This paper presents an investigation of assessment in firstyear Information and Communications Technology (ICT) courses with a focus on Australian universities. This study was part of a project that aimed to identify and disseminate good practices in first-year ICT teaching in Australian universities. Through a systematic review of the last five years of research literature and interviewing 30 ...

Since the inception of e-learning technologies, there has been an increase in the use of e-learning systems to support blended learning in Universities by providing a mix of face-to-face classroom teaching, live e-learning, self-paced e-learning and distance learning. Despite the existing benefits of using e-learning, some higher education institutions have not utilised e-learning to its full p...

University research centers can be beneficial to industrial firms by providing firms with a number of relationship alternatives that facilitate the advancement of knowledge and new technologies. This multi-method field study indicates that larger more mechanistic firms especially those in resource intense industrial sectors use knowledge transfer and research support relationships to build comp...

The plating industry is one of the main toxic chemicals consumers, which uses various chemicals, including solvents, acids, bases, cleansers, sophisticated organic ingredients, and metal salts of cadmium, nickel and chromium. Due to the growing production of industrial waste in spite of actions related to these wastes’ management, no comprehensive pattern was introduced at different levels. Thi...

The annual PIMS Graduate Industrial Math Modelling Camp (GIMMC) is held in one of the PIMS universities as part of the PIMS industrial programme. It is part of PIMS' commitment to providing training for young mathematical scientists who are either pursing careers in academia or in industry. The goal of the GIMMC is to provide experience in the use of mathematical modelling as a problem-solving ...

Among the top challenges facing Oklahoma public comprehensive university presidents is quest for adequate funding of their institutions, including levels support from state resources. Low by have become a pattern, rather than an anomaly and statewide reductions in appropriations higher education had disproportionate effect on Oklahoma’s universities because they fewer diversified revenue source...

the research is set to examine academic staff union of universities (asuu) strikes and academic performance of students in ekiti state university (eksu) ado-ekiti. the research employed multistage sampling technique to select the faculties and the departments from where six hundred and four (604) respondents were selected, questionnaires and interviews were employed to draw information from res...