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Hack-Polay, Dieu; Igwe, Paul Agu; Okolie, Ugochukwu Chinonso – Industry and Higher Education, 2020
The experiment tested overconfidence in number skills among British graduates and non-graduates. The data were collected at a residential management training programme for part-time professional students. The aim of the research was to test whether graduate professionals, due to their higher qualifications, overstated their numeracy abilities…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Numeracy, Part Time Students, Management Development
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Kember, David; Ho, Amaly; Leung, Doris Y. P. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2016
There is a need for a questionnaire designed specifically to evaluate taught postgraduate (TPg) awards for quality assurance or enhancement purposes. Comparison of undergraduate and TPg awards suggests that as the former have broadened their ambit to better nurture generic graduate attributes, TPg awards have concentrated on advanced specialised…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes
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Gregor Torkar – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2015
Studying attitudes toward fauna such as snakes is essential in wildlife management. The main objective of this study was to investigate the impact that fear of snakes has on Slovenian pre-service teachers' attitudes towards conservation and the likelihood of incorporating animals into developing the future science curriculum. The effect of direct…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Zoology, Wildlife, Preservice Teachers
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Retna, Kala S. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
A body of literature asserts that group work can be beneficial in enhancing learning and in developing specific skills among students. This research builds on the literature and on Gardner's (2006a) five notions of mindsets: disciplined, synthesising, creation, ethical and respectful, as a descriptive framework to explore and understand the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Group Dynamics, Part Time Students, Student Attitudes
Butcher, John – Higher Education Academy, 2015
This research set out to investigate the part-time student experience of higher education across the United Kingdom, in the context of a well-publicised contraction in the sector, and increasing divergence between policies affecting part-time study in the four nations. In order to explore the part-time student experience in England, Scotland, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Part Time Students, College Students, Student Attitudes
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2015
The January 2015 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) "60 Second Survey" asked respondents to indicate their institutions' international student recruiting practices. As with other 60 Second Surveys, the survey was distributed through the FluidSurveys platform to all AACRAO members. After…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Foreign Students, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
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Scully, Glennda; Kerr, Rosemary – Accounting Education, 2014
This study reports the results of a survey of student study times and perceptions of workload in undergraduate and graduate accounting courses at a large Australian public university. The study was in response to student feedback expressing concerns about workload in courses. The presage factors of student workload and assessment in Biggs' 3P…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, College Students, Student Surveys, Study Habits
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Rowlands, Kate; Avramenko, Alex – Education Sciences, 2013
This paper introduces an innovative course design incorporating both communities of practice and reflective practice as a learning strategy for part-time learners in higher education. The new design has been applied to teaching HR practitioners in a UK-based business school. Findings indicate that the suggested way of organizing teaching and…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Part Time Students, Business Schools, Curriculum Design
McDonald, Betty – Online Submission, 2012
Offering meaningful service to the community while engaging in active learning is a pedagogical strategy that has come to be known as service-learning. Both learner and the community are mutual recipients of benefits derived from the process. The fundamental question that remains is, "How do we assess the learner in this non traditional…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Active Learning, Service Learning, Nontraditional Education
Pritchard, Alan; Payne, Philip – 1980
Part-time students at City of London Polytechnic were surveyed regarding their use of the library. This report explains the methodology, presents survey results, and summarizes conclusions of the study. Analysis is based on a response rate of approximately 26 percent of the questionnaires which were distributed to a sample of students. In addition…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Utilization
Blackie, Edna – 1984
This report describes the development of a distance learning curriculum package designed to teach the skills of presenting, analyzing, and evaluating statistical information to middle-management-level librarians and information officers. Originally developed by the School of Librarianship and Information Studies at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic…
Descriptors: Costs, Course Content, Course Evaluation, Distance Education
Payne, Philip – 1981
To study the effect on library use, of additional expenditure on accounting textbooks needed by part-time business students, a study was conducted in the spring of 1980 at the City of London Polytechnic. Three techniques were used: (1) a questionnaire distributed to all part-time students in the Accountancy Department and, as a control group, all…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Education, College Libraries, Foreign Countries
Noble, Keith Allan – 1988
This study investigated the relationship between the part-time student and the University of Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) using a survey designed around the marketing principles of price, place, product, personnel, and promotion. The survey asked questions concerned with problems associated with fees (price), the campus and its facilities (place),…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, College Faculty, College Students
Parkinson, Kevin J.; And Others – 1987
A study examined the difficulties encountered by first-year, part-time Technical and Further Education (TAFE) students that cause them to consider withdrawing from, and in many cases, dropping out of their TAFE programs. Questionnaires were administered to 4,150 early withdrawers (persons who dropped out between January 1 and May 16, 1986), 2,940…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Dropout Characteristics
Blagden, Pauline – 1984
The City of London Polytechnic offers a number of part-time courses leading to qualifications awarded by professional associations and similar examining bodies. The majority of the courses are taught by the departments of accounting and finance, banking and insurance, transport studies, and marketing. There are also courses in biological sciences,…
Descriptors: Certification, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Needs
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