Direction Of Higher Education Research Articles

Synergistic competencies of business graduates for the digital age: directions for higher education

PurposeFor business and management higher education (HE) to transition graduates to digital workplaces and careers, it’s crucial they develop competencies (digital and traditional, soft and technical, new and old) that are relevant and applicable.Design/methodology/approachInsights are obtained from 60 comprehensive interviews with HE business students, educators and industry practitioners.FindingsSix synergistic competencies are described that leverage synergies of (often) divergent competencies in the digital age of business, integrating them with a recently emerged multi-disciplinary competency framework. Each synergy states its target application, purpose and is aligned with specific HE practices.Originality/valueScholarship of competencies is re-oriented away from clusters and towards synergies, with a new inter-disciplinary competency framework validated to business in the digital age, with directions provided for HE.

Confronting climate denial in higher education to promote sustainable futures

By many accounts, societies, their institutions, and citizens are not doing enough, and with the necessary urgency, to address the climate crisis. While higher education institutions have embraced the rhetoric of sustainability and contributed to climate science, the development of renewables and other climate solutions, and a host of policy reforms that aim for greater sustainable development, this paper argues that particular forms of climate denial have impeded more transformative directions in higher education. These denials include denying the depth and magnitude of the problems that the planet and people around the world are facing, the unsustainability of continued limitless growth, and a denial of the contexts, legacies, and discourses that have often served to impede important reforms in higher education. Using a climate denial lens, this paper examines the role of different forms of denial in higher education, such as the role climate denial funding sources in universities and how historical legacies and modern neoliberal discourses continue to limit possibilities for more transformative reforms in higher education. The paper concludes by sharing how these forms of denial might be addressed to advance a stronger response to the climate crisis.

Islamophobia in higher education environments

AbstractIslamophobia is a reality facing Muslim college students daily on and off campus. In this chapter, I highlight Islamophobia in higher education environments and explore its structural and interactional manifestations. I provide practical recommendations to address institutional and interpersonal Islamophobia and specify how campus educators can work to respond to and prevent Islamophobic incidents. I also make policy recommendations to respond to the hostility toward Muslims in the national discourse. Finally, I outline future frontiers for higher education research, such as the need to account for the complexity of the Muslim identity and its intersections and the need to distinguish Islamophobia from Muslim appreciation through empirical measurement. Future directions in higher education should take on the responsibility of responding to Islamophobia and eradicating its hold on Muslim lives.Practical Takeaways Colleges and universities should critically examine their infrastructures and policies concerning accommodating the religious needs of Muslim students. Each campus should have an academic accommodations policy that specifies how students may go about requesting an accommodation for religious reasons. This policy should be explicitly stated in syllabi, websites, and orientation materials. Institutional leadership should explicitly commit to countering religious‐based hate, including Islamophobia, through policies that condemn such forms of hate and outline specific means of responding to incidents when they occur. A proactive effort to counter hate on campus requires knowledge of the structures in place to utilize these resources when needed and to identify areas for improvement. Educators should create programs and opportunities that promote interactions across religious, spiritual, and secular (RSS) identities and must offer the time, resources, and effort to support formalized campus activities that foreground interfaith engagement. Educators should proactively create spaces for these encounters and incorporate these opportunities into campus architecture and the required programming (e.g., orientation). In the face of a national movement to eliminate, ban, or otherwise weaken diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) resources on college campuses, religious accommodations must be codified in both state and federal laws and guidelines to create consistency across states and a standard of how universities could actively work to create a welcoming environment for all.

Exploring New Directions in Higher Education Aided by Artificial Intelligence Technology

Abstract This paper’s objective optimization problem belongs to the encoding problem of real numbers, and the classical particle swarm optimization algorithm is chosen. The establishment of intelligent learning model was finally completed through the assumption of model components, initial model establishment, model cycle evaluation and validation. First, after the implementation of the E-GPPE-C education model, the test was conducted on the educated people, and the AI literacy questionnaire was also distributed to the students before and after the implementation of the model education. Second, a statistical analysis explores which technologies will most likely be applied to higher education. Finally, the variability of higher education subject relations under the influence of AI and related ethical issues were explored. The results show that the highest score on the students’ final test was 96. 20 students scored more than 80 points, indicating that half of the students had a solid grasp of the knowledge and applications related to the E-GPPE-C model, and that there was a vast difference between the degree of AI knowledge and skill mastery before and after the implementation of education. Natural language understanding, computer vision, and biometrics are the three technologies most suitable for application in higher education.

