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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Higher education policy"”.
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Higher Education Policy Punctuations: An Assessment of Media Attention and Congressional Oversight
<p>Congressional oversight of higher education is vital part of the policy process. However, a compressive study regarding the relationship between higher education oversight and attention has not been conducted. By utilizing McCubbins and Swartz’s Police Patrol and Fire Alarm Oversight Dichotomy, …
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Learning and teaching in higher education : policy constructions, participants' experiences and recontextualisation
Higher education is a site of struggle over aims, values and identities of students and academics. Learning and teaching are increasingly the focus of policy in English higher education as universities wish to be seen to prioritise the student experience. In this thesis, I examine national policy …
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An Examination of the Impact of Duncan Era Higher Education Policy as PeRceived by Proprietary School Leadership
Proprietary institutions of higher education, more commonly referred to as “for-profit” colleges and universities, have been a polarizing phenomenon in U.S. post-secondary education. Much of the literature is partisan and deeply ideological in nature making it difficult for interested parties to …
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Legislative Intent, Program Implementation, and Higher Education Policy: The Case of Title Iii of The 1965 Higher Education Act
The Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965 moved the federal government toward a new level of equal educational opportunity in higher education. In addition to student aid, direct institutional aid was viewed as an appropriate vehicle for the pursuit of equal educational opportunity. Title III of the …
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A Comparative Study of the Higher Education Policies in the Fifty American States
… need for a more systematic examination of state higher education policies was the inspiration for this study. The first step was to examine some of the major characteristics of higher education systems in the fifty states in an attempt to develop a quantitative measure of higher education policy. …
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Who Decides and Why it Matters: Institutions, Differentiation and Northern Rural Higher Education
… to study the impact of institutional forces on higher education policy processes. The project involved a case study analysis of the alignment between intention and perceived impact, focused specifically on the implementation of higher education differentiation policy within two of Canada’s …
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From Isolation to Ambiguity: Fiscal Equity, the Perpetuation of Past Discrimination and the Status of the Public Historically Black College and University (Hbcu)
… there exists a knowledge gap within U.S. higher education policy circles regarding issues of fiscal equity and adequacy, particularly as they apply to public HBCUs. Through the use of quantitative history and the employment of specialized educational price indexes, such as the Higher …
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Legal Education through a Social Justice Lens: A Framework for Teaching Law in the South African Context
… to prioritize social justice in the Legal Education discipline. Three sets of literature support this argument. First, South African higher education policy, which emphasizes the need to produce graduates who are able to contribute to societal transformation. Second, the University of Cape …
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"Political changes and access policies in Malagasy Higher Education since independence (1960-2008)"
… between the political change and the access policy changes in Madagascar since independence. In this study qualitative and quantitative data were used. The qualitative research consisted of eleven in-depth interviews and the collection of policy documents from 1960 to 2008. Open-ended …
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Conversational circles influencing athletic policymaking during development, implementation, litigation, and enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 of the Civil Rights Act of 1965
… and enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the study focused on identifying conversational circles that emerged in legislative, judicial, print media, and educational spheres. These Conversational Circles appeared to …
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Universities and Regional Advantage in the Knowledge Economy: Markets, Governance and Networks as Developing in English Regions
… responses to two realms of policies, namely, higher education policy and regional development policy. The diversifying missions of universities, especially, the ‘third stream activities’ promoted by the UK government since the late 1990s, are set against the dynamics of the multi-level …
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The templated academy: troubling discourses of 'teaching excellence' in UK Higher Education
… ethnographic case study investigates the policy-mediated power structures within an English higher education institution, focusing on the impact of teaching excellence policy constructs on academics' professional lives and identities. Institutional ethnography is a distinctive research …
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Exploring the framing of disability in university policies: a comparative study at a selected university in Zimbabwe and in South Africa
… spotlight and has become a significant issue in higher education policy and practice. However, this prominence has brought critical scrutiny to this policy and practice nexus, and challenges are being picked up all over the world. African higher education systems have not been spared from these …
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RISK PERCEPTION AND RESPONSE AMONG INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
… disaster mitigation is a critical element of higher education policy. Although U.S. higher education institutions are leaders in the global education market, emergency warning systems give little consideration to how international students perceive risk, prepare for hazards, or access warning …
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Exploring undergraduate interactions with mobile privacy and security
… we discuss the implications of our findings for Higher Education Institutions, Higher Education Policy and mobile application design.
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Les facteurs liés à la persévérance dans un programme au premier cycle universitaire
… lui-même (Berger et Parkin, 2009 ; Institute for higher education policy [IHEP], 1998 ; McMahon, 2009). Cependant, l’accroissement de l’hétérogénéité des caractéristiques étudiantes (CSE, 2013) est un phénomène qui rend de plus en plus difficile l’identification des facteurs qui entravent la …
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Insights into the South African research landscape through mining theses and dissertations using transformer-based language models
… for future doctoral production and national policy targets. By exploring ETD metadata integration, full-text citation mining, and open bibliographic enrichment, this study extends traditional publication-based scientometrics and demonstrates the value of ETDs as instruments for monitoring …
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Academics and individual motivation : the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships context
… KTPs, the universities supporting them, and the higher education policy environment
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Barriers to the Implementation of the Oklahoma Learning Site Initiative.
… Legislature and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education have partnered to put forth an initiative to strengthen the state's intellectual power in hopes of preparing its citizens to compete in the global, knowledge-based economy of the 21<sup>st</sup> Century. As a starting point for the …
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Tuition Reductions: A Quantitative Analysis of the Prevalence, Circumstances and Outcomes of an Emerging Pricing Strategy in Higher Education
… in the private not-for-profit sector of higher education, utilizing a quantitative descriptive and correlational approach with secondary data analysis. It resulted in a listing of 45 institutions with verified tuition reductions from 2007 to 2017, more than previously thought. It found …
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