Higher Education Policy Research Papers (original) (raw)

2025

Henry Giroux (2011) writes passionately in his philosophical, psychological and educational text, On Critical Pedagogy, as a contributor to the Critical Pedagogy Today Series, edited by Steinberg, S. & Freire, A.M. Always a champion for the marginalized of Western societies and an author of numerous books and monographs about democracy, social justice and the connection between liberal education and good, American self-determined living, Giroux brings all deep thinkers into a conversational circle. He excites the mind and sets the radical educator on a path of practical application of sound pedagogical practices. In this text, Giroux's style remains crisp, direct, and accessible. A brief and systematic directive, On Critical Pedagogy invites everyone into the philosophical conversation about the position of human beings against unbridled Western styled globalization and corporate dominance over human cultures. His topic, this time, public education, is presented in his consisten...

2025

Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar o processo histórico do surgimento do curso de Licenciatura em Educação do Campo na Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro - UFRRJ. A argumentação parte da experiência piloto da LEC PRONERA:... more

2025, International Scientific Days 2016 :: The Agri-Food Value Chain: Challenges for Natural Resources Management and Society :: Proceedings

Cheating on different levels of education is not new in our country. Students of primary schools use various illegal aids. Many students have no problem to use cheat sheets even in universities (it's not only a problem of full-time students but external students too). A possible cause may be that some subjects are considered as unnecessary for students, so they try to circumvent them in other ways. Another cause may be the actual value of education itself -students rarely realize that each acquired knowledge or fact can become handy later in their life. However they resort to cheating not only on crediting tests or exams, but also in creating a variety of term projects. The main issue solved in this article is cheating and plagiarism of students at the Faculty of Economics and Management in Nitra, because the results of the questionnaire survey suggest that it is relatively a big problem.

2025

The Center brings an international consciousness to the analysis of higher education. We believe that an international perspective will contribute to enlightened policy and practice. To serve this goal, the Center produces International Higher Education (a quarterly publication), books, and other publications; sponsors conferences; and welcomes visiting scholars. We have a special concern for academic institutions in the Jesuit tradition worldwide and, more broadly, with Catholic universities. The Center promotes dialogue and cooperation among academic institutions throughout the world. We believe that the future depends on effective collaboration and the creation of an international community focused on the improvement of higher education in the public interest.

2025

Understanding the landscape of digital innovation in higher education institutions (HEIs) within developing countries is crucial for bridging the digital divide and enhancing educational quality. The reviewed work by Ruth Nthenya Wambua provides a systematic synthesis of literature on this issue, aiming to outline current trends and propose areas for future research. The systematic approach adopted ensures a comprehensive understanding of the extent and implication of digital innovation in these challenging contexts. 1. Overview The paper delves into the impact of digital innovations in HEIs across developing countries, specifically examining advancements from the past decade (2013-2022). By exploring peerreviewed publications, the paper aims to highlight trends, challenges, and future research opportunities in digital transformation. This study assumes that digital transformation can significantly influence education quality, particularly in resource-constrained environments. The cornerstone of the research lies in comprehending the role of ICT advancements in reshaping learning, research, and stakeholder engagement within HEIs. 2. Relevant References Including a clear literature review helps reviewers quickly see what's new and why it matters, which can speed up the review and improve acceptance chances. The following references were selected because they relate closely to the topics and ideas in your submission. They may provide helpful context, illustrate similar methods, or point to recent developments that can strengthen how your work is positioned within the existing literature.

2025

Responding to the demands of the technology-driven global economy, engineers increase their technical competencies, improve cross-cultural communication skills, and become more innovative, entrepreneurial and flexible (Continental, 2006). As the demands on the engineer are increasing and the role of an engineer evolves and becomes more prominent, the importance of teaching engineering ethics to engineering students is increasing too. This article investigates current trends in the teaching of engineering ethics in the context of diverse approaches to evaluating the responsibility of an engineer. The article reveals the complexity of the issue, which confirms the need for future engineers to be competent in dealing with ethical dilemmas. The engineer must be aware of the fact that his or her invention will initiate a chain of events that will involve the use of this invention and will have various social, environmental and legal ramifications, which should be taken into account. The engineer must also be sufficiently prepared to make ethical decisions without sufficient guidance, as the full range of possible future scenarios cannot be foreseen.

