At least one of the goals of the transformation of universities in South Africa is to develop civic-minded graduates who leave university to become agents of positive social change in broader society. More specifically, universities in South Africa aim to develop graduates who are critical, capable and balanced – graduates who are aware of their social responsibilities in post-apartheid South A...

Research outputs are among the key indices in the world ranking of universities. The focus of Nigerian universities, is teaching and research. This paper compares research outputs of Nigerian Federal Universities (NFU’s) based on their publication records in the Scopus database. It was found that University of Ibadan (UI) has the highest total number of research outputs more than other NFU’s. B...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED. INTRODUCTION The study of the scientific evidence citation production by famous databases of the world is one of the important indicators to evaluate and rank the universities. The study at investigating the scientific production of Northern Iran Medical Sciences Universities in Scopus from 2005 through 2010. METHOD This survey used scientometrics techniq...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to compare scientific production by providing quantitative evaluation of science output in five Western Iranian Medical Universities including Hamedan, Ilam, Kermanshah, Kurdistan and Lorestan University of Medical Sciences using scientometrics indicators based on data indexed in Scopus for period between the years 2010 to 2014. METHODS In this scientometric stud...

The study examines the perception of activity based costing (ABC) in Australian universities. Using a questionnaire survey, data was collected from twenty-six finance directors and/or chief financial officers in Australian universities. The perception of ABC implementation in Australian universities depends on many variables including the understanding of ABC, consideration of ABC as a strategi...

With the prosperity of new forms of media, the social environment of universities is increasingly complex. The change not only brings development opportunities for university, but also makes a number of uncertain factors increase rapidly, so that colleges and universities have to face more and more frequent reputation crisis. To reduce the harm of crisis, it is particularly important to focus o...

introduction: this study aimed to investigate the association between the emotional intelligence (ei) and organizational culture of university staff due to different dimensions of ei and its effects on different areas such as job progress, job satisfaction, job environment and organizational performance. methods: this was an analytical and cross-sectional study. it was done on 168 staff of isfa...

background: the present study was conducted to determine the inhibiting factors of research activities among the faculty members of islamic azad university.   methods: in the present cross-sectional study, conducted between 2009-2013, 300 faculty members of islamic azad university, science and research branch, tehran, were selected following stratified random sampling method. data collection in...

the aim of this study was to determine the level and analysis of the components of the organizational health at the islamic azad university of region six. the research method is descriptive and population statistical consisted of region six of islamic azad university`s units. the subjects include 320 b.a holder individuals of staff who have bachelor`s degree and higher.  from among 175 people w...

introduction: ergonomics is the science of improvement of the work environment, job and equipment and adapting them to the human capabilities and limitations. observing ergonomic principles of computer application is essential for the computer users. lack of attention to these principles would decrease efficiency and cause irreparable somatic complications. the present study assesses the knowle...