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You Can't Always Get What You Want! Desired and Undesired Impacts of a New Career Development Policy
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Direct linkDusi, Davide; Huisman, Jeroen – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2021
Market rationality, neoliberal approaches and ever-increasing productivity objectives are widespread in higher education discourse and practice. Academic employment has become more uncertain as scholars are more commonly employed on non-tenured, fixed-term contracts. Research shows the resulting detrimental impact on staff well-being and health,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Foreign Countries, Personnel Policy, School Policy
Download full textAndrii Chervinchuk; Yuliia ?tamanenko; Yevheniia Pylypenko – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
The article is devoted to the study of the issue of training future police officers to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in their professional activities. Based on the results of the theoretical analysis of scientific and applied works, modern trends in the development of drones in the activities of law enforcement agencies were identified, and…
Descriptors: Aviation Technology, Aviation Mechanics, Robotics, Police Education
Layton, Dusty; Miller, Danielle; Clanton, Clista; Shaw, Thalia; Medema, Jessica – Research Management Review, 2021
An occupational health program and personnel safety are essential components of an animal care and use program. This paper describes the development and implementation of an online occupational health risk assessment and screening process for personnel involved in the animal care and use program at the University of South Alabama. The COVID-19…
Descriptors: Occupational Safety and Health, Questionnaires, Animals, Test Construction
Agostinho, Marta; Moniz Alves, Catarina; Aresta, Sandra; Borrego, Filipa; Borlido-Santos, Júlio; Cortez, João; Lima Costa, Tatiana; António Lopes, José; Moreira, Susana; Santos, José; Trindade, Margarida; Varela, Carolina; Vidal, Sheila – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2020
This paper results from on-going reflection within the practitioners group "Plataforma de Interface à Ciência" (Platform of Professionals at the Interface of Science), an informal nationwide network in Portugal that brings together professionals involved in a large scope of activities related to research management, knowledge transfer…
Descriptors: Research Administration, Scientific Research, Technology Transfer, Foreign Countries
Pold, Jack; Mulvey, Patrick – AIP Statistical Research Center, 2015
Each fall the Statistical Research Center (SRC) conducts its Survey of Enrollments and Degrees, which asks all degree-granting physics and astronomy departments in the US to provide information concerning the numbers of students they have enrolled and counts of recent degree recipients. In connection with this survey, SRC asks for the names and…
Descriptors: Astronomy, College Graduates, Employment, Graduate Surveys
Nnachi, N. O.; Okpube, M. N. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This work focused on the "Psycho-social Determinants of Gender Prejudice in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)". The females were found to be underrepresented in STEM fields. The under-representation results from gender stereotype, differences in spatial skills, hierarchical and territorial segregations and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Gender Bias, Disproportionate Representation
Brown, Emma; Henderson, Linda – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2012
The Solution Circle (SC) approach is a flexible tool which encourages participants to maintain a positive, creative approach to problem-solving. This project focussed on the introduction of this approach to staff in a primary and a secondary school. The rationale was to implement a problem-solving/discussion tool that would allow staff to utilise…
Descriptors: Expertise, Scientific Personnel, Problem Solving, Elementary Secondary Education
Mulvey, Patrick; Shindel, Brandon – Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics, 2011
Each fall the Statistical Research Center conducts its Survey of Enrollments and Degrees, which asks all degree-granting physics and astronomy departments in the US to provide information concerning the numbers of students they have enrolled and counts of recent degree recipients. In connection with this survey, the authors ask for the names and…
Descriptors: Astronomy, College Graduates, Employment, Salaries
Khoon, Koh Aik; Jalal, Azman; Abd-Shukor, R.; Yatim, Baharudin; Talib, Ibrahim Abu; Daud, Abdul Razak; Samat, Supian – College Student Journal, 2009
A survey of thirteen books on Einstein is presented. Its gives an idea on how much is written about the man and how frequent are the publications. The year 2005 saw the most publications. It is the centenary for the Miraculous Year. Interestingly some books can just sustain their readers' interest with just words. Einstein comes alive with the…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Biographies, Scientific Personnel, Scientists
Dewitt, Carl – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Our society has a great need for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professionals and educational institutions are currently having difficulty keeping up with society's demand (Carnevale, 2011). Outreach efforts are a key strategy to encouraging young people to pursue STEM careers and evaluation methods need to be used to…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Barone, Carlo – Sociology of Education, 2011
This article examines the overall strength, the qualitative pattern, and the evolution over time of gender segregation in higher education across eight European countries. Although previous studies have focused primarily on the divide between humanistic and scientific fields, this work indicates that this divide accounts for no more than half of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Gender Differences, Selection
Shibayama, Sotaro; Walsh, John P.; Baba, Yasunori – American Sociological Review, 2012
This study uses a sample of Japanese university scientists in life and materials sciences to examine how academic entrepreneurship has affected the norms and behaviors of academic scientists regarding sharing scientific resources. Results indicate that high levels of academic entrepreneurship in a scientific field are associated with less reliance…
Descriptors: Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Scientists, Norms
Noblitt, Lynnette; Vance, Diane E.; Smith, Michelle L. DePoy – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2010
This study compares a traditional paper presentation approach and a case study method for the development and improvement of oral communication skills and critical-thinking skills in a class of junior forensic science majors. A rubric for rating performance in these skills was designed on the basis of the oral communication competencies developed…
Descriptors: Scientific Personnel, Crime, Communication Skills, Speech Communication
Varshavskii, A. E.; Vinokurova, N. A.; Nikonova, M. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2011
Russian science is in need of serious reforms if it is to provide the research and development needed for economic health. Issues of increasing average age of scientific personnel, poor working conditions, low salaries, and relatively low social prestige need to be addressed. This article reviews a questionnaire survey conducted in 2008 that aimed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Personnel, Attitudes, Social Problems
Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
