Several private universalities have opened doors to students in the last decade or so in Kuwait. This has raised some questions about the quality of education these universities have been providing. This study explores the learning environment in business schools at private universities in Kuwait and tries to relate it to students’ attitudes toward their universities. The study compares that wi...

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PURPOSE Vital, productive faculty are critical to academic medicine, yet studies indicate high dissatisfaction and attrition. The authors sought to identify key personal and cultural factors associated with intentions to leave one's institution and/or academic medicine. METHOD From 2007 through early 2009, the authors surveyed a stratified random sample of 4,578 full-time faculty from 26 repr...

Science policy makers, university administrators, funding agencies, and prospective students all rely on many factors when deciding which academic institutions to become involved with. Organizations have stepped in to provide information to support such decision makers. From US News and World Report rankings1 to the recently released National Research Council report on academic institutions [4]...

Energy. The Los Alamos National Laboratory strongly supports academic freedom and a researcher's right to publish; as an institution, however, the Laboratory does not endorse this viewpoint of a publication or guarantee its technical correctness.

Laboratory strongly supports academic freedom and a researcher's right to publish; therefore, the Laboratory as an institution does not endorse the viewpoint of a publication or guarantee its technical correctness.

We introduce a novel methodology for mapping academic institutions based on their journal publication profiles. We consider that journals in which researchers from academic institutions publish their works can be considered as useful identifiers for representing the relationships between these institutions and establishing comparisons. But, when academic journals are used for research output re...

The poor academic performance of students of Nigerian tertiary institution has been a major concern. This paper, however, considers the mode of selection for admission via the University Matriculation Examination (by JAMB), the Post University Matriculation Examination, as well as academic performance after first year in the University. Using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method of estimating...

objective: in dental and medical education, information and communication technology (ict) has been playing an important role and its use is rapidly increasing. in developing countries, however, information technology is still only available to a minority of health professionals. the present study aimed to assess the level of computer use among dental undergraduate students pursuing their caree...