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Zethembe Mseleku – Cogent Education, 2024
Graduate unemployment has emerged as a major socio-economic problem in many countries, and South Africa is no exception. In South Africa, which is a developing country, graduate unemployment is the cause of concern as it grows consistently with the overall youth unemployment. The transition of youth from higher education to the world of work is a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Unemployment, College Graduates
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Wibowo, Agus; Narmaditya, Bagus Shandy; Saptono, Ari; Effendi, Mohammad Sofwan; Mukhtar, Saparuddin; Shafiai, Muhammad Hakimi Mohd – Cogent Education, 2023
Digital entrepreneurship is an interesting study in developed and developing countries as it plays a radical role in changing the economic landscape and facilitates creativity and innovation efforts for the growth of new entrepreneurs. This study aims to examine how digital entrepreneurship knowledge affects the digital entrepreneurial intentions…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Entrepreneurship, Intention, College Students
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Jonathan Olanrewaju Fatokun; Mishack Thiza Gumbo – Cogent Education, 2024
This paper reports on a narrative review of the criticality of problem-solving and troubleshooting skills for undergraduate Electronics Engineering students and its significance for industry readiness. The review was undertaken to understand the problems and troubleshooting skills learned and possessed by the Electronics Engineering training…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Troubleshooting, Undergraduate Students, Electronics
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Zayd Waghid – Cogent Education, 2023
In a critical review of the South African government's Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications (MRTEQ), designed to provide a foundation for teacher education institutions, a stark deficiency emerges in terms of critical Global Citizenship Education (GCE). This paper thus aims to investigate the underpinnings guiding teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Educational Practices, Global Education
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Hwami, Munyaradzi – Cogent Education, 2023
Literature on the modern university suggest that top-ranked world-class universities are the ideal, and emerging nation-states should establish such institutions. Appearing at the top in international university rankings has become the aim as it guarantees attraction and retention of top talent. This study investigated the status of a university…
Descriptors: Reputation, Universities, Institutional Characteristics, Talent
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Akhter, Hamida; Abdul Rahman, Abdul Aziz; Jafrin, Nusrat; Mohammad Saif, Abu Naser; Esha, Bushra Humyra; Mostafa, Rehnuma – Cogent Education, 2022
Online learning has been extensively conducted to continue the academic activities in the universities transversely the realm during the pandemic instigated by COVID-19. Like other countries' universities across the world, universities in a developing country such as Bangladesh are going through the online learning phenomenon. However, the current…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Barriers, Undergraduate Students
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Mauro Marino-Jiménez; Inés Liliana Ramírez-Durand; Antonio Pareja-Lora; Augusto Cieza-Esteban – Cogent Education, 2024
Research is a common feature in developed countries. Those who dedicate themselves to this activity produce important tools for individual, community, and national development. However, developing countries suffer the opposite situation. In these nations, little investment is devoted to research, and they lack dissemination mechanisms, while…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Higher Education, Research, Research Opportunities
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Maclean Bajimpong Betakan; Anthony Akwasi Owusu; Joseph Tufuor Kwarteng – Cogent Education, 2024
This study examines the determinants of learning strategies employed by undergraduate accounting students in an emerging economy. Specifically, it investigates the impact of institution, teacher, and personal determinants on accounting students' utilisation of a particular learning strategy. In line with Information Process Theory (IPM), a…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Undergraduate Students, Accounting, Business Administration Education
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Sarah Godsell; Bongani Shabangu; Guy Primrose – Cogent Education, 2024
Assessment remains a power nexus in Higher Education, where remnants of coloniality pool. The power that assessment holds makes it an important site for decolonisation. The purpose of this article is to present an experiment, and open a discussion, on the decolonisation of assessment. We argue that bringing assessment into the decolonisation…
Descriptors: Postcolonialism, Universities, Educational History, Power Structure
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Vanessa Botero-Gómez; Luís Germán Ruiz-Herrera; Alejandro Valencia-Arias; José Alberto Oré León; Lilian Verde Flores – Cogent Education, 2024
The aim of this article is to examine challenges and motivations among university teachers regarding the use of information and communication technology (ICT) tools in virtual learning environments in the context of an emerging country that is undergoing post-pandemic educational adaptation. A descriptive study was developed with open-ended…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Teacher Motivation, College Faculty
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Owusu-Kumih, Eric O.; Boateng, Fred; Loglo, Frank – Cogent Education, 2019
Transnational Education (TNE) has often been used as a measure to support the economic sustainability of the institution of higher learning involved. But in recent times, TNE has become one of the important avenues for Higher Education Institutions (HEI) to improve their International Students Portfolios without bringing the students to the HEI…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Sustainability, Higher Education
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Kwarteng, Alexander; Frimpong, Michael; Sylverken, Augustina Angelina; Arthur, Yarhands D.; Ahuno, Samuel T.; Owusu-Dabo, Ellis – Cogent Education, 2017
Interest and motivation significantly influence achievement; however, interest in immunology remains to be determined. Using a structured questionnaire, the current study assessed for the first time interest in immunology among biomedical graduate students in Ghana after a one-week introduction to immunology course. Our results revealed that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Biomedicine