Education In Public Universities Research Articles

Impediments to Implementation of Peace Education in Public Universities In Kenya

Impediments to Implementation of Peace Education in Public Universities In Kenya

Investigating students’ experiences in an ESL programme at the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan

The recent emphasis on the importance of English language teaching and learning in public universities in Pakistan has resulted in the introduction of a new English as Second Language (ESL) program...

Higher Education in Public Universities in Bangladesh

The key aims of higher education are to generate the new knowledge, explore research works on different social and development issues, anticipate the needs of the economy and prepare highly skilled workers. Throughout the World, universities change the society and remain the center of change and development. In Bangladesh a number of universities both public and private were set up so far theoretically emphasized on unlocking potential at all levels of society and creating a pool of highly trained individuals to contribute to the national development. But in practice these universities are very weak and do not change anything. Better understanding among teachers and students, introduction of modern teaching methods and dedication of teachers and students can improve the culture of higher education in Bangladesh. A proper academic calendar can bring discipline. To make the universities free from the clutches of politics can also improve the situation.

Public university entry in Ghana: Is it equitable?

Public universities in Ghana are highly subsidised by the central government and account for about 80 per cent of university students in the country. Yet issues of fairness in terms of entry into the public university system have so far hardly been addressed. To find out whether participation in public university education is equitable, the authors of this paper carried out a binary logistic regression analysis. Individual data were collected from 1,129 (614 male and 515 female) final year senior high school (SHS) students for the 2009 cohort. The authors measured student, father and mother characteristics likely to influence admission to a public university. The results show that the major predictors of public university entry are students’ academic ability, quality of SHS attended and number of siblings. This seems to suggest that there is a significant bias in the selection of students from different socio-economic groups for admission to highly subsidised public universities. The implication is that public financing of university education in Ghana may not be equitable.

Abstracts of English Language Theses on Morocco 2001–2012

The Maghreb Review, Vol. 38, 2, 2013 © The Maghreb Review 2013 This publication is printed on longlife paper ABSTRACTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE THESES ON MOROCCO 2001-2012 COMPILED AND EDITED BY MOHAMED BEN-MADANI EDITORIAL NOTE We decided to dedicate this issue to the list of abstracts rather than including any other articles, as we think this will be of more value as a reference tool as it stands. PhD, D.Phil and EdD theses abstracts published in this volume are for students and scholars who wish to discover what has been done in the Englishspeaking world in all fields of research on Morocco. The largest number of theses on Morocco were presented in United States universities (135), followed by the United Kingdom (51), Canada (4), and Ireland (1). These abstracts have not been included in any bibliographical work in the past and are arranged in Alphabetical order. We have included some theses which were not included in our Abstracts of English Language Theses on Morocco 1928-2000 that was published in Volume 26, 2-4, 2001. Some theses are comparatively short and were apparently supervised by professors with a minimal knowledge of the area of research. Finally, Volume 26, 2-4, 2001 Abstracts of English Language Theses on Morocco 1928-2000 is still available and can be ordered through our website: www.maghrebreview.com. 100 MOHAMED BEN-MADANI Aadnani, Rachid, Cultural resistance in contemporary Maghrebi fiction: Mohammed Khair-Eddine and Assia Djebar’s intersecting linguistic trajectories, PhD., State University of New York at Binghamton, 2005. This dissertation considers the role of Tamazight (Berber), the language of the original inhabitants of North Africa, especially how it figures into the literary landscape of the Maghreb, particularly Morocco and Algeria. These two countries are the focus since recognition of Tamazight has been a contentious issue in their post-colonial era in spite, or perhaps because, they have large Tamazight-speaking communities. This dissertation also looks at how translation is serving to re-acquaint minority populations with major figures of their culture who have not used Tamazight to write. The modern nation states of the Maghreb have, at best, demonstrated an extreme uneasiness in the manner in which they chose to deal with issues of linguistic and cultural diversity. The first chapter provides a brief historical background to the current linguistic situation in the Maghreb defining some of the terminology used throughout the dissertation. It will also address the “wound” of language and the challenges of writing and choosing a language for that practice. The second chapter focuses on Mohammed Khair-Eddine’s novel Légende et vie d Agoun’chich and the manner in which it centres Tamazight and turns it into an instrument of resistance. The third chapter considers how Assia Djebar’s novel Vaste est la prison reconstructs history and archeology to foreground the legendary figure of Tin Hinan and her secret alphabet within the historical narrative of the Maghreb. This discussion of the ancient alphabet known as Tifinagh leads to an analysis of the linguistic politics of a contemporary North Africa where Tamazight has recently begun to be recognized as a major cultural component. This is the starting point for the fourth chapter, which explores how Tin Hinan’s half legendary/half historical alphabet is being resurrected in the streets, schools and media of the Maghreb. In conclusion we will revisit the role that translation is expected to play, both in constructing the literary cannon of the region and in challenging the existing control over expression in the printed word. The conclusion will also return to the project of translating the Qur√n, relating it to the points underscored in my discussion of Khair-Eddine and Djebar. ENGLISH LANGUAGE THESES ON MOROCCO 2001-2012 101 Ait Si Mhamed, Ali, Cost sharing and access in Moroccan higher education: Perceptions and attitudes of opinion leaders, students and families, PhD., State University of New York at Buffalo, 2007. This research study focuses on the public university education in Morocco after the implementation of financial reform of the stipend grant in 1993 which has no longer guaranteed the stipend to all entrants to higher education as it was the policy prior the reform...