2025

Over the last eight years, New Orleans voters have been more satisfied with life in the city than in previous years, according to the 2018 Quality of Life Survey conducted by the University of New Orleans Survey Research Center. The survey, also known as the UNO Poll, found that while Orleans Parish residents consider crime to be the biggest problem facing the parish, they are much less likely to report that than they did two years ago. The survey of 500 Orleans Parish voters and 500 Jefferson Parish voters took place from October 17 to November 5, 2018. There is a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4.4 percent

2025, Páginas de Educación

Higher education institutions face today a demanding and complex context in which they are asked to fulfill multiple roles. Many of these challenges have to be faced in a complex financial context in which traditional modes of funding have been transformed and public sources are not as generous as they often were in the past.Like in many other public services, in recent years it became a rather common statement that higher education institutions should be more efficient in the use of taxpayers’ resources, which had a clear impact in visible changes in the funding of public higher education in Europe. In this paper we will analyse the major trends in higher education funding in Europe and underline to what extent the current debates about higher education and its funding have been significantly influenced by economic considerations. We will identify some of the main issues that dominate the current debate around higher education’s funding, drawing some comparative insights from devel...

2025, Public Administration Review

Financial stringency has been an increasing concern in the higher education sector, especially in the aftermath of the financial crisis. As a result, public higher education institutions have been under increasing pressure to diversify their funding sources through tuition fees and other nonpublic revenues. This article reflects on the institutional impact of those changes by analyzing a panel of 30 higher education institutions from the Portuguese public university and polytechnic sectors for the period between 2003 and 2009. The authors explore the relevance of institutional characteristics such as enrollments in undergraduate and postgraduate programs, the qualifications of academic staff, and the regional environment where institutions are located. Results suggest that certain institutional characteristics related to mission differentiation and the path of development of binary systems are important determinants of higher education institutions’ ability to earn income from tuiti...

2025, Applied Economics

The development of mass higher education and growing competition between higher education institutions has given increasing visibility to the issue of diversification. This paper analyses the issue of program diversification using a panel of 181 Portuguese higher education institutions over the period 1995-2007 by comparing the behavior of public and private institutions. The institutional diversity found within the Portuguese higher education system and its evolution over the recent decades provides a suitable and interesting case to perform this analysis. The results show that the legal status of institutions is a major factor regarding diversification, as private institutions are far more specialized than their public counterparts. The study also evaluates which the role of other institutional variables such assize, age, location, category, and research intensity to explain differences in the diversification behavior of higher education institutions. The results provide important insights, as competition has been thought to improve the performance of higher education institutions.

2025

Higher Education (IHE) is the world's oldest continuously published source of news and analysis of global higher education. Our mission is to provide insightful, informed, and high-quality commentary and analysis on trends and issues of importance to higher education systems, institutions, and stakeholders around the world. As such, since our establishment, IHE has aimed to be globally representative, both in terms of the topics covered and the authors represented. Our contributors are drawn from a broad network of distinguished international scholars, policy makers, and leaders, who are well positioned to offer critical perspectives on key issues and trends that shape higher education worldwide. Our aim is to expose readers to a broad range of issues and concerns facing contemporary higher education, and to provide timely, accurate, and insightful analyses of key higher education developments across a diverse global context. IHE is distributed all over the world to individual subscribers based in over 100 countries and via partnerships with the International Association of Universities (IAU), the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), the Association of African Universities (AAU), and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The IHE editorial team is also committed to the principle of linguistic diversity. As a result, content from IHE is translated into Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese by partners in Brazil, Chile, China, Qatar, and Vietnam. CIHE partners with DUZ Academic Publishers, a division of DUZ Verlagsund Medienhaus GmbH, that managed the publication of IHE issues 100 to 119. The English version of IHE continues to be included in DUZ Magazine, which serves German-speaking higher education audiences, through this partnership.

