Current educational and scientific policy must address several critical issues, including not so much the training of highly qualified personnel as the adaptation of the population to exist in a high-tech sociocultural environment. The implementation of the chosen model for developing the scientific and educational system of the Russian Federation…

This article discusses the multiple challenges cross-border higher education (CBHE) in Europe faces nowadays, namely regarding the assurance of its quality. The views of a set of European quality assurance agencies are analysed to understand their role in assuring the quality of this type of educational provision. Empirically, the article is based…

This article provides an overview of the evolution map of China's academic burden reduction strategy by conducting a new institutional analysis. Our analysis includes various adoptions of features and configurations introduced during the 1978-2021 period, which are inherently embedded in the wide context of political economy. By using archival…

In place of unidirectional transmission of information, discourse on feedback advocates approaches that are more dialogic and promote student agency. The design review is a signature feedback method in architectural education. Although the review's format involves verbal interaction between students and reviewers regarding the students' design…

This article analyses higher education quality assurance (QA) policies in Central Europe since their inception in the 1990s. Covering Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, the analysis employs a comparative framework specific to higher education QA, drawing on relevant desk research. The results indicate ideational variations in the…

Drawing on research interviews with thirteen self-identifying working-class professional services employees in Russell Group institutions, this article attempts to develop a nuanced approach to understanding institutional cultures in UK universities, through the relationships within these establishments. Throughout the study, the tensions between…

Widening access and participation feature prominently in higher education policy globally, and there are now significant academic communities engaged with implementing and interrogating initiatives aimed towards these goals. Despite an apparent global homogeneity in the use of this terminology, this study explores whether differing structural…

The decolonial turn has catalysed an overwhelming literature on decolonisation, its meanings, barriers, opportunities, and limitations. In this paper, we investigate the possibilities of going "beyond" decolonisation through a critical treatment of the discourses of human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the…

Sport has rarely been addressed in childhood studies' research, while sport research has only started to call attention to concepts from childhood studies. This article brings both fields together, to explore children's practices of agency and potential consequences for their wellbeing in organised sport. Such insights are timely, with widespread…

This study aims to investigate the influence of an undergraduate course on teaching statistics and probability on the statistical knowledge of preservice mathematics teachers. Statistics Concept Inventory (SCI) was used to measure the statistical understanding of the participants. It was implemented at both the beginning and the end of the course.…

Background/purpose: Digital entrepreneurship has become an increasingly prominent field of interest, with universities playing a significant role in supporting students' ambitions to embark on entrepreneurial ventures. This research aims to examine how perceived university support influences students' desirability. Furthermore, it highlights the…

In this article, we highlight the Australian country context to advocate for career support that extends beyond initial job placement in a segmented labor market to strengthen refugees' skills and knowledge and future career development. We address systemic barriers while advocating for access to skilled career development practitioners, whose…

This article explores the concept of university success from the perspective of 95 Spanish graduates (62.1% women and 37.9% men) with different types of disabilities, identifying situations in which the participants felt that they were successful at university. The data of this qualitative study were gathered through a semi-structured interview…

In recent years, to better face university paths, the first approaches to the labor market, and then the actual university-to-work transition, university students are asked to have broader skills, such as the ability to network, to be involved in career-related issues, and to explore the characteristics of occupations as much as personal ones.…

Literacy education for adults, both historically and presently, has often been reduced to teaching a technical skill, disconnected from social practices and broader sociocultural contexts. This limited approach fails to recognize literacy education as a tool for empowerment. This research analyzes the approach adopted to solve the chronic…