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Olori, Gloria; Oyigbo, Dorida; Ozurumba, Iheanyichukwu; Olori, Christian; Ugwuoke, Judith; Anigbogu, Chinyere; Onah, Beatrice – International Journal of Higher Education, 2022
With the continuous decline on students' enrollment in adult and vocational education in Niger Delta region, this study sets to analyse the effect of militancy activities and its impact on educational development. It adopted the ex post facto type of the descriptive research. The sample of 347 students was used to respond to the data collecting…
Descriptors: Enrollment Rate, Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Vocational Education
Ameri, Addel Al; Ghonim, Ahmed Said – International Journal of Higher Education, 2022
The Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) has developed and deployed a set of distinctive and dynamic capabilities in alignment with the UAE national agenda. These capabilities drive an ambitious strategy that anticipates and ensures future readiness; creates student-centric value; enables and empowers human capital; exploits the full potential of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Technical Institutes, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Choi, Seonkyung – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
This study examines the factors determining whether vocational and general high school students in South Korea subsequently graduate from university and, if so, whether from 2-year or 4-year courses, for the first time using a gender lens. High-quality official data from the Korean Education and Employment Panel (KEEP) is used in a multinomial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, College Graduates, Two Year Colleges
Instructional Practices of Part-Time Faculty at Two-Year Institutions: Observations and Implications
Alshehri, Yahya M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
This paper attempts to shed more light on the teaching practices of part-time faculty members and their impacts on community college students. Thus, it carries out a comprehensive literature review. The review shows convincing findings. It has been found that part-time faculty members employ traditional teaching practices compared to full-time…
Descriptors: Part Time Faculty, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Conventional Instruction
Smith, Everrett A.; Gearhart, G. David; Miller, Michael T. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2019
The purpose for conducting the study was to explore and describe the use of alumni societies and associations in community colleges, particularly focusing on the intended outcome of their implementation. To collect data for the study, the research-team developed a survey instrument that was distributed electronically to 250 community college…
Descriptors: Alumni, Alumni Associations, Community Colleges, Institutional Advancement
Barrow, Mark – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Nursing is an old vocation but is relatively new to the academy, with schools of nursing being established in Western universities in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Their establishment was presaged by earlier moves of the preparation of pre-registration nurses from apprenticeships served in hospitals to tertiary education…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Universities, Hospitals, Community Colleges
Boumlik, Habiba; Jaafar, Reem; Alberts, Ian – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Cultivating interdisciplinary connections between freshman and capstone students epitomizes a novel pedagogical approach to deepen student understanding of the learning process in a Community College environment. Within such a context, this article focuses on the outcomes of a two-semester collaborative effort that aims to establish and strengthen…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Peer Evaluation, Community Colleges, College Freshmen
Lee, Sangwoo; Vignoles, Anna – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
The socioeconomic gap in participation at university is an enduring policy issue in South Korea, as in many other countries. However, less attention has been paid to the socioeconomic gap in the outcomes from tertiary education. This paper addresses this gap in the literature, using the Korean Education and Employment Panel (KEEP) data to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Wages, Academic Degrees
Geschwind, Lars; Broström, Anders – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
Classifications of higher education institutions into categories that are more or less clearly differentiated through prestige and status are legion in the world of higher education. The notion of parallel categories with comparable statuses, such as those of different types of universities, is however much less well understood. This paper…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Universities, Technical Education, Classification
Griffiths, Rebecca; Mislevy, Jessica; Wang, Shuai – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
Textbooks are traditional and useful learning resources for college students, but commercial texts books have been widely criticized for their high costs, restricted access, limited flexibility, and uninspiring learning experiences. Open Education Resources (OER) are an alternative to commercial textbooks that have the potential to increase…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, College Students, Outcomes of Education, Textbooks
Polnariev, Barnard A.; Jaafar, Reem; Hendrix, Tonya; Morgan, Holly Porter; Khethavath, Praveen; Idrissi, Abderrazak Belkharraz – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
LaGuardia Community College is an international leader recognized for developing and successfully implementing initiatives and educating underserved diverse students. LaGuardia's STEM students are holistically advised by a team of dedicated faculty and staff members from different departments and divisions. As an innovative approach to advisement,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, STEM Education, Academic Advising, Teamwork
Highman, Ludovic – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
This article aims to examine and analyse the perceptions of senior policy-makers, lobby group representatives and both higher education academics and professional managers on the establishing of technological universities in Ireland, and its implications for the fabric of the Irish higher education system, in terms of the structure of the Irish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Technical Institutes, Educational Development
Felder, Pamela Petrease; Arleth, Megan T. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Student mobility and transfer between two-year and four-year institutions are critical issues when considering student success and degree completion. College and university administrators continually work to identify opportunities that align policy and practice with accreditation standards in an effort to facilitate self-study initiatives and meet…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Accreditation (Institutions), College Transfer Students, Two Year Colleges
Xu, Na; Porter-Morgan, Holly; Doran, Nathan; Keller, Charles – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education in the United States faces a host of problems including low recruitment and retention in STEM disciplines, under-representation of multiple segments of the US population, and a host of other issues. These problems are well recognized and a variety of solutions are being implemented…
Descriptors: Water Pollution, Cancer, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Fichten, Catherine S.; Heiman, Tali; Jorgensen, Mary; Nguyen, Mai Nhu; Havel, Alice; King, Laura; Budd, Jillian; Amsel, Rhonda – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
We tested the ability of Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) model to predict intention to graduate among Canadian and Israeli students with and without a learning disability/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (LD/ADHD). Results based on 1486 postsecondary students show that the model's predictors (i.e., attitude, subjective norms,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Theories, Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder