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Sejersen, Nadja; Hansen, Janus – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2018
This paper examines the potential pitfalls for academic research associated with goal displacements in the implementation of goals and indicators of research commercialization. We ask why patenting has come to serve as the key policy indicator of innovative capacity and what consequences this has for the organization of academic research. To…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Intellectual Property, Federal Legislation, Foreign Countries
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O'Loughlin, Deirdre; MacPhail, Ann; Msetfi, Rachel – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Evaluation systems including global university rankings have been recently introduced as mechanisms for assessing overall academic quality, appraising research reputation and as a basis for funding and policy decisions. This study explores the concept of research reputation in terms of how it is defined, constituted and assessed. Eight…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reputation, Research, Universities
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Taskoh, Ali Khorsandi – Higher Education for the Future, 2020
Education is a tool for collaboration among nations. The emergence of concepts as internationalization of educational policies, students-staff exchange programs, internationalization of curriculum, internationalization at home (IAH) or even the emergence of multinational agencies to expedite global exchanges in the realm of Higher Education lead…
Descriptors: International Education, International Cooperation, Educational Policy, Foreign Policy
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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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Strauss, Pat – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
"New" vocational disciplines often struggle for acceptance in the academy. The marginalising of these disciplines impacts on their teaching and learning environment often to the detriment of staff and students. This study focuses both on the role academic writing plays in this marginalisation and how the teaching of such writing is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Writing (Composition), Vocational Education
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Banker, Darshna V.; Bhal, Kanika T. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2020
Indian universities have been facing difficulty getting world-class status as a very few Indian higher educational institutions have made it through the global rankings. We need to understand the unique challenges of the Indian higher education sector and what academic leaders of globally ranked institutions do to respond to those challenges. The…
Descriptors: Reputation, Educational Quality, Universities, Institutional Characteristics
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Kezar, Adrianna; Bernstein-Sierra, Samantha – AERA Open, 2019
This study examines the Association of American Universities Undergraduate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) initiative and the ability of a national organization and its member institutions to reshape norms about the importance and value of teaching and dedicated efforts to teaching improvement. The study is framed with…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, STEM Education, Educational Improvement, Organizational Theories
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Marginson, Simon – Australian Universities' Review, 2019
This article discusses the University as an institution in three parts, moving from the abstract to the concrete. The first and longest section begins with the University as a social form or type: what it is, its inner motors, what holds it together; and its outer drivers, what holds it in society. The second section remarks on tendencies in the…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Philosophy, Reputation, Educational History
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Karmaeva, Natalia – European Education, 2018
This article investigates careers of early-career academics in the Russian academic system as it strives to improve its position in the global academic landscape. The typology of "boundaried" and "boundaryless" careers is applied in order to analyze careers in Russia. Two types of academics were identified:…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, College Faculty, Classification, Foreign Countries
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Alsharari, Nizar Mohammad – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the internationalization market of higher education (HE) globally and HE field. It examines the internationalization status of HE in Jordan as influenced by institutional perspectives as an example from developing countries. Design/methodology/approach: This paper adopts a quantitative research…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
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Han, Xiao – Palgrave Studies on Leadership and Learning in Teacher Education, 2020
This chapter examines the life, learning, and research experiences of an American scholar who immigrated to the United States from China where she received her primary and secondary school education, and taught ESL at the prestigious Chinese university from which she graduated. The scholar reflects on her stories in China and in the United States…
Descriptors: Immigrants, College Faculty, Chinese Americans, English (Second Language)
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Kim, Dongbin; Yoo, Sung-Sang; Sohn, Heekwon; Sonneveldt, Erin L. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
In this paper, we examine 15 academics who crossed national borders in response to the strong pull of recruiting efforts from a Korean university. These foreign professors at the case university are on tenure-stream and teach regular academic courses in various academic departments and colleges. By discussing their motivations for global mobility,…
Descriptors: Occupational Mobility, College Faculty, Case Studies, Foreign Nationals
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Zhu, Chang; Zayim-Kurtay, Merve – European Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The main purpose of this study is to explore Chinese and European university staff members' perceptions about the challenges and capacity building needs in terms of academic leadership and university governance. A survey questionnaire with open-ended questions was administered to 58 staff members from 7 Chinese universities and 31 staff members…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Instructional Leadership, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
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Mutisya, Philliph Masila; Osler, James Edward, II – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2017
There are sweeping changes facing higher education institutions today that have resulted in diminished power, privilege, and prestige that the professorate have had in the past. Higher education institutions are faced with many challenges that often demand radical changes in the reconceptualization of the professorship and adversely preservation…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Governance, Participative Decision Making, Reputation
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Maesse, Jens – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
From the 1990s onwards, economics departments in Europe have changed toward a culture of "excellence." Strong academic hierarchies and new forms of academic organization replace "institutes" and "colleges" by fully equipped "economics departments." This article seeks to demonstrate how and why…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Economics Education
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