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University in the rear-view mirror: psychological needs in pleasant and unpleasant memories of alumni Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-17 Stefan Janke, Melanie Alsmeyer, Miriam Neißner, Selma C. Rudert
ABSTRACT The university years are an important life phase for academics that shapes their transition from adolescence to adulthood. Here, we aimed to contribute to a better understanding on how alumni construe both nostalgic memories and regrets about this period. In line with Self-Determination Theory, we assumed that we would find frequent references to the basic psychological needs for autonomy
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Revisiting postliminal variation in threshold concepts: issues of unexpected transformation and legitimisation Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-02 Isaac Calduch, Julie Rattray
ABSTRACT Within the Threshold Concepts Framework, ‘postliminal variation’ has been defined as the variation in the point and state of exit into a new conceptual space, and the epistemological and ontological terrain encountered from that point onwards. However, in the extensive published literature on threshold concepts, we find many cases in which its practical application has been utilised in a reductionist
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Negotiating a dual deficit: the work of student support between conservative audacity and tempered radicalism Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Adi Sapir
ABSTRACT Student support practitioners, who provide students with academic, emotional and social support, are integral to higher education institutions’ initiatives to widen participation of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Yet, despite calls for a deeper understanding of widening-participation practice, the work of these professionals has received scant research attention. Drawing on interviews
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The state of work-based learning development in EU higher education: learnings from the WEXHE project Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-24 Andre Perusso, Robert Wagenaar
ABSTRACT Globalisation, technological changes and the industry-to-service economy transition has produced dramatic changes in the labour market, thus affecting higher education. It is no longer sufficient to provide students with disciplinary knowledge. Graduates are also expected to be adaptive, innovative and flexible. As these competencies are better developed in connection with practice, this implies
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A micro level investigation of stakeholder motives on university technology transfer business models Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Maura McAdam, Kristel Miller, Rodney McAdam
ABSTRACT Within this paper, we take a micro level perspective to explore how ecosystem stakeholder motives have impacted value creation and value capture processes within the University Technology Transfer (UTT) business model over time. To achieve this, we adopt a longitudinal qualitative methodology comprising of case study evidence of two differing bounded contexts of universities and their respective
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The social impact of universities: assessing the effects of the three university missions on social engagement Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-12 Johannes Carl, Matthias Menter
ABSTRACT Whereas the economic impact of universities is undisputed, the social impact of universities remains vague. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether and how universities influence firms’ social engagement. Based on survey data of more than 7,000 German firms, our results reveal that universities positively affect firms’ social engagement mainly through teaching activities. Hence, our
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What business schools do to support academic entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 Grace S. Walsh, James A. Cunningham, Tom Mordue, Fraser McLeay, Conor O’Kane, Niall Connolly
ABSTRACT The literature on academic entrepreneurship within business schools is limited and fragmented. The purpose of this systematic literature review is to address this deficit and to identify what business schools do to support academic entrepreneurship and to outline a future research agenda. Based on our systematic literature review we identified three main themes that business schools do to
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Extending the university mission and business model: influences and implications Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Kristel Miller, James Cunningham, Erik Lehmann
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, universities have been faced with sustained change, driven by external factors. This has led to the evolution of the teaching and research mission and the creation and rise of the third mission. Such mission extension has led to the emergence of entrepreneurial universities which has seen a move from traditional research and teaching business models, to business models
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Foreword Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Jens Jungblut, Molly Lee
(2021). Foreword. Studies in Higher Education. Ahead of Print.