2025, Antigone, semestrale di critica del sistema penale e penitenziario

Il sovraffollamento carcerario in Italia è spesso interpretato come un’anomalia temporanea, il risultato di una crisi all’interno del sistema penale. Questo articolo mira a mettere in discussione tale interpretazione. A tal fine, analizza le politiche adottate a partire dagli anni ’90, dimostrando come la gestione della congestione carceraria abbia, in modo surrettizio, contribuito a rafforzare un irrigidimento del controllo penale. In questo contesto, la riflessione esplora come il sovraffollamento abbia assunto una funzione politica e simbolica, legittimando una narrazione securitaria e alimentando una svolta punitiva. In conclusione, si sostiene che solo un cambiamento strutturale, basato sulla decriminalizzazione e sull’investimento sociale, potrebbe spezzare questo ciclo e riallineare le politiche penali italiane ai principi costituzionali di giustizia e uguaglianza.

2025, Az őshonos kisebbségek anyanyelvi oktatáshoz való joga - elméletben és gyakorlatban

Az alábbi tanulmány arra tesz kísérletet, hogy a kisebbségi jog és az oktatáshoz való jog közös metszéspontjára a nemzetközi jog felől rávilágítson. A közös halmaz jellemzője, hogy két, nagyon eltérő tulajdonságú jogterület szabályait kell alkalmazni, amelyből az egyik erősebb jogérvényesítési eszköztárral rendelkezik. A kérdés, hogy melyik érvényesül, és egymás ellenében, vagy érdekében hatnak-e? Aktuális-e a nemzetközi jogi szabályozás, vagy ha nem, mekkora a lemaradása?

2025, International Journal of Educational Development

This paper explores the need to develop a practical and contextually relevant STEM education system in the Global South to equip future generations to participate meaningfully in the global economy and to foster inclusive development. Enhancing access to quality STEM education is important, particularly in Africa, where it is estimated that most of the world's new workers in the next 30 years may come from. However, persistent underinvestment in education by many governments in the region continues to undermine progress, making STEM education systems less efficient and more vulnerable to external influence. While international support has played a role in advancing STEM education, this paper critically examines its complexities. Foreign aid can accelerate progress when aligned with national strategies, but it may also come with conditions that compromise local priorities, institutional autonomy and disciplinary balance. This paper argues that the Global South must strategically leverage international support while increasing domestic investment, strengthening national policy frameworks, and preserving a balanced education system that values STEM and the humanities. A more selfreliant and critically engaged approach to foreign aid can help ensure that STEM education serves national development agendas without replicating historical patterns of dependency.

2025, Policy Studies Journal

While the number of charter schools has increased rapidly in the United States, few studies have examined whether charter schools are implemented in response to real and perceived educational needs or to political and institutional factors in the education policy arena. Unlike traditional policy adoption and diffusion studies that focus on the state level and use a dichotomous dependent variable—adoption or not—this article focuses on local school districts and uses the number of operating charter schools as the dependent variable. Accordingly, instead of applying event history analysis, this article conducts generalized event count regression to estimate models. Based on a data set that consists of Florida's 67 school districts across a six‐year time period, the results suggest that charter school diffusion is more heavily driven by political and institutional factors than by educational needs. The results also demonstrate a dynamic trend of charter school diffusion over time.

2025, The Seybold Report

Education is a basic right for each and every child in their life, by which these individuals can contribute to personal growth and economic development of the nation. National education policy is important for the development of the educational structure in India. The four phases of education system will be developed by the new education policy to provide a quality education. 15 years of educational life will be managed by this particular policy, by which 3 years of students get an opportunity to enter an education life. Students get an opportunity to identify their career options successfully in India with the help of this education policy. Curriculum and extracurricular activities by students are also dictated through National Education Policy. The mission of NEP is to enhance Gross Enrolment Ratio by 50% within a year of 2035. This is also helpful for the Indian educational system to provide better education among all students from 3 years to 18 years. Usage of modern technology is enhanced after applying this particular policy in India where students can easily enhance their skills with the help of modern technology. Higher education institutes are benefitted through NEP in India, by which the Indian education framework is developed significantly. Hence, a complete search on the NEP has been done in the article with the help of secondary sources.

2025, Review of Financial Studies

This paper investigates the effects of college tuition on student debt and human capital accumulation. We exploit data from a random sample of undergraduate students in the United States and implement a research design that instruments for tuition with relatively large changes to the tuition of students who enrolled at the same school in different cohorts. We find that 10,000inhighertuitioncausallyreducestheprobabilityofgraduatingwithagraduatedegreeby6.2percentagepointsandincreasesstudentdebtby10,000 in higher tuition causally reduces the probability of graduating with a graduate degree by 6.2 percentage points and increases student debt by 10,000inhighertuitioncausallyreducestheprobabilityofgraduatingwithagraduatedegreeby6.2percentagepointsandincreasesstudentdebtby2,961. Higher tuition also reduces the probability of obtaining an undergraduate degree among poorer, credit-constrained students. Thus, the relatively large increases in the price of education in the United States in the past decade can affect the accumulation of human capital.

2025, International Higher Education

Higher education development in India shows signs of concentration and urban bias. As in many countries, the permeation of market processes and proliferation of private higher education institutions seem to have contributed to increased regional inequalities. Relying on the concentration ratio, a measure developed by a CPRHE/NIEPA research study, this article discusses the nature and extent of regional inequalities in the current provision of higher education and identifies locations to be prioritized for establishing new institutions to level off regional inequalities in the future.

2025, International Journal of Management, Technology, and Social Sciences

This study measures the association of family size and income level on spending and savings habits of rural Muslim households. A well-structured questionnaire was used to collect primary data, which was administered personally to the rural Muslim community in Dakshina Kannada district. A stratified random sampling technique was adopted and secondary data were collected from government officials. The study considered 398 rural Muslim community respondents from five taluks of Dakshina Kannada District. The study found that income and number of dependents in a family play an important role in attributing consumption and savings behavior.

2025, Journal of Curriculum Studies

When working to connect homogeneous curricula with heterogeneous groups of pupils, teachers have to sort pupils according to the categories allowed for in the national school system. In this article, we compare German organizational differentiation, where pupils are divided into stable groups, to Norwegian pedagogical differentiation, where instruction is adapted to the pupils within the common classroom. This study is qualitative and explorative; the method employed is a modification of philosophical phenomenology, and the theoretical discussion is pedagogical-philosophical and educational-sociological. When teachers from these two systems reflect upon the equality of opportunity of their system, categories of educable versus uneducable pupils materialize. The individual teacher's academic background, combined with a heavily theoretical curriculum, creates a culturally delimited learning environment. This can be critical for pupils with non-academic dispositions or cultural perspectives. The question is whether the systems that employ ostensibly democratic differentiation principles legitimize an educational dictatorship, perpetuating an undemocratic understanding of knowledge and learning.

2025, Journal of Curriculum Studies

2025, Higher Education Center For Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention

2025, jsd-africa.com

Drawing from interviews, questionnaire responses, and information generated through documentary sources, this paper attempts to examine the part played by different actors in policymaking in the education sector in Ethiopia. It recognizes the prevalence of a range of constraints that accentuated the woes of the key stakeholders in the education system (teachers and students) that, in turn, militated against the effective education policy implementation. Wedged between inadequate managerial and institutional capacity, on the one hand, and hostile politico-administrative milieu on the other, the policy and the Education Sector Development Program (ESDP) appeared to make very little headway. Due mainly to the opacity shrouding decision-making in the education system, the policy and the program ran the risk of being perceived illegitimate. The way forward is to engage the relevant public more fully in the decision-making process and institute mechanisms of genuine participation so much that the quality of educational services and the actual control of policy decisions by the relevant stakeholders would be ensured. In other words, this is a quest for a shift from users of policies, to a more active engagement of citizens in the making and shaping of policies that affect their lives.