The existence of codes of conduct for undergraduate teaching in teaching‐oriented four‐year colleges and universities

AbstractThis chapter reports the findings of a study conducted to determine the existence of codes of conduct for undergraduate college teaching in public and private colleges and universities that espouse a teaching‐oriented mission.

The context of entrepreneurship education in Ethiopian universities

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore and evaluate entrepreneurship education in public universities in Ethiopia.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on the data obtained from 16 public universities in the country. The undergraduate curriculum of each university was examined to understand the departments in which entrepreneurship course(s) is/are offered. The syllabus for entrepreneurship course was examined to understand the focus areas and objectives of the entrepreneurship education. A questionnaire based on the literature was used to gather information about the background of entrepreneurship instructors, the teaching and evaluation methods employed in entrepreneurship courses.FindingsThe results show that entrepreneurship education is in its early phase of development in Ethiopian public universities. Entrepreneurship education was mainly offered in business schools and agricultural colleges, though recently it started to be included in the curricula of other schools too, mainly technology institutes/colleges. Traditional teaching and evaluation methods are dominant in teaching and assessing entrepreneurship courses in Ethiopian universities. Ethiopian public universities are also characterized by a dearth of entrepreneurship promotion centers.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is based on the analysis of curricula and course syllabi and the evaluation of academic staff involved in teaching of entrepreneurship. The study would have been more complete had it included the perception of students.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest the need for incorporating entrepreneurship education in all disciplines and the need to further improve the teaching and evaluation methods utilized in the courses. The findings also suggest the need to enhance the capacity of academic staff involved in teaching entrepreneurship.Originality/valueThe paper is the first to examine the state of entrepreneurship education in Ethiopian public universities in a detailed way.

Insights On Entrepreneurship Education In Public Universities In Turkey: Creating Entrepreneurs Or Not?

Entrepreneurship acts as a remedy for unemployment and growth problems that are caused by the recent global economic crisis are the major issues in the political agenda of all countries today. However, for improving entrepreneurship and creating entrepreneurs that can create new jobs, adequate human resources and knowledge base are strongly required on national level. Entrepreneurship education gains importance for building entrepreneurship driven economy by making individuals acquire entrepreneurial skills, knowledge and mindsets. As a significant part of the formal education on creating entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship courses in higher education need to be focused and priorly improved. In this context, this study aims to explore entrepreneurship education in public universities in Turkey. By this aim, we searched and analysed Web sites of 360 academic units including business administration and engineering faculties, science and technology, social sciences institutes of 95 public universities in Turkey. Research findings showed that entrepreneurship courses in public universities in Turkey are not sufficient to provide skills or mindsets that are required for creating entrepreneurs that can contribute to economic growth and employment for students.

