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McKinley, Jim; Rose, Heath; Zhou, Sihan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This article reports on a study of policymaking at transnational and local universities in China concerning English Medium Instruction (EMI) provision, and the impact this has on stakeholder experiences. It explores policymaking at two transnational universities, which are compared and contrasted with data collected at six other Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Universities, Language of Instruction
Fishman, Rachel; Johnson, Elin; Nguyen, Sophie; Romo-González, Lupita – New America, 2021
"Varying Degrees 2021: New America's Fifth Annual Survey on Higher Educati­­on" interviewed 2,620 Americans ages 18 and older to better understand their perceptions of education after high school, including oversamples of Black, Latinx, Asian Americans, current undergraduate students, and student loan borrowers. It provides important…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Trends, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change
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Eret-Orhan, Esra; Ok, Ahmet; Capa-Aydin, Yesim – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
The study aimed to assess the adequacy of pre-service teacher education in Turkey as perceived by preservice teachers. Specifically, the researchers investigated preservice teachers' perceptions of the adequateness of their education in terms of developing teaching skills and the major components of teacher education. The factors affecting their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Arndt, Timothy – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
Blockchain has emerged as a transformative technology, from its beginning as the basis of cryptocurrencies to wider applications in areas such as property registration and insurance due to its characteristic as a distributed ledger which can remove the need for a trusted third party to facilitate transaction. This spread of the technology to new…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Educational Technology, Information Storage, Student Records
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Horn, Catherine L.; Marin, Patricia; Garces, Liliana M.; Miksch, Karen; Yun, John T. – Educational Policy, 2020
Different from more traditional policy-making avenues, the courts provide an antipolitical arena that does not require broad agreement from various constituents for policy enactment. Seeking to guide court decisions on these policy issues, individuals and organizations have filed "amicus" briefs that increasingly include social science…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Court Litigation, Social Science Research
Cullinane, Carl – Sutton Trust, 2020
The Sutton Trust's "Recruitment Gap" (see ED601203) powerfully demonstrated the impact of levels of disadvantage in a school can have on teacher recruitment and retention. This dynamic of segregation is fundamental to many of the divides in the education system and Britain's lack of social mobility. More schools with socio-economically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Admission (School), Admission Criteria, Institutional Autonomy
Vanessa D. Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study examines the United States Supreme Court's use of social science research in Fourteenth Amendment race-based discrimination cases in professional and graduate school admissions. It discusses how the Court uses (or does not use) social science research in its interpretation of "equal protection" and "discrimination"…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Equal Protection
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Kurysheva, Anastasia; van Rijen, Harold V. M.; Dilaver, Gönül – Tertiary Education and Management, 2019
In this study, we investigated the currently applied selective admission criteria and tools of the two-year research master's programs of both the Graduate Schools of Life Sciences and Natural Sciences of Utrecht University (the Netherlands). In addition, we evaluated their transparency to applicants. Both admissions staff members and applicants…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Admission Criteria, Masters Programs, Graduate Study
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Hextrum, Kirsten – Higher Education Politics & Economics, 2019
"Operation Varsity Blues" (OVB) indicted coaches and administrators from eight universities for accepting bribes in exchange for admitting fraudulent athletes. As part of the conspiracy parents paid university officials to admit students with little-to-no sport experience as college athletes. Court filings in the case contrasted OVB to…
Descriptors: College Admission, Deception, Ethics, College Athletics
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Le, Tri D.; Dobele, Angela R.; Robinson, Linda J. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2019
Universities are increasingly utilising social media for student recruitment, the most highly used channel for prospective students. However, research on information gathering and electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM)-seeking behaviours on social media is generally absent. This paper explores the information sought by prospective students on social…
Descriptors: College Choice, Information Seeking, Student Recruitment, Social Media
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Gorard, Stephen; Boliver, Vikki; Siddiqui, Nadia; Banerjee, Pallavi – Research Papers in Education, 2019
Universities are increasingly making decisions about undergraduate admissions with reference to contextual indicators to identify whether an applicant comes from a disadvantaged family, neighbourhood or school environment. However, the indicators used are often chosen because they are readily available, without consideration of the quality of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Admission, Access to Education, Economically Disadvantaged
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Chen, Kenneth Han; Berman, Elizabeth Popp – Sociology of Education, 2022
The meritocratic ideal prescribes that universities should admit students based on academic ability and individual effort. Yet as competition for scarce slots has increased, markets for services to improve the odds of admission have expanded. We use the case of a popular online forum for elite Taiwanese students seeking graduate study in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Academic Ability
UK Department for Education, 2022
The Department for Education (DfE) provided funding for secondary schools to establish short face-to-face summer schools over the 2021 summer holiday, to help them make up for learning lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lasting for one or two weeks, summer schools involved a blend of academic learning and enrichment activities and were intended to…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Conventional Instruction
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Gallagher, Tony – School Leadership & Management, 2021
The Good Friday Agreement (1997) brought political violence in Northern Ireland to an end and provided the basis for shared government. A consociational political structure was adopted which institutionalised community differences while encouraging coalition government. The goal was that a requirement for consensus decisions would encourage…
Descriptors: Governance, Instructional Leadership, Violence, Political Attitudes
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Matos-Díaz, Horacio – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2021
Faculty members and their corresponding academic fields at the University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón are classified with regard to grading practices over time. Based on the effects on the intercept of the equations that predict the GPA and the proportion of student withdrawals observed in each of the 39,337 courses offered during 41 consecutive…
Descriptors: Grading, Educational Policy, Educational History, College Faculty
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