Higher Education Requirements Research Articles

Collaborative Learning Platform for Academicians in Libya

Higher education academicians face a variety of difficulties, such as the need for improved collaboration, streamlined communication, and effective resource management. In order to tackle these concerns, this study investigates the unique challenges that academicians in higher education face. The study emphasizes the need for integrated features and user interfaces that are simple to understand and customized for a particular requirement of higher education. Moreover, by exploring the recognition and understanding of these barriers, the study not only clarifies the complex terrain of difficulties but also establishes the foundation for the creation of a platform for collaborative learning. With a focus on the problems faced by academicians, this platform will include features like a forum that is easy to use, the ability to share resources, a powerful search engine, a section devoted to frequently asked questions, and a chatbot that can engage users. Together, these elements seek to offer a thorough resolution to the problems noted, promoting enhanced dialogue, information sharing, and instructional effectiveness among academicians.

Analysis of the Reform of Blended Teaching in College English Under the Background of New Liberal Arts

With the continuous reform of the education system, the requirements for higher education have significantly increased. New liberal arts have been identified as the main direction of educational development, achieving innovative development in liberal arts education and enhancing the country’s cultural soft power. Therefore, universities should increase their emphasis on English teaching. In addition to imparting basic English knowledge, it is also necessary to focus on cultivating students’ cross-cultural communication and critical thinking abilities. The concept of new liberal arts should be applied by integrating information technology into the lessons, implementing blended learning, overcoming the disadvantages of traditional teaching, building a sound teaching system, and ensuring that college English teaching achieves good teaching results.

Exploration of the Practice of School-Enterprise Collaborative Nurturing Dual Creation Linkage Teaching Mode

With the promotion of economic globalization and scientific and technological innovation, university education needs to be more closely integrated with the actual industry and market demand, to cultivate innovative and practical talents adapted to the development of the society. Under the new requirements for higher education and the changing needs of society, the application and practice of the school-enterprise collaborative education dual-creation linkage teaching mode has also received more attention. This teaching mode advocates close cooperation and collaboration between schools and enterprises, and realizes the sharing of educational resources and complementary advantages through joint teaching, scientific research, and practical activities. Therefore, it is of great significance to explore the practice of school-enterprise collaborative education and dual-creation linkage teaching mode, which can break through the boundaries of traditional education, promote the deep integration of university education and industrial development, cultivate high-quality talents with innovative and entrepreneurial spirit and ability, and make a positive contribution to the sustainable development of the society and innovation drive.

Power to the Faculty Approach in the Bologna Process: How does the European Approach to accreditation of joint programs enhance innovation capacity?

The article analyses how the application of the new system for the accreditation of joint master’s programmes helps to improve the quality of training in accordance with requirements in the context of Europeanisation and globalisation of the educational space. The processes of democratization taking place in the European space, the active formation of public institutions, the strategy of integrating the countries of the Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership into the European community, including the European educational space, put forward new requirements for higher education, in which the need to ensure a high quality of education is clearly visible, meeting European standards.In the context of the formation of a knowledge society, higher education in the field of political science is becoming a priority in the development of the countries of the Eastern Partnership and the European Community. The development tasks of this sphere are ambiguous, manifesting themselves in complex and contradictory relations with society. Experiencing the influence of modern trends in social development, the sphere of higher education in the field of political science becomes at the same time their active participant, driving force and catalyst.In an environment of growing globalisation, which is manifested in the intensification of competition on a global scale, there is a strengthening of the positions of the EU member states. The decisive factor in overcoming the secondary position of Europe in the market of educational services is the unification of the efforts of all European countries aimed at achieving the competitiveness of higher education. The embodiment of this idea is the Bologna Process, which aims to create a common European education area.

КОМПЬЮТЕРДИК ТЕХНОЛОГИЯНЫ КОЛДОНУУ МЕНЕН СТУДЕНТТЕРДИН ӨЗ АЛДЫНЧА ТААНЫП-БИЛҮҮЧҮЛҮК ИШМЕРДҮҮЛҮГҮНҮН КАЛЫПТАНЫШЫ

This article shows that the requirements of higher education are aimed at independence in learning, their correct use in teaching activities, everyday life, and creative thinking of students. Self-cognitive interest can be in various fields of science, as well as in a particular section or a specific topic, in order to develop a general outlook. Speaking about cognition and its importance in education, we must always remember its place in the development of personality. In educational work, the main tasks of increasing interest in learning, self-creative development are: the desire of students to learn independently and creatively; work on tasks that require research, thinking and a strong imagination. When learning to solve problems with the help of selected exercises, one should also exercise observation, sensitivity or the ability to use similarity, induction, comparison, draw appropriate results and conclusions. The higher the readiness of the future specialist to make various decisions, sometimes the right decisions in difficult situations encountered in everyday life, the more effective will be his success in professional activities.

