Institutes Of Higher Education Research Articles

Shelter from the Storm: Disaster Capitalism and Puerto Rican Undergraduates in Post–Hurricane María Stateside Higher Education

Background/Context: Our study takes an asset-based approach to examine the experiences of Puerto Rican undergraduates and the consequences of cascading disasters (e.g., hurricanes, earthquakes, COVID-19). Puerto Rican undergraduates were prone to vulnerability during cascading disasters because they lacked emergency supplies (e.g., flashlights), effective communication pre- and postdisaster (e.g., texts), and/or knowledge of disaster-related procedures on campus. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: In this article, we use disaster capitalism and the trauma doctrine as our theoretical underpinnings to address the colonial relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico, in which Puerto Ricans have experienced disaster as an ongoing process illuminated by the sociopolitical and sociohistorical contexts that only exacerbate a longer history of deep-seated colonial traumas. Research Design: This study employs disaster capitalism and the trauma doctrine as a theoretical guide to depict an anticolonial approach and provide a thick description of the multiple case study design bounded by the phenomenon of disaster across two units of analyses from 2017 to 2020. The first unit of analysis (case 1) demonstrates how the public education sector has been diminishing in Puerto Rico due to investments, in this instance, in stateside institutes of higher education (IHEs) through hurricane relief programs. The second unit of analysis (case 2) shows how increasingly paramount it is to examine the experiences of Puerto Rican undergraduates left prone to these vulnerabilities. Conclusions/Recommendations: The theoretical application and findings from our study demonstrate that based on the intersections of disaster capitalism and the trauma doctrine, Puerto Rican undergraduates have and are still experiencing deep-seated trauma masked in disaster “relief” and “recovery” at the hands of the U.S. government and IHEs. These provide an understanding of disaster at the national, institutional, and individual levels.

Voices of first-generation transfer students: Implications for support services

This study explored the lived experiences of first-generation transfer students (FGTS) and their utilization of support structures at a mid-size, public university in New England. Using Schlossberg’s Transition Theory as a framework, this case study presents results that sought to center the voices of FGTS as it relates to the support services they utilize. In addition to the FGTS experiences, the case included interviews with university staff members and analyses of institutional documents. Implications for high education institutions to better support first-generation transfer students are discussed.

G20, Infrastructure Tourism, and Renewable Energy Tourism

The tourism industry has made an enormous difference in terms of jobs, foreign exchange, and the building up of infrastructure. On the other hand, many infrastructures can make natural places look less attractive, which calls for sustainable tourism. It's vital to help small businesses get money through excellent digital infrastructure and to use public fiscal tools to ensure that natural resources are used sustainably. Infrastructure tourism was used as the title, abstract, and keywords in 6,377 documents from 1968 to 2023 found in the scopus.com database. It also shows 704 papers with the title, abstract, and article keyword "Renewable Energy Tourism" from 1990 to 2022. Based on research papers on scopus.com, Indonesia is ranked second in Asia for renewable energy tourism and first in ASEAN for infrastructure tourism. It's a perfect sign for the growth of tourism infrastructure and renewable energy tourism in Indonesia. Indonesia has many affiliations, including the University of Indonesia, the Bandung Institute of Technology, Gadjah Mada University, Bina Nusantara University, Diponegoro University, Brawijaya University, IPB University, Padjadjaran University, and Hasanuddin University. Research publications in Indonesia have received funding from the Ministry of Technology Research, the Directorate General of Higher Education, the Research and Service Institute, the Bandung Institute of Technology, the University of Indonesia, Airlangga University, and Diponegoro University. So, the infrastructure and Renewable Energy Tourism research are on track and in an excellent place to be published. Indonesia will lead the world.

DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE ECOSYSTEM OF UKRAINE AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL

The article explores the theoretical and methodological aspects of the main idea of the formation of an innovation ecosystem at the national level, which consists in close cooperation and unification of the efforts of the participants in the innovation process on mutually beneficial terms of partnership, resources and competencies in building up the country’s innovative potential. It has been established that the innovation ecosystem at the national level is a synergistic partnership and collaboration of science, education and business as an institutionally coordinated mechanism of relationships from the generation and transfer of knowledge to the commercialization of innovations, that is, the entire innovation cycle of neo-industrial development of the national economy of Ukraine, its restoration in the European integration space. It is substantiated that the innovation ecosystem as a type of ecosystems in the economy allows cooperating efforts to create and promote innovations on the market. The concept of an innovation ecosystem gives a much better idea of the nature of innovation processes taking place in modern realities than the traditional systems approach. The main problems and obstacles to the development and implementation of the innovation ecosystem of Ukraine at the national level are outlined. Speaking about the fact that it is higher scientific institutions (universities) of education that should become generators of progressive structural changes in the economy and take the main place in the innovation ecosystem, the article considers the progressive experience of new types of universities. That is why it is proposed to single out the main instruments of these changes: 1) identification of target markets and segments; 2) building a system of client-centric key performance indicators; 3) optimization of the structure and partnership activities of scientific and higher educational institutions.

