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Patrick Swanzy; Francis Ansah; Patrício Langa – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
In Ghana, private higher education institutions' (PHEIs) share of gross tertiary enrolment is on the decline in the midst of growing demand for tertiary education. Whether this is, an indication of PHEIs in Ghana becoming endangered species in the higher education space has received limited research attention. Through documentary reviews and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Sustainable Development, Higher Education
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Jaison Caetano da Silva; Edson Andrade dos Reis; Rosilene Marcon; Jeferson Lana; Cinara Gambirage – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
As interest increases in the educational quality of higher education institutions (HEIs), less is known about how the mergers and acquisitions (M&As) of these HEIs affect educational quality. In this study, we investigate the association of M&As on the educational quality of HEIs and the role of institutional incentives in this relation.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
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Nikos Macheridis; Annika Fjelkner Pihl; Alexander Paulsson; Håkan Pihl – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
Students experience the research-teaching nexus differently as they progress through their first three years of undergraduate study depending on the discipline. The question is if students, within the same discipline, experience the nexus differently depending on the profile of the institution where they study. The present study explored students'…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Research Skills, Teaching Methods
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Tomi Kallio; Taru Siekkinen; Elias Pekkola; Jussi Kivistö; Terhi Nokkala; Päivikki Kuoppakangas – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
This paper presents the findings of the push and pull factors that cause professionals to leave academia. Previous research has mostly focused on academic professionals' intent to leave their current organisations and largely neglected occupational turnover, that is, the cases where faculty abandon an academic career. The study included 40…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Labor Turnover, Teacher Persistence, College Administration
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Jan Botha; Karen Webber; James Williams; Steve Woodfield – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
Institutional Research associations across the world are re-imagining and redesigning their professional development and capacity building activities. This paper outlines the professional development activities of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) in the United States (est. 1966), the European Association for Institutional Research…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Institutional Research, Cooperation, Organizations (Groups)
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Rosalind M. O. Pritchard – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
British higher education is ranked among the best in the world, but some of its core values are under strain. Knowledge and critical thinking can be undermined by biased mind-sets, especially when engaging with the social media. Research demonstrates that false news goes viral much more quickly than true news. Political correctness and the woke…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Values, Government Role
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Mie Kusk Søndergaard; Lise Degn; Berit Lassesen – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
Using student evaluations of teaching (SETs) as a quality assessment tool have long been a highly debated topic among both practitioners and scholars of higher education teaching. Rather than focus on whether SETs provide reliable measurements of quality, we explore what happens when SETs are implemented as or intended as quality development…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, College Faculty, Administrators, Teacher Attitudes
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Edward Brooks; Samson Tse; Jessie Yue Wright; Emily Burdett – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
How can a new generation of students be equipped to take up positions of responsibility in a dynamic global environment, serving as leaders and citizens who will further the good of societies around the world? As the institutions responsible for educating the next generation of citizens and leaders at a formative time in their intellectual and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Blended Learning, In Person Learning
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Jouni Helin; Kristian Koerselman; Terhi Nokkala; Taru Siekkinen; Timo Tohmo; Jutta Viinikainen; Jussi Välimaa – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
Tacit knowledge flows can be facilitated by employment transitions, such as for example the transitions of PhDs from university employment to industry. There are however barriers to transitions into and out of university employment, and as a consequence, such transitions are relatively rare. PhDs can circumvent the barriers to permanent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Graduate Students, Student Employment
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Maria Theresa Norn; Margret Sigrun Sigurdardottir – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
Rising levels of external research funding represent not only an asset but also a challenge for universities. Academic leaders play a central role in managing the finances of their institutions, yet little is known about how they respond to the growing importance of external research funding. Through the lens of resource dependency theory, we…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, College Administration, Administrators, Leadership
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Cuong Huu Hoang; Paul Richardson – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
Universities across the globe constantly urge their academics to engage in research activities. The government in Vietnam and the country's universities have recently encouraged academics to conduct of original research. However, the impact and effectiveness of the central government's policies on Vietnamese researchers has not been fully…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Researchers, Indigenous Knowledge, Vietnamese People
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Juanita Hincapie Pinzon; Guilherme Monteiro Sanchez; Wagner de Lara Machado; Manoela Ziebell de Oliveira – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
The ability to manage demands and resources particular to the postgraduate experience influences both the individual's performance and mental health, and, when it is limited or absent, might lead to extreme situations, such as suicide attempts. The present study sought support on the job demands-resources to explain the relationship between…
Descriptors: Suicide, Self Destructive Behavior, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety
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Teun J. Dekker – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
European advocates of Liberal Arts and Sciences education often claim that this educational model is highly effective at teaching students a range of generic, transferable, or 21st-century skills, which are thought to be vital for success in the labour market of the future. However, there is little empirical research into whether and how these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Liberal Arts, Undergraduate Students, 21st Century Skills
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Bryant L. Hutson; Ye He – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
Academic advising is one of the key practices in U.S. higher education institutions for supporting students' success. However, the complexity of academic advising program structures, the difficulties in identifying appropriate outcome measures, and the lack of inclusion of multiple stakeholders' perspectives continue to challenge scholars to…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Higher Education, Colleges, Stakeholders
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Julia Spörk; Karl Ledermüller; Oliver Vettori – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
This paper offers a fresh perspective on the COVID-19 situation of higher education institutions from a disaster-management perspective. Based on conceptual models of disaster management theory and with the help of a longitudinal multi-method, multi-perspective approach, this research contributes to better understanding the challenges during and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Crisis Management, COVID-19
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