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Jones, Chris; Wang, Yuan – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
To be competitive, universities across the world are embedding an international perspective into every layer of an institution's operational structure. For higher education (HE) providers that offer sandwich degrees (4-year undergraduate courses with a compulsory placement after the second year), this allows students to choose a range of options.…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Placement, Job Placement, Labor Market
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Daury Jansen; Louise Elffers; Suzanne Jak; Monique L. L. Volman – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
The prevalence of private supplementary tutoring (i.e. shadow education) is growing, particularly in nations with selective school exams. The hypothesis that tutoring attendance rises as pressure to perform increases has not yet been tested. Therefore, our research question is: does the likelihood of attending shadow education increase with an…
Descriptors: Exit Examinations, Secondary School Students, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries
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Alison L. Hilton; Rebecca Saunders – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Australian schools are diverse, and support students from a wide range of racial, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds, as well as students with disability. Ironically, efforts to ensure equally diverse teacher workforces have been ineffective. Attempts to improve broader representation in teachers have been hampered by a homogenous approach to…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Competency Testing
Peterson, Amelia – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2023
This case describes an ongoing system reform effort to transform the learning experiences of young people in British Columbia through changes to curriculum and graduation requirements. Over the past decade, the province of British Columbia has undergone substantial reform to its central curriculum and assessment framework. Interlinked with this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Change Strategies
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Donna Pendergast; Beryl Exley; Frances Hoyte – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
In Australia, the Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA) is a relatively new, mandatory hurdle which must be completed just prior to the graduation stage of initial teacher education (ITE) programmes. This high-stakes task is one of a growing number of requirements to come out of the standards and accountability regime as outlined in the Australian…
Descriptors: Mass Media Use, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Public Opinion
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Allayne Horton – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2024
Although interdisciplinary scholars have long debated the ethics of empathy, it continues to be widely seen as universal, prosocial, and reparative in education. Subject English, long associated with the work of producing civilised, moral and cultured students, is a critical locus for the activation of empathy. But what becomes of empathy in the…
Descriptors: Empathy, Secondary Schools, High School Seniors, Foreign Countries
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Klemens, Brygida; Adamska, Malgorzata – NORDSCI, 2021
The purpose of the article was to present the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the didactic process and to start a discussion on what can universities do at this specific time to meet the requirements of the Polish Qualifications Framework and also how should the didactic staff communicate with the use of virtual space to achieve the expected…
Descriptors: Barriers, Universities, COVID-19, Pandemics
Cameron Smith; Mimi Masson; Valia Spiliotopoulos; Paula Kristmanson – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
Institutions strive to offer programs that address both the needs of the educational system and incorporate current pedagogical research. Creating a program that is relevant, inspiring, and accessible to aspiring French as a Second Language (FSL) teachers, while also equipping them with the skills and knowledge deemed necessary by the education…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Mushoffan Prasetianto; Rizkiana Maharddhika – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
Responding to the pivotal role of English nowadays, higher education institutions require every student to take an English course. In higher education, teaching English focuses more on the specific discipline of the students. It helps students to have good English capabilities within their field of study. Writing skill is demanded because the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Agricultural Education, Agriculture Teachers
Tikina, Anna – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2020
The number of credits completed to earn a baccalaureate degree continues to be an important criterion for measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of transfer between post-secondary institutions. Many undergraduates -- both transfer and direct entry students -- complete more than 120 credits needed for a "traditional" degree. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Bachelors Degrees, College Credits
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Lyublinskaya, Irina; Petrova, Elena – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2021
For a long time, Soviet students learned 'pure' mathematics in their mathematics classrooms, while applications of mathematics were introduced in their science (mainly physics) classrooms. This approach was a part of a uniform and rigid national curriculum. Even when in the 1990s the world was moving towards including applications in school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Educational History, Physics
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Al-Rusheidi, Ibtisam Saed – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
This paper assessed the performance of General Foundation Programs (GFPs) in Oman in the area of 'Student Entry and Exit Standards'. Data was collected from the GFP quality audit reports prepared and published by Oman Authority for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Education (OAAAQA). The study adopted a simple descriptive data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Preparation, Academic Standards, Admission Criteria
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Proskurnik, Stephen – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2022
The skilled trades have long been ignored and under-valued in society. This article explores the potential problem with maintaining the status quo and the impacts it will have on future generations. It considers the steps educational institutions and leaders can make in addressing the skilled trades shortage and how changes to the current…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Skilled Occupations, Building Trades, Trade and Industrial Education
Universities UK, 2022
Maintaining the value of a degree is a priority for universities. During the pandemic, many universities had to put measures in place to make sure students were not unfairly disadvantaged by changes to their course. This statement details the Universities UK members' commitment to returning to pre-pandemic levels of firsts and 2:1s awarded in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Degrees, Classification, Outcomes of Education
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David Furtschegger – History of Education, 2024
Research on student-centred learning lacks analyses of sociohistorical developments. This article contributes to this niche by developing a sociologically designed draft of its major upheavals. Drawing on Foucault's genesis of governmental rationalities, it links the emergence of educational subjectivations to processes of structural change.…
Descriptors: Social History, Student Centered Learning, Sociology, Social Science Research
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