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An exploration of degree apprentice perspectives: a Q methodology study Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Khristin Fabian, Ella Taylor-Smith, Sally Smith, Debbie Meharg, Alison Varey
ABSTRACT Degree apprenticeships in the UK represent a shift in approach to degree-level study. As the model matures, it is important to hear perspectives of apprentices. Using Q methodology, the study aims to identify the different apprentices’ viewpoints of the apprenticeship, exploring aspects of belonging, support, challenges and views of the learning experience. Thirty-five second-year computing
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Fulfilling University third mission: towards an ecosystemic strategy of entrepreneurship education Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Melita Nicotra, Manlio Del Giudice, Marco Romano
ABSTRACT This paper presents an organizing framework of Entrepreneurship Education (EE) evolving strategies to fulfill third mission in an Entrepreneurial University. Actually, universities are struggling to face the challenges in achieving third mission objectives enhancing entrepreneurial culture to prosper in an entrepreneurial society. In this context, there is currently no clear categorization
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The personal and institutional impacts of a mass participation leadership programme for women working in Higher Education: a longitudinal analysis Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Sarah Barnard, John Arnold, Sara Bosley, Fehmidah Munir
ABSTRACT During the last eight years, over 8000 academic faculty and professional services women working in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland have participated in a women-only leadership in higher education programme called Aurora. The organization that designed and delivers the programme (Advance HE) sees it as an important force for change in the sector. However, the potential for meaningful
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When austerity means inequality: the case of the Italian university compensation system in the period 2010–2020 Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Alice Civera, Michele Meoli, Stefano Paleari
ABSTRACT The Gelmini reform implemented in Italy in 2010 was designed to ensure greater efficiency and effectiveness within the higher education (HE) sector. The reform was implemented in a climate of general austerity, which caused severe cuts in public funds for the university system. This paper documents the unintended consequences of the reform in terms of a dramatic reduction in the number of
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Three-ring entrepreneurial university: in search of a new business model Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 David B. Audretsch, Maksim Belitski
ABSTRACT The entrepreneurship and higher education literatures suggest that universities cannot generate significant knowledge spillovers unless knowledge creation is followed by knowledge transformation and commercialization. Although several university business models have been proposed in the literature, extant studies assume that the elements required by and involved in the creation of new knowledge
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An inclusive multifaceted approach for the development of electronic work-integrated learning (eWIL) curriculum Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Ancy Gamage
ABSTRACT The need for inclusive and equitable teaching and learning approaches is widely accepted in higher education literature. Surprisingly, the notion of inclusion appears to be neglected within the context of eWIL. This paper uses insights from multi-disciplinary theories to propose a framework for the development of an eWIL framework. Its key features include an inclusive, intentional approach
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Feedback that works: a realist review of feedback interventions for written tasks Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-02 Rola Ajjawi, Fiona Kent, Jaclyn Broadbent, Joanna Hong-Meng Tai, Margaret Bearman, David Boud
ABSTRACT Despite feedback being considered important to learning, its potential is rarely fully realised. Promoting learning through feedback in open-ended written tasks (e.g. essays and reports) is a complex endeavour that requires students who are motivated to identify and utilise appropriate information. We set out to understand the mechanisms that enable feedback interventions to work, for whom
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Belonging as situated practice Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Karen Gravett, Rola Ajjawi
ABSTRACT This article offers a rethinking of a fundamental area of higher education research and practice: the concept of belonging. Extending the considerable international research attending to belonging, we suggest that normative narratives often contain a number of omissions. Such omissions include a consideration of the experiences of those students who may not wish to, or who cannot, belong,
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Development, validation and deployment of the EmployABILITY scale Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-02-17 Dawn Bennett, Subramaniam Ananthram
ABSTRACT This article presents the development, validation and deployment of a scale with which higher education students self-assess their perceived employability. Underpinned by social cognitive career theory and Yorke and Knight’s (2007) USEM model for students’ attainment of employability, a perceived employability questionnaire was developed and piloted with 1849 university students. The final
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Translating student evaluation of teaching: how discourse and cultural environments pressure rationalizing procedures Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-02-16 Pedro Pineda, Tim Seidenschnur
ABSTRACT Student evaluation of teaching (SET) has not yet been studied historically and comparatively. Based on our interviews with professors and administrators at 18 universities in three countries, we discuss how SET diffused in all the studied universities and how SET was translated and edited differently according to different sets of statements. SET diffused from the US, where it was initiated
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Public engagement professionals in a prestige economy: Ghosts in the machine Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-02-16 Richard Watermeyer, Gene Rowe
ABSTRACT Over the last decade, there has been significant investment made by the UK higher education policy and funding community in embedding public engagement within British universities. While some public engagement is undertaken by university staff – often on a voluntary and unpaid basis – much is carried out by public engagement professionals (PEPs), typically from within professional services
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Vietnamese early career academics’ identity work: balancing tensions between East and West Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 David R. Jones, Trang Gardner, Hong Bui
ABSTRACT Through a narrative analysis of 33 interviews with Vietnamese early career academics, we explore whether a Confucianist/collectivist academic context in Vietnam has a key influence on academics’ identity work, within the embrace of encroaching managerialist practices. We show how these academics from 11 universities negotiated identity alignment and identity tensions between such cultural
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Notice of duplicate publication: Engaging transformed fundamentals to design global hybrid higher education (TNE4.0) Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-05
(2021). Notice of duplicate publication: Engaging transformed fundamentals to design global hybrid higher education (TNE4.0) Studies in Higher Education: Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. i-i.