Statistical analysis of the structure and dynamics of material and human resources in public education over the past two academic years in Bacau

The public university education in Bacau, represented by “Vasile Alecsandri” University from Bacau has developed over the past two years not only in terms of student numbers, but as human and material resources available to them. After the number of students per teacher, public higher education from Bacau is situated on the second place after Iasi, the number of teachers representing 1% of the country. The structure by scientific degrees of teachers has improved in the last year, reaching over 36% professors and lecturers and 144 PhDs. Over 55% of the teachers are younger than 40 years. The material basis has improved both quantitatively and qualitatively by putting into use a new building, bringing an additional 27 classrooms and 11 seminar rooms and providing the conditions of modern higher education.

Some reflections on the expansion and quality of higher education in public universities in Kenya

This article explores the socio‐economic and political factors which have contributed to the rapid expansion of education in the public universities in Kenya and how it has impacted on the quality of education in these institutions. It mainly focuses on the response to insatiable public demands for university education in the country as well as historical and regional inequalities and how the expansion has affected the quality in terms of facilities and teaching and learning technologies, staffing and instruction. Finally, the article proposes some measures of improving the quality of education in the public universities in the country.

The Sinking State of Public Colleges of Education: Lessons Learned Without Lifeboats

The bow of the flagship is beginning to tip. Unless teacher educators can prove that their graduates are effective classroom teachers, they will not stay afloat in the ocean of accountability that has already encumbered U.S. public schools. In this article one consortium of teacher education leaders' and researchers' nascent efforts to research the worth of the state's public colleges of education are presented. Described are their journey, the distance covered, and the icebergs, so to speak, they have hit. Due to the vastness of this statewide effort, the lessons learned may help inform others as they too embark on similar journeys.

Trabalho Docente na Universidade: Tensões e Novos Sentidos

This work focuses teaching in public universities in the state of Parana. At first, the current context marked by productive restructuration and the State reform, as well as the changes which Brazilian Universities have been going through are taken into consideration. Thereafter, the study focuses teachers' routines through interviews made with thirty six professors employed by three public universities in the state. The interviews are analyzed and tendencies in the data are discussed. We postulate the constitution of a new time measurement and the building of a new spatialization in teaching arising from political and economical changes which stress the gradual disobligation of public funding. The commodification of knowledge through privatization of programs and subordinated technological innovation is also discussed. Finally, some results of the objective conditions on academic-scientific and political activities of the faculty, such as their engagement with praxis of the educational quasi market, the lack of time for intellectual work and the emptiness of Unions policies are also approached in this work.

The Professional Ethic Values Promoted by Governing Documents of a Public University in Mexico

This study analyses the professional-ethic values promoted by education policy in public university education in Mexico, the semantic correspondence of said policy with programs, and the strategies for its implementation. Following the methodology of textual analysis, we reviewed the National Programs of Education, documents that embed the academic plan at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, and the curricula of licenciaturas in the areas of natural science and engineering and technology. It was identified that the core elements of university education are social compromise, professional competence, and education in values. Our findings indicate that there is textual correspondence among the most relevant categories of the documents; however, it is worth pointing out the absence of strategies that explicitly promote student development of professional-ethic values.

The Global Need for Plant Breeding Capacity: What Roles for the Public and Private Sectors?

