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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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Hofmeyr, Ana Sofia – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
The Top Global University Project, launched in 2014 and scheduled to run until 2023, is the most recent of a succession of internationalisation projects proposed by the Japanese government in an effort to foster global jinzai, i.e. global human resources (GHR), and revitalise the higher education system. Yet, the concept of GHR remains vague and…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Higher Education, Universities, Intercultural Communication
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Strachan, Rebecca; Dele-Ajayi, Opeyemi; Stonehouse, Jane; Logan, Steve; Poolan, Tim; Blakelock, Linda; Bell, Richard – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2020
The UK construction sector is not diverse and is reputed to be dangerous, dirty, physically demanding and non-professional. Young people often regard construction jobs as a last resort. Yet there is a growing skills shortage that needs to attract greater diversity of applicants. The aim of the BRIDGE (Building Routes Into Degrees with Greater…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Industry, Career Choice, Higher Education
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Arreeman, Inger Erixon – European Educational Research Journal, 2014
In Sweden, and in most other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, post-16 education is a general requirement to succeed in adult life. By the late 2000s, after about two decades of policies for student choice and publicly funded free schools, students' results in the Programme for International Student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Track System (Education)
Vitale, John Luke – Canadian Journal of Education, 2011
Through 14 years of teaching music in the Greater Toronto Area, the "music makes you smarter" notion has imbued many of the conversations I have had with multiple stakeholders in public education. Such conversations have suggested that the ancillary benefits of teaching music have now become the principal reason why we teach music--what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music, Influences, Academic Achievement
Liljedahl, Peter, Ed.; Oesterle, Susan, Ed.; Allan, Darien, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2011
This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning. The aims…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Mathematics Education, Textbooks, Performance Based Assessment