2025, Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education

In this paper we outline the philosophy and research foundations underpinning the development of CaBan – an Initial Teacher Education (ITE) Partnership developed for the purpose of educating the teachers of tomorrow for North Wales. CaBan represents an ambitious 'learning partnership' of five partners consisting of regional schools, Bangor University, University of Chester, the regional school improvement service (GwE), and the Collaborative Institute for Education Research, Evidence and Impact (CIEREI). Each partner plays a key role in fulfilling our ambitions to contribute to Our National Mission and achieve our vision of 'Growing Tomorrow's Teachers Together.' At its core, the goal of CaBan is to support our new Associate Teachers (ATs) to become creative, inspiring and highly skilled teachers who will contribute to the delivery of A curriculum for Wales – a curriculum for life (Welsh Government, 2015). In this paper we outline: (i) our basic vision and missio...

2025, Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies

2025, International Journal of Higher Education

The issue of research within the Greek Universities pushes forward the learning and maturation procedure through action, a procedure that will change the framework of the University Community function by developing, on the basis of a rational reorganization, structural relationships with society. This study presents and analyzes the state of scientific research in the Greek university in the present unfavourable economic and social era. In this paper are analyzed inter alia, the structural malfunctions of the Greek university structures, the interaction between academic research and politics, the ethics and the good practices related to the scientific research in Greece.

2025, Journal of Marketing & Social Research

In the rapidly evolving global education landscape, Knowledge Management (KM) has emerged as a strategic necessity for higher education institutions (HEIs). This study investigates the dynamics of KM in the Indian HEI contex analysing technological, cultural, and organisational enablers and obstacles. Drawing on a wealthy literature base and levelheaded in empirical and conceptual models, the take a look at examines how information control (KM) practices effect coaching fine, research productivity, institutional performance, and stakeholder engagement. Using a blended-strategies approach and an exploratory studies design, the paper identifies quality practices, addresses gaps in present frameworks, and gives actionable strategies for Indian HEIs. The findings underline the need for tailored KM systems that address the unique socio-cultural and infrastructural contexts of Indian institutions to foster innovation, operational agility, and lengthy-term competitiveness.

2025

When we first conceived of the idea of the Critical Discussions about Social Inclusion Forum-the word critical was at the forefront in our minds. We wanted to create an opportunity to critically reflect on the ways in which the most recent social inclusion agenda might be understood and acted upon while being attentive to the ways in which" doing" social inclusion might inadvertently reproduce or manifest other forms of social exclusion. We also wanted to discuss what doing social inclusion might mean for our work as ...

2025

This story about contemporary US science policy really begins as all great stories do: with the routine reauthorization of existing legislation. Congress' passage in 2010 of the America COMPETES Act reauthorization contained few revisions and only a handful of additions to the original text. One such addition concerned the federal funding of basic scientific research through government agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Congress now requires empirical evidence that significant returns on research investmentswhich these days amounts to more than $72 billion annually in taxpayer moneyare indeed being realized in the form of benefits to society generally. Research outcomes, such as published materials or new technologies, are now being evaluated for the impact they have upon society outside of the scientific community.

2025

2025, Proceedings of the 23rd International Academic Conference, Venice

The purposes of this paper were to present a general overview of the background of Myanmar higher education, the higher education policy formulation, and the faced challenges related to its higher educational policies for promoting ASEAN community. In order to achieve the purposes, two research methods; documentary research and in-depth interviews were employed. The purposive random sampling was used to select the participants. The key informants were the executives in higher educational policy setting and the stakeholders. The data were analyzed by content analysis. The study demonstrated that higher institutions in Myanmar have been under the supervision of 13 ministries and are allocated budgets by Ministry of Education. At the same time, the universities are concerned with their own governance, administration, and respective ministries. The findings showed that the policy development process of the higher education has gradually transition from the highly centralized to be the part of the participation of many relevant groups from educational stakeholders. The research also revealed the faced challenges related to Myanmar higher educational policies for promoting ASEAN community. The major challenges were concern with student equity, access, autonomy and choices; language; information technology and facilities; human resource; financial; research; and quality assurance and credit transfer.