Evaluating the Role of Private Institutions in Shaping the Future of Higher Education

The study demonstrates that higher education in India is profoundly pertinent, as it actively contributes to the advancement of the economy, facilitates social mobility, and fosters cultural development. Private institutions are vital in influencing the future of higher education through their contributions in expanding accessibility, promoting innovation, and sustaining industry relationships. Ensuring a harmonious equilibrium between these positive contributions and obstacles such as cost-effectiveness and guaranteeing good standards is crucial for the ongoing improvement of the higher education system in India. This study investigates the diverse and complex impact of private institutions on the direction of higher education and the formation of its future environment. The research seeks to shed light on the influence of private institutions in various important areas, such as access, innovation, infrastructure, global collaboration, research and development, entrepreneurship, and governance, through a thorough assessment. By combining current research and empirical assessments, the study offers valuable insights into the advantages and difficulties linked to private higher education institutions. The findings emphasise the role of these institutions in enhancing accessibility, addressing industry demands, and making progress in curriculum development and teaching methods. This research enhances our understanding of the influence of private institutions on the changing higher education system. It provides valuable insights for policy, regulation, and future advancements in the field.

Нормативы специальной профессиональной подготовки сотрудников полиции в обеспечении практико-ориентированного содержания профессиональных образовательных программ

Abstract: Introduction. The system of personnel training for internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation has a task to implement professional educational programmes with a short period of training: to increase the recruitment for training in the specialty of secondary professional education 40.02.02 «Law enforcement» and to start the recruitment for training in the direction of higher education (bachelor’s degree) 40.03.02 «Ensuring law and order». Secondary professional education and practical oriented bachelor’s degree programmes should be filled with sets of professional competencies that can be measured and assessed. The authors propose to use control tasks (norms) of special professional training as measurable professional competences. There are no norms on special professional training (except for norms on physical and firearms training) for police officers. This fact determines the relevance of the research.
 Research methods: dialectical method of scientific cognition and closely related to it private-scientific and special methods.
 Results. The necessity of taking into account the experience of implementation of professional educational programmes of practical oriented bachelor’s degree and secondary professional education of the Federal project «Professionalism» is shown. The theoretical result of the research is the formulation of the definition of the normative of special professional training of police officers and the criteria of classification
 of these normatives. The methodology of validation and development of norms is proposed. An example of practical use of theoretical and methodological results of the research is given – a group of norms of service and combat training of police officers and their approximate list are presented.
 Conclusions. The use of standards of special professional training and control tasks developed on their basis in the educational process will ensure the practice-oriented content of professional educational programmes. Control tasks and standards should be developed on the basis of studying the most effective techniques and methods of actions of police officers in carrying out operational-service and service-combat tasks. One of the promising directions to reduce the adaptation period of graduates of educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to duty activities is the implementation of professional educational programmes in a network form with the organisation of educational and practical centres (clusters) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The means of assessing the professional competencies of graduates of educational organisations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the means of testing the special professional preparedness of police officers of the corresponding categories should be identical. Prospects for further research include the development of control tasks (standards) for academic disciplines (modules), designed to assess the formation of professional competencies of graduates of educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, based on the areas of training, mastered by students of professional educational programmes.

Improved Student Experience with Advising at a Comprehensive University: NSSE Results and Planful Responses

Assessment UpdateVolume 35, Issue 3 p. 4-16 Article Improved Student Experience with Advising at a Comprehensive University: NSSE Results and Planful Responses Sandra Grunwald, Sandra GrunwaldSearch for more papers by this authorBecky Vianden, Becky ViandenSearch for more papers by this authorBetsy Morgan, Betsy MorganSearch for more papers by this author Sandra Grunwald, Sandra GrunwaldSearch for more papers by this authorBecky Vianden, Becky ViandenSearch for more papers by this authorBetsy Morgan, Betsy MorganSearch for more papers by this author First published: 29 May 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/au.30346Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. References Kinzie, J., C.A. Cogswell, and K. I. E. Wheatle. 2015. “Reflections on the State of Student Engagement Data Use and Strategies for Action.” Assessment Update, 27(2), 1, 14– 16. Morgan, B. 2012, September 12. “If They Don't Know What They Are Doing, Why Do Faculty Advise?” [Conference presentation]. WACADA 2012 Annual Meeting. La Crosse, WI, United States. Troxel, W. G. 2018. “Faculty Advising: Roles, Rewards, and Requisites.” New Directions for Higher Education, 184, 83– 96. Volume35, Issue3May/June 2023Pages 4-16 ReferencesRelatedInformation

