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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"UK universities"”.
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The role of activity-based costing in UK universities
… concept of Activity-Based Costing (ABC) in the UK university context. The research methodology included sending a postal survey to 100 UK university institutions, augmenting this with a set of semi-structured interviews, as well as a statistical analysis of published data on university library …
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Resistance to change in UK universities : a Habermasian perspective
… management during change within the context of UK Higher Education Institutions. Resistance to change is an area that has received considerable attention, with many scholars attributing it as a significant reason why change initiatives fail. However, resistance is seldom studied in depth within …
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Collaboration between UK Universities: A machine-learning based webometric analysis
… of identifying patterns of collaboration between UK universities. Unsupervised learning methods were used to automatically identify groups of university departments that are collaborating or that may benefit from collaborating together, based on their co-appearance in research clusters. Results …
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Chinese international students' health and well-being in UK universities
… of Chinese international students in the UK. On the basis of the literature review and semi-structured in-depth interviews, the Chinese International Students’ Well-being Survey (CISWS) was designed and implemented. Three hundred and two Chinese international students from UK universities …
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Towards a grounded theory of computer-assisted assessment uptake in UK universities
Universities are under pressure to justify the time and expense expended by students in obtaining a degree which has stimulated interest in measuring more formally how learning outcomes have been met by students. The 1997 NCHE (Dearing) Report called for improvements in higher education (HE) …
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A corpus-driven study of features of Chinese students' undergraduate writing in UK universities
… ‘largest single overseas student group in the UK’ with more than 85,000 Chinese students registered at UK institutions in 2009 (British Council, 2010a). While there have been many studies carried out on short argumentative essays from this group (e.g. Chen, 2009), and on postgraduate theses …
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Organisational support throughout the maternity journey : the perceptions of female academics in selected UK universities
… during their maternity journey whilst working in UK universities. Despite the fact that women represent nearly half of all Higher Education (HE) academic staff, they continue to be significantly underrepresented within more senior academic positions, in particular professorial roles. With this in …
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Self-Regulated Learning of English Vocabulary: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese-Speaking International Students in UK Universities
<p dir="ltr">Abstract removed whilst thesis under embargo</p>
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Decolonising Academic Integrity; A critical literature review of Global South international postgraduate students’ experiences at UK universities
… perceive and experience academic integrity in UK higher education. Academic integrity remains central to university governance and reputation, yet its principles and procedures are often shaped by Eurocentric moral and epistemic traditions that assume neutrality while reproducing inequity. …
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'More Students, More Active, More Often' The Opportunities for Developing and Promoting Active Lifestyles in UK Universities
… from the providers of sport and recreation in universities. Additional studies provide an analysis of the influence of specific university physical activity interventions on the exercise behaviour of students and recent graduates.<br/><br/>The results show that most students enjoy PE and sport …
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An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experiences of Chinese international students seeking mental health support at UK universities
… issues for Chinese international students in the UK higher education system is increasingly an important topic. Research shows that Chinese international students have a low utilisation rate of mental health services, and they do not engage with mental health services often until their problems …
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Investigating the current state of the art on Ethics Reviews of Information and Communications Technology Research in UK Universities
… in ICT research being carried out in the UK computing departments/faculties. It investigates the current state of the art with regard to ethics reviews of ICT research through establishing its relevance, availability and effectiveness. The fact that high quality researches (including …
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Living Latin: Exploring a Communicative Approach to Latin Teaching Through a Sociocultural Perspective on Language Learning
… the teaching of <i>ab initio</i> Latin in UK universities. It arises out of a perception that traditional methods leave some students failing to achieve course aims, their own study goals, and, in the longer term, struggling to read Latin texts with understanding and engagement. At the …
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The social construction of professional counselling practice in UK embedded higher education counselling services: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of practitioner perspectives
Most UK universities provide Embedded Higher Education Counselling Services (EHECS) as part of their student support offer. However, a wealth of theory based clinical literature belies a long-standing deficiency of empirical research within the UK student counselling sector. Recent research …
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Organisational expansion in higher education: the growth of universities' administrative staff and its impact on performance
… and administrative expansion taking place in universities over the last twenty years, characterised by the emergence of new roles and functions in areas such as: planning, marketing, student services, student placement, quality control, and external relations. Understanding the forces …
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Digital Education Resource Mining for Decision Support
… rankings (e.g. the Guardian newspaper Best UK Universities and the Complete University Guide league tables) have published their data for many years now and are increasingly used in such decision making processes by institutions and general public.
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Digital Education Resource Mining for Decision Support
… rankings (e.g. the Guardian newspaper Best UK Universities and the Complete University Guide league tables) have published their data for many years now and are increasingly used in such decision making processes by institutions and general public.
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How do we teach English under the waves of innovation?: discovering perceptions of English learning and teaching in China and the UK
… of 20 months’ data fieldwork in China and the UK. Responses were gathered from 500 high school students and qualitative interviews with 80 Chinese undergraduates, postgraduates and teachers in Chinese and UK universities in order to build the bridge between learning and teaching perspectives. …
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An exploratory study of employability, work readiness, and international experiences for one-year international postgraduate taught business students in the uk
… agenda are central to the current landscape of UK universities. While maintaining high educational standards and remaining competitive in international student recruitment have become increasingly challenging after the global pandemic and amid ongoing financial pressures faced by the UK …
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Accounting, resource allocation, planning and efficiency : case studies of the United Kingdom and Iraqi universities
… resource allocation, planning and efficiency of UK and Iraqi universities, concentrating on the efficiency with which universities manage their resource allocation in practice, which is seen in relation to university funding, goals and objectives, and governance. It evaluates financial planning …
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