Uniqueness of Clearing Payment Matrices in Financial Networks

We study bankruptcy problems in financial networks in the presence of general bankruptcy laws. The set of clearing payment matrices is shown to be a lattice, which guarantees the existence of a greatest clearing payment and a least clearing payment. Multiplicity of clearing payment matrices is both a theoretical and a practical concern. We present a new condition for uniqueness that generalizes all the existing conditions proposed in the literature. Our condition depends on the decomposition of the financial network into strongly connected components. A strongly connected component that contains more than one agent is called a cycle, and the involved agents are called cyclical agents. If there is a cycle without successors, then one of the agents in such a cycle should have a strictly positive endowment. The division rule used by a cyclical agent with a strictly positive endowment should be positive monotonic, and the rule used by a cyclical agent with a zero endowment should be strictly monotonic. Because division rules involving priorities are not positive monotonic, uniqueness of the clearing payment matrix is a much bigger concern for such division rules than for proportional ones. As a final contribution of the paper, we exhibit the relationship between the uniqueness of clearing payment matrices and the continuity of bankruptcy rules, a property that is very much desired for stability of financial systems. Funding: This research was supported by the Higher Education Institutional Excellence Program 2020 of the Ministry of Innovation and Technology in the framework of the “Financial and Public Services” research project [Grant TKP2020-IKA-02] at Corvinus University of Budapest. P. Csóka received funding from the National Research, Development and Innovation Office [Grants K-120035 and K-138826].

The Role of Leadership and Digital Transformation in Higher Education Students' Work Engagement.

Teaching and learning processes should be subject to continuous change due to the constant evolution of social, educational and technological environments, which ultimately results in higher levels of student engagement. The current paper describes the technological changes faced by higher education institutions as a result of digital transformation challenges. Further, transformational and transactional leadership styles' effectiveness is regarded within the context of higher education institutions' digital enhancements. Over time, these factors have led to contextual shifts that have disengaged students from learning and thus self-development. The current research aimed to examine how higher education institutions should apply different leadership styles within digitally transformed contexts so as to increase students' learning engagement and reduce the risk of failure in their future developments within (inter)national labor markets. Data gathering and analysis involved a qualitative approach: an online survey was distributed, resulting in 856 responses. Through structural equation modeling, the data revealed a valid higher education digital transformation assessment tool; the results also emphasize the increased role of transactional leadership, as opposed to the traditional transformational style, within a highly digitized higher education institutional framework. Consequently, the linear relationship of students' work engagement with leadership proved to also be enhanced by quadratic effects. The current study stresses the importance of internal and external peers in higher education performance through high levels of student learning (work) engagement through leadership and a uniformly developed digitally transformed higher education environment.

Enhancing sustainability performance of universities: A DMAIC approach

AbstractThis paper aims to assess and improve the sustainability performance at a higher educational institute (HEI) in UAE using DMAIC methodology, considering five sustainability aspects (knowledge, behaviour, concern, awareness and attitude). One primary and six secondary research questions were defined in the define phase. In the measure phase, a questionnaire was designed to measure the current sustainability level based on the five sustainability aspects. A questionnaire was distributed among campus populations and statistically analysed in the analysis phase. Participation in UI GreenMetric was used in the control phase to monitor the performance from 2018 to 2020. It was found that the communication college has the lowest sustainability level at 25% marginal error compared with other colleges. Also, students have the lowest sustainability level compared with faculty and staff at a 15% marginal error. The proposed framework can help HEI decision‐makers assess their sustainability levels and suggest plans to enhance sustainability performance.

Including a parental perspective in neonatal education

Post registration neonatal education in England is currently delivered in a number of settings including Higher Education Institutes and clinical areas and is currently being reviewed in relation to setting a national standard by Health Education England (NHS, 2022). Neonatal courses require constant updating to ensure that they reflect changes in clinical practice and use the most up to date evidence base. A recent example of evidence based clinical innovation is Family Integrated Care. This article will focus on how including a parental perspective within a post registration neonatal nursing course delivered by a Higher Education Institute can support the integration of Family Integrated Care within neonatal education.Family Integrated Care is a vital component of neonatal care, this needs to be mirrored within neonatal nurse education. Hearing a parent's perspective enables us to understand their requirements and experiences, this promotes improvements in neonatal care. Parental perspectives can be incorporated into education using a variety of methods that are suitable to both the student and parental requirements. Incorporating a parent's perspective is valuable for both the parents and the students. The impact on student knowledge is essential for their future roles.