The infrastructural role of education in the social and investment model of economic growth: the specifics of emerging markets

The purpose of this paper is to determine the directions and to specify the infrastructural role of higher education in the social and investment model of economic growth in view of the specifics and perspectives of emerging economies. Correlation analysis is used to determine the dependence between the directions of higher education’s development and the target results of its contribution to the implementation of the social and investment model of economic growth in emerging economies. These connections are specified with the help of regression analysis. Then, the simplex method is used to determine target landmarks for the selected directions. According to the experience of the top emerging economies with the highest level of economic innovative development in 2020, maximization (up to 100%) of knowledge-intensive employment (+299.29%), medium-tech and hi-tech manufacturing (+223.42%) and e-participation (+19.98%) requires the increase in the number of students per 1 lecturer in higher education by 387.26%, growth of mobility in higher education by 1,116.27%, and increase in QS university ranking by 139.13%. It is proved that only three directions of higher education’s development are significant and have to be implemented to support social and investment model of economic growth in emerging economies: increase in the number of students per 1 lecturer in higher education, growth of mobility in higher education, and increase in QS university ranking.

Contemporary Higher Accounting Education for Social Responsibility

Introduction. Nowadays participants in the business and social life face challenges in the context of the sustainability and the social responsibility. The only way to successfully overcome them is by all of them working together in one direction at all levels and in all fields. All efforts to harmoniously achieve the goals of sustainable development by the various communities of the planet are extremely relevant today and will continue in the future. Higher accounting and economic education are in support of sustainability, management of natural resources and social responsibility.
 Aim and tasks. The aim of the research is to analyze the possibilities for further development of economic solutions in the context of application integration approaches with care for our unique planet and its riches for the future. The tasks of the research find expression in: 1) to prove the need to pay attention to the issues of sustainable development when making decisions about the economy; 2) to analyze the essence and principles of an up-to-date concept for a sustainable way of doing business and management of natural resources; 3) to indicate the path that business and society shall take in order to develop responsibly; 4) to prove the importance of developing an international and national strategy for corporate social responsibility.
 Results. The data shows that today it is required that the specialist with a higher economic and accounting degree possess knowledge and competences for the quality realization of reporting, controlling, and other activities in the private and public sectors. Specifically, the investments in new knowledge and competences of such specialists in the context of sustainability, management of natural resources, and social responsibility create prerequisites for a more competitive and resilient business. At the same time, the data shows that the degree of balance between the three aspects (social, economic, and environmental) and the whole direction of higher education towards the problems of sustainable development as of this moment is not satisfactory.
 Conclusions. The dominant idea is that successful implementation of flexible educational schemes, accelerated digital transformation, and full adaptation to relevant business challenges (the practice) will result in the establishment of a new model of educational policy that will contribute to the successful realization of sustainability, natural resource management, and social responsibility.

The place of commodity science in the new nomenclature of higher education and scientific specialties

The article deals with the issues of quality and safety of goods sold on the modern market, as well as with problems of educational institutions that train commodity experts. The prospects for the development of commodity science itself as a direction of higher education and a scientific specialty are examined.

Classroom and Extracurricular Activities as the Basis of Project and Problem Methods of Teaching a Foreign Language in a Non-linguistic University

The article reveals the influence of classroom and extracurricular projects on the motivation of students of non-linguistic directions of higher education to learn a foreign language. The phenomenon of motivation is considered in the article as an important part of modern education in higher school. Also, in this scientific report, the methods of project and problem-based teaching of a foreign language are described and a comparative analysis of the presented methods is carried out. A feature of these teaching techniques is that students are involved both in a team (at the same time they are involved in the creative process, since there is an element of competition) and individually. The article talks about the importance of using both presented methods, without mutual exclusion, to increase students’ interest in learning a foreign language.

