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Karim, Mohammed Shamsul; Sena, Vania; Hart, Mark – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
This study addressed the question of how the counterfactual thinking of a student in an entrepreneurial university affects his/her future entrepreneurial career intention. In addition to testing this relationship, we also test how counterfactual thinking moderates the influence of attitude and opportunity identification in entrepreneurial career…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Futures (of Society), Career Choice, Intention
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Luque-Martínez, Teodoro; Faraoni, Nina – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
University rankings have proliferated in recent years and have been diverse, with a variety of profiles. This paper deals with the task of obtaining one single summarized ranking based on a selection of the most widely known rankings, in short, a meta-ranking. Five of the best-known rankings were selected and a database compiled with the major…
Descriptors: Universities, Institutional Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Databases
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Yu, Qionglei; Asaad, Yousra; Yen, Dorothy A.; Gupta, Suraksha – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
This study extends our knowledge of internal branding in the context of employees in the higher education sector. Employing a quantitative methodology in UK universities, a conceptual model is presented and tested on 235 employees. Internal market orientation (IMO) is examined as a management tool to drive employees' university brand commitment…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Marketing, Student Recruitment, Foreign Countries
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Thiele, Tamara; Singleton, Alexander; Pope, Daniel; Stanistreet, Debbi – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Students' trajectories into university are often uniquely dependent on school qualifications though these alone are limited as predictors of academic potential. This study endorses this, examining associations between school grades, school type, school performance, socio-economic deprivation, neighbourhood participation, sex and academic…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Croxford, Linda; Raffe, David – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper maps the main dimensions of differentiation among institutions and "faculties" (subject areas within institutions) of higher education in the United Kingdom. It does so through a principal components analysis based on the characteristics of applicants and entrants. A single status dimension accounts for a quarter of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Social Class, Educational Background
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Aditomo, Anindito; Goodyear, Peter; Bliuc, Ana-Maria; Ellis, Robert A. – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Learning through inquiry is a widely advocated pedagogical approach. However, there is currently little systematic knowledge about the practice of inquiry-based learning (IBL) in higher education. This study examined descriptions of learning tasks that were put forward as examples of IBL by 224 university teachers from various disciplines in three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Inquiry, Active Learning