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Boud, David; Costley, Carol; Cranfield, Steven; Desai, Jeenal; Nikolou-Walker, Elda; Nottingham, Paula; Wilson, Dilys – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is proliferating in university courses across many countries. Like many educational practices, students' experience of it is shaped by the assessment processes adopted. Does assessment support or inhibit what WIL seeks to foster? To explore how students experience assessment in WIL, a small-scale investigation was…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, College Students, Student Attitudes, College Role
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Martin-Sardesai, Ann; Irvine, Helen; Tooley, Stuart; Guthrie, James – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Performance management systems have been an inevitable consequence of the development of government research evaluations (GREs) of university research, and have also inevitably affected the working life of academics. The aim of this paper is to track the development of GREs over the past 25 years, by critically evaluating their adoption in the UK…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Higher Education
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Tytherleigh, M. Y.; Webb, C.; Cooper, C. L.; Ricketts, C. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2005
The higher education sector in the UK continues to experience significant change. This includes restructuring, use of short-term contracts, external scrutiny and accountability, and major reductions in funding. In line with this, reports of stress at work in higher education institutions have also increased. The study reported here was carried out…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Job Security, Stress Variables