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Ivanova, Polina – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2021
This study is applying critical discourse analysis (CDA) to mission statements of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Kansai area of Japan to examine how those texts may be reflecting their views on migration and impacting their practices related to international students. The analysis shows similarities across CSO types in choosing…
Descriptors: Position Papers, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Students
Buckner, Elizabeth; Brown, Taiya; Morales, Sarah – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Although the number of international students in Canadian colleges has been increasing rapidly, colleges' internationalization activities have received less attention than those of universities. This article examined how Canadian colleges discuss international students in their official internationalization strategy documents. Conducting critical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, Universities
Tolgfors, Björn; Barker, Dean – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
Educational discourse is becoming increasingly globalized. This trend is particularly pronounced in the area of assessment, where notions of accountability, comparability, and competition have become prevalent in many countries. Scholars have critiqued this trend. They contend that global assessment discourse provides educators with…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Global Approach, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Dumanig, Francisco P.; Symaco, Lorraine Pe – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper examines how internationalisation of higher education institutions is reflected through their mission and vision statements by comparatively analysing the mission and vision statements of selected universities in Malaysia and the Philippines. To carry out the study, twenty (20) mission and vision statements of public and private…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Institutional Mission, Private Colleges
Flavin, Michael; Zhou Chen, Ting; Quintero, Valentina – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2020
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have mission statements as a matter of course. This article analyses 127 mission statements from UK HEIs, comprising 76.048% of the mainstream UK higher education sector. The statements were divided into the categories of Russell Group; Other; and Specialist Institution. A mixed methods research approach was…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Position Papers, Institutional Mission, Language Usage
Knight, Elizabeth Bronwen – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2022
Through historically oriented critical discourse analysis this article considers how the messages regarding the purpose of higher education, as presented in prospectuses of four case study institutions, have been impacted by massification and marketisation in England between 1977 and 2018. The prospectuses of four higher education institutions of…
Descriptors: Marketing, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Discourse Analysis
Knight, Elizabeth – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
This study investigates the changing discourses of the value of degrees in prospectuses between 1976 and 2013, chosen due to the massification of higher education and use of the particular marketing tool of prospectuses. This research analysed the messages in prospectuses through the period in four English higher education institutions of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational History, Reputation, Foreign Countries
Matthews, Adam; Kotzee, Ben – Educational Review, 2021
The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) is an evaluation of teaching quality at UK universities. The aim of the TEF is to raise esteem for teaching in line with research and recognise teaching excellence. In 2017 all universities who took part in the TEF exercise were awarded ratings of gold, silver or bronze for teaching quality. These awards…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Guidelines, Excellence in Education, Educational Quality
Lorusso, Jenna R.; Morrison, Hayley J.; Johnson, Ashley M. – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2018
A mission statement can be understood as a declaration about the basic purpose of an organization. Given the low-consensus discipline of physical education/kinesiology (PEKN), and the limited research on its academic units' mission statements, the purpose of this research was to investigate the content of these statements and what discourses they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Kinetics, Position Papers
A Study of Pragmatic Function of Speech Acts in Mission Statements on the Basis of Adaptation Theory
Mengqi, Zhang; Zhanghong, Xu; Muchun, Wan – English Language Teaching, 2018
Corporate mission, a core part of corporate culture, plays an important role in the development and competition of companies. The study of mission statements is beneficial to both companies and stakeholders. This paper explores corporate mission from the perspective of linguistics on the basis of speech act theory and adaptation theory and reveals…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Institutional Mission, Competition
Bittencourt, Tiago; Willetts, Alexandra – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2018
This paper examines how international schools negotiate the competing demands set forth by the discourses of ideological 'internationalism' and 'market-driven' multinationalism. This was accomplished through a critical discourse analysis of the mission statements of 46 Association of American Schools in South America (AASSA) member international…
Descriptors: International Education, Institutional Mission, International Schools, Neoliberalism
Mogaji, Emmanuel; Yoon, Hyunsun – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: Prospective students are exposed to abundant choices, and they are eagerly searching for information to select the best universities for themselves. Likewise, prospectuses are regularly produced by universities to meet this information needs; the purpose of this paper is to examine the key marketing messages used in their prospectuses.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Marketing, Universities, College Choice
Daniele, Luisa – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2017
The paper examines critically the dimension of empowerment in the European discourse, starting from some operational definitions used in official documents. The author analyses the shift in the European documents from 2000 to recent years, from a lifelong learning vision to an adult education approach, basically labour market-oriented, thus…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Discourse Analysis, Position Papers, Definitions
Zoellner, Don – International Journal of Training Research, 2015
Quality's appeal resides in the genetics of Australia's national training system and its early 1990s development. Deploying Bacchi's application of contested concepts, problem representation and their place in public policy development and implementation, it is argued that quality plays an important systemic transactional function. In addition to…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Quality, Concept Formation, Discourse Analysis
Winslett, Greg – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
The decision-making around resource allocation in universities is complex. It plays out through the structures of governance and bureaucracy, through interactions with colleagues, workplace cultures and through day-to-day individual work practices. To survive and succeed within this complex environment, teaching support staff need to be sensitive…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Governance, Strategic Planning, Discourse Analysis