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PhD holders entering non-academic workplaces: organisational culture shock Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 I. Skakni, K. Inouye, L. McAlpine
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the subjective experiences of PhD holders from Switzerland and the UK who pursue careers beyond academia. Drawing on the concepts of organisational culture and culture shock, we examined the challenges that characterise this passage from academia to non-academic workplaces. With an exploratory aim, we analysed 32 semi-structured interviews conducted with PhDs engaged in
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Beyond learning in higher education: an evaluation of the ‘Life Design’ initiative to improve student employability Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 Kate Elizabeth Williams, Paul B. Hutchings, Ceri Phelps
ABSTRACT With increasing evidence highlighting the link between psychological factors such as self-esteem, self-efficacy and optimism on employability outcomes, this paper reports an evaluation of a unique student experience initiative called ‘Life Design’ developed to support the professional and personal development of undergraduate students. First year undergraduates engaged in a two-hour workshop
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Crisis – What Crisis? Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Leo Goedegebuure, Lynn Meek
(2021). Crisis – What Crisis? Studies in Higher Education: Vol. 46, The impact of a pandemic - a global perspective, pp. 1-4.
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Visualizing the COVID-19 pandemic response in Canadian higher education: an extended photo essay Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-11-04 Amy Scott Metcalfe
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented shifts to higher education globally, including Canadian universities. In this paper I utilize an extended photo essay method and narrative response to document the changes seen in my local university environment during the months of April through September 2020. Emerging literature and survey results concerning the Canadian academic condition
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National and institutional responses – reimagined operations – pandemic disruptions and academic continuity for a global university Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-03 Teboho Moja
ABSTRACT The 2019/2020 academic year started well with no anticipation of what was in store for the second semester and how the year would end. New students were welcomed on campus and included international students and international faculty members. It was business as usual, a beautiful and colorful fall semester that transitioned into a cold winter season. Spring arrived after a long winter season
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Universities and Covid-19 in Argentina: from community engagement to regulation Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Daniela Perrotta
ABSTRACT This paper assesses how Argentine public universities responded to the crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic in three dimensions: teaching and learning, scientific research and community engagement, and internationalization activities. For each of the dimensions, the actions developed, and the challenges encountered are presented. I argue that the response was quick and consistent: it is related
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Reflections on the public university sector and the covid-19 pandemic in South Africa Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 François van Schalkwyk
ABSTRACT This paper is a personal reflection that seeks to capture most of the observable changes that have taken place in South Africa and in its public university system as a consequence of the sudden and global spread of the novel coronavirus. The purpose for doing so is to provide a record of how the South African university sector has responded to the covid-19 pandemic, based on the assumption
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Enduring the impacts of COVID-19: experiences of the private higher education sector in Ethiopia Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Wondwosen Tamrat
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the private higher education (PHE) sector in Ethiopia. The study employed a mixed-methods design and used diary and survey questionnaires as key data generation tools. The results of the study revealed that the pandemic has severely affected the academic and business operations of PHE institutions by dwindling their sources of income
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A lockdown journal from Catalonia Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Alicia Betts
ABSTRACT All that we are certain of today is that all is uncertain. Uncertainty has become the new normal, affecting our family lives and routines, our professional goals and activities and our relationship with local, regional and national governments. We have seen, in just a few months, how our freedom to move and associate has been challenged and restricted, or even forbidden. We lived a severe
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Higher education in troubled times: on the impact of Covid-19 in Italy Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Tommaso Agasisti, Mara Soncin
ABSTRACT The paper revisits the outbreak of Covid-19 in Italy and particularly in Lombardy region, the first and initially most severely affected area among western countries. First, we provide an overview of the impact of the pandemic in the country and in the region, mentioning the turning points and the main effects on the national and local economy. Second, we focus on the impact in the educational
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COVID-19 in Dutch higher education Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Harry de Boer
ABSTRACT In this contribution to the Special Issue of Studies in Higher Education, I describe developments during the COVID-19 pandemic in Dutch higher education along three lines. First, the context is outlined in chronological order. It concerns the evolution of the pandemic in the Netherlands, complemented by the general situation at my own university – the University of Twente (UT). The UT has
