The term “flexible learning’ has been used by many institutions with regard to their methods of course delivery, particularly by those seeking to attract external students. In almost no cases is the use of the term justified, since the flexibility concerned relates only to certain very limited components of the learning process. This paper outlines the very real problems that are faced by insti...

In recent years, academic economists have come to appreciate the centrality of public institutions in contributing to economic performance. Yet Korea, arguably the premier success story of the last half-century, has sometimes been described as a First World economy with Third World institutions. Although Korea modestly underachieves on most of the 52 institutional indicators examined in this pa...

CONTEXT Research in the sciences is now beginning to acknowledge what many Aboriginal educators and students have experienced or witnessed in educational curricula, a general dismissal of Indigenous knowledge as being considered scientifically 'worthy'. This is the result of educational institutions', and the systems within which they are placed, failure to teach from broad cultural orientation...

• A state must be developmental in nature if it is to enable a pace and pattern of growth which is pro-poor • Institutions matter — attempts to reform or build robust pro-growth institutions must first identify a narrow and specific set of ‘growthenhancing’ institutions, and then support them • Overt opposition to pro-poor change is less common than indifference, and the wealthy can often be pe...

Sweden has actively pursued internationalisation policies at national level, in parallel to the pursuit of strategies individual universities. This article focuses on university responses towards internationalisation, and interplay between external higher education environments institutional positioning. We draw empirical qualitative research two Sweden’s largest universities, examine expressed...

Purpose: The current shortage of highly skilled employees across the country continues to be a concern for our higher education (HE) institutions. Information technology (IT) is used in a variety of ways to expand the reach of education, from distance education, simulation technology, Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and more. Additionally, public HE institutions face flat and decreasing ...

In this paper we propose a framework for controlling and executing problem solving methods in a work-flow context. The framework is founded on an extension and scaling-up of the electronic institutions theory and the use of artificial intelligence techniques in a multi agent environment. We discuss electronic institutions?s theory extensions for enabling intelligent organizations using our appr...