Student academic misconduct is a growing problem for colleges and universities, including those responsible for preparing health professionals. Although the implementation of honor codes has had a positive impact on this problem, further reduction in student cheating and plagiarism can be achieved only via a comprehensive strategy that promotes an institutional culture of academic integrity. Su...

At most Canadian and American community colleges and universities, student ratings have been implemented as a means of evaluating course instruction. Although concerns regarding the validity of student ratings from instructors’ perspectives have been studied quite extensively, issues associated with the use of student ratings information by administrators have been largely ignored. In this stud...

An experimental pedagogical approach has been used at Agder College for the TQM lectures. The lecture syllabus has been redesigned as a project oriented task. The students are engaged in the project task of preparing a quality system after ISO 9000, using their own college as a model. Positive reactions have been noted. The method benefits first the students and their understanding of TQM and I...

Talents are the most important factor of all in the efforts to establish an innovative country. In universities and colleges, the bases for talent cultivation, the turnover of teachers in an explicit or recessive way calls for our urgent attention. This article aims at analyzing the complex causes of college teachers’ turnover from the perspective of institutional economics including Limitation...

Gender inequalities in educational attainment have attracted considerable attention and this article aims to contribute to our understanding of young women's access to higher education. The article is based on our in-depth interviews with 26 Hindu and Muslim young women attending colleges in urban Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore), south India, and explores the barriers they confronted in fulfilli...

For over 100 years colleges of higher and further education have played important roles in the education of library and information professionals. However, the last decade has seen some significant changes in both the structure of teaching departments and the types of courses they deliver. This paper, delivered by Martin De Saulles at the 39 Annual BIALL Conference held in Dublin in June 2008, ...

The Arizona Health Sciences Library (AHSL), housed in a building connected to the college of medicine, serves the colleges of medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and public health at the University of Arizona in Tucson, all in buildings located about 200 feet from each other around a large plaza. As in most other academic health sciences libraries, AHSL circulation and number of reference questions ha...

Colleges and universities assume the important historical mission of cultivating socialism modernization constructors and reliable successors with lofty ideals, integrity, knowledge and a strong sense of discipline. Colleges and universities should carry out the educational strategy of the Communist Party of China in an all-around way, push ahead with education for all-around development and im...

If there is any one individual who stands out in the saga of the early growth and development of the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, it must be Albert Earl Homewood (1916-1990). His contributions included steering the institution through the lean 1950s, coping with the metropolitan transit authorities' devastating incursion upon the first campus, and arranging the construction and finan...

69 Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, serves a diverse population of fulland part-time, traditional and nontraditional students. In the 2000–2001 academic year, 19,121 students enrolled in 6 undergraduate colleges and 35 graduate studies areas. MTSU’s administration promotes instructional technology as a crucial part of higher education for faculty and students...