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Grossman, Amanda; Twardus, Ian – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2023
A persisting shortage of accounting Ph.D. program graduates has plagued academia for at least the last two decades. Despite suggestions fueled by research findings, traditional accounting Ph.D. programs appear to have not implemented substantial changes aimed at alleviating this problem. The present study surveys accounting Ph.D. program…
Descriptors: Accounting, Doctoral Programs, Labor Needs, Educational Change
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Broadhead, Samantha – Education Sciences, 2020
In the United Kingdom, the number of mature students studying in higher education is diminishing. This is also the case within the subject of art and design. This article reports on a project "Mature Students Matter," a study that aims to widen participation in art and design education within a small specialist university. The approach…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Art Education
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Wieczorek, Kim M. – Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning, 2020
This paper examines a sampling of messages available to potential teacher candidates when searching online and querying, "How do I become a teacher?" Methodology used was discourse analysis of online search results using critical questions informed by Ellsworth's (1997) notions of mode of address. Results reported here are from targeted…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Online Searching, Information Seeking, Discourse Analysis
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Borooah, Vani K.; Knox, Colin – British Educational Research Journal, 2013
Northern Ireland has achieved political stability and its devolved government is now tackling public policy issues neglected during periods of sectarian violence. Notwithstanding the prevailing political optimism, one legacy of the conflict is a deeply divided society. This is particularly manifest in the education system where around 90% of…
Descriptors: Catholics, Protestants, Religious Conflict, Conflict Resolution
Looney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2019
Total enrollments (undergraduate and graduate) in languages other than English dropped by 9.2% between fall 2013 and fall 2016, as reported in the Modern Language Association's twenty-fifth language enrollment census. Despite the overall drop, there were gains in nearly half of all language programs (45.5%) that mitigate somewhat the downward…
Descriptors: Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
National School Public Relations Association, Arlington, VA. – 1976
Declines in student population are a fact of life in most of the nation's school districts. With the declines come unprecedented challenges and opportunities; sensitive community relations problems involved with school closings; costs that continue to rise despite the decline in student numbers; the need for staff reductions; the need for…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Board of Education Policy, Case Studies, Community Involvement
Brownell, Winifred W.; Watson, Arden K. – 1984
Acknowledging that one of the most difficult challenges postsecondary educators must face is the maintenance of adequate student enrollment, this paper describes the creation of a speech communication laboratory as one component of a university-wide effort to maximize student retention. The paper first discusses several suggestions researchers…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Basic Skills, Communication Apprehension, Communication Research