The Challenge of Position-Taking in Novice Higher Education Students’ Argumentative Writing

Argumentative writing is the central generic skill in higher education studies. However, students have difficulties in basic argumentation skills. Novice students do not necessarily receive adequate guidance, and their prior education may not have supported the requirements of higher education writing. Position-taking is at the core of argumentation, but students are often hesitant to make their point. Furthermore, they may have an incorrect and one-sided perception about an argument, leading them to avoid alternative positions in their argumentative writing. The study aims to explore starting level skills of novice students’ argumentative writing, namely their position-taking. The participants were 196 first-year students from diverse fields of study in two Finnish higher education institutions. They were required to solve a problem and write an argumentative essay based on five documents that were given to them. The essays were analyzed using qualitative content analysis applying abductive approach. Substantial variation was detected in students’ position-taking. We identified four groups of writers based on their position-taking. First two groups were more or less explicit in their position-taking. Most of the students (72%) belonged to these two groups. However, a minority of them were consistent in their position-taking. Writers in the third group (15%) implied their position, and writers in the fourth group (12%) stuck to summarizing sources without position-taking. The findings invite teachers to support novice students in their basic argumentation. Co-operation between faculty teachers and writing teachers is encouraged.

FORMATION OF TRAINING OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL SPECIALISTS IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF KYRGYZSTAN

The article discusses the formation of the training of engineering and architectural specialists in the universities of Kyrgyzstan. The creation of the Frunze Polytechnic Institute in 1954 was due to the lack of engineering and technical personnel, the development of the national economy of Kyrgyzstan, especially the development of industrialization. Another important role in the training of engineering and architectural personnel in higher educational institutions was played by the creation of an educational and methodological base that meets the requirements of the teaching staff, along with scientific and professional specialists, for the training of highly educated specialists. One of the problems of training engineering and technical personnel in higher education has been the creation of a modern training base for faculty that meets the requirements of higher education, along with scientific and professional personnel.

Optimization of College Students’ Mental Health Education Based on Improved Intelligent Recognition Model

Paying attention to the mental health education of college students, optimizing the psychological quality of college students, and improving their mental health level are inevitable requirements of higher education facing the world. In recent years, the mental health education of college students has always been a hot issue in the education circle, which has attracted much attention. It is the main research purpose of this paper to correctly understand the problems existing in college students’ mental health education and to find reasonable countermeasures and approaches to solve these problems. This paper collects and organizes the dimension facts twice, conducts descriptive analysis, unbiased pattern t-test, chi-square test, variance evaluation, and SNK-q check on the legitimate data, and analyzes the change and impact of the mental health level of students with negative psychological symptoms after 2 years. We use machine learning methods to model and analyze susceptibility factors. Among the psychological susceptibility factors, the UPI scores of students with negative psychological symptoms with different levels of self-esteem, psychological resilience, depressive cognition, positive coping style, negative coping style, different family functions, and ability to perceive social support have significant differences. The mental health level of college students with negative psychological symptoms decreased after 2 years. The self-esteem stage decreased, and the psychological elasticity stage decreased; the longer the cognitive stage of depression, the worse the coping style; the more serious the impairment of family function, the lower the possibility of social support, the more likely it is to lead to psychological problems. After preprocessing the original data, the features of various types of information of the intelligent model are extracted. The test and data analysis results show that the improved recognition accuracy based on the intelligent model is 82.5%, which is higher than the traditional model, which proves the effectiveness and feasibility of the scheme. Using item or dimension data, the model established by machine learning method based on susceptibility factors can effectively predict the changes of mental health of college students with negative psychological symptoms after 2 years, and can effectively identify college students with psychological problems after 2 years.

The Metal Art Industry in Tumang, Cepogo, Boyolali: Preservation and Development Recommendation Policy

Nowadays, the craftsman is considered a profession that does not need higher education requirements; thus, it creates a wider gap in the craftsmen's regeneration. Tumang's younger generation prefers to work as resellers instead of becoming craftsmen. This study aims to provide policy recommendations that support the preservation of the Tumang Copper Craft Art as traditional Indonesian knowledge. The research uses a qualitative method with a participatory action research approach. It focuses on group discussions with copper artisans and sellers in Tumang on collecting data on the field's challenges and interviews with policymakers to obtain appropriate policy recommendations. The results show that supporting the regeneration process is necessary. The request of public policy needs to be linked to formal education in schools through the Education and Culture Office and efforts to increase the capacity of artisans through the Community and Village Empowerment Service. Moreover, to ensure that the recommendation to support the preservation and development of the Copper Craft Art can be implemented, a public policy recommendation with legality is in the form of a Regent's Regulation because it may cover both education and community empowerment in Tumang.

