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Direct linkVidal, Sheila; Laureano, Raul; Trindade, Margarida – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2015
Grant Managers contribute to the mission of research-intensive institutions by helping them to obtain competitive funding. However, their effectiveness in helping institutions and individuals secure funding is poorly studied. In this study, we provide an assessment of the contribution of Grant Managers in attracting competitive funding for…
Descriptors: Grants, Grantsmanship, Research Universities, Educational Finance
Santiago, Rui; Carvalho, Teresa; Ferreira, Andreia – Higher Education Quarterly, 2015
The paper analyses the Portuguese academics' perceptions about changes in their research activities and modes of knowledge production. Quantitative data gathered from an on-line national survey have been used to develop this analysis. Results reveal that the majority of academics declared that they were not involved in knowledge and technology…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Change, Research, Foreign Countries
Download full textFrølich, Nicoline; Stensaker, Bjørn; Scordato, Lisa; Bótas, Paulo Charles Pimentel – Higher Education Studies, 2014
One common way of conceptualising recent changes in university governance is by stating that the universities are being pushed towards a market-like setting where the uniqueness of each university's strategy and capacity for introducing organizational change is seen as necessary to improve the functioning of the university. We argue that the…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, Universities, Decision Making
De Sa Teixeira, Nuno; Oliveira, Armando Monica; Amorim, Michel-Ange – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2010
Representational Momentum (RepMo) refers to the phenomenon that the vanishing position of a moving target is perceived as displaced ahead in the direction of movement. Originally taken to reflect a strict internalization of physical momentum, the finding that the target implied mass did not have an effect led to its subsequent reinterpretation as…
Descriptors: Investigations, Figurative Language, Physics, Motion
Alexandre, Fernando; Portela, Miguel; Sa, Carla – Studies in Higher Education, 2009
In a context of increasing competition for students, admission conditions have been used as an instrument in a strategy of differentiation. Such a strategy is guided by short-run concerns, that is, the immediate need to attract more students. This article takes a longer term view, by examining graduates' employability. The authors find that…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Outcomes of Education, College Graduates, College Admission
Amaro, Gertrudes – 2000
This monograph provides a description of the curricular area "Area-Escola" (A-E), in the context of an innovative curriculum development process, presenting the history, aims, and guidelines of this curricular area and analyzing some of the results of qualitative and quantitative studies on its impact. A-E is seen as an emerging school…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
