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Faculty Challenges and Barriers for Research and Publication in Tajik Higher Education
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Kataeva, Zumrad; DeYoung, Alan J. – European Education, 2018
This article investigates the current state of faculty research activity within Tajik higher education institutions (HEIs), where the level of research productivity has substantially decreased in the past three decades. As part of a larger ethnographic study on professional lives of Tajik faculty members, we investigated and found enormous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Barriers, Teacher Researchers
The Professoriate: The Challenged Subject in US Higher Education
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Stromquist, Nelly P. – Comparative Education, 2017
Developments in the academic world--particularly among research universities--have been pushing US institutions of higher education towards structures and practices that defy the very values of equity and quality they profess to uphold. This is evident in the increasing quantification of scholarly productivity as well as in the growing division of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Productivity, Research Universities, Educational Practices
Declining Symptom of Academic Productivity in the Japanese Research University Sector
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Arimoto, Akira – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
From a framework of this study, modern society may be explained by a paradigm transformation from ascription to achievement and also from particularism to universalism. According to this hypothesis, Japanese university society has not developed successfully for more than the closed society to the opened society. This paper intends to deal with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Productivity, Social Stratification
Extent of ESL Teachers' Access To, Utilisation and Production of Research
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Sibanda, Jabulani; Begede, Martin P. – South African Journal of Education, 2015
This study employed the survey design on a purposive sample of 100 English Second Language (ESL) teachers from Swaziland and South Africa's Eastern Cape Province, to investigate the extent to which they accessed, utilised and conducted research to better their practice. A survey questionnaire and follow-up structured interviews generated…
Descriptors: Research Utilization, Access to Information, English (Second Language), Teacher Researchers
Obstacles to Scientific Research in Light of a Number of Variables
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Algadheeb, Nourah A.; Almeqren, Monira A. – Journal of International Education Research, 2014
The present study aimed to identify the scientific research obstacles facing faculty members in the College of Education at Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University (PNU) and to determine the differences in the obstacles according to age, academic rank, scientific specialty, marital status, number of completed studies, and time since the last…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Research Problems, Barriers, Predictor Variables
Demographic and Academic Factors Affecting Research Productivity at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
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North, D.; Zewotir, T.; Murray, M. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Research output affects both the strength and funding of universities. Accordingly university academic staff members are under pressure to be active and productive in research. Though all academics have research interest, all are not producing research output which is accredited by the Department of Education (DOE). We analyzed the demographic and…
Descriptors: Productivity, Intervention, Foreign Countries, College Faculty