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Wong, Billy; Chiu, Yuan-Li Tiffany; Copsey-Blake, Meggie; Nikolopoulou, Myrto – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
The higher education market has prompted universities to justify their value and worth, especially to students. In Australia, New Zealand and the UK, it is increasingly common for universities to advertise their vision to prospective students, through Graduate Attributes, and showcase the sets of skills and competencies their graduates would…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Educational Quality
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Gravett, Karen; Kinchin, Ian M.; Winstone, Naomi E. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
This article focuses on 'transition' and how it is understood within higher education. Drawing on data from concept map-mediated interviews at two institutions, we examine the conceptions of transition held by academic and professional staff, who work to support students' learning into and through higher education. We suggest that normative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Learning Processes, Epistemology
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Broucker, Bruno; De Wit, Kurt; Verhoeven, Jef C. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Many higher education (HE) system reforms in the past decades have been built on the paradigm of New Public Management (NPM). However, these reforms have not allowed HE to fully take its value for society into account. In recent years a growing call can be heard to orient the HE sector towards more collaboration, a focus on a larger set of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Educational Administration, Educational Strategies
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Sadler, Ian; Reimann, Nicola – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
This paper reports a study into the development of staff understanding of assessment and assessment practice. Eight teachers from two universities constructed an initial concept map about assessment that was discussed in a one-to-one semi-structured interview. A year later, a new map was created and the interview focused on change in thinking and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Evaluation, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Concept Mapping
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Kandiko Howson, Camille B.; Coate, Kelly; de St Croix, Tania – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Drawing on 30 semi-structured interviews with women academics based in London higher education institutions in the UK, this paper investigates the gendered nature of the prestige economy in academia. We explore how mid-career academic women strategise their career development and the opportunities and barriers they perceive, particularly in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Women Faculty, Semi Structured Interviews
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McMillan, Wendy; Gordon, Natalie – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
This study examined how one academic framed the enablements and constraints to her project of being and becoming an academic. Complexity facilitated reflection in that it provided a visual representation of data, which was used to generate a concept map, which represented as equal all the component parts of her landscape. Five spaces with…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Concept Mapping, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development