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A Retrospective Inquiry into the Impact of COVID-19 on Students' Study Abroad Program
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Jade Davidson; James Scott; Eric Rubenstein – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2025
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced COVID-19 as a global pandemic. Millions of students in school, on educational breaks, and study abroad programs were left uncertain of their next steps. This study aimed to examine the impact of COVID-19 on college-aged students' study abroad experiences in the United Kingdom. Four…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Study Abroad
Student and Staff Expectations and Experiences of a UK-China Transnational Education Collaboration
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Rowley, Martin; Skipper, Yvonne – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: This study reports the results of a survey of teaching staff in the UK and China and two cohorts of Chinese students. We explored perceptions of a Transnational Education (TNE) course taught by UK teachers at a Chinese university to ascertain similarities and differences in perceptions and to help inform future TNE design and provision.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
The Death of a Course: A Case Study of Degree Closure
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Roberts-Bowman, Sarah; Smith, Catherine – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2019
As marketisation, stratification and performance measurement besiege Higher Education, managing change becomes a critical leadership and administrative skill. Managing the student experience and organisational reputation take on renewed significance. Yet whilst much attention is paid to quality assurance and validation processes as Higher…
Descriptors: Courses, Course Evaluation, Program Termination, Higher Education
"Building Schools for the Future": "Transformation" for Social Justice or Expensive Blunder?
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Mahony, Pat; Hextall, Ian – British Educational Research Journal, 2013
This article is based on research undertaken between 2009 and 2012 into the former Labour government's extremely ambitious "Building Schools for the Future" (BSF) Programme and its withdrawal by the Coalition government. The project, which utilises analysis of policy documents, case studies in six local authorities (LA) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Social Justice, Educational Policy
Has Economics become an Elite Subject for Elite UK Universities?
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Johnston, James; Reeves, Alan; Talbot, Steven – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
The decline in the number of UK universities offering undergraduate degree programmes in subjects such as sciences, mathematics, modern languages and humanities has been well documented and is now of real concern. It appears that economics may be going through a decline in new (post-1992) UK universities with many economics programmes having been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Economics Education, Undergraduate Study
Closing University Departments: The Perception of Tax Payers.
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Furnham, Adrian; Sisterson, Grant – Higher Education Review, 2000
This pilot study looked at the British lay public's evaluation of 20 different disciplines by asking them to rank-order them. In a cutting-saving exercise those departments (disciplines) thought most worthy of saving were English, mathematics, and computer science; those rated as least important were anthropology, film and media studies, and…
Descriptors: Departments, Financial Exigency, Foreign Countries, Higher Education