Restructuring of Australian highereducation : information technology in geography teaching and learning
Australia ; Education ; Highereducation ; Information ; School system ; Teaching of geography ; Technology
Australie ; Education ; Enseignement de la géographie ; Enseignement supérieur ; Information ; Internet ; Système scolaire ; Technologie
Australian highereducation has experienced substantial change since the early 1980s, with a transition to mass highereducation. Evolving conceptions of learning pose new challenges for educators. The explosive emergence of the World Wide Web
Education system ; Educational programme ; Highereducation ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
Thoughts and recommendations in improving coordination of geographers and schools of education in universities in which many students get their academic degrees in order to teach. - (DWG)
China ; Educational programme ; Highereducation ; School curriculum ; Teaching of geography
Brief discussion of the aims of geographic education in China's secondary schools as well as problems. China lacks qualified geography teachers. - (DWG)
Economy ; Education ; Education system ; Germany ; Highereducation ; Planning ; Regional disparities ; Society
Allemagne ; Disparités régionales ; Economie ; Education ; Enseignement supérieur ; Planification ; Société ; Système éducatif
of regionality (as in the case of the specialised highereducation colleges) is particularly significant. - (L'A.).
Territorial educational planning process must take account of the interdependences of the education system with the economic and social order. This demand should be observed primarily at those educational establishments where the principle
Globalising highereducation and cities in Asia and the Pacific
Australia ; Education ; Globalization ; Highereducation ; Ho Chi Minh City ; Hong Kong ; Malaysia ; Melbourne ; Migration ; Mobility ; New Zealand ; North Island ; Racism ; Seoul ; Social integration ; South Korea ; Students ; Taipei ; Taiwan
Australie ; Bandar Sunway ; Corée du Sud ; Education ; Enseignement supérieur ; Etudiants ; Hong Kong ; Hô Chí Minh-Ville ; Intégration sociale ; Malaisie ; Melbourne ; Migration ; Mobilité ; Mondialisation ; North Island ; Nouvelle-Zélande
Dans ce numéro spécial consacré à la mondialisation de l'enseignement supérieur et des villes en Asie et das le Pacifique, on trouvera les articles suivants : 1-Globalising highereducation and cities in Asia and the Pacific ; 2-Opportunities
and tensions in the process of educational globalisation: The case of Hong Kong ;3-Cities and the lives of university academics ; 4-The university's place in Asian cities ; 5-Assessing participation in cross-border highereducation in cities: Foreign education
of migration, racism and violence among Indian students in Melbourne ; 9- Social networks, cultural capital and attachment to the host city: Comparing overseas Chinese students and foreign students in Taipei ;10- Globalising highereducation in and through
urban spaces: Highereducation projects, international student mobilities and trans-local connections in Seoul.
provision in Ho Chi Minh City ;6-Making space for an international branch campus: Monash University Malaysia ; 7-‘Educity imaginaries’? Escaping mobile policy imaginaries to reimagine educational futures in Auckland ; 8-Victims or profiteers? Issues
Migration, benefit spillovers and state support of highereducation
Allocation ; Decision ; Economic cost ; Education ; Finance ; Highereducation ; Migration ; Public expenditure ; State control ; Students ; United States
Efficiency and perceived quality of the nation's top 25 national universities and national liberal arts colleges: an application of data envelopment analysis to highereducation
Economic cost ; Economic efficiency ; Education ; Indicator ; Productivity ; Satisfaction ; Students ; United States ; University
The results indicate how DEA may be used to measure relative efficiency of these highereducation U.S. institutions from commonly available performance indicators.
Fixed-term and temporary: teaching fellows, tactics, and the negotiation of contingent labour in the UK highereducation system
Education ; Education system ; Employment ; Highereducation ; Manpower ; Teacher ; United Kingdom
Assistant de recherche ; Education ; Emploi ; Emploi universitaire ; Enseignant ; Enseignement supérieur ; Environnement de travail ; Main-d'oeuvre ; Royaume-Uni ; Système éducatif
This paper autobiographically considers the role of teaching-only staff as a contingent labour force in the contemporary highereducation system in the UK. It considers the ways in which fellows, through tactics of place-making, presence
Local politics and the demand for public education
Collectivité locale ; Demande ; Dépenses publiques ; Education ; Etats-Unis ; Finance ; Inégalité des revenus ; Modèle ; Politique locale ; Secteur public ; Virginia
Demand ; Education ; Finance ; Local government ; Local policy ; Model ; Public expenditure ; Public sector ; United States of America ; Virginia ; Wage inequality
a demand for local public goods model, it is found that the interest-group pressures dominated by the primary beneficiaries increase educational spending while higher income and a larger percentage of African-Americans in the population reduce educational
The paper uses a political fragmentation index to calculate how political power affects educational spending in Virginia. The methodology allows the comparison of the distribution of political power and considers political fragmentation. Using
Adaptation ; Highereducation ; Pedagogy ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
Addresses obstacles to maintaining a high-quality educational experience at a university level when large lecture classes make students anonymous ; suggestions for what can be done about it. - (DWG)
Alaska ; Educational programme ; School curriculum ; Teaching of geography
Discussion of an extensive public consensus process organized by the state of Alaska Department of Education to generate learning standards for geography in Alaskan schools. - (DWG)