The Double Whammy of Pandemic and War: A Systematic Review of India’s Education Diplomacy to Address Educational Inequities in Afghanistan

Higher education is considered an important tool for the overall development of any country, and it holds true in the context of Afghanistan as well. At the same time, a good eco-environment in terms of political will, leaders’ farsighted vision, a fair budget, good infrastructure, and a good teaching community are some of the basic requirements for higher education to move in the direction of new and higher horizons. However, due to the ongoing war during the last couple of decades, the country’s education system has become out of reach for a substantial part of the population due to poverty, lack of infrastructure, refugees and internally displaced, digital division, etc., critically affecting the education equity. This systematic review examines India’s education diplomacy in addressing the inequities in Afghanistan’s education system and making them more equitable. Education was further dilapidated with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Afghanistan is caught between a war and a pandemic and suffers from a double whammy in losses. Subsequently, given their chilling effects, higher education becomes devoid of multiples equities, including education. However, because of their historical and geo-civilizational ties, India has focused on development diplomacy in general and education diplomacy (E.D) in particular to improve educational infrastructures.

APPLICATION OF THE PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED TASKS IN LEARNING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AT HIGHER EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENTS

The most often used information technologies in the future professional activity of students of pedagogical universities are computer technologies of text, tabular and graphic data processing, work with multimedia data, as well as computer telecommunications. Mastering the skills of working with these technologies involves the study of office suites that allow you to perform data processing work. The use of information and communication technologies provides ample opportunities for the organization of educational and cognitive activities of students. Therefore, it is important to teach students the effective use of information and communication technologies in their professional activities. As far as much attention is paid not only to the knowledge that graduates must master, but also the formation of their professional skills, the most modern requirements for higher education meets a new type of educational tasks – professionally-oriented tasks.
 The article clarifies the main aspects of the introduction of professionally-oriented tasks in the educational process of pedagogical higher educational institutions. New possibilities and ways of using a package of office programs in the work of a teacher have been investigated. The professionally-oriented tasks have been applied in creating an educational and methodological complex for students in the study of Microsoft Office 2010. An example of step-by-step and sequential system of tasks for obtaining a certain outcome result taking into account the professional orientation of students has been given. New approaches to the introduction of professionally-oriented tasks in teaching the course “Modern information technologies in the educational process” have been developed. They will allow students to apply skillfully the acquired knowledge and skills to work with office suite programs in their studies, flexibly adapt to situations that arise in the professional activities of teachers, independently acquire the necessary knowledge, effectively use them to solve various problems in practice. A set of interrelated methods was used to solve the tasks included in the study: theoretical: analysis and generalization of scientific and pedagogical literature, modeling of the educational process; empirical: observation of the educational process at school during pedagogical practice and at the university. The introduction of information technology into the educational process of higher education allows teachers to qualitatively change the content, methods and organizational forms of learning.

Adaptations of students to on-line format in of higher learning

The article considers new requirements for higher education, the improvement of modern educational technologies such as training courses and distance learning technologies, and the study and identification of difficulties of students during the crisis caused by the pandemic. To date, a certain amount of knowledge important for formulating and solving the problem of adaptation of students during online education has been accumulated. Stating the active development of various aspects of the problem that we are investigating, we can conclude that the problem of adaptation of students to online learning using distance learning technologies and the difficulties that arise in this case have not yet become the subject of a special study. Questions about the effectiveness of distance or blended learning and the role of personal qualities of teachers and curators in the educational process are determined by primary importance of the problems of education and training at this stage of development of modern Ukraine. The article analyzes and identifies the socio-psychological state of the students and the problems they encounter during distance learning through questionnaires using Google Forms, and draws conclusions on how to solve these problems.

