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Zhang, Ming-ya; Wang, Guang; Cheng, Xin; Yang, Xuesong – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
A great number of overseas students have studied medicine at Jinan University Medical School over the past decade. Statistics from the past ten years show that these students' test scores on diagnosis and medicine I & II are lower than those of their classmates from mainland China. To address the underlying causes of this phenomenon, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Medical Students, Medical Education
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Kandamby, G. W. T. C. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Teaching is to be amalgamated with learning environment where students attend work with interest. Coursework was designed and conducted for Quantity Surveying module from 2014 as a study and found that it has supported for promoting teaching and learning. It was revealed that encouragement made only for attendance is not sufficient to obtain high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instruction, Attendance, Course Content
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Kutbi, Ibrahim; Hashim, Khairuddin – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Universities face the challenge of being relevant. This study investigates respondents' perspectives pertaining to attributes of successful universities and future learning environments. Data were collected using a specially designed survey during the 2016 academic year. The sample size was 518 King Abdulaziz University (KAU) academics. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, College Faculty, Universities
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Tran, Van Dat – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
This study investigates how teachers' perceptions of school environment factors, teaching efficacy, teacher stress and job satisfaction, and to determine whether gender was a differentiating factor. A total of 387 Vietnamese junior high school teachers completed one questionnaire for four sections about school-level environment, teaching efficacy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Environment
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Asiyai, Romina Ifeoma – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
This study was aimed at investigating strategies for effective management of higher education for building a culture of peace in Nigeria. Four research questions and four hypotheses guided the investigation. The study is a survey research which adopted the ex-post-facto design. The respondents comprised of one thousand four hundred and eighty…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Faculty, College Students
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Anttila, Henrika; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari; Lonka, Kristi; Pyhältö, Kirsi – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
PhD in the field of medicine is more common than in any other domain. Many medical doctors are driven towards PhD, but also students with other backgrounds (usually MSc) are conducting a PhD in medical schools. Higher education has invested a lot in developing generic and research competences. Still little is known about how PhD students…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Doctoral Programs
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Odole, Adesola C.; Oyewole, Olufemi O.; Ogunmola, Oluwasolape T. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
The identification of the learning environment and the understanding of how students learn will help teacher to facilitate learning and plan a curriculum to achieve the learning outcomes. The purpose of this study was to investigate undergraduate physiotherapy clinical students' perception of University of Ibadan's learning environment. Using the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Undergraduate Students, Physical Therapy