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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"university education"”.
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Inquiring into perspective transformation in university education
… and learning in the early academic life of university undergraduates. The result shows how accelerated adult mental development can be achieved in an academic environment ably preparing students for the workplace. This new model of education is part of a truly unique and exciting model …
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Social Class and Elite University Education: A Bourdieusian Analysis
… experienced a tremendous expansion of higher education after the Second World War. However, this expansion has not led to a substantial reduction to class inequalities at elite universities, where the admissions process is growing even more selective. In his classic studies of French education …
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Factors Influencing Diploma Holders to Join University Education Program than Technical Institutions in Tanzania.
The Growing worldwide interest in higher education has caused universities and technical institutions to improve their capacity to meet the need of globalization. The purpose of this research was to examine factors influencing diploma holders to join university education program than technical …
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An Examination of the Dual Career Pathway and Transitions UK Student-Athletes Experience Throughout University Education
… challenge of combining a sporting career with education or work. An increasing population of athletes are choosing to further their academic careers by combining elite level sport with university education. University student-athletes may, however, be susceptible to experiencing a number of …
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University Education in a Postmodern Era: Building a Narrative Ethic of Civil Communication in the Classroom
… Sources of CI in a postmodern United States university classroom involve: student entitlement, lack of institutional support for a growing contingent faculty, and incongruent values about appropriate classroom communication. Unlike preceding historical time periods that maintained a shared …
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Development of a design environment for integrated concurrent engineering (DE-ICE) in university education : integrating student designers, design tools, and active learning
… respect to their implications toward engineering education. DE-ICE needs are explained and mapped to technical requirements through quality function deployment. Functional analysis with use case diagrams and a product matrix mapping requirements to implementations are used to generate …
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Jaunų žmonių (25-30 m.) kritinio mąstymo, išsilavinimo ir tikėjimo sąmokslo teorijomis sąveika /
The goal of educational institutions (especially universities) is to promote critical thinking. However, the rise of social media and the spread of unchecked information have led more people, especially the young, to believe in conspiracy theories. This raises questions about whether university …
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Admission Crisis In Nigerian Universities : The Challenges Youth And Parents Face In Seeking Admission
<p>The need for access to university education has recently become vital in Nigeria as a result of an increase in the college-age population and an awareness of the role of university education in the development of the individual as well as the nation. Recent admission policies of Nigerian …
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Essays on Human Capital Investments: Pharmaceuticals and Education
… health behaviour and investment in higher education. Three of them consider different aspects of pharmaceutical utilization and aim at explaining some of the observed individual variation in access and adherence to treatment regimens. The fourth explores the potential link from health in …
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General Knowledge? The Roles of the New Zealand University in a Knowledge Society
This thesis examines the roles of the New Zealand university in a knowledge society. Gaps in the literature of the New Zealand university in a contemporary context mean that the enquiry is informed by European and North American discussions of the educational requirements of a knowledge society. As …
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Do Leaders Matter? How Personal Characteristics and Experiences Shape Electoral Violence
… electoral violence and (2) leaders who had their university education in Western countries are less likely to employ electoral violence. The empirical results suggest that leaders from rebel backgrounds, populist leaders, and those that have overstayed their constitutionally mandated term limits …
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Do Leaders Matter? How Personal Characteristics and Experiences Shape Electoral Violence
… electoral violence and (2) leaders who had their university education in Western countries are less likely to employ electoral violence. The empirical results suggest that leaders from rebel backgrounds, populist leaders, and those that have overstayed their constitutionally mandated term limits …
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Identifying academic reading strategies in a multilingual context
… mechanisms applied by adult readers at tertiary university education level to construct meaning in an ESP/EAP (English for Specific and Academic Purposes) multilingual educational context at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), in Mozambique
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QUALITATIVE INQUIRY INTO FULL-TIME AMERICORPS STATE AND NATIONAL VOLUNTEERS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
… importance to volunteers, future employers, university education programs, and service program directors.
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Best practices for the global commodity market within the functional disciplines of trading and risk management
… and academic writing, and the enhancement of university education around the world. I also review and reflect upon my innovations in practical solutions, approaches, and methodologies to real-world issues for the commodity industry.
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"The relative autonomy of reading practices by critical, cultural, and social formations: An ethnographic and textual analysis of re-entry women students' interpretations of ""Educating Rita"""
… a British working class woman's hunger for a university education articulate filmic structures of meaning to gender and to social class ""habitus."" The study asked these non-traditional students to relate the film to their own educational careers and lived experience."
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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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Navigating the transition from college to work: A study of baccalaureate graduates of a private university in Kenya
… of the Kenyan population are demanding higher education. Recent statistics indicate an increase in university enrolments as well as rapid expansion in higher education to meet the rising demand. Many Kenyan parents are investing significant resources and enduring major sacrifices to ensure …
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