Global teaching style adaptations and curriculum adjustments for school students during COVID-19

ABSTRACT The pandemic brought a massive shift in traditional education strategies. Educational literature is focusing on case studies for online-learning platforms. This research aims to break down the adaptations in teaching styles and curriculums across different countries due to the worldwide shift towards newer technology and learning mediums to facilitate students. Analyzing aspects like motivation, access to network services, grading schemes, teaching styles, and curriculum changes, this research utilizes a cross-country comparison through existing local research in various parts of the globe to summarize the changes that educational institutions in higher education have incorporated into their syllabi and teaching methods. A survey was carried out at Al Ain university consisting of 174 students and 31 faculty members who rated their motivation levels and satisfaction with online learning vs. traditional methods. This survey revealed various answers showcasing the need for institutional training, student-centered curriculums, and syllabi objectives that need to be predetermined and implemented to foster students’ well-being and interest in the subject matter rather than knowledge acquisition. Moreover, through analyzing different countries’ teaching methodologies, we found that developing key competencies and curriculum objectives with different options and mediums available to students is vital to establish agency for students’ well-being.

A Decision Model for Ranking Asian Higher Education Institutes Using an NLP-Based Text Analysis Approach

Identification of the best institute for higher education has become one of the most challenging issues in the present education system. It has become more complicated as more institutes exist with extraordinary infrastructural facilities. Therefore, a decision model is required to identify the best institute for higher education based on multiple criteria. This article proposes a Natural Language Processing (NLP) -based decision model for the identification of the best higher education institute using MCDM methods. The existing decision models for the selection of the best higher education institutions consider a limited number of criteria for decision-making. In this proposed model, 17 criteria and 15 institute datasets have been identified for the development of the decision model through extensive research and experts opinion. The NLP-based text analysis approach is applied to extract the relevant information and convert it to a suitable format. As the relative importance of the criteria plays a crucial role in decision-making, CRITIC and Rank centroid methods are applied for the calculation of relative weights of criteria. TOPSIS method is used to generate the ranking grades of alternatives for each criterion. An objective function is defined to calculate the evaluation scores and select the best institute for higher education. It has been observed that the ranks obtained from the developed model match pretty well with the ranks obtained from other MCDM methods and the experts.

Aspects of Leadership in The Implementation of IT Infrastructure Library Domain Service Strategy at University

Implementation of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) in institutions' education tall become more important for increasing the quality service of information technology. However, ITIL implementation requires a role important from leadership to ensure its success. Study This aims to analyze the role of leadership in the implementation of ITIL Service Strategy in high-education institutions. This study uses a method descriptive with do survey of IT staff at several universities. Data analyzed use the technique of qualitative and its results show that leadership owns an influence and positive significance in the implementation of ITIL Service Strategy in higher education institutions. this article gives an important view for university leadership to increase the quality service of information technology and ensure the successful implementation of the ITIL Service Strategy in institutions. This Study has implications for the organization in framework reach objective strategic in management service of information technology and ensure that ITIL framework can be used with more effective and efficient.

A global survey on occupational therapy education: Findings and implications for diploma level education

ABSTRACT The 2016 Minimum Standards for the Education of Occupational Therapists published by the World Federation of Occupational Therapist (WFOT) recognise that the competencies required for practice as an occupational therapist necessitate that occupational therapy programmes be situated in institutes of higher education, with graduates awarded a minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent credential. Given this recognition, WFOT conducted a survey to understand issues that impact a transition to degree level education in jurisdictions that continue to offer diploma programmes. An overall 84% response rate was received for the online survey that was circulated to 98 WFOT member organisations in March 2021. Survey results indicated that diploma level education is offered in the jurisdiction of 15 member organisations. Only two of the member organisations indicated that a transition to degree level education is not a goal at this time, although for many, planning was at an early stage. Most member organisations with diploma level education identified the need to influence their government to enable widespread transition to degree level education. Factors most highly rated for influencing such a transition included awareness of competency requirements for occupational therapists, demand for occupational therapy services, access to upgrading programmes, availability of student practice placements, and government and regulatory standards. Recommended strategies to facilitate the transition process included engaging in advocacy and awareness raising, adopting a competency framework, creating opportunities for upgrading, and seeking out collaborative partnerships.