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Support for doctoral candidates in Australia during the pandemic: the case of the University of Melbourne Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Ai Tam Le
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a real – albeit rare – test for human and organisational resilience worldwide, including those in the higher education sector. In this paper, I reflect on my observations of the pandemic’s impacts that have rippled through the university sector in Australia in the first three quarters of 2020. The pandemic has not only heightened existing issues in universities
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Higher education and its post-coronial future: utopian hopes and dystopian fears at Cambridge University during Covid-19 Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Simone Eringfeld
ABSTRACT The Covid-19 crisis has given rise to existential questions around the university during and after Covid-19. How might we re-imagine the future of HE and the post-coronial university? This article reflects on utopian and dystopian imaginaries which have emerged from the pandemic by narrating the hopes and fears for the future as held and felt by students and academics at the Faculty of Education
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Leadership strategies for a higher education sector in flux Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Warren Bebbington
ABSTRACT The 2020 pandemic experience signals a pivotal opportunity for a transformation in universities, critically through narrowing and sharpening a distinctive mission and aims for each campus. A series of strategies are proposed for university leadership, commencing with a move towards hybrid delivery of teaching and a reconceived support of the student experience, to a rescheduling of teaching
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Engaging transformed fundamentals to design global hybrid higher education Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Hamish Coates, Zheping Xie, Xi Hong
ABSTRACT The year 2020 began with grand ideas about building future higher education. Thereafter universities have been through a constant swirl of uncertainties and confusions as they respond to a novel suite of radically reconfigured fundamentals and prospects. This essay charts this journey in order to document 2020 experiences and to clarify evolving circumstances. We present our personal situations
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Formalising organisational responsibility for refugees in German higher education: the case of first contact positions Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Jana Berg, Anja Gottburgsen, Bernd Kleimann
ABSTRACT This article addresses the formalisation of support structures for refugee students at German higher education organisations. After the refugee influx in 2015 and 2016, early support for refugees was characterised by often voluntary, informal, spontaneous activities by pioneers. Subsequently, the situation changed as higher education organisations adjusted to the new challenge and restructured
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Private higher education and programmatic differentiation: examining the institutional positioning of private universities in Ontario Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Elizabeth Buckner, Cassidy Gong
ABSTRACT This article explores programmatic and institutional differentiation among private universities in Ontario since the enactment of the Postsecondary Education Choice and Excellence Act of 2000. Findings suggest that there has been a small increase in both programmatic diversity through specialized graduate-level programs offered by out-of-province institutions and institutional differentiation
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Mergers in higher education: it’s not easy. Merger of two disparate institutions and the impact on faculty research productivity Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-05 Catherine P. Slade, Saundra Ribando, C. Kevin Fortner, Kristin V. Walker
ABSTRACT Despite the growing popularity of mergers in higher education, limited research examines their sociocultural impact on faculty which is arguably a university’s most valuable resource. This paper examines a merger of disparate institutions in the University System of Georgia (USG) and presents faculty research productivity results over time, given that increased research presence for the merged
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Does university prestige lead to discrimination in the labor market? Evidence from a labor market field experiment in three countries Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-05 Georgiana Mihut
ABSTRACT Do employers prioritize university prestige above an applicant’s skills in the hiring process? To distinguish between the effect of human capital in the hiring process from the effect of the name of the graduating university—while controlling for networking effects—2,400 fictitious applications were submitted to IT and accounting jobs in the US, UK, and Australia. The resumes belonged to fictitious
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Competing worlds: the private lives of women nurse students and gender equity in higher education Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-28 Lesley Andrew, Ken Robinson, Leesa Costello, Julie Dare
ABSTRACT A longitudinal qualitative study of undergraduate women nursing students demonstrated the profound and pervasive influence of the heterosexual intimate relationship on their university engagement and achievement. Hitherto, the importance of women’s private lives have been underappreciated in the arenas of student equity and retention. The study showed that traditional ideas of gender held
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Correction Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-22
(2020). Correction. Studies in Higher Education. Ahead of Print.
