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Marini, Giulio; Henseke, Golo – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
This paper examines the potential earnings premium associated with a doctoral degree (PhDs, ISCED9) over postgraduate degrees (PGs, or Masters, ISCED7) in the UK. We assess this premium using a decade-worth of UK Labour Force Survey data (2011-2020). To explore the possible endogenous choice of post-graduate tracks, this paper deploys linear…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Masters Degrees, Employment Potential, Labor Market
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Davison, Ian; McManus, Chris; Brown, Celia – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2020
Recruitment to General Practice (GP) is currently low in many countries. Here we focus on two binary choices for junior doctors: first, whether to apply to GP; second, whether to accept a GP training place if offered. Previous attitudinal studies have indicated factors claimed to affect recruitment. The current study goes further by quantifying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physicians, Recruitment, Career Choice
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Kearney, Philip E.; Comyns, Thomas M.; Hayes, Philip – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2021
Purpose: The aim of this study was to provide an in-depth analysis of the prevalence and consequences of within-sport specialization in track and field in the United Kingdom. Method: The competition histories of top 100 ranked athletes from four representative events (100 m, 800 m, long jump, and shot put) were recorded from a…
Descriptors: Incidence, Specialization, Track and Field, Performance Factors
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Hunt, Stephen A.; Boliver, Vikki – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
The sudden closure of higher education providers is virtually unknown among publicly funded higher education institutions in the UK, but "market exit" is commonplace among private higher education providers. The UK government is actively championing the expansion of private higher education providers despite a dearth of research on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, School Closing, Proprietary Schools
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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
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Wang, Tianyi; McLaughlin, Colleen – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
This paper investigates the role of interpreters in addressing cultural differences in the context of a cross-cultural collaborative teacher professional development project. Based on positioning theory, this study employed interpreter-mediated interactions and interviews to reveal the complex roles that interpreters played when interpreting…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Faculty Development, Translation, Language Processing
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Seeber, Marco; Barberio, Vitaliano; Huisman, Jeroen; Mampaey, Jelle – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This article explores the factors affecting the content of universities' mission statements. We conceptualize missions as identity narratives, a type of symbolic representation of an organization. Based on the literature on organizational identity we argue that universities need to address two major challenges when crafting their mission…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Position Papers, Reputation, Content Analysis
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Sawiuk, Rebecca; Taylor, William. G.; Groom, Ryan – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2017
Background: Within the context of sports coaching and coach education, formalised mentoring relationships are often depicted as a mentor--mentee dyad. Thus, mentoring within sports coaching is typically conceptualised as a one-dimensional relationship, where the mentor is seen as the powerful member of the dyad, with greater age and/or experience…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Mentors, Athletics, Physical Education
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Braiko, Bohdan – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2019
The article deals with the relevant problem of updating the system of graduate training (master's degree) in Ukraine. It analyzes the ways of Ukraine's integration into the European Higher Education Area and the legal framework of higher education in Ukraine and the UK. It also presents a comparative pedagogical analysis of the features of…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Information Security, Computer Security, Masters Programs
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Evers, Arne; McCormick, Carina M.; Hawley, Leslie R.; Muñiz, José; Balboni, Giulia; Bartram, Dave; Boben, Dusica; Egeland, Jens; El-Hassan, Karma; Fernández-Hermida, José R.; Fine, Saul; Frans, Örjan; Gintiliené, Grazina; Hagemeister, Carmen; Halama, Peter; Iliescu, Dragos; Jaworowska, Aleksandra; Jiménez, Paul; Manthouli, Marina; Matesic, Krunoslav; Michaelsen, Lars; Mogaji, Andrew; Morley-Kirk, James; Rózsa, Sándor; Rowlands, Lorraine; Schittekatte, Mark; Sümer, H. Canan; Suwartono, Tono; Urbánek, Tomáš; Wechsler, Solange; Zelenevska, Tamara; Zanev, Svetoslav; Zhang, Jianxin – International Journal of Testing, 2017
On behalf of the International Test Commission and the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations a world-wide survey on the opinions of professional psychologists on testing practices was carried out. The main objective of this study was to collect data for a better understanding of the state of psychological testing worldwide. These data…
Descriptors: Testing, Attitudes, Surveys, Psychologists
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Watermeyer, Richard; Morton, Pat; Collins, Jill – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
This paper reports on teacher attitudes to changes in the provision of careers guidance in the U.K., particularly as it relates to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). It draws on survey data of n = 94 secondary-school teachers operating in STEM domains and their attitudes towards a U.K. and devolved policy of internalising…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Guidance, STEM Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Jackson, Denise; Wilton, Nicholas – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2016
Globalisation, organisational restructuring and new technology have been connected with a shift to 'protean' and 'boundaryless' career attitudes with workers, including new graduates, increasingly required to be self-reliant in successfully navigating their careers. This study explores protean and boundaryless career attitudes among Business…
Descriptors: Career Development, Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Individual Characteristics
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Talero, Gemma Carmen Belmonte – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This case study is about the design of the one-day course "How to find a job as a Spanish teacher in the UK," which is taught at the Instituto Cervantes in London. The course came to exist due to a large number of requests from Spaniards who have come to the UK in recent years--many of them wanting to find a job as a Spanish teacher--and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Spanish, Second Language Instruction
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Rockel, Jean – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This paper critically examines current concerns regarding professional issues in labour force development for teachers with children up to two years of age (UtoT). The concerns in New Zealand (NZ) relate to whether initial teacher-education (ITE) qualifications prepare teachers to work with children UtoT, involving synergy between ITE and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Infants
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Martins, Jorge Tiago – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: Focusing on the specific context of two European old industrial regions--South Yorkshire (UK) and North Region of Portugal--this paper aims to identify and conceptualise a set of relational capabilities that business leaders perceive to play a key role in industrial rejuvenation. Design/Methodology/Approach: A qualitative research design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions, Industry, School Business Relationship
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