2025, Nuova Secondaria. Mensile di cultura, ricerca pedagogica e orientamenti didattici

This paper aims to shed light on the relationship between institutions and the control of school staff in the first half of the twentieth century. It has been decided to combine an analysis of the legislative evolution with two exemplary cases for the Italian context: the control over masonic teachers at the dawn of the fascist regime and over professors of communist tendencies in the early 50s in a provincial capital.

2025

Aim: This study investigated the intentions, opportunities, and barriers to engaging in a meaningful internationalization of higher education in Malawi. Methods: This was cross-sectional research that was done between June and October 2021. Using a purposive (judgmental) sampling, we recruited 212 respondents from various institutions of higher education in Malawi. Multilinear regression analysis was used to analyze the factors with the P-value set at 0.05 level of statistical significance. Results: The results indicated that the majority of the respondents were males (63.7%) who fell into 30 years age bracket. Further, the results from the multilinear regression analysis indicate that Institutional collaboration (ß=0.326, p=0.000, CI=0.27—0.383), clear Policy on Mobility (ß=0.146, p=0.0.004, CI=0.047-0.246), experience (ß=0.083, p=0.117, CI=-0.021-0.186), academic rank (ß=0.114, p=0.000, CI=0.069-0.159) were positively statistically significant variables, whereas on the other hand,...

2025, Proceedings of the 17th National IQAC Conference (I-CON) on “Role of Higher Educational Institutions in Viksit Bharat 2047: Strategies, Opportunities and Challenges”2025, ISBN NO: 978-81-983354-9-4

It has been a decade since academic autonomy was introduced in Kerala (2014) with the aim of enhancing institutional flexibility, curriculum innovation, and governance efficiency. Over this period (2014-2024), autonomy has provided colleges with greater control over academic policies, evaluation methods, and student-centric initiatives. Yet, its impact on research productivity, faculty development, and industry collaboration remains inconsistent. Many autonomous institutions continue to face challenges such as limited research funding, inadequate infrastructure, and burdensome documentation requirements, which have affected their national rankings and overall competitiveness. Additionally, the steady decline in student enrolment and the increasing migration of students to other states and countries raise concerns about the long-term sustainability of Kerala's higher education institutions. As India moves towards Viksit Bharat 2047, autonomous colleges must prioritize curriculum modernization, research enhancement, industry partnerships, and institutional accountability. Addressing these challenges will be essential in transforming Kerala's autonomous colleges into globally competitive centres of knowledge and innovation.

2025

The Statement is intended to guide lecturers and course leaders in the design of academic courses leading to qualifications in architecture, it will also be useful to those developing other related courses. Higher education providers may need to consider other reference points in addition to this Statement in designing, delivering and reviewing courses. These may include requirements set out by the Architects Registration Board (ARB), the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE). Providers may also need to consider industry or employer expectations. Individual higher education providers will decide how they use this information. The broad subject of architecture is both academic and vocational. The bachelor's award for architecture is the first stage of the typical education of an architect. This is typically either a BSc or a BA degree. The second stage of academic qualification is a master's level de...