Comment on “Japan's Higher Education Policies under Global Challenges”

Comment on “Japan's Higher Education Policies under Global Challenges”

Is STEM a better adaptor than non-STEM groups with online education: an Indian peri-urban experience

PurposeThe existing literature contains few references on the better adaptors of online distance education amongst STEM (read as science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and non-STEM (composed of humanities, social science and commerce) study groups in an Indian peri-urban context. The study's objective is to determine the better adaptor amongst these two study groups in online distance learning in higher education systems in an Indian peri-urban context.Design/methodology/approachThe investigation was carried out prior to COVID-19 and during the pandemic. The inquiry is triangulated in nature with a disproportionate stratified random sampling approach used to pick 312 post-graduate students (STEM = 135 and non-STEM = 177) from a peri-urban higher education institute in West Bengal, India, using the “Raosoft” scale. Given the prevailing social distance norms, 235 samples of respondents from 312 students were evaluated via telephonic/online interviews during the COVID-19 period. The data were analysed using SPSS 22.FindingsThis study's investigations reveal that the STEM respondents have better digital profiles, better basic computing and Internet knowledge and greater digital usage for academic purposes before the pandemic times than the non-STEM group. This prior digital exposure has enabled the STEM group to cope with regular online distance education during the pandemic more quickly than the non-STEM group, as evidenced by their regular attendance in online classes and their greater awareness of its utilitarian role than the other group.Originality/valueThe study offers a way forward direction to evolve with more inclusive online distance learning in peri-urban Indian regions.

Digital ecosystem model of the agro-industrial complex

The study is devoted to modelling a sectoral ecosystem for the agro-industrial complex, incorporating into a single platform solution tools and mechanisms for the interaction between sectoral business structures in value chains as well as the proactive implementation of government functions for managing and supporting the industry. The ecosystem architecture has been developed and structured in terms of organizational, infrastructure, innovation, communication and logistics components. The role of the system actor and IT integrator is assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. The main and additional functions of the digital platform are highlighted. A description of its product and service segments is provided. The options for implementing the process subsystem on the Gostech and GosOblako platforms as well as the Russian Agricultural Bank platform are assessed, the advantages of each solution presented. The importance of involving the research potential of departmental high education institutions and research institutes in the development of the ecosystem’s service segment is substantiated.

The potential of professional thinking among the students of socionomic group of profession

The issues of development of professional thinking as a cognitive resource in the learning process in the institutes of higher education have been discussed in the article. Gnostic and transformative types of professions have been taken as an example. The study engaged one hundred and two respondents of various targeted directions of socionomic group of professions – the students of psychology and management, being either at initial or final stages of study in the institutes of higher education. It has been defined that the gnostic type does not possess any changes at the componential-elemental level, while the transformative type (the students of management) has some partial readjustments emerged in the psycho-linguistic characteristics, and presents the reflection of important aspects of development of potential of professional thinking of a manager, related to efficiency in decision-making and the role of meta-emotions. The partial interconnection of component-subsystems of professional thinking in the process of studying at higher education establishments has been identified – progressive integration of cognitive and metacognitive subsystems and transformation of correlation between personal and cognitive and metacognitive subsystems, which obtains reverse character. It has been demonstrated that actualisation of the potential of thinking as the system within the socionomic group of professions depends on the stages of education and the goal of training and professional activity.

Listening Comprehension Anxiety: Causes and Suggestive Strategies for Solutions

The present study aimed to explore the factors causing listening comprehension anxiety (LCA) for the Afghan English major students and the strategies they used as solutions to reduce their listening anxiety. The participants (n=8) were chosen through a purposive sampling technique from the English Department of Education Faculty at Badghis Institute of Higher Education The study employed a qualitative research design where semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect data from the participants. After collecting the data, they were transcribed, analyzed, and eight significant themes emerged. The themes included the participants' LCA factors and strategies they used to reduce their anxiety in a listening activity. Teachers and learners could use the findings from this study worldwide to enhance students' listening comprehension and reduce their LCA

QUALITY MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY FOR THE TRAINING OF BACHELORS IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE PRC)

The article describes the effectiveness of the functioning of the field of physical education and sports, which largely depend on the use of modern management technologies. All activities carried out in the field of physical education are management activities, both in form and content. Graduates of higher educational institutions of physical education and sports must master the basics of management science, the ability to apply theoretical knowledge in practice, which is a necessary condition for the effective operation of organizations in the field, the training of high-class athletes, increasing the level of physical activity and strengthening the health of the population. The purpose of the study "Management of the field of physical education and sports" is to provide future specialists with theoretical knowledge about the system of physical education movement management and to form practical management skills. Due to unsatisfactory socio-economic living conditions, this is also influenced by a decrease in the population's motivation for physical culture and sports activity. In addition, in institutions of general secondary education, imperfect material and technical and personnel support is noted.

