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Huijser, Henk; Fitzgerald, Rachel – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Changing learner demographics and requirements are driving an increase in the range of private education available in the higher education sector. To stay current, universities may need to adapt to learner needs and rethink how they deliver education. This case study evaluates a model of delivery that is a collaboration of a traditional public…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Universities, Private Education, Educational Cooperation
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Zhang, Liang-Cheng; Worthington, Andrew C. – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Despite compelling qualitative arguments for scale and scope economies in university-level distance education, as distinct from traditional class-based face-to-face instruction, there is little rigorous quantitative evidence in support. In this paper, we explore the scale and scope economies of distance education using a multiplicatively separable…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Universities
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Cayetano-Penman, Joy; Malik, Gulzar; Hampton, Kerry; Zhong, Yaping – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2021
International health science students face many challenges at the beginning of their courses, including a lack of awareness of cultural differences, adjusting to academic expectations, communication difficulties, clinical placement challenges, financial pressures, maintaining cultural and religious practices, discrimination, and emotions such as…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Program Effectiveness, Student Adjustment, Foreign Students
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Heffernan, Troy A. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
A common theme in higher education research is the factors that affect university funding. Studies frequently examine how universities cope with funding cuts and the changes that have stemmed from operating in a neoliberal age, a period that now sees institutions commonly functioning on a cost/benefit basis. This paper offers an original…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Kapur, Devesh, Ed.; Kong, Lily, Ed.; Lo, Florence, Ed.; Malone, David M., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2023
Since the turn of the millennium it has become clear that the Asia-Pacific Region is, economically, the fastest growing continent in the world, and is likely to remain so for some time despite the setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Asia-Pacific's share of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) doubled from 15 per cent to 30 per cent between 1970…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Marín, Victoria I.; Bond, Melissa; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Aydin, Cengiz H.; Bedenlier, Svenja; Bozkurt, Aras; Conrad, Dianne; Jung, Insung; Kondakci, Yasar; Prinsloo, Paul; Qayyum, Adnan; Roberts, Jennifer; Sangrà, Albert; van Tryon, Patricia J. Slagter; Veletsianos, George; Xiao, Junhong – Open Praxis, 2020
This paper reports on the first stage of an international comparative study for the project "'Digital educational architectures: Open learning resources in distributed learning infrastructures--EduArc,'" funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This study reviews the situation of digital educational resources (or…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Higher Education, Comparative Education, Educational Change
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King, Madeleine; Courtier, Maxine; Shaw, Chet; Anderson, Cynthia; Widdowson, John – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
The purpose of the research was to discover the views of three groups of International students who were undertaking their Higher Education (HE) in a publicly-funded college, rather than a university setting. A comparative survey was undertaken by International students attending an American Community College, an Australian Technical and Further…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Student Experience, Student Recruitment
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Burston, Mary A. – Critical Studies in Education, 2020
Universities represent institutions of learning, research and knowledge but are also "not-for-profit" charitable organisations delegated the charitable purpose of advancing education and public benefit. Charity law differentiates the obligations, values and philosophies of "not-for-profit" and for profit organisations. Policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Public Colleges, Nonprofit Organizations
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Mamun, Shamsul Arifeen Khan; Rahman, Mohammand Mafizur – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2016
In 2013 and 2014, the Australian Federal Government introduced the Gonski reforms and fee deregulation measures to reform the prevailing financing provisions for education sectors in Australia. The central proposition of the proposed new measures was to reduce the funding of public universities by the Federal Government. One likely consequence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Resource Allocation
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Rea, Jeannie – Australian Universities' Review, 2016
While students chanting "No cuts, No fees, No corporate universities" may be dismissed as youthful hyperbole by some, it is not as superficial a characterisation of the state of our public university system as it seems.
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Universities, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Thomson, Elizabeth; Auhl, Greg; Uys, Philip; Wood, Denise; Woolley, Dallas – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2019
This paper reports on the development of an evidenced-based method guiding the review, design and development of higher education courses (programs), supported by a bespoke, purpose-specific software platform. It describes the outcome of a five-year process of development for both the method and for the supporting technology, where feedback was…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Foreign Countries, Online Courses
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2018
With the continued support of membership, this is the fourth year that American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) has conducted 60-Second Surveys. The purpose of these snapshot surveys is to gather a broad-brush stroke perspective on practice. With that in mind, it is understood that the way the questions are…
Descriptors: College Admission, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Proprietary Schools
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Miles, Morgan P.; Verreynne, Martie-Louise; McAuley, Andrew; Hammond, Kevin – International Journal of Educational Management, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how universities attempt to balance meeting their traditional mission of education, research and community engagement while remaining economically sustainable. Design/Methodology/Approach: A survey was conducted in 2014 of university executives and found that universities in Australia are rapidly…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Universities, Institutional Mission, Role of Education
Delisle, Jason D. – American Enterprise Institute, 2020
Federal free-college policies are now at the center of the Democratic higher education agenda. Sen. Bernie Sanders helped move the idea into the mainstream during the 2016 presidential campaign, and other lawmakers have since worked to advance the policy in Congress. Joe Biden effectively put free college on the ballot in 2020 when he fully…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Federal Aid, Tuition
Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2019
The "Statistics report on TEQSA-registered higher education providers 2019" (the Statistics Report) is the sixth release of selected higher education sector data held by the Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) for its quality assurance activities. It provides a snapshot and time series of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, College Faculty, Educational Finance
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