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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Higher educational institutions"”.
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Greening academia: developing sustainable waste management at UK higher educational institutions
… studied in great detail. Since the 1960s, the UK higher education system has expanded six fold to >2.4 million students. The overall production of waste at Higher Education institutions (HEIs) is therefore very large and presents significant challenges as the associated legislative, economic and …
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Funding Practices of Selected Retirement Systems Covering Public Higher Educational Institutions
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:54:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7726678.pdf: 5528100 bytes, checksum: 3e777e3c45aa2e9170e66bb81a299d56 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Beliefs about gender roles and issues held by undergraduate students in selected Christian higher educational institutions
… interpretations of gender issues in Christian higher educational institutions. The purpose is to determine what the future leaders of the body of Christ believe in regard to God's design for men and women, especially women, and primarily within the home and the church. The research is …
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An Empirical Investigation of Critical Factors that Influence Data Warehouse Implementation Success in Higher Educational Institutions
Data warehousing (DW) in the last decade has become the technology of choice for building data management infrastructures to provide organizations the decision-making capabilities needed to effectively carry out its activities. Despite its phenomenal growth and importance to organizations the rate …
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Factors Influencing the Career Success of Women Lecturers in Private Sector Higher Educational Institutions in Myanmar
… lecturers employed at Myanmar's private tertiary educational institutions. It also explores the attributes that women lecturers perceived career success and elucidates the process by which various perceived career success drivers facilitate the path towards success in academic career. The research …
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Philosophy and Practice of Wholistic and Physical Student Development at Select Seventh-day Adventist Higher Educational Institutions and Work Colleges
… each of the human dimensions into an integrated educational experience. There is, therefore, a need for scholarship that compares and contrasts how separate and distinct higher educational systems having a philosophy of educating the whole person define and implement the development of the …
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A Comparative Study of Student Leadership Development Programs Used in Two Higher Educational Institutions in the United States and Jamaica, Respectively.
… and differences in the way students in higher education are recruited and retained into the culture and attitudes of leadership, and how they are afforded meaningful leadership opportunities to practice the skills they have learned, in two separate higher educational institutions. These …
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An investigation into the factors that affect change in the attitudes of managers in higher educational institutions on reaching positions of authority
Submitted for the fulfillment of the requirement for the Master's Degree: Commercial Administration, Durban Institute of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2004.
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Examining the Receptivity of Foreign Guests: A Study of Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Students in Higher Educational Institutions in Accra, Ghana
<p>With an increasingly global demand for higher education, countries are competing for international students. Popular destinations like the United States are facing a decreasing number of international student enrollments due to restrictive policies that are perceived as unwelcoming to foreign …
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Language Teacher Cognition on English Grammar Assessment: Investigating EFL Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices regarding Classroom-based Assessment in Public Higher-Educational Institutions in Saudi Arabia
… when writing their grammar exams in their educational contexts, in higher educational facilities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The central focus of this study is threefold: (a) teachers‘ beliefs and factors which shaped these beliefs, (b) their actual practices and the factors that influenced …
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Increasing Strategies and Programs for the Retention and Graduation of Black Undergraduate Students at the University of Central Florida
… is an essential factor with minorities attending higher educational institutions- ensuring academic strategies and interventions are equally important in the success and graduation of minority students at UCF and American higher educational institutions.</p>
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An analysis of the industry employment intentions of undergraduate freshmen in Shanghai majoring in tourism and hospitality management utilizing motivation and demographic information
… hospitality management programs at Shanghai's 13 higher educational institutions in the fall of 2013 were recruited to participate in the study. In the pilot study, 244 students among 250 recruited completed the survey developed by the researcher using Self-determination Theory as the theoretic …
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The analysis of retail business trends at small college towns in Iowa: as a case study of town and gown relationship
… their economic decline by the presence of higher educational institutions. Eleven small towns with four-year private colleges were selected as research objects. Besides these college towns, small non-college towns were also selected to make a comparison. The established hypothesis was that …
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A Survey of Opinions of Recreation Leadership Needs in the Public Schools in the State of Washington
… in relation to recreation leadership so that the higher educational institutions of the state may have some basis for the planning and organization of their teacher training programs. The secondary purpose of this study is to enable the students who are preparing themselves for entering this field …
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An investigation into the use of B-Nodes and state models for computer network technology and education
… Information Technology (IT) design and for the educational and training needs of students within the area of computer and network technology. The IT age requires technical talent to fill positions such as network managers, web administrators, e-commerce consultants and network security experts …
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A Case Study of a Technical College's Faculty Perceptions Regarding the Value of Professional Development Activities
… Most of the literature was focused on four-year higher educational institutions. For the purposes of this qualitative case study, the researcher addressed the limited amount in the literature about professional development in two-year technical colleges. The researcher investigated faculty …
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Alumni Financial Donations, Life Cycle and Student Activities
… from the public university. Based on this study, higher educational institutions can benefit from determining the giving cycle as it relates to these characteristics. The percentage rate of giving remained consistent over 30 years, therefore, higher education institutions will want to focus their …
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An investigation into the initial adoption of e-learning innovation in teaching and learning: the case of Makerere University
… E-learning is being increasingly adopted in higher educational institutions. Research in this area has tended to focus on innovations and implementations and little has been done on adoption of this highly pervasive technology at an institutional level, particularly within Africa. The …
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Exploring the use of non-cognitive factors in predicting college academic outcomes
… non-cognitive to academic success relationship. Higher Educational institutions could consider the implementation of blended models, using key non-cognitive predictors.
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