Higher education policy has been subject to considerable reform in OECD states over the past two decades. Some states have introduced tuition fees for the first time, others have massively increased public funding for higher education, and still others remain in stasis, retaining the elitist model with which they began the post-war era. This paper develops a formal model of the politics of high...

Background: The quality of a software product depends on the quality of the software process followed in developing the product. Therefore, many higher education institutions (HEI) and software organizations have implemented software process improvement (SPI) training courses to improve the software quality. Objective: Because the duration of a course is a concern for HEI and software organizat...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY “One system for everyone” has been an ideal goal for information technology (IT) management in many large organizations, and the deployment of such systems has been a major trend in corporate world under the name of enterprise systems (ES) (Brown & Vessey, 2003; Davenport, 2000; Markus, Petrie, & Axline, 2000). Benefits from ES use are claimed to be significant and multidimens...

In the twilight years of the twentieth century when we are poised to leap across some kind of a „time-barrier‟ into a new era, some reflection and objective transevaluatory analysis of the higher educational system in the shape of a educational system in the shape of a stock-taking exercise or examining the balance sheet is not only apt but eminently desirable for drawing appropriate lessons fo...

This paper investigates the ways in which the expectations and beliefs of academic staff about computerbased learning impact the design of learning media and their integration into the student learning experience. Moreover, it aims to ascertain how these expectations and beliefs have to be negotiated in a collaborative process between academics, educational advisors and multimedia producers, so...

Higher, especially university level, education has a distinctly important role in the education system and in the knowledge acquisition system in general. However, the deteriorating state of higher education in Arab countries, particularly in quality, has become one of the hallmarks of underdevelopment by contemporary criteria. If such deterioration were to continue, it is feared that higher ed...