2025, foundry

How do tensions between refuge and its refusals shape the nature of university labor, especially in light of recent upheavals? From the protest encampments on UC campuses to memory landscapes of Iran and trans activists in South America, UC PhD students in UCHRI's 2023-24 map the search for refuge from local to global. What the recent social movements on campuses demonstrate is an opportunity to purposefully rethink institutional values and their alignment with the material conditions under which knowledge work takes place. In the past decade, narratives of global and international higher education have suffused American colleges and universities. Aimed at cultivating global citizenship among new generations of college graduates, American universities have never been more "global." Their most visible symbols are proliferating educational outposts granting American degrees across futuristic global cities like Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Shanghai, and Qatar's Education City (which boasts a growing list of American degree offerings from institutions including Virginia Commonwealth, Weill Cornell Medicine, Texas A&M, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, and Northwestern). Nearly all American universities have statements of internationalization, as does my institution, UC Santa Cruz, which participated in the American Council on Education's (2018-2020), aimed at systematically internationalizing American colleges and universities and cultivating global communities of scholars beyond borders. John Sexton, past president of my undergraduate alma mater NYU and visionary educational internationalist, memorably NYU's globalist re-fashioning as creating a sanctuary of global learning. In his utopian imaginings of universities unbound, disparate communities of learning find hope in an interconnected world, while resisting the exclusionary forces of nativism and nationalism. There is a jarring disconnect between this self-constructed image of global sanctuaries of learning and flourishing, and the widespread assault and crackdown on solidarity encampments across university campuses in the US that characterized the spring of 2024. Across both coasts and beyond, students decrying their institutions' collusion with the Israeli occupation of Gaza and Palestine publicly staged protests in solidarity to remind us of our collective moral responsibilities while learning and working at knowledge institutions in the US, a powerful Israeli ally.

2025

Discursive institutionalism and its contribution to curriculum research. This article develops the argument that discursive institutionalism is a constructive contribution to curriculum research. Starting from the linguistic turn in curriculum theory, it is argued that discursive institutionalism contributes to curriculum research in at least two ways: First, it contributes to the understanding of the institutionalisation of curriculum discourses, and second, it contributes to the analyses of the interactions within and between curriculum arenas and institutional levels. The article concludes that in combining an interest for discursive interaction, discursive content and the actors involved in interactions, discursive institutionalism enables dynamic analyses of both curriculum change and continuity.

2025

Higher education institutions have a mandate to serve the public good, yet in many cases fail to adequately respond to the global climate crisis. The inability of academic institutions to commit to purposeful climate action through targeted research, education, outreach, and policy is due in large part to "capture" by special interests. Capture involves powerful minority interests that exert influence and derive benefits at the expense of a larger group or purpose. This paper makes a conceptual contribution to advance a framework of "academic capture" applied to the climate crisis in higher education institutions. Academic capture is the result of the three contributing factors of increasing financialization issues, influence of the fossil fuel industry, and reticence of university employees to challenge the status quo. The framework guides an empirical assessment evaluating eight activities and related indices of transparency and participation based on principles of climate justice and the growing democracy-climate nexus. The framework can be a helpful tool for citizens and academics to assess the potential for academic capture and capacity for more just and democratic methods of climate action in higher education. We conclude with a series of recommendations on how to refine and apply our framework and assessment in academic settings. Our goal is to further the discussion on academic capture and continue to develop tools that transform higher education institutions to places of deep democracy and innovative climate education, research, and outreach to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene.

2025, Университеты в современной России: самоуправление и университетская автономия

2025, Journal of International Students

The present study examines the factors influencing international students’ intentions to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Our results showed that attitude toward GenAI use, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, enjoyment, subjective norms, novelty, trust in technology, perceived value, and AI literacy were positively associated with intention to use GenAI. Fear of plagiarism had a negative relationship with intention to use GenAI. Our mediation analysis suggested that trust in technology, perceived ease of use, fear of plagiarism, perceived usefulness, and AI literacy indirectly influenced GenAI usage intention via attitude and perceived value, underscoring both the appeal and concerns of GenAI in learning. This study contributed to the TPB, VAM, and TAM frameworks by incorporating fear of plagiarism, trust in technology, and AI literacy to demonstrate how cognitive, affective, and value-based factors collectively influence the adoption of GenAI technologies among international students.

2025, Language, Literature, and Culture in Education 2024: Conference Papers

As business communication increasingly depends on advanced English skills tailored to specific professional contexts, Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents new possibilities for developing Business English writing competencies within English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This paper provides an integrative review of existing literature on the use of generative AI for enhancing business writing skills. The main objectives of the paper are to (1) identify how generative AI tools have been utilised to support the development of ESP writing skills (2) evaluate the effectiveness of these tools, and (3) identify research gaps to suggest future study directions. Following an integrative review methodology, this study gathers publications accessed through databases including Web of Science, Scopus, and others. Through content analysis, this review examines insights on how generative AI can provide tailored instructional support, real-time feedback, and context-specific writing practice. The results reveal that generative AI tools, such as text generation models and conversational agents, offer useful benefits in assisting ESP learners with drafting, editing, and refining their business writing production. These tools provide personalised language models that simulate business communication styles, generate contextually appropriate suggestions, and allow immersive practice. Alongside that, certain challenges need to be addressed, such as ensuring contextual relevance, enhancing the accuracy of language use in specific communicative situations, and addressing the ethical implications of AI in learning environments.

