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Ng, Betsy, Ed. – Springer, 2022
This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of emerging trends in higher education in the Asia Pacific, ranging from graduate attributes to integrated workplace learning, with an in-depth focus on work readiness, employability and career development. It draws on the relationship between graduate attributes and employability, as well as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Employment Potential, Education Work Relationship, Career Readiness
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Teo, Raymond; Soutar, Geoffrey N. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the role service quality, satisfaction and commitment play in word of mouth (WOM) formation among adult learners in Singapore. Design/methodology/approach: The study used a quantitative survey of 165 adult students who were enrolled in part-time undergraduate programmes at the Singapore Institute of…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Attitudes, Adult Learning, Adult Students
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Yeo, Roland K.; Marquardt, Michael J. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2011
The paper draws on the underpinnings of SERVQUAL (a Service Quality measurement model) and explores three key aspects of service standards as adopted by an Engineering School in Singapore: customer orientation, course design/delivery and support services. Qualitative methodology was employed and data were collected by means of structured in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interviews, Quality Control
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Tham, Raymond; Tham, Lesley – International Journal on E-Learning, 2014
The Internet Generation today is accustomed to multi-tasking, graphics, fun, and fantasy. Educators are finding it challenging to engage and motivate students with the traditional mode of teaching. They are increasingly seeking to tap the potential of game-based learning to engage and motivate learners. Game-based learning is also catching on in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Higher Education, College Students
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Wong, Shyh Shin – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
This study examines the relationships of positive thinking versus negative thinking with psychological well-being and psychological maladjustment. Three hundred and ninety-eight undergraduate students from Singapore participated in this study. First, positive thinking were positively correlated with indicators psychological well-being--life…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Life Satisfaction, Psychopathology, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Fry, Joan Marian; Hin, Michael Koh Teik – Interactive Learning Environments, 2006
In technology-savvy Singapore, wireless communication devices were used over four weekly lessons to facilitate communication between pairs of student teachers (STs). In the naturalistic setting of a neighbourhood primary school, one ST used the technology to coach the other who was engaged in teaching. (Both were familiar with the lesson plan and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science and Society, Student Teachers, Telecommunications
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Lam, Peter; And Others – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1995
Surveys of 350 teacher trainees from Singapore's teacher training institution were used to examine relationships among quality of work life, career commitment, job satisfaction, and withdrawal cognition. Career commitment and job satisfaction were important predictors of withdrawal cognition. Perceptions of the social status of teaching strongly…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Choice, Foreign Countries, Higher Education