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Jean Baptiste Diatta; Gerardo L. Blanco – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2024
Policy discussions related to higher education in sub-Saharan Africa often include concerns related to quality. Rather than being an abstract characteristic, quality of higher education is the result of a series of actions and practices, and yet there is limited research on the practices associated with quality in higher education in Africa. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Research, Institutional Evaluation, Self Evaluation (Groups)
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Zavale, Nelson Casimiro; Schneijderberg, Christian – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
Following a global trend, higher education (HE) in Africa has also become a complex enterprise, potentially demanding specific expertise in higher education research. However, despite this, there is a dearth of analysis into the state of research on African HE. This paper seeks to fill this gap by mapping and analysing African HE research. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Research, Educational Trends
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Catarina Doutor; Natália Alves – Educational Process: International Journal, 2024
Background/purpose: While the existing literature explores the internalization of higher education, a significant gap remains in comprehending the motivations behind international students choosing Portuguese higher education. This study aims to address this gap by examining the motivations of a specific group within Portuguese universities:…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Native Language, Foreign Students, College Choice
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Mitchell, Rafael; Rose, Pauline; Asare, Samuel – Comparative Education Review, 2020
This article combines large-scale bibliometric analysis of publications on education by researchers based in sub-Saharan Africa with researchers' accounts of their priorities and practice. Patterns in the thematic foci of the research from 48 countries in the region are considered from the perspective of international policy statements (the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Geographic Regions, Foreign Countries
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Enilda Romero-Hall; Lina Gomez-Vasquez; Laila Forstmane; Caldeira Ripine; Carolina Dias Da Silva – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2024
Scholars' engagement with digital social networks is complex, warranting a comprehensive understanding of their use and participation. Current research has not yet grasped the motivators, gratification, and challenges that academics encounter across multiple digital social networks. With this in mind, this study surveyed scholars who purposely…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Social Media, Scholarship, Faculty
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Dai, Kun; Hu, Yating; Li, Xiaoyuan; Oladipo, Oluwasegun – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
With the growing trend of globalisation and the internationalisation of higher education, China actively recruits more international students to study at Chinese universities. Notably, international doctoral students are a significant cohort in this trend. Although many studies have investigated international students' learning experiences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Foreign Students, Doctoral Programs
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Buckner, Elizabeth – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
Universities around the world are increasingly orienting themselves towards global engagement in the form of internationalisation. This article examines how the importance of internationalisation and international research collaborations varies across institutions. Using data from the Fourth Global Survey of Internationalisation, it finds that…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, International Cooperation, Research
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Lee, Jenny J.; Vance, Hillary; Stensaker, Bjørn; Ghosh, Sowmya – Comparative Education, 2020
This study examined how hierarchical positions within the global field of higher education influence the selection of strategic priorities by universities in different parts of the world. The study particularly focused on universities' commitment to third missions as reflected in their strategic plans and compared to their global rankings. The…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Universities, Strategic Planning
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Nyangau, Josiah Zachary – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2018
The field of international and comparative education continues to evolve and grow in new and exciting directions. A substantial amount of research exists pertaining to institutional rationales of internationalization. However, little empirical research has focused on why academics engage in activities with international dimensions, especially when…
Descriptors: College Faculty, International Education, Higher Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Ahmad, Syed Zamberi; Hussain, Matloub – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
The mobility of African students beyond national territories has become common worldwide. However, the underlying reasons motivating students to leave their countries of origin in pursuit of higher education in other developing nations and why these factors are important have not been fully explored. This study attempts to explore why and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Foreign Countries, College Choice
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Gunasekera, Sashya; Houghton, Stephen; Glasgow, Kenneth; Boyle, Christopher – Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2014
Setting clear achievable goals that enhance reputational status has been shown to direct the energies of adolescents into socially conforming or non-conforming activities. It appears to be the case that following transition from Intensive English Centres (IECs) into mainstream schooling, students from African refugee backgrounds experience…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Social Behavior, Goal Orientation
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Rambe, Patient; Moeti, Mamello – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017
Challenges of broadening access, escalating cost, maintaining desirable quality and enhancing meaningful learning experiences in African higher education (HE) have spurred debates on how to restructure higher education delivery to meet the diverse needs of heterogeneous learners and adapt pedagogical models to the educational realities of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Online Courses, Models
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Nigsch, Stefano; Schenker-Wicki, Andrea – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2013
In recent years, international accreditations have become an important form of quality management for business schools all over the world. However, given their high costs and the risk of increasing bureaucratisation and control, accreditations remain highly disputed in academia. This paper uses quantitative data to assess whether accreditations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accreditation (Institutions), Business Administration Education, Quality Assurance
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Reig-Martinez, Ernest – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper calculates a human Wellbeing Composite Index (WCI) for 42 countries, belonging to the European Economic Space, North Africa and the Middle East, as an alternative to the shortcomings of other well-known measures of socio-economic development (i.e. Gross Domestic Product per head and Human Development Index). To attain this goal,…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Countries, Income, Economic Development
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Mpinganjira, Mercy – Educational Research and Reviews, 2012
Many African countries are concerned with the targeting of international postgraduate students by developed countries for skilled migration. Increased provision of postgraduate studies within the continent would go a long way in dealing with the problem. Success will however depend on the ability of countries in the continent to attract…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, Focus Groups, Foreign Students
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