Globalisation has become one of the key concepts in the social sciences today. In higher education research, too, the term is used frequently. Maybe even so frequently that it sometimes seems possible to pronounce virtually anything under the heading of globalisation. This article attempts to identify the various interpretations of globalisation in general, as well as in higher education resear...

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In the paper, some interesting findings related to the introduction and use of e-classroom at the Faculty of Management (FM) is presented. The course was carried out in the e-classroom for fulltime and part-time students. The blended learning approach was used as an e-learning model. The teacher’s assessments were based on students’ weekly activities and achievements. Differences between groups...

This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Economics at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Economics Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Repository Citation Koch, James V., "The Revolution in Higher Education" (1998). Economics Faculty Pu...

This project looked at the experiences of Hispanic college students at a private university in the Midwest. The literature review guided the interview protocol questions to better determine what experiences impact the retention of Hispanic college students. The use of interviews helped gather qualitative data that touched upon support services, social and academic influences, campus climate, se...

Higher education (HE) has the potential to be transformative: for individuals, local communities and for the wider society. The extent to which HE succeeds, however, depends on many factors. At a minimum, for higher education to transform lives, individuals from a wide range of backgrounds must apply to and participate in HE [1]. Certainly this has been the rhetoric of successive UK governments...

The system of tenure that dominates American higher education has long been a source of controversy. Tenure has been attacked for entrenching a lazy professoriate, more interested in attending faraway conferences and producing unreadable research than in teaching or in developing practical insights, and has long been defended as an absolute necessity for the defense of open intellectual inquiry...

An approach to collective bargaining, in which structure and governance are carefully introduced into a contract, can act as a kind of restraint on both parties and minimize the scope of adversarial relationships to those matters for which there appears to be no alternative. By enlarging the role and responsibilities of faculty governance within the collective bargaining agreement, such alterna...