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Winter, Emma; Thompson-Whiteside, Helen – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2017
The fiercely competitive HE market has led HEIs to invest significant resources in building a distinct identity. An HEI's location forms an inherent part of its identity and the uniqueness of location offers an opportunity to differentiate. However there has been limited examination of how location is used by HEIs and little consideration of how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, School Location
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van der Sluis, Hendrik; Burden, Penny; Huet, Isabel – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
Raising the quality and profile of teaching and student learning is something universities across the UK are aspiring to achieve in order to maintain reputations. Currently, the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) provides a standard by which academic staff can gain professional recognition for their academic practice and many UK…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Influences, Recognition (Achievement), Fellowships
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Altson, Catherine; Loewenthal, Del; Gaitanidis, Anastasios; Thomas, Rhiannon – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2015
The research aimed to investigate the national Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme, from the perspective of "non-IAPT" counsellors and psychotherapists working within IAPT services. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with therapists who were currently working within IAPT services, but had no formal…
Descriptors: Therapy, Semi Structured Interviews, Psychotherapy, Discourse Analysis
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Jones, Paul; Forbes-Simpson, Kellie; Maas, Gideon; Newbery, Robert – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
This paper reports on an evaluation of a funded undergraduate project designed to enable student business start-up. The programme, entitled "Beta", provides undergraduate students with £1,500 of seed-corn funding. The key objective of the project is for the participants to exit it with a viable and legal business entity through which…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Entrepreneurship, Business Skills, Food
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Abukari, Abdulai – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2014
This paper presents findings of a research project that aimed to critically examine the pedagogical beliefs of work-based learning teachers, and their potential implication on practice and expectations of learners and employers. Based on an online tool, qualitative and quantitative (descriptive) data were generated from a purposive sample of some…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Teacher Attitudes, Research Projects, Qualitative Research
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Jones, Paul; Jones, Amanda; Skinner, Heather; Packham, Gary – Industry and Higher Education, 2013
This study profiles, through a case study of an undergraduate business programme, how a business school has embedded the theme of enterprise in its core undergraduate programme. Key participants in the development of the strategy and programme tutors and students were interviewed, to provide information for an analysis of the principle objectives…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Business Administration Education, Entrepreneurship, Skill Development