Highlights about Talents Development: The Future of Improving Higher Education Quality

The concept of talent development (TD) has emerged in the last few decades and has been discussed in many reports. The internationalization of higher education institute programs has obliged the universities to search for different strategies to update and enrich the academic performance at the level of employees, staff, and students. Talent development became necessary for many institutions to attract individuals with higher competencies and promote their performance. This review aims to highlight the importance of talent development in Higher education practice and achievement.

Evaluation of Correlation of Blood Type, Gender, Age and BMI on Cognitive Ability of 125 top 10 Undergraduated Students

Introduction: Cognitive abilities have been the focus of behavior investigations for decades. Cognitive impairment share many common risk factors, such as hypertension, elevated cholesterol, hyperglycemia, and obesity are all associated with longitudinal declines in cognitive function and dementia. We investigated correlation of blood type, age, gender and BMI on cognitive abilities of 125 top 10 undergraduated medical students.
 Objective: This study aimed to determine and evaluate the correlation of blood type, age, gender and BMI on cognitive abilities of 125 top 10 undergraduated medical students in Ahmad Shah Abdali Higher Education Institute of Khost province of Afghanistan.
 Method and Materials: It is prospective descriptive cross sectional study, on 125 top 10 undergraduated medical students in Ahmad Shah Abdali Higher Education Institute of Khost province from 2019/ Nov / 07 to 2020/ Apr / 06. The including parameters were blood type, age, gender, BMI of all 125 participants under study that recorded in computer special format. Blood type and BMI are done by special regents and scale. Recorded findings processing, comparison and evaluation results have been identified by IBM SPSS-25 version.
 Results: The study was conducted during (5) month on 125 top 10 undergraduated medical students in Ahmad shah Abdali Higher Education Institute of Khost province. Initially we described all participants according to gender and age. At the current study the female participants were 71 (56.8) and male were 54 (43.2), with (mean age: 21.27 ± 2.38; range: 17-29 years). All participants of this study were from all classes (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th) and each main class has two or more subclasses. Statistic description of all participants, according to blood type shows that (B+) blood type was more prevalent 38 (30.4) among the whole participants, and in the second grade was (O+) blood type 28 (22.4). For comparison we divided all participants into two groups, high cognitive group according to roll number (from 1 to 5, roll number one is the best learned and intelligent student in the class and this grade is gradually decreased up to roll number 10th) and low cognitive group according to roll number (from 6 to 10). In the high cognitive group included 64 students. Statistic description of the high cognitive group shows that number of female 36 (56.3) participants is more prevalent than male 28 (43.8) participants. The (B+) blood type participants are more prevalent 25 (39.1) inside this group, and the (O+) blood type 14 (21.9) is in the second grade. Mean age: 21.18 ± 2.20; range: 17-28 years. Mean BMI; 22.84± 3.43, range: 16.48-31.14. In the low cognitive group included 61 students. Statistic description of the low cognitive group shows that prevalent of female 35 (57.4) higher than male 26 (42.6). The prevalent of (A+) blood type participants were highest 16 (26.2) inside this group, and the (O+) blood type 14 (23.0) is in the second grade. Mean age: 21.36 ± 2.57; range: 17-29 years. Mean BMI; 23.11± 3.31, range: 16.42-30.10. For comparison between high and low groups we detected following findings. The number of female in high cognitive group was more prevalent 36 (28.8) than female in low cognitive group 35 (26.85), (P<1.00). The (B+) blood type was more prevalent in high cognitive group 25 (20.0), and the second grade (O+) blood type 14 (11.2) and the third grade (A+) blood type are gradually decreased, but in comparison to the blood type in low cognitive group (A+) blood type is more prevalent 16 (12.28) than the others, and the second grade was (O+) blood type 14 (10.74), (P<0.390). Mean average and age range are in the high group: 21.18 ± 2.20; range: 17-28 years, but in low group mean average and age range: 21.3607 ± 2.57; range: 17-29 years. Mean average and BMI range in the high group is; 22.84 ± 3.43, range: 16.48-31.14, but in low group are 23.11 ± 3.31, range: 16.42-30.10, (P<0.735).
 Conclusion: Overall, findings of our study indicated that, age, gender, blood type and BMI have no significant correlation with cognitive ability of undergraduated students. However, this issue needs to further investigations in socialeconomical, cultural, political, genetics, environment and geographical areas to confirm these findings.