Higher education is facing increasing expectations on accountability, better quality, outcomes and social relevance. Recruitment of academic staff is often considered the single most important component in creating a successful university. This paper describes a model for proactive strategic recruitment that can be seen as a way to improve strategic academic recruitments and, consequently, outcomes of academic work. 相似文献
Research in Science Education - Recent research has argued that inquiry-based science learning should be guided by providing the learners with support. The research on guidance for inquiry-based... 相似文献
It is commonly believed that science teachers rely on language that allows only minor flexibility when it comes to taking
into account contrasting views and pupil thoughts. Too frequently science teachers either pose questions that target predefined
answers or simply lecture through lessons, a major concern from a sociocultural perspective. This study reports the experiences
of science student teachers when introduced to the Communicative Approach to science education drawing on dialogic teacher-talk
in addition to authoritative teacher-talk. This approach was introduced to the students in an interventional teaching program
running parallel to the student teachers’ field practice. The practical implications of this approach during initial teacher
education are the central focus of this study. The data consisting of videos of lessons and interviews indicate that the student
teacher awareness of teacher-talk and alternative communicative options did increase. Student teachers reported greater awareness
of the different functions of teacher-talk as well as the challenges when trying to implement dialogic teaching. 相似文献
This paper reports on methodological approaches, experiences and expectations referring to impact analysis of quality assurance from the perspective of three higher education institutions (students, teaching staff, quality managers) from Germany, Finland and Romania. The presentations of the three sample institutions focus on discussing the core characteristics of quality assurance procedures applied and their expected and observed impacts, and how intended and non-intended undesirable ones are measured. It turns out that all sample institutions have already some instruments and sub-procedures in place for impact analysis of quality assurance and all of them are striving for further improvement by applying internal and external quality assurance procedures and impact analyses. Finally, a closer look at the recently revised Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area shows that the European sample institutions are on their way towards coherent quality assurance policies, while there is also room left for further improvement and investigation (for example, in implementing systematic methodologies of impact evaluation and quality policies in general). 相似文献
One of the main issues of internationalisation is networking. The network way of action within higher education institutions (HEIs) represents new modes of the information work. Networks are worth evaluating more precisely in the future, and social network analysis (SNA) is a useful tool for this evaluation. This article describes the network of people working with internationalisation in Finnish universities of applied sciences (UASs). The study combines SNA and knowledge‐sharing between HEIs. The model of knowledge creation introduced by Nonaka and Takeuchi is used in the analysis. On this ground of network evaluation, we study the network structure, relations and roles in the internationalisation network and discuss appearance of trust and competition in co‐operation between HEIs.
In higher education dual systems, graduates are qualified to apply for jobs in same professional fields along two separated
educational routes. The research problem is whether the rival applicants for professional positions are treated equally in
the labour market despite their different qualifications. From the graduates point of view, to be equal means to have an opportunity
to be employed in accordance with one’s professional skill. Applying European survey data, the article tests to what extent
the ‘distribution of work’ between university and non-university graduates seems to be based on educational qualifications
or actual competence. Among 4,000 German, Dutch, Finnish, and Swiss graduates primarily in business and administration and
engineering, only slight and occasional evidence of ‘status-based recruitment’ was found. All in all, the research suggests
that from the view of graduate employment, the European dual HE systems work very much following the principle of ‘different
but equal’. 相似文献
Besides cognitive factors, children's learning at school may be influenced by more dynamic phenomena, such as motivation and achievement-related task-avoidant behavior. The present study examined the developmental dynamics of task-avoidant behavior and math performance from kindergarten to Grade 4. A total of 225 children were tested for their arithmetic skills in kindergarten and in Grades 1, 2, and 4 of elementary school. Children's task-avoidant behavior in learning situations was rated by their teachers. The results of latent growth curve analyses showed that math performance and task-avoidant behavior develop in tandem: an increase in task-avoidant behavior was related to less improvement in math performance. Furthermore, a high initial level of task-avoidant behavior predicted less improvement and slower improvement in math later on. 相似文献
One of the main issues of internationalisation is networking. The network way of action within higher education institutions (HEIs) represents new modes of the information work. Networks are worth evaluating more precisely in the future, and social network analysis (SNA) is a useful tool for this evaluation. This article describes the network of people working with internationalisation in Finnish universities of applied sciences (UASs). The study combines SNA and knowledge‐sharing between HEIs. The model of knowledge creation introduced by Nonaka and Takeuchi is used in the analysis. On this ground of network evaluation, we study the network structure, relations and roles in the internationalisation network and discuss appearance of trust and competition in co‐operation between HEIs. 相似文献