This article investigates the extent to which media reporting challenges or reinforces socially exclusive models of educational excellence. Media reporting is particularly important in contexts of marketization, as schools compete for students and seek to carve out market niches. Based on an analysis of articles published over five years in a…

In this paper, we discuss the process of reviewing and evaluating course design on an initial teacher education programme in a higher education institution in England. We demonstrate how critical evaluation of practice informed new understanding, strategies and approaches in teacher education and development. In England, policy forbids the…

Universities have developed various informal learning experiences, such as design challenges, hackathons, startup incubator competitions, and accelerator programs that engage students in real-world challenges and enable environments for creative problem-solving. However, limited studies explain the extent and nature of the impact of student…

Web surveys are popular in social sciences for reaching a large audience at a low cost and in a short period. However, response rates and nonresponse bias are still issues of concern. Using a factorial randomized control trial design, this study explores whether different communication emails affect response rates, representativeness, and response…

Recent empirical investigations have concentrated primarily on studying imitation as a social tool that satisfies social motivations, while other potential reasons for and forms of imitation have attracted less attention. These investigations have also focused on studying the role of pedagogy in imitative learning and set up most experiments in a…

This study presents a scoping review of factors influencing innovation-driven entrepreneurship among undergraduate students in private higher education institutions. Guided by the methodological framework of Arksey and O'Malley (2005) and the PRISMA-ScR reporting guidelines (Tricco et al., 2018), this review systematically synthesizes theoretical,…

The application potential of the metaverse as an emerging technology in education has sparked widespread attention globally. A systematic review was conducted using the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses method, which yielded 43 relevant articles from a total of 527 articles to examine the current status and the…

The role of educational fields in the intergenerational transmission of advantage is underexplored. This paper aims to fill this gap by examining the moderating role of fields of study on the first-job earnings of Italian higher education graduates, using stepwise linear regression techniques. Our findings confirm that the effect of social class…

Opportunities and challenges in the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education require thorough exploration, particularly in the context of Open and Distance Learning (ODL). This study examines faculty members' perceptions of AI's role, opportunities, and the challenges faced in its implementation to develop policy recommendations.…

Situated Expectancy Value Theory (SEVT) emphasizes the role parents play in shaping children's confidence and value they place on science. Although a robust literature has documented parental influences on children's science motivations in school-based contexts, less is known about how parents' attitudes and support shape children's science…

The number of English learners (ELs) enrolled in public schools has grown substantially in the United States over the past two decades. The growth is especially large in states in the South and Midwest that have not been traditional destinations for recent immigrants. In this study, we examine the effects of new ELs on students in receiving…

Moral emotions offer a promising approach for preventing rule-breaking behaviour, whereby the development of prevention programmes requires testing associations between moral emotions and rule-breaking differentiated. The present study examined whether the relationship between moral emotions and rule-breaking behaviour varies depending on how…

Guided by confirmation theory and self-determination theory, we conducted a longitudinal exploration of college students' (N = 400) experiences of student-to-student confirmation and their autonomous motivation to learn throughout a 16-week semester. Students reported receiving more individual attention, acknowledgement, and assistance as the…

This study explored four key factors influencing entrepreneurial intentions: professional attraction, social valuation, entrepreneurial capacity and creative capacity using the Entrepreneurship Intention Model (EIM). It also examined whether sex plays a moderating role in predicting entrepreneurial intentions. The research targeted 265…

Universities throughout the UK are internationally recognised for their research excellence, contributing over £54 billion annually to the economy. However, sustained financial constraints risk eroding this strength. Drawing on member survey data from Universities UK (UUK) and the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA), this…