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A possibility of applying modern quality management methods to improve the efficiency of financial activities of higher education institutions is considered in this paper. Quality management can be applied not only to the production of goods or services, but also to improve the quality of any process. Accordingly some aspects of quality management can be applied to the financial processes of the university...
This article presents the results of an investigation that aims to analyze the differences between programming languages required by companies in the Costa Rican labor market versus current programming languages offered by the academy. It also shows the main factors to consider new graduates in this specific area of information and communication technologies to be hired. The study finds that there...
The article reviews current research issues concerning the latest information technologies for effective virtual representation of a Higher Educational Institution, which serve to create its positive informational image in the global world community. The information activities of the university departments and offices are analyzed. The methods identifying university departments with low production...
Models and main principles of cooperation between the social partners of the state, business and society in the process of educational projects realization are formulated. The ways of developing mechanisms and instruments of cooperation between social partners in the institutional environment of are offered.
For one hand, graduates students from university cannot find a job. For another, enterprises cannot find a proper employee. This embarrassing situation needs university make reform from traditional structure of education in China. We need to do something to change this phenomenon. This article focuses on integration of education and industry, it is one method try to solve this problem.
The universities strategy in the context of environment changes e.g. changes of technologies, policies, markets, users etc. has to reflect them as well as formulate the steps, partial objectives and tasks for assuring its position on market. It requires the quality of education, quality of research, the intensive relations with industries and other subjects, fostering relationships with partners as...
What sort of care should a university take for student-athletes? To answer the question and to consider the future educational strategy are one of big issues for many universities. The authors created a questionnaire which consists of 77 questions with multiple choice form. We collected the responses from 100 student-athletes and 141 other students. The present paper analyzed the characteristic features...
This paper is a short story of my adventures of the past 20 years trying to integrate academic research with software engineering problems in industry. I share the challenges I encountered on the way, my failures and successes, evolution of my research, and its adoption in industry. Though I faced many hardships, I feel great satisfaction in knowing that my research is applied today in the design...
Capacity building in space engineering is vital process to space development at both the national and international levels. Long term sustainability is also vital to the future space activities. This is a key theme of the discussions in global space forums such as UNCOPUOS. The issue of increasing density of debris in orbit is very relevant to nano-satellite activities at university level. The University...
The main focus of this work is to investigate the predictors of knowledge management (KM) behavior among university academics within the prevailing organizational climate. The KM behavior has been operationalized using SECI process (components of knowledge creation theory). A hypothetical research framework has been developed based on TRA, TPB and some related previous works. Survey based quantitative...
Young teachers in colleges and universities usually play important role as main force of college teaching, as well as the mentor of young students. But not only that, they also act as the participants and transferees of social civilization. Under the new situation, the realization of the young-teacher-career-development system would become an important issue in the development of higher education...
The cloud computing paradigm is having its moment of glory. A number of enterprises are adopting the cloud computing platform to experience the benefits of self serviced, user guided, rapidly scalable and flexible environment. The time is right for the educational universities also to derive benefits of the cloud as these institutions are obliged to deliver better ubiquitous services to students with...
Study skills summarize activities of self-regulated personalized learning and working that are important for successfully completing a study degree e.g. time management or teamwork. Since one of the main reasons for dropping out of university is the lack of proper study skills in students, German universities offer various support programs to help building up study skills at the beginning of the studies...
The smart campus framework that is currently available does not fully suit African universities, there is a need to develop a framework that will be more suitable for African universities. It is often found that the framework used in European universities is modified to suit African universities. To address this need a South African university was used as a case study and the results show the strength...
Quality assurance (QA) in education of university management is one of the main concerns for every university in Thailand. The royal Thai government (RTG) has assigned the Office of the Higher Education Commission (OHEC) to regulate the OHEC QA standard and has used it for controlling the educational quality of each school in universities working under its control. Therefore, every university in Thailand...
Standing research regarding collaborations between universities and the public/private sector highlights promising benefits for both stakeholders involved. However, as of now, such collaboration is still rare and needs therefore further investigation. This qualitative case study takes up two main purposes. Firstly, it explores Information Technology (IT) needs and challenges in Mozambique for governmental...
We will be discussing how using robotics in two university courses helped students relate the topics learned in class to applications in real life of those topics. The changes introduced in the course structure created a different atmosphere in class and the way the students faced the newly learned topics.
Universities are required to prepare the best quality graduate. Therefore, they will be ready to contend and to be an ambitious individual in the real world. All graduates are judged by their Grade Point Average (GPA). Therefore, in Indonesia, it is critical to maintaining a good GPA from the first semester until the graduation. Although the student is the main actor, it is not only their job to maintain...
M-learning plays a progressively significant role in the advancement of teaching and learning in higher education. However, the effective implementation of m-learning in higher education will be based on users' experiences and motivation to use this technology. Though m-learning has become global, developing countries such as Nigeria are yet to enjoy the full potential offered by m-learning. This...
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