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Elliott, Caroline; Soo, Kwok Tong – Education Economics, 2016
This paper explores the impact of various Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme attributes on the average post-MBA salary of graduates, contributing to the literature on the returns to an MBA degree, which to date has instead focused predominantly on the impact of individual student traits. The analysis uses a new panel dataset,…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Salaries, Reputation
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Ashour, Sanaa; Fatima, Syeda Kauser – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
The paper examines the inherent strengths and weaknesses of the higher education system in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Using a literature review, three elements were examined: its development and structure, quality, and research capacity. The findings reveal that the UAE's higher education sector has witnessed remarkable growth since 1997,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Development, Educational Quality
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Okpara, Gazie S.; Agu, Agu G. – Marketing Education Review, 2017
Nonregular higher education in Nigeria became an integral part of the university manpower development since 1960, when the Ashby Commission recommended establishing evening degree programs. These ubiquitous programs have contributed to national capacity-building and remain relatively unmonitored by the National Universities Commission. This…
Descriptors: Marketing, Educational Quality, Governance, Universities
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Jung, Jisun; Lee, Soo Jeung – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
Obtaining a tertiary degree no longer guarantees entry to the best occupational positions in today's labour market. Success is no longer about "more" education, but about "better" education for university graduates. This study aims to understand whether university prestige in Korea accounts for occupational outcomes in both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Reputation, Influences
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Liu, Ping; Huang, Xu – Higher Education Studies, 2017
This study adopts the revised interpersonal model of metadiscourse to discover whether and to what extent Chinese authors employ a varying amount of Interactional Metadiscourse (IM) in the past decade in English abstracts of economics Research Articles (RAs). The data was drawn from a prestigious economics journal in China to compose a corpus of…
Descriptors: Economics, Research Reports, Discourse Analysis, Chinese
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Collyer, Fran – Critical Studies in Education, 2013
The relationships between disciplines and the institutions within which they are situated is a fertile area for researching the shaping of sociological knowledge. Applying theoretical insights from the sociology of knowledge, this article draws on an empirical study of research publications in the sociology of health and medicine to show which…
Descriptors: Reputation, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Correlation