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The importance of collaboration and supervisor behaviour for gender differences in doctoral student performance and early career development Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Jonas Lindahl, Cristian Colliander, Rickard Danell
ABSTRACT This article provides an explanation for previously observed gender differences in scientific performance during doctoral studies and the early career. Data is based on doctoral students in science, technology, and medicine at a Swedish university. We collected information on each doctoral student's publication and employment history. We also created publication histories for the doctoral
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Are half of the published papers in top-management-journals never cited? Refuting the myth and examining the reason for its creation Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Yehuda Baruch, Fabian Homberg, Abdulrahman Alshaikhmubarak
ABSTRACT A stylised fact in bibliometric research is that in the field of management studies, half or more of the papers published are never cited. If true, this implies that efforts and resources are considerably wasted because half of the academic work is not considered worthy by the same community that developed them. We studied a sample of 2777 papers published in 20 journals and representing different
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The role of anchor institutions in creating value for SMEs: insights from North East of England owner-managers Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Catherine McCauley-Smith, Sue Smith, Liz Nantunda, Xiaoxian Zhu
ABSTRACT The roles universities are seen to play have changed significantly over the last 25 years. The concept of higher education has, and, continues to morph from a distanced, unengaged ivory tower to a highly engaged community-based concept. Yet there is little in the literature about how universities viewed as ‘anchor institutions’ support organisations. Further, there is an omission of specific
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Governance of agents in the recruitment of international students: a typology of contractual management approaches in higher education Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Iona Yuelu Huang, David Williamson, Gary Lynch-Wood, Vincenzo Raimo, Charlotte Rayner, Lindsay Addington, Eddie West
ABSTRACT There is an increasing reliance on international education agents for student recruitment in Higher Education (HE), but the governance of education agents is under-researched. This study explores contractual governance approaches adopted by HE institutions for managing international education agents in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis
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Introducing block mode to first-year university students: a natural experiment on satisfaction and performance Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-11-13 Daniel Loton, Cameron Stein, Philip Parker, Mary Weaven
ABSTRACT A multidisciplinary Australian University introduced a block model of blended, sequential 4-week blocks to first-year students. This natural experiment compares the inaugural block and two prior cohorts on satisfaction and performance (n = 15,989 satisfaction and n = 86,545 assessment observations). Mixed effect cross-classified models with comprehensive controls, moderation and sensitivity
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Engaging transformed fundamentals to design global hybrid higher education (TNE4.0) Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Hamish Coates, Zheping Xie, Xi Hong
ABSTRACT The year 2020 began with grand ideas about building future higher education. Thereafter universities have been through a constant swirl of uncertainties and confusions as they respond to a novel suite of radically reconfigured fundamentals and prospects. This essay charts this journey in order to document 2020 experiences, and to clarify evolving circumstances. We present our personal situations
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Institutionalising intra-organisational change for responsible management education Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-10-24 Eshani Beddewela, John Anchor, Charlotte Warin
ABSTRACT Higher education institutions are attempting to incorporate responsible management education (RME) into both their philosophies and their curricula. This phenomenon is most pertinent to and most prevalent in business schools. This paper proposes a six-stage model, derived from relevant change management and institutionalisation models and literature, which business schools could adopt to institutionalise
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Exploring the development of students’ identities as educational leaders and educational researchers in a professional practice doctoral program Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Ray R. Buss
ABSTRACT The researcher examined how end-of-first-year students in a professional practice doctoral program were developing professional identities as educational leaders and educational researchers, researching professionals. Data were gathered using two questionnaires and interviews. Quantitative and qualitative data revealed substantial development of identities as leaders and researching professionals