ANXIETY DISORDERS AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS

Background: Concerns about the psychological health of students are determined by their lifestyle, specific working conditions, and the role that this social group plays in society. Compensatory mechanisms of students do not always cope with new living conditions and the requirements of higher education, which leads to stress, psychological and social conflicts, as well as to the use of psychoactive substances. Aim. The paper aims to identify the prevalence of anxiety disorders among medical students to develop recommendations for primary and secondary psychological prevention. Materials and methods: the study was conducted throughout the year. The first- and fourth-year students (52.6 % and 47. 4 % respectively) of the medical faculty of the South Ural State Medical University participated in the study (n = 612). The study involved both females (66.8 %) and males (33.2 %). To identify various anxiety disorders, the Yale-Brown Scale, ICD-10 criteria (F41.0 and F41.1), and anonymous survey were used. To assess the reliability of the values obtained, the Student’s t-test was used. Relative values and their representative errors were calculated. Results: anxiety disorders were detected in 65.8 % of first-year students and more than half of fourth-year students. Moreover, anxiety disorders are 1.5 times more common in females than in males. Depressive conditions were found in every fifth student, regardless of the year of study. More than half of first-year students and every third fourth-year student suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder of varying severity. Severe and extremely severe obsessive-compulsive disorder in first-year students occurs 2 times more often than in fourth-year students. Conclusion: anxiety disorders are widespread among medical students, which requires their primary and secondary prevention. First-year students are particularly affected by adaptation to new living conditions and the requirements of higher education.

ДИСТАНЦИОННЫЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ ОБУЧЕНИЯ ФИЗИЧЕСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЕ В ВУЗЕ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ОГУ)

Physical education is a means of providing students with skills, attitudes, values, knowledge and understanding of motor activity throughout their life, regardless of their abilities, gender, age, cultural, religious or social origin. However, the pandemic made adjustments to people’s normal lifestyles, which led to the need to master new learning methods using Internet platforms. The transition of the traditional form of education to distance learning in the discipline “Physical Culture” was due to the necessary measure to deter the spread of COVID-19. The operational development at the end of the last school year and the introduction of an online course had some difficulties in the technical and organizational plan. Adapting to this new form of the educational process, universities have developed digital tools and platforms to provide continuing education in a full-fledged mode of work that meets all the requirements of higher education. The relevance of the article is determined by the need to switch to distance education, the development of the course and the use of Internet platforms by the teacher in teaching students at Orenburg State University. Therefore, the improvement of the distance learning process, the creation of an updated course, as well as the planned, deliberate use of online technologies stimulate and facilitate the interaction of the teacher and students. The implementation of this technology makes it possible to effectively solve educational and educational tasks that contribute to increasing interest in instilling skills in self-organization, self-control, self-esteem, activity analysis, developing self-consciousness, self-perception of their own achievements and understanding their dynamics; adapting the content of educational materials to the needs of students; determining the current level of individual results of students; analysis of educational process dynamics, change of its qualitative level.

Is Working from Home Here to Stay? Evidence from Job Posting Data after the COVID-19 Shock

We examine the transition to and persistence of working from home (WFH) by firms after the COVID-19 shock. Using job posting data from a leading online job portal in China and exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic as a quasi-experiment inducing the short-run WFH take-up of firms, we find a substantial and persistent increase in the share of WFH jobs post COVID-19. The WFH share increase in job posting is larger in firms with lower pre-COVIDWFH adoption, consistent with the learning effect from temporary shutdown policies. Firms with greater potential for remote work, measured by the teleworkability index à la Dingel & Neiman (2020), also experience larger increase in WFH job postings. Given that WFH jobs provide higher salaries and have higher educational requirements, our findings suggest that WFH is here to stay and thus have long-term implications on firm productivity and labor market inequality.

Factors Affecting the Quality of University Lecturers - A Research Conducted Within the Context of Vietnam Society

There are many factors affecting the quality of faculty that numerous researchers mentioned, analyzed and pointed out the different degrees of influence. The paper studies external factors affecting the quality of faculty such as Political regime, Management mechanism and Salary regime. These three factors have been existing in each country and make a different impact on the quality of faculty creating the unique characteristics of each country. The author builds a theoretical framework for research on the above-mentioned three ones and conduct a direct survey of 400 lecturers from 10 universities in Hanoi - the capital city of Vietnam. The survey is selectively done, in which its surveyed subjects are lecturers with doctorate or higher and their working time from 5 years or more. Through secondary data collected from published documents combined with those gained from direct investigations and surveys, the author contributes to clarifying the impact of the above-mentioned factors on the quality of Vietnamese faculty. From that result, he proposes a number of workable solutions on the policies with the hope of providing leaders and managers with scientific arguments so that they have more sound bases to appropriately adjust their policies to satisfy the essential needs of lecturers, which helps them have more opportunities to create and maximize their capacity. That also contributes to completing the policies on developing a team of high-quality Vietnamese faculty meeting the requirements of higher education in the modern and integrated social context.

