Digital convergence--the merging of television and computing--challenges localized monopolies of public television and continuing education. Continuing educators can reposition themselves in the electronic marketplace by serving as an educational portal, bringing their strengths of "brand recognition," local customer base, and access to…

Argues conventional academic freedom in higher education is a state of regulated autonomy wherein faculty freedom in teaching and research is necessary to discharge of normal functions, but exercised within boundaries controlled by government, and management. Market competition extends the terrain of this regulated autonomy, while highlighting…

Offers suggestions for providing opportunities for play that moves the spirit as well as the body. Describes cultural influences on play and the role of competition. Focuses on ways teachers can create and experience play that is physically and emotionally safe, challenging, inclusive, innovative, and fun. Includes descriptions of specific games…

Reports on the purposes of the Australian National Chemistry Week's Short Story Competition. Analyzes narratives for the authors' views of the place and relevance of chemistry in their lives. Discusses some of the educational implications for the use of stories in the chemistry classroom. Contains 24 references. (Author/JRH)

Discusses what benchmarking is and reflects on the importance and development of benchmarking in universities on a national and international level. Offers examples of transnational benchmarking activities, including the International Benchmarking Club, in which South African higher education institutions participate. (EV)

Discusses how the switch to PCs by administrators at Dartmouth College, a historically Apple-centric campus, highlights the higher education challenges facing the computer company. (EV)

A study of third- through fifth-graders (n=1,253, 53% 4-H members) indicated a preference for both cooperation and competition; members and nonmembers had similar scores on unconditional parental support and cooperative learning orientation; nonmembers scored higher on competitive learning. Children who preferred cooperative learning scored higher…

Assesses the current focus of collegiate forensics. Argues that the value of competition has come to outweigh the value of education in intercollegiate individual events practice. Examines the educational and competitive values of forensics, assesses the problems associated with the overemphasis on competition, and makes recommendations as to how…

Explores scientific fraud, asserting that while few scientists actually falsify results, the field has become so competitive that many are misbehaving in other ways; an example would be unreasonable criticism by anonymous peer reviewers. (EV)

Reviews the evolution of competitive intelligence since 1994, including terminology and definitions and analytical techniques. Addresses the issue of ethics; explores how information technology supports the competitive intelligence process; and discusses education and training opportunities for competitive intelligence, including core competencies…

Examined the responses to charter school competition of four small Arizona school districts. Overall, districts lost students to charter schools because they did not satisfy significant constituencies. Their responses depended on overall enrollment trends, quality of charter competition, quality of district leadership, and district size. Responses…

Begins by examining the forces pushing higher education toward greater competition, then explores the implications of the resulting changes. Attempts to identify the risks if institutions and policy makers are slow to respond. (EV)

Background: Laboratory studies have consistently found that competition induces performance goals and affects learning motivation. However, the ecological validity of these results is yet to be established. There is a need for investigation of whether the results hold in both the classroom context and non-Western culture. Aim: The study…

Over the past decade, deliberate efforts to "market" colleges and universities to specific audiences have gone from being a marginal--and somewhat suspect--activity in higher education to becoming a strategic imperative. Heightened competition for top students, increasing bottom-line pressures due to tuition discounting and comparative "shopping"…

This article presents an interview with former Kodak chairman Daniel A. Carp, who received the Diversity Best Practices CEO Leadership Award in 2003. Here, he discusses many CEOs' concerns about diversity, and their belief that higher education is doing a poor job producing students who are well versed with and comfortable in the diverse settings…