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Tsang, Art; Dang, Beatrice Yan-Yan – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2023
Against the backdrop of internationalisation of education and the emergence of English as a global language, medium of instruction (MOI) has long been a controversial issue globally. The present study examined the relationships between secondary-level MOI (English, EMI; Chinese, CMI) and learners' tertiary-level academic achievement and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language of Instruction, Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Torres Castro, Uriel Eduardo; Pineda-Báez, Clelia – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2023
The objective of this article is to analyse the development and content of research in the global literature on student agency in higher education (SAHE) based on a bibliometric review of 224 articles published in the Scopus database during the period 2000-2022. VOSviewer, Excel, and Tableau software were used to analyse the texts. The review…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Higher Education, Social Cognition, Student Motivation
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Ding, Feng; Yu, Baohua – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
Autonomy has been considered both as a precondition and a crucial learning outcome of higher education. Recent research has been focusing on measuring university students' autonomy or its development. However, whether and how students' autonomy can be measured quantitatively is still debatable. Although autonomy is known as a changing process and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Student Attitudes, Personal Autonomy, Foreign Countries
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Sun, Xiujuan; Cheng, Michelle W. T. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
The growing complexity of doing a PhD necessarily demands candidates to robustly exercise their agency in navigating the doctoral journey. However, the conceptualisation of how students use their agency across multiple facets of their studies has yet to receive due scholarly attention. Drawing on the subject-centred sociocultural view on agency,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Student Development, Student Experience
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Tang, Anne L. L.; Walker-Gleaves, Caroline; Rattray, Julie – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
This paper addresses Hong Kong Chinese undergraduate students' conceptions of teacher care informed by their experiences of teacher-student relationships within university context. Utilising the concept of teacher care from Nodding's (1984) ethics of care from a Confucian-Vygotskian perspective, this research considers emergent themes of teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Caring, Undergraduate Students
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Cheng, Michelle W. T.; Chan, Cecilia K. Y. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
Past studies revealed that Resident Assistants' (RAs) behavioural patterns are related to experiences and life outcomes of student residents. In this paper, the researchers aimed to investigate the struggles that new RAs encounter in university residential halls in Hong Kong, and to provide practical recommendations based on the findings.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Experience, Resident Advisers, College Housing