constitutes the quality of education has provoked intellectual debates in diverse educational settings – causing ambiguities and intricacies for policy and educational
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Business as usual? Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic to research, development and innovation (RDI) activities of universities of applied sciences Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Salomaa, Maria, Caputo, Andrea
Universities of applied sciences (UAS) have a strong mandate to carry out research, development and innovation (RDI) activities in collaboration with local stakeholders. Geographical proximity is one of the key factors for the creation and success of RDI activities because of the positive balance between costs and benefits of local knowledge transfer, but they also depend on the networks of individual
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Self-assessment of competences and their impact on the perceived chances for a successful university-to-work transition: the example of tourism degree students in Poland Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Piróg, Danuta, Kilar, Wioletta, Rettinger, Renata
Competences are the most important career capital a university graduate can have. The objective of the paper is to determine which competences acquired at tourism degree programmes affect students’ self-assessment regarding their own competitive advantage on the labour market. The data was collected during a nationwide diagnostic survey (N = 476) carried out at ten Polish universities among students
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Australian higher education third party arrangements: an independent institute case study Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Austin, Denise A., Pegram, Nigel, Hodson, Courtney, Hepplewhite, Glenda, Nelson, Belinda
The marked increase in transnational higher education third party arrangements in recent years represents globalizing forms of education. Third party arrangements involve a partner institution being approved to deliver the primary institution’s government-accredited courses. The primary institute is accountable for monitoring and documenting quality assurance and the third party is responsible to the
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Evaluating research performance of research institutes within Malaysian universities: an alternative assessment framework Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Ta, Goh Choo, Halim, Sharina Abdul, Azman, Norzaini, Komoo, Ibrahim, Mokhtar, Mazlin
Evaluation of research performance has significantly increased in importance, particularly in many emerging higher education systems. In Malaysia, the Malaysian Research Assessment (MyRA) was developed to evaluate the research performance of universities and Research Centres of Excellence (RCoEs). This paper reports on a participatory action research approach aimed at developing a new framework for
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Leadership development programming in higher education: an exploration of perceptions of transformational leadership across gender and role types Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Lamm, Kevan W., Sapp, L. Rochelle, Randall, Nekeisha L., Lamm, Alexa J.
Transformational leadership, a type of leadership commonly promoted within higher education, has been shown to positively affect performance, collaborative behavior, and goal accomplishment. Such skills may correlate with the level of job responsibility one has been given and the technical, human, and conceptual skills needed for one to be successful. This study sought to bridge a research gap by exploring
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The impact of mergers in higher education on micro-level processes – a literature review Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Wollscheid, Sabine, Røsdal, Trude
Amidst increased research on mergers in higher education, studies addressing micro level processes are scarce and fragmented across disciplines: our aim is to systematically review existing studies, providing implications for research and practice. We grouped 21 studies from different countries under four themes: academic identity and self-image; cultural integration; staff reaction; teaching and research
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University research centers as knowledge translation platforms: leveraging structure, support and resources to enhance multisectoral collaboration and advocacy Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-09-25 Valmeekanathan, Akshara, Babcock, Carly, Ling, Brenton, Davey-Rothwell, Melissa A., Holtgrave, David R., Jessani, Nasreen S.
Knowledge Translation Platforms (KTPs) have drawn attention as multidisciplinary institutional structures that broker evidence to policy and practice. University Research Centers (URCs) appear to serve as internal KTPs by fostering research collaboration as well as advocacy. This study’s aim was to examine URCs within one American School of Public Health (SPH) to explore the functions of knowledge
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Indigenization and University Governance: Reflections from the Transition to Yukon University Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Staples, Kiri, Klein, Rhiannon, Southwick, Tosh, Kinnear, Lacia, Geddes, Carol, Gingell, Judy
While literature on university governance in Canada has identified key challenges that need to be addressed, it largely overlooks calls for change towards indigenization within post-secondary institutions. Efforts towards indigenization are being made in practice, but little has been done to reflect on what this means for university governance specifically. This paper contributes to this gap in understanding
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Exploring Postgraduate students’ challenges and strategy use while writing a master’s thesis in an English-medium University in Kazakhstan Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-06-28 Anas Hajar, Ali Ait Si Mhamed
With the growth of English medium instruction (EMI) on a global level, the number of multilingual students writing their master’s theses in English is increasing. However, research on students’ experiences of writing them in English in non-English speaking contexts is scarce. This paper reports on the challenges and strategic learning efforts of eight Kazakhstani students while working on their master’s
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Measuring service quality at an online university: using PLS-SEM with archival data Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Jos M. C. Schijns
The aim of this study is to analyze, evaluate and validate the NSE (National Student Enquiry) as a service quality measure helping both higher education institutions (HEIs) and students in their decision making. Every year the Dutch foundation ‘Studiekeuze123’ sends out a survey (the NSE) to collect data on service quality regarding education at HEIs in the Netherlands. We used the 2019 NSE-data from
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Positional competition in a binary system: the case of Finnish higher education Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-06-11 Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret, Mikko Aro, Kristiina Ojala
Positional competition in the labour market entails graduate opportunities that depend not only on graduates’ skills, experience and abilities, but also on how their educational credentials compare to those of others. In this study, we examined the positional competition in the Finnish labour market and compared the influence of different ‘degree types’ on the probability of obtaining high-paid, high-status
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Pursuing higher education: adaptation challenges and coping strategies of rural students at urban universities in Bangladesh Tertiary Education and Management Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Shoukot Ali, Md Fouad Hossain Sarker, M. Saiful Islam, Md Kabirul Islam, Rafi Al Mahmud
This study examines how students from rural areas in Bangladesh face particular challenges in adapting to university dormitories in urban areas. There has been an increase in the number of students migrating from rural areas of Bangladesh to the cities for pursuing higher studies. These students face numerous challenges to adapt themselves to a diverse and unfamiliar cultural setting of an urban university