This article reports key findings from the first phase of a research project investigating Net generation age students as they encounter e-learning at five universities in England. We take a critical view of the idea of a distinct generation which has been described using various terms including Net generation and Digital Natives and explore age related differences amongst first year university...

In the 4th industrial revolution era, instead of following entrepreneurial approach traditional third-generation universities, nowadays, a university is redefined as an ecosystem that innovates not only "for itself" but also others". Thus, transformation described with three key characteristics: radical mindset changes, holistic innovation facilitation, and ecological social norm encouragement....

The digital transformation of operation and maintenance (O&M) activities has been guiding the facilities management sector towards a strategic role focused on performance businesses sustainable use natural resources over assets’ lifecycles. Despite application information communication technologies (ICTs), such as building modelling (BIM) Internet Things (IoT), demonstrating potential for i...

background: providing an appropriate background is essential for necessary changes and innovation in the higher education, the need to review the classification criteria and development of the type of native criteria and local standards which match the cultural and scientific requirements of the country. investigating the possible types of indicators to adjusted accurately and objectively is im...

We use the directed networks between articles of 24 Wikipedia language editions for producing the Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities (WRWU) using PageRank, 2DRank and CheiRank algorithms. This approach allows to incorporate various cultural views on world universities using the mathematical statistical analysis independent of cultural preferences. The Wikipedia ranking of top 100 universit...

CCLRC is a UK civil research laboratory which provides large scale facilities to the international scientific community – mainly university based, although also used by industry. Current and planned CCLRC facilities include particle accelerators/synchrotrons that produce neutrons, muons, x-rays and visible light for non-destructive materials testing using a large range of sensors; the world’s m...

By the end of the 1980s a number of large, research intensive universities in North America had begun experimenting with an organizational and budgetary concept that later became known as Responsibility Center Budgeting or Responsibility Center Management. The principal objectives of RCB/RCM were to relocate and enhance responsibility for planning and budgeting, usually by decentralization, and...