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Yudkevich, Maria; Altbach, Philip G.; Rumbley, Laura E. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
Global university rankings are often thought of as games, defined by roles and rules that universities must play in order to confirm their legitimacy and gain visibility as actors in the global academic market. While some countries are well represented at the top of rankings charts, others are just joining the race and testing out different…
Descriptors: Universities, Classification, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis
McGinn, Noel F.; Schiefelbein, Ernesto – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
Reading before class has been demonstrated to improve student learning. This article describes the installation and effectiveness of a strategy to encourage student class preparation. The strategy, called the Class-to-Class Method, has been implemented in a large private university in Chile. The university hopes that this innovation will reduce…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Innovation, Educational Strategies, Study Habits
Baytiyeh, Hoda – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
Lebanon faces the risk of powerful earthquakes with potentially devastating effects. However, the Lebanese people in general have not yet recognized this risk, as current educational programs and government officials have failed to inform them about it. This article discusses the essential role that Lebanese institutions of higher education should…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Disasters, Risk, College Role
Huber, Valeska – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This article traces the influence of international networks in three Middle Eastern universities from the 1920s onwards: the American University of Beirut, the American University in Cairo and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It shows how American, internationalist, imperial and religious actors competed and how the universities were placed in…
Descriptors: War, Foreign Countries, Networks, International Cooperation
Schieffer, Alexander; Lessem, Ronnie – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The article describes an approach towards a fully transformed university, coined Integral University. Linking Education (E), Research (R), Activation (A) and Catalysation (C), it can "CARE" for individual, organisation, communal and societal development. Within it, theory and practice, knowledge creation and transformative action go hand…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Holistic Approach, Theory Practice Relationship
King, Kenneth – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The article underlines the historic importance of the treatment of skills development, finally, by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) team. Among the many challenges in its analysis are the multiple and overlapping meanings of the word skill, and the consequent difficulties of quantifying and monitoring efforts at skills…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Youth Opportunities, Skill Analysis, Definitions
Mishra, Mukti – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
At present, India's education system turns out millions of young people who are ready to think, but not enough people with entrepreneurial or employment skills. As India faces increasing limits on its resources, both economic and natural, the competency and capability of human resources play a pivotal role in developing and sustaining the economy.…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Vocational Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Youth Opportunities
Brennan, Paul – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
Though viewed as second-class until fairly recently, Canada's system for providing technical and vocational education and training (TVET) now provides relevant post-secondary education that meets the needs of highly skilled professionals in all job categories. As the system evolved, it changed the public view of skills education. This article…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Technical Education, Relevance (Education), Postsecondary Education
Ally, Mohamed; Grimus, Margarete; Ebner, Martin – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
Recent statistics on the use of mobile technology proclaim that the world is becoming mobile. People use their phones to socialize, to conduct business, to search for information, and more. For the first time in history, people around the world have the potential to learn from any location at their own convenience. But first, education systems…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Improvement, Electronic Learning, Handheld Devices
The Emergence of Doctoral Programmes in the Colombian Higher Education System: Trends and Challenges
Acosta, Orlando; Celis, Jorge – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The international literature contains few formal analyses of the state of Colombian higher education and its most critical issues. This article systematically and comparatively analyzes the emergence of Colombian doctoral programmes within a national and international context. It shows that, while Colombia has experienced a significant growth in…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Higher Education, Educational Development, Educational Trends
Ullah, Raza; Richardson, John T. E.; Hafeez, Muhammad – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
In Western countries, university students adopt various approaches to studying depending on how they perceive their learning environment. Their perceptions and approaches are related to demographic and contextual factors such as age, subject of study, gender, and year of study. This study looked for similar relationships in Pakistani students. A…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, College Students, Learning Strategies, Cognitive Style
Johnson, Ane Turner – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
In 2007, Kenya erupted into violence as a result of heavily contested elections. Because identity divisions lay at the heart of the conflict, the nation's public universities were deeply impacted, at times pitting students, faculty, and staff against one another, and disrupting the ability of Kenyan higher education to contribute to the…
Descriptors: Conflict, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Teacher Role
Therriault, Geneviève; Harvey, Léon – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
The authors analyse epistemological beliefs and their relationship to the knowledge developed by students engaged in a reorganized programme of training for secondary school teachers in Quebec. They examine two contexts for initial training: the training in their discipline that university students follow, and the practical training students…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Curriculum
Lee, Jeongwoo – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
Many countries are now creating world-class universities (WCUs) as essential parts of their higher education reform agendas, and as national goals. It is legitimate to ask whether every country that aspires to build a WCU can do so--especially developing countries. To answer this question, this paper provides a three-step framework. The first step…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Universities, Global Approach, Higher Education
Espinoza, Oscar; González, Luis Eduardo – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
This study analyzes how access to public and private institutions of higher education in Chile has changed as the post-secondary system has become increasingly privatized. It analyses access by young people to higher education from four perspectives: funding type (public/private), gender, family income level, and ethnicity. The study uses…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Private Colleges, Public Colleges