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The Rise of Risk Management in the Universities: A New Way to Understand Quality in University Management
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Yokoyama, Keiko – Quality in Higher Education, 2018
This study aims to identify how uncertainty and insecurity in the post-2008 period have reshaped risk management in the university systems. The study scrutinises internal control in the contexts of the English university system and the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It utilises the concept of 'risk' by exploring 'risk society' theses.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Risk Management, Higher Education, Educational Finance
Email Tandem Exchanges as a Tool for Authentic Cultural Learning
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Llopis-García, Reyes – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2012
This paper presents the description of an email Tandem exchange project conducted between 94 intermediate-level students (47 pairs) from Columbia University/Barnard College in New York and Universidad Autonóma de Madrid in Spain during the Fall Semester 2010. There were several goals to this project: to help improve students' writing skills; to…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Electronic Mail, Language Proficiency, Writing Skills
Implications of Microcomputer Availability for Information Seeking Behaviour.
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Burke, Mary A. – Information Services and Use, 1990
Examines the extent to which microcomputer availability has affected the use of traditional information sources. Surveys of microcomputer use are summarized, results of surveys conducted at the Liverpool Public Library (New York) and University College Dublin are reported, and future roles of libraries or information services are suggested. (44…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education