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Berggren, Caroline; Olofsson, Anders – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
European Union policies emphasise the importance of entrepreneurship and self-employment to maintain economic growth, a solution influenced by the USA and research from schools of business. There are expectations of higher education graduates that they are innovative, will start businesses and will employ others. However, transferring a solution…
Descriptors: Self Employment, Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, Gender Differences
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Bourgeois, Jeff; Zare, Sara – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Reflective of the growing efforts to advance institutional missions and aspirations of increased internationalization, foreign-born leadership educators (FbLEs) add a global dimension to the student learning experience and the ethos of the academic departments in which they work. Leadership departments, specifically, benefit from multiculturally…
Descriptors: Foreign Nationals, Leadership Training, College Faculty, Networks
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Li Zhao; Junjie Peng; Xinchen Yang; Weihao Yan; Shiqi Ke; Kanza Batool; Yaxin Li; Kang Lee – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Academic cheating is a pervasive problem in many universities globally. The present double-blind randomized controlled field experiment tested whether reminding university students about academic dishonesty sanction policies would reduce their cheating in an actual exam. Students were assigned to either a Sanction Reminder or a No Reminder…
Descriptors: Cheating, Ethics, Discipline Problems, Discipline Policy
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Yang, Lili – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
The idea of the public good of higher education is closely related to the political, social and educational cultures in which higher education is embedded. It varies across contexts. However, widely used notions of the 'public' aspects of higher education, including the concepts of economic public goods and private goods, conventionally assume…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Role of Education, Public Policy, Discourse Analysis
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De Leersnyder, Jozefien; Gündemir, Seval; Agirdag, Orhan – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Students in higher education are increasingly part of international classrooms. While these classrooms have the potential to catalyze learning, they also come with lower senses of inclusion and psychological safety--factors that are crucial for learning. In the current study, we empirically test a contextual model in which these psychological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Foreign Students, International Cooperation
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Owusu-Agyeman, Yaw; Fourie-Malherbe, Magda – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
The development of the knowledge and skills of students can only be complete when the tenets of civic engagement are inculcated in them to respond to the needs of society. However, due to the weakening role of higher education institutions to develop a university ethos that stimulate civic interest and participation among students, it has become…
Descriptors: Student Participation, College Students, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education
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Diniz, António M.; Alfonso, Sonia; Araújo, Alexandra M.; Deaño, Manuel; Costa, Alexandra R.; Conde, Ângeles; Almeida, Leandro S. – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Based on a multidimensional definition of academic expectations (AEs), the authors examine students' AE component scores across countries and genders. Two samples (343 Portuguese and 358 Spanish students) completed the Academic Perceptions Questionnaire (APQ) six months after enrolling in their universities. Factorial invariance was ensured across…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, College Freshmen, Expectation, Cross Cultural Studies
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Conroy, Kieran M.; McCarthy, Lucy – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
International work placements are an increasingly important way for universities to enhance their internationalisation strategies and develop student learning. However, the increase in student mobility internationally has not been paralleled in the level of support received from the university when undertaking international placements. Using an…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Business Schools
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Ooms, Ward; Werker, Claudia; Hopp, Christian – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
We look into the question whether heterogeneity stemming from research orientation, gender, or disciplinary and cultural differences with their PhD supervisors helps or hampers academics' careers. Based on a sample of 248 academics at two leading European universities of technology, we combine multinomial logit models and sequential logit models…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Doctoral Programs, Mentors, College Faculty
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Mei Lai – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
This paper focuses on an emerging group in Chinese higher education -- students in transnational higher education (TNHE). Recent research has documented much about students' motivations for attending TNHE institutions. However, the impact of such institutions on student outputs remains under-researched. This study conducted interviews with 78…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Global Approach, Higher Education
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Gibson, Anne; Spira-Cohen, Ezra; Sherman, Whitney; Namaste, Nina – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
This study examines what factors contribute to intercultural learning during the study abroad experience, drawing on Mezirow's theory of transformative learning and data from the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). Using data from 1,858 US students studying abroad in 27 countries over 6 years (2014-2020), this study constitutes the largest…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Transformative Learning, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context
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Tawash, E.; Anand, E.; Holden, C. E.; Hughes, J.; Maddison, W. – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This paper focuses on the challenges of transition experienced by local high school graduates of the Arabic school system in the Kingdom of Bahrain, in the Middle East, as they are shaped into the person of a professional nurse through a Western model of nursing education. It investigates the elements that comprise a Bahraini student's first-year…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Foreign Countries, Arabs, Nursing Education
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Islam, Md Asadul; Hack-Polay, Dieu; Rahman, Mahfuzur; Jantan, Amer Hamzah; Dal Mas, Francesca; Kordowicz, Maria – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
The study examines the personal, social, and organizational barriers facing women in university leadership positions in South Asia, building on the cases of Malaysia and Bangladesh. We discussed the topic through the lens of interactionist feminist theory. Semi-structured interviews with 20 female deans from 12 public universities in Malaysia and…
Descriptors: Barriers, Females, Women Administrators, Higher Education
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Antoniadou, Marilena; Quinlan, Kathleen M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Transnational academic mobility is of growing importance in higher education. Yet, the acculturation for individual academics is challenging. Taking a phenomenological approach, we interviewed twenty foreign-born academics, who had been living and working in the UK for at least one year, and analysed their emotional experiences of acculturation by…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Acculturation, Emotional Experience, Immigrants
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Horta, Hugo; Li, Huan – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Publication pressure is perceived to be filtering down into doctoral education worldwide. We explore the causes and effects of the perceived centrality of publishing among doctoral students, emphasising the impact of publication pressure on students' identity trajectories. We draw on a qualitative analysis of 90 mainland Chinese doctoral students…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Doctoral Students, Foreign Countries, Publish or Perish Issue
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