2025

Política de Igualdad, No Discriminacíon y Diversidad
Promueve el respeto, la equidad y la inclusión dentro de todos los espacios y actividades institucionales.

2025, NAAC bangalore

Our imperfect world is advancing relentlessly towards uncertain future
scenarios, andwe must try to redirect it towards sustainability, that is,
towards a new way of doing things in order to improve our environment
while at the same time achieving justice, social equality and economic
stability. However change is impossible without learning, just as learning
is impossible without change. The present paper is an attempt to analyze
the need of education in modern society and identify the problems that
higher educationfaces.

2025, Ijcams Publication

Since education promotes social and economic advancement, a nation\'s school and college levels require a well-defined and futuristic education strategy. "India has designed and planned to adopt a new education strategy throughout the next decade of the twenty-first century called the Indian National Education Policy under the direction of its current government and an expert committee with people from various backgrounds (NEP-2020)". Practitioners and the general public are familiar with the aims, goals, and specifics. To give everyone access to high-quality primary and secondary education as well as postsecondary education and have the expectation of comprehensive and research-oriented advancement, NEP-2020 is an innovative and futuristic plan with both positive and negative features. This paper begins with an overview of NEP-2020, identifies the policy\'s strengths and weaknesses in the higher education and research sectors, evaluates the implementation recommendations made in the procedure, and identifies and analyses potential generic strategies for NEP-2020 implementation to achieve its goals based on focus group discussions.

2025, UNIVERSITY NEWS

In recent years, India has witnessed a significant influx of foreign educational institutions, which has contributed to the diversification and enrichment of its educational environment. the presence and impact of foreign educational institutions in India, highlighting their contributions, challenges and the evolving dynamics of the Indian education sector.

2025

Las habilidades blandas son clave para mejorar la calidad educativa, lo que
beneficiará a los estudiantes, a las empresas y a los sectores en los que se
integren, así como a las instituciones de educación superior, como el Centro
Universitario de los Altos (CUAltos) de la Universidad de Guadalajara
(udg). Los efectos de esta mejora se verán reflejados en la economía del
país, destacando la importancia de la calidad educativa en el crecimiento y
el cambio de una nación.
Sin embargo, la ciencia y la tecnología avanzan a un ritmo que supera
la capacidad de asimilación por parte del ser humano, dando lugar a una
superespecialización en todos los ámbitos de la vida. Cada vez es más co
mún encontrar expertos altamente especializados en campos específicos,
lo cual tiene ventajas e inconvenientes.

2025, Higher Education Policy

Despite the importance of trustees as leaders in US higher education institutions, our knowledge and understanding of their behavior is limited. This is increasingly problematic as trustees engage more directly with institutions as institutional boundaries have become more porous. We utilize social network analysis and document analysis of exchanges to explore trustees' involvement in a qualitative comparative case study of four elite US research universities. We draw on the microfoundations tradition of neoinstitutional theory to frame and evaluate how the actions of these individuals reproduce, expand and reorganize these institutions and their boundaries. Results show that these leaders are heavily involved with the universities they govern, but in widely varied ways and to different degrees. We inductively derive two forms of trusteeshiptraditional trusteeship (e.g., governance) and expanded trusteeship (e.g., capacity building and collaborative partnerships) -that occur unevenly across our four institutions. These findings demonstrate that the nature of trusteeship at US research universities varies across institutions in profound ways that have substantial consequences for their boundaries, behaviors, and governance as well as the organizational stratification in the field of US higher education. Higher Education Policy (2020).