Comparing university education in open and focused majors: A look to the future

This study aims to redirect the human resources of university graduates towards the actual needs required of society. The huge increase in the number of graduates in the Arab world is not matched by economic growth and therefore organized labor markets that can harness the skills of graduates and invest in developing the new and future required skills to meet the challenges of the labor market. This study presents a broad comparison between the narrow and general concepts adopted in education. The study aims to provide an analysis of what should be the future direction of higher education in countries and how this can be applied to education systems in Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia. Finally, it makes evidence-based recommendations to support such strategic choices, and the study concludes that a broad system that does not integrate with market needs and operates away from serious partnership with stakeholders and employer groups will certainly fail to meet national needs and national aspirations, as the data analysis revealed. University students are gathering in majors to saturate the labor market with graduates with low potential to compete in the job market, and this has led to the recommendation to take serious steps that would stimulate efficiency and responsiveness to the system. New programs and curricula that reflect market demand Shifting resources towards such a system will benefit universities as they can focus on meeting skills needs and employers who can hire skilled employees through active participation in building skill sets.

Contemporary Strategic Trends in Higher Education for Training the Future Professional Elite

The need conditions the relevance of the work for a theoretical analysis of the strategic directions of higher education in the preparation of the professional elite in modern times. The currently developing process of globalization leads to the expansion of the interrelationships and interdependencies of various peoples, including in terms of revaluation of the function of education as a system that forms the value paradigms of modern society. In the context of the transition to the information society, new forms of education are emerging and developing, such as distance education and the export of educational services. The article presents reviews of sociological and statistical data in the field of development and results of international cooperation in the field of higher education. In determining the key categories, the author refers to the normative documents and opinions of leading scientists in the field of education.

Research on the benefits of new graduates' code of conduct when interviewing at foreign companies to get a job and a stable salary

In this article, we will study and analyze the code of conduct of fresh graduates when applying to companies. From there, students will gain the necessary knowledge, such as behavior and soft skills to adapt to the new working environment, as well as the language. These rules are essential and play a role in the success of graduating students. The results show that student salaries and promotions are correlated with standard codes of conduct. This article researches and analyzes the code of conduct of newly graduated students, thereby giving suggestions and solutions for candidates to be appreciated by employers. It also describes the preparation process so that fresh graduates can confidently and express themselves when entering a new environment. References Brown, C. E. (2016). Ethical issues when graduate students act as mentors. Ethics & Behavior, 26(8), 688-702. McCabe, D. L., Trevino, L. K., & Butterfield, K. D. (1996). The influence of collegiate and corporate codes of conduct on ethics-related behavior in the workplace. Business Ethics Quarterly, 461-476. Proper, E. (2012). Toward a code of conduct for graduate education. New Directions for Higher Education, 2012(160), 49-59. Nitsch, D., Baetz, M., & Hughes, J. C. (2005). Why code of conduct violations go unreported: A conceptual framework to guide intervention and future research. Journal of Business Ethics, 57(4), 327-341. Fisher, E., & Lightner, M. (2009). Entering the social experiment: A case for the informed consent of graduate engineering students. Social Epistemology, 23(3-4), 283-300. Lei, S. A., & Yin, D. (2019). Evaluating benefits and drawbacks of internships: Perspectives of college students. College Student Journal, 53(2), 181-189. Jollands, M., Jolly, L., & Molyneaux, T. (2012). Project-based learning as a contributing factor to graduates’ work readiness. European Journal of Engineering Education, 37(2), 143-154. Proper, E. (2012). Toward a code of conduct for graduate education. New Directions for Higher Education, 2012(160), 49-59. Hénard, F., Diamond, L., & Roseveare, D. (2012). Approaches to internationalisation and their implications for strategic management and institutional practice. IMHE Institutional

Компетенции тьютора в инклюзивном образовании: специфика программ профессиональной подготовки

