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Conflict between academic staff and non-teaching staff in Nigerian Universities: causes and consequences 尼日利亚大学教学人员与非教学人员之间的冲突：原因与后果

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-023-01160-3

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The world turned upside down: Can international student mobility contribute towards democratization and human development? Evidence from the Eurograduate pilot survey 颠倒的世界：国际学生流动能否促进民主化和人类发展？来自欧洲研究生试点调查的证据

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-023-01169-8

Georgiana Mihut

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Navigating structural constraints: women’s agency in engineering studies and teaching in Bangladesh 突破结构性限制：孟加拉国妇女在工程学研究和教学中的作用

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-023-01177-8

Nazmul Islam, Amporn Jirattikorn

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Power imbalance and whiteness in faculty-led diasporic academic collaborations: An application of Network Analysis of Qualitative Data 教师主导的侨民学术合作中的权力失衡和白人问题：定性数据网络分析的应用

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-023-01159-w

Manuel S. González Canché, Chelsea Zhang, Ji Yeon Bae

{"title":"Power imbalance and whiteness in faculty-led diasporic academic collaborations: An application of Network Analysis of Qualitative Data","authors":"Manuel S. González Canché, Chelsea Zhang, Ji Yeon Bae","doi":"10.1007/s10734-023-01159-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01159-w","url":null,"abstract":"We offer insights into the factors impacting faculty-led academic/research collaborations between Mexican scholars employed in the USA and their Mexican colleagues working in Mexico. Founded on the idea that diasporic relationships include people involved in cross-border migrations yet maintaining ties with their homeland, we are referring to these faculty-led collaborations as diasporic. To offer nuanced understandings, data analyzed were obtained from 25 semi-structured interviews exploring collaboration in different professional, institutional, disciplinary, and regional contexts. Relying on Network Analysis of Qualitative Data, we were able to identify the most relevant drivers (e.g., personal relationships, common research interests, and cross-cultural understandings) and deterrents (e.g., political and legal challenges and institutional contexts) of diasporic collaborations influenced by institutional, national, and sociopolitical power dynamics. Our use of diasporic academic collaborations is intended to transcend this study; that is, although our analytic sample is comprised by diasporic Mexican academics, we argue that similar barriers and drivers may apply to academics from other countries who may be interested in participating in diasporic academic collaborations. Accordingly, we invite other researchers to expand this understudied research topic by providing access to our interview protocols and the detailed list of codes used to apply Network Analysis of Qualitative Data.","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139373409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Overcoming stigma: how academic ghostwriting companies neutralize their services in Chinese and English markets 克服成见：学术论文代写公司如何在中英文市场中实现服务中立化

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-01-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-023-01168-9

Kenneth Han Chen, John Chung-En Liu

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Implementation of ambiguous governance instruments in higher education 在高等教育中实施模棱两可的管理手段

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-12-30 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-023-01161-2

Mari Elken, Siri B. Borlaug

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Towards decolonising higher education: a case study from a UK university 实现高等教育非殖民化：英国一所大学的案例研究

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-023-01144-3

Nancy Tamimi, Hala Khalawi, Mariama A. Jallow, Omar Gabriel Torres Valencia, Emediong Jumbo

{"title":"Towards decolonising higher education: a case study from a UK university","authors":"Nancy Tamimi, Hala Khalawi, Mariama A. Jallow, Omar Gabriel Torres Valencia, Emediong Jumbo","doi":"10.1007/s10734-023-01144-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01144-3","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents initiatives undertaken by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (GHSM) at King’s College London (KCL), exploring avenues to decolonise higher education institutions (HEI). HEI must integrate anti-racism agendas, challenge the European-centric academic knowledge domination, and dismantle power asymmetries. During the academic year 2021, GHSM executed (1) a gap analysis of undergraduate modules, (2) a course on decolonising research methods taught by global scholars to 40 Global South and North university students who completed pre- and post-course surveys, and (3) semi-structured interviews with 11 academics, and a focus group with four students exploring decolonising HEI; findings were thematically analysed. (1) Gap analysis revealed a tokenistic use of Black and minority ethnic and women authors across modules’ readings. (2) The post-course survey showed that 68% strongly agreed the course enhanced their decolonisation knowledge. (3) The thematic analysis identified themes: (1) Decolonisation is about challenging colonial legacies, racism, and knowledge production norms. (2) Decolonisation is about care, inclusivity, and compensation. (3) A decolonised curriculum should embed an anti-racism agenda, reflexive pedagogies, and life experiences involving students and communities. (4) HEI are colonial, exclusionary constructs that should shift to transformative and collaborative ways of thinking and knowing. (5) To decolonise research, we must rethink the hierarchy of knowledge production and dissemination and the politics of North-South research collaborations. Decolonising HEI must be placed within a human rights framework. HEI should integrate anti-racism agendas, give prominence to indigenous and marginalised histories and ways of knowing, and create a non-hierarchical educational environment, with students leading the decolonisation process.","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139062833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Broadening participation in STEM through equity-minded high-impact practices: a multimodal systematic review 通过注重公平的高效做法扩大对 STEM 的参与：多模式系统审查

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-023-01165-y

Jillian Ives, Joni Falk, Brian Drayton

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Untangling “Chinese characteristics”: an examination of “the China Discipline Evaluation with Chinese characteristics” and what it implies 解读 "中国特色"：审视 "中国特色学科评价 "及其含义

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-023-01157-y

Yiran Zhou

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Faculty members’ perceptions and students’ experiences of research-based curricula: a multiple case study of four undergraduate programmes 教师对研究型课程的看法和学生的体验：对四个本科课程的多案例研究

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-023-01166-x

Tracy X. P. Zou, Jetty C. Y. Lee, Ka Sing Yu, King L. Chow, T. J. Barry, Lily Y. Y. Leung, Angela Brew

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