Effects of the Brazilian recession on wage inequality between men and women

The Brazilian economy entered a deep recession in 2014, when the country’s GDP decreased, with negative consequences for the labour market. The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of this recession on the country’s wage inequality, taking into account sex differences. The paper classifies employees in different groups considering occupational groups and the sectors of activities these workers belong to in order to verify who are the employees better inserted in the labour market and the ones who are in a more vulnerable situation, separating them by sex. The results show a high asymmetry and dispersion of wage distribution in Brazil. The economic recession of 2015-2016 reduced the country’s income inequality and the differences between men and women, because the share of workers with lower wages increased. However, wage differences in favour of men are still high, especially in occupations of high income and higher education requirements.

Psychological factors involved in the acquisition of a foreign language among students with visual impairments

This study presents a qualitative analysis of the psychological factors affecting the academic success of students with visual impairments, focusing on the students’ perceptions of their own competence and abilities in learning a foreign language. Interviews were conducted with 28 first-year college students in Israel who met the standard definition of being legally blind. Data were analyzed using a content analysis technique. This was conducted in two stages: first a within-case analysis and then a cross-case analysis. Three distinct themes emerged from the data: (1) self-perceptions of efficacy and feelings of competency, (2) achievement motivation, and (3) locus of control. The analysis of the interviews revealed that each of these three factors influenced students’ experiences throughout their college years, both overall and in regard to their English studies in particular. The factors were interpreted using Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological model of human development. Findings suggest that providing emotional and psychological support to students with visual impairments early in their academic studies could prove beneficial by providing them with the necessary tools for coping with the demands and requirements of higher education.

Impacts of Public Health Insurance on Occupational Upgrading

Using data from the Current Population Survey’s Merged Outgoing Rotation Groups, the authors examine whether greater Medicaid generosity encourages people to switch toward better quality occupations. Exploiting variation in Medicaid eligibility expansions for children across states during the 1990s and early 2000s, they find that a one standard deviation increase in Medicaid infant income thresholds increased the likelihood that working parents move to a new occupation by 1.6 percentage points or 3.3%. Findings show that these effects are larger for those below 150% of the poverty line and for married parents who were not benefiting from Medicaid prior to the expansions. In addition, findings indicate that Medicaid generosity also increased mobility toward occupations with higher average wages and higher educational requirements. This article contributes to the literature on job lock by showing that access to public health insurance not only increases employment and job switches but also encourages occupational upgrading.

Online Patient Resources for Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma: A Readability Analysis.

Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) is an emerging issue facing the medical community. Government organizations such as the US Food and Drug Administration and specialty groups including the American Society of Plastic Surgeons have published online resources about BIA-ALCL for patients. Given the complexity of the diagnosis, it is important that patients can easily read these resources. In this study, we examined the readability levels of online BIA-ALCL patient resources using multiple verified reading scores. "BIA-ALCL" and "breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma" were entered into 3 Internet search engines. The top 20 results for each were filtered by resource type and intended audience (physician vs patient). Published scientific articles, online database physician resources, and Web sites requiring subscriptions or fees were excluded. We then examined the readability of each with multiple verified reading scores, including the Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning-Fog, Coleman-Liau, Simplified Measure of Gobbledygook, and Automated Readability Index indices. Obtained data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t test for independent samples. Fifteen Web sites qualified for further analysis. For all texts, the average readability level was measured between 12 and 13 years of education on each readability index or approximately 18 to 19 years old. The Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease average was 43.16 ±10.9 on a scale of 1 to 100, corresponding to a "difficult" designation. When compared by search criteria (spelled-out vs abbreviated), the results for the abbreviation "BIA-ALCL" had higher education requirements than those with the condition spelled out. However, these differences were not statistically significant. There was also great variation in word and sentence measurements. Twelve of the 15 Web sites contained more than 15% complex words, having more than 3 syllables, with breastcancer.org having the lowest (11%) and plasticsurgery.org the highest (20%). Since the initial announcement in 2014 by the National Cancer Comprehensive Network, the medical community has begun educating ourselves and our patients about BIA-ALCL. Unfortunately, this study suggests that online patient resources on BIA-ALCL may be too complex for most readers, exceeding that of the average US resident (eighth grade) and Medicare beneficiary (fifth grade). Although the goal of learning more about BIA-ALCL and counseling patients appropriately remains paramount, we should continue to improve patient education materials given their vital role in healthcare decision-making.