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The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL): the thorn in the flesh of educational research Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-10-19 John Canning, Rachel Masika
ABSTRACT Thirty years ago Boyer’s report Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate (1990) inspired the launch of the ‘SoTL movement’ which sought to raise the status of learning and teaching in higher education. In this paper we argue that despite its honourable intentions the SoTL movement has been a thorn in the flesh of serious scholarship into learning and teaching in higher education
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Wellbeing and work-life merge in Australian and UK academics Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-10-06 Catherine Fetherston, Anthony Fetherston, Sharryn Batt, Max Sully, Ruth Wei
ABSTRACT Academic work environments are becoming progressively more digitalised and focused on performativity and commodification, increasing the potential to force an unwanted merge of the boundary between work and non-work domains. This study aimed to explore academic wellbeing and the role played by factors related to work-life merge. Data were collected from a cross sectional survey of 605 Australian
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Hampering teaching excellence? Academics making decisions in the face of contradictions Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Angela Brew, David Boud, Lisa Lucas, Karin Crawford
ABSTRACT Universities might aspire to teaching excellence, but do they enable academic teachers to make good teaching decisions? Using a critical realist perspective, a qualitative interview study in England and Australia explored academics’ experiences of teaching decisions and their responses to strategic, institutional and departmental teaching policy and planning. Complex and contradictory conditions
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Introduction Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Futao Huang, Anthony Welch
(2020). Introduction. Studies in Higher Education: Vol. 45, University governance and leadership, pp. 2033-2035.
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Of Worms and woodpeckers: governance & corruption in East and Southeast Asian higher education Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Anthony Welch
ABSTRACT The topic of governance is much discussed in the higher education literature. Corruption is less discussed, and mostly in general and cautionary terms. Yet there are important relations between the two. The current article critically examines the literature on governance in higher education and underlines the relationship to forms of corruption in the field. While much literature on corruption
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Changes in Japanese universities governance arrangements 1992–2017 Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-22 Futao Huang, Tsukasa Daizen, Yangson Kim
ABSTRACT Based on two national surveys of Japanese faculty members, the purpose of this study is to analyze whether changes had occurred in key aspects of governance arrangements in both national and private universities in Japan from 1992 to 2017. This study focuses on the changing relationships between national universities and the central government and the internal governance and management style
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Global university president leadership characteristics and dynamics Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-21 Lu Liu, Xi Hong, Wen Wen, Zheping Xie, Hamish Coates
ABSTRACT This exploratory paper articulates the development, characteristics and nature of global university presidents and their leadership. It draws insights from a growing project which so far has involved in-depth interviews with 18 presidents of major globally focused universities. Analysing and reporting these interview results reveals the enigmatic world of presidential leadership broadens this
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Early career training and development of academic independence: a case of life sciences in Japan Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi, Sotaro Shibayama
ABSTRACT Academic training is the initial step for junior scientists to learn to develop into independent scientists. This study investigates how supervisors decide to employ different approaches of early-career research training, and how these approaches influence the degree of trainees’ independence in their later careers. Drawing on survey and bibliometric data of life scientists in Japanese universities
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A team-teaching approach for blended learning: an experiment Stud. High. Educ. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Sophie McKenzie, Rachael Hains-Wesson, Shaun Bangay, Greg Bowtell
ABSTRACT Blended learning is often viewed as a teaching mode that integrates a combination of online interactive activities with face-to-face learnings. This includes a mixture of different types of teaching and learning techniques, and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) tools. In this study, we undertook an experiment to ascertain what constituted a practitioner-based approach to team-teaching
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