For several decades after plant breeding emerged as a recognized fi eld of science in the late 19th century, almost all plant breeding activities took place in public institutes, and almost all plant breeders received their scientifi c education in public universities. Over time, the locus of plant breeding gradually shifted to the private sector, driven by the commercialization of agriculture and the associated privatization of agricultural research. The training of plant breeders, however, remained largely a public undertaking. Then, as now, private fi rms had few incentives to invest in an activity whose benefi ts accrue over a long period and are diffi cult to appropriate, since plant breeding skills are not fi rm-specifi c and breeders can easily offer their services to rival employers. For more than 100 years, the arrangement worked well even as it continued to evolve. The training of plant breeders, recognized as being a public good, was paid for mainly by governments, and plant breeding research, considered increasingly to be a private good, was funded more and more by private fi rms, mainly seed companies. Today, however, the arrangement is threatening to unravel. The numbers of students entering universities to be trained as plant breeders appear to be falling, as do the numbers of university graduates available to the plant breeding profession. Challenged to attract qualifi ed staff, universities and seed companies in industrialized countries have been fi lling positions by hiring experienced breeders away from positions in developing countries. In recent years, even this strategy has not been enough: the number of new entrants into the plant breeding industry has continued to decline, and the plant breeding profession has grayed noticeably, especially in the public sector. Many fear that if current trends are not reversed, the plant breeding industry will soon face a critical shortage of skilled breeders. This paper examines factors that have contributed to the decline in capacity building within the agricultural sciences and considers changes that will be needed to prevent what some feel could develop into a crisis for the international plant breeding industry. In addition to this introduction, the paper includes four sections. Section 2 discusses the knowledge and skills needed by plant breeders. Section 3 discusses how that knowledge and those skills have been acquired in the past and how they are being acquired today. Section 4 summarizes trends affecting global agriculture and shows how these have contributed to declining investment in the education of agricultural scientists. Section 5 identifi es actions that will be required to rebuild capacity in international plant breeding and contemplates needed changes in the roles of key actors.

Distributive effect of state subsidy to undergraduate education: the case of Illinois

An assessment is made of the distributive effects of state subsidies to undergraduate education in public universities and community colleges in Illinois during 1989. The main finding is that the existing system of public subsidy to undergraduate education favors lower-income and middle-income groups. Public subsidies lead to redistribution of income from higher-income to lower-income and middle-income families, with the most significant transfer being from the highest-income group to families with income of less than $40 000 per year. A comparison of the patterns for universities and community colleges indicates that middle-income groups are the major beneficiaries of community colleges; the net transfer from the highest-income group is larger, and the net gain of the poorest group is smaller, in community colleges than in universities. [JEL I22, H7]

Evaluating Instructors' Perceptions of Students' Preparation for Management Curricula

A random survey of 166 management faculty teaching in public and private universities in 44 states suggests that incoming management students are deficient in writing, verbal, and mathematical skills. Moreover, a majority of the faculty surveyed did not believe that the students of today are as motivated to learn as their predecessors. The implication of these findings is that some restructuring of the university educational process may be needed to implement a total quality management approach to teaching.

On the Economics of a University: Toward the Determination of Marginal Cost of Teaching Services

Previous articleNext article No AccessCommunicationsOn the Economics of a University: Toward the Determination of Marginal Cost of Teaching ServicesShlomo BrovenderShlomo Brovender Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Political Economy Volume 82, Number 3May - Jun., 1974 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/260226 Views: 3Total views on this site Citations: 7Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1974 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Vu Thang Pham, Binh Tran-Nam Estimating unit cost of public university education in Vietnam, Educational Research for Policy and Practice 20, no.33 (Sep 2020): 279–305.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10671-020-09280-8John Robst Cost Efficiency in Public Higher Education Institutions, The Journal of Higher Education 72, no.66 (Nov 2016): 730–750.https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2001.11777123Darrell R. Lewis, Halil Dundar Costs and Productivity in Higher Education: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications, (Jan 1999): 39–102.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3955-7_2Darrell R. Lewis, Halil Dundar Economies of Scale and Scope in Turkish Universities, Education Economics 3, no.22 (Jul 2006): 133–157.https://doi.org/10.1080/09645299500000013Halil Dundar, Darrell R. Lewis Departmental productivity in American universities: Economies of scale and scope, Economics of Education Review 14, no.22 (Jun 1995): 119–144.https://doi.org/10.1016/0272-7757(95)90393-MPaul T. Brinkman Simultaneous-equation bias in higher-education cost functions, Research in Higher Education 23, no.22 (Jan 1985): 201–218.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00976827P. Conceicao, M.V. Heitor "Learning-by-living": the hidden contribution of universities to economic development, (): 271–280.https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1998.654783