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McAlister, Anne M.; Lilly, Sarah; Chiu, Jennifer L. – Science Education, 2022
We explore how physical science doctoral students navigate their role identities throughout their graduate programme. Physical science doctoral students take on many academic roles in addition to the role of scientist, including researcher, educator, and student. When social expectations of roles become internalized, they become role identities.…
Descriptors: Student Role, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Self Concept
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Overberg, Jasmin; Ala-Vähälä, Timo – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Even though quality assurance has played a role in European higher education for decades by now, it is still a topic of great discord. While several studies have focused on the initiation phase of quality assurance, little attention has been paid to the question on how attitudes towards quality assurance in higher education change over time. This…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Higher Education
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Pringle, James; Fritz, Samantha – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2019
Recent economic pressures have demanded higher education institutions respond with strong, authentic brand promises. This mixed method multi-case study explored the authenticity of common brand promises at three Universities in Canada through Twitter and Facebook postings from February to April 2016 using a cloud-based text and network analytic…
Descriptors: Social Media, Marketing, Universities, Foreign Countries
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Posselt, Julie R. – Review of Higher Education, 2018
Privileging elite academic pedigrees in graduate admissions preserves racial and socioeconomic inequities that many institutions say they wish to reduce. To understand this preference, I integrate across perspectives on trust in rational choice, social capital, and social network theories, and use the resulting framework to interpret 68 interviews…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Ambiguity (Context)
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Mothe, Josiane; Sahut, Gilles – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2018
Introduction: Whether Wikipedia is to be considered a trusted source is frequently questioned in France. This paper reports the results of a survey examining the levels of trust shown by young people aged eleven to twenty-five. Method: We analyse the answers given by 841 young people, aged eleven to twenty-five, to a questionnaire. To our…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Encyclopedias, Electronic Publishing, Information Sources
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Rowlands, Julie – Quality in Higher Education, 2013
While much research on quality assurance in higher education has centred on issues related to the impact on teaching and learning and academic staff, there is a significant gap in the area of quality assurance and academic governance. Within Australia the roles of university academic boards (also known as academic senates or faculty senates) have…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance
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Al-Alawi, Yaser; Al-Kaabi, Dheya; Rashdan, Suad; Al-Khaleefa, Lobna – Quality in Higher Education, 2009
In recent years, Bahrain has taken serious actions to diversify its sources of income and solve major national problems such as unemployment. Through this process it discovered that one of the main factors for its economic problems was the quality of higher education on offer. This led to the creation of a national Quality Assurance Authority that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, National Standards, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
Stephen, Arthur – Currents, 1999
Describes the way in which Wilfrid Laurier University (Ontario), an institution that had worked hard to improve its programs and reputation, addressed a disappointing ranking in a national news magazine. In cooperation with other educators, administrators, and institutional researchers, the university undertook a successful project to have the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Administration, Comparative Analysis
Thelin, John R. – 1980
Case studies and historical notes are presented to suggest that the seemingly clear and familiar categories (including "college,""university,""public," and "private") carry legacies of complicated origins and connotations. According to conventional wisdom and popular belief, the typical state university is…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Role, Colleges, Comparative Analysis