The article provides a comparative analysis of the features of readiness and ability for tutor support as components of professional competencies of students of higher and secondary vocational education, as well as working tutors. The sample of this study is represented by 159 respondents – 67 working tutors, 33 undergraduates in the direction of higher education "Psychological and pedagogical education", 59 respondents, of which 28 undergraduates of higher education (direction "Social work") and 31 students of secondary vocational education (specialty "Social work"). The study was carried out using the scales developed by us to assess professional competencies for tutor support in the context of inclusive education. The answers to the questionnaire were collected remotely using the "Anketolog" system and processed statistically using the SPSS Statistics 18.0 program. In all groups of respondents, the revealed statistically significant correlations between the scales corresponded to the connections of similar scales used in international studies. It is shown that students of the social direction are more ready to implement tutor functions related to the actualization of the subject position of students, and students of the psychological and pedagogical orientation of the programs are more familiar with the knowledge, methods of work that ensure the creation of special conditions for education for the child as an object of psychological pedagogical support. It is concluded that when preparing graduates of secondary vocational and higher education, it is necessary to balance the development by graduates of competencies aimed at mastering the methods and techniques of creating special educational conditions for students with disabilities, and competencies associated with methods and techniques that support their active, involved participation in the process of education, the harmonious combination of which makes up the specifics of tutor support in the context of inclusion.

MODERN REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPETENCIES OF SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGICAL EMPLOYEES OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

The current state of the problem of informatization of education in Ukraine has been analyzed. It is shown that information technologies largely determine the nature and direction of higher education, and their active implementation in the educational process contributes to effective training of future competitive professionals. The main aspects of solving the problem of informatization are considered: computerization of educational institutions and acquisition of information and communication competencies by research and teaching staff of universities.

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Optimal allocation of higher education resources based on fuzzy particle swarm optimization

The development concept of higher education will have a direct impact on the development direction of higher education, because the concept usually reflects people's understanding of the law of higher education, and the current education concept restricts the scale, quality, structure and efficiency of higher education to a certain extent. Throughout the evolution of the world's higher education development concept, it has generally experienced the overall coordination of the economic growth, the internal and external laws, and the people-centered sustainable development. This paper hopes to provide effective help by joint intelligent algorithms. In this paper, the particle swarm optimization algorithm in intelligent optimization algorithm and the FCM algorithm in cluster analysis are studied in depth, and the two are merged together to propose a fuzzy clustering algorithm based on improved particle swarm optimization algorithm. The main research contents of this thesis include: Firstly, the PSO algorithm is improved, and the random search step levy flights and PSO algorithm are repeatedly called by the iterative mode by introducing the eagle strategy. After improvement, the ESPSO algorithm can achieve a balance between global search and local development, and make the particles have more satisfactory search ability and convergence effect. Then the improved PSO algorithm is integrated into the FCM algorithm to solve the above problems of the FCM clustering algorithm and improve the clustering effect. The experimental results show that the improved espso algorithm and FCM algorithm are suitable for actual data. The simulation results show that the algorithm has better clustering effect than the traditional clustering algorithm.

Дидактический контур формирования способности к разработке показателей эффективности проектов как элемента управленческой культуры будущего специалиста в сфере социально-педагогической деятельности

We substantiate the relevance of didactic design of social and pedagogical education programs aimed at formation of ability to develop project performance indicators as an element of the management culture of a future specialist in the field of social and pedagogical activity. It is noted that the modern social situation requires changes in the sphere of social and pedagogical ac-tivity as an instrument of humanization of society through the implementation of strategies, projects and programs of state policy on childhood, and, therefore, changing direction of higher education of specialists in the field of social and pedagogical activity. We show the necessity of implementing an educational module aimed at developing competence in the field of determining (formulating) quantitative and qualitative results of projects. It is proved that one of the elements of the management culture of specialists in the field of social and pedagogical education is the de-finition (formulation) of quantitative and qualitative results. The concept of “managerial culture of a specialist in the sphere of social and pedagogical education” is characterized. The management culture of a specialist in the field of social and pedagogical education is a strategic resource for the development of a professional. We present the main interpretations of the concept of “efficiency”, show that the formation of an adequate mechanism for evaluating efficiency is impossible without the correct selection and accurate formulation of performance indicators. The stages of development of social project performance indicators are considered. The components of the educational module “Quantitative and qualitative indicators of social project performance” are considered. The data of the entrance survey of students are presented.

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