Higher EducationPub Date : 2024-08-30DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01282-2
Janine Delahunty, Sarah O’Shea
{"title":"A critical exploration of first in family student persistence and the enactment of sisu","authors":"Janine Delahunty, Sarah O’Shea","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01282-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01282-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper extends understandings of persistence by drawing on the innovative framing of ‘sisu’. Sisu is a recently theorised Finnish concept and, whilst not having a direct English translation, articulates an inner fortitude which is activated in adversity. To better understand persistence, we analysed interview and survey data collected in Australia from 376 students who were first in family (FiF) at university. Successful progression through a degree is largely regarded as moving forward in a linear fashion, with few gaps or disjuncture enroute. However, as this was contrary to the experiences of our participants, sisu provided a framework to challenge the construction of persisting to completion as linear and one-dimensional and move us beyond the hyper-individualism that characterises higher education systems. Sisu is regarded as a rich personal resource which is embedded in the collective community, where efforts to keep moving forward and remain resolute in adversity are both individual and communal. Our interpretations provide insight into the complex and subjective nature of persistence, especially for equity-bearing students as they negotiated systemic and subtle barriers that had potential to hinder their academic endeavours.</p>","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142210805","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}
Higher EducationPub Date : 2024-08-30DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01267-1
Tora Kjærnes Knutsen, Vegard Sjurseike Wiborg, Jannecke Wiers-Jenssen
{"title":"Impact of international student mobility on international profile of jobs","authors":"Tora Kjærnes Knutsen, Vegard Sjurseike Wiborg, Jannecke Wiers-Jenssen","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01267-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01267-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While the impact of international student mobility (ISM) on vertical labour market outcomes, such as wages and employment, has been widely studied, less is known about the impact of ISM on horizontal outcomes, such as job characteristics. We contribute to filling this gap by studying whether ISM experience is associated with having a job with an international profile, in terms of job content in the domestic labour market or working abroad. We analyse a large-scale Norwegian survey, enabling us to compare mobile to non-mobile master’s graduates 3 years after graduation while controlling for a rich set of demographic and educational characteristics. We find that graduates who pursued their entire degree abroad and graduates who undertook a part of their degree abroad are respectively 19–22 and 3–5 percentage points more likely to work abroad than their non-mobile peers. Moreover, both groups of mobile students have jobs with more internationally oriented features in the domestic labour market. In contrast to expectation, however, there were no significant differences between graduates with a full degree abroad and graduates with a shorter stay abroad regarding the latter aspect.</p>","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142210808","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}
Higher EducationPub Date : 2024-08-30DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01293-z
Vincent Carpentier, Aline Courtois
{"title":"Higher education and the public good in France","authors":"Vincent Carpentier, Aline Courtois","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01293-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01293-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article examines the relationship between higher education and the public good in France. It draws on interviews conducted with staff across four French universities as part of a larger international comparative project. We argue that the ‘Republican model’ is strongly underpinned by the notion of ‘public service’ which is itself guided by the idea of ‘general interest’. The state is understood as playing a central role in the provision of the public service of higher education, guaranteeing fundamental research is funded and that all students, including the underprivileged, are catered for. At the same time, the state drives neoliberal reforms that threaten the model itself. We examine three recent reforms: <i>Parcoursup</i>, <i>Bienvenue en France</i> and the <i>Loi de Programmation Recherche</i> in light of these findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142210807","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}
Higher EducationPub Date : 2024-08-29DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01295-x
You Zhang
{"title":"Higher education regionalization in East and Southeast Asia: between decolonization, recolonization, and self-colonization","authors":"You Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01295-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01295-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research in higher education often focuses on a single-level influence (local, national, regional, or global), while neglecting the interrelatedness of different levels and its impact on higher education. This study focuses on the supranational regional processes in higher education in the Global South and theorizes how higher education regionalization (HER) in the Global South is linked to coloniality in global higher education. Drawing from 15 semi-structured interviews with university leaders in East and Southeast Asia, this study examines why regional engagement is important and how it is different from global engagement with universities from other world regions. Findings suggest that HER in the Global South serves as a decolonial approach delegitimizing the enduring Western dominance in global higher education. Yet, enduring coloniality in global higher education, manifested in recolonization and self-colonization, poses threats to HER as a decolonial approach. Theoretically, the findings point out that HER in the Global South is linked to coloniality in global higher education, specifically through the complex entanglement of decolonization, recolonization, and self-colonization. In practice, this study urges higher education institutions in Global North and Global South to reflect on the current approach to internationalization that may reinforce coloniality in higher education.</p>","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142210806","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}
Higher EducationPub Date : 2024-08-24DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01288-w
Cormac McGrath, Alexandra Farazouli, Teresa Cerratto-Pargman
{"title":"Generative AI chatbots in higher education: a review of an emerging research area","authors":"Cormac McGrath, Alexandra Farazouli, Teresa Cerratto-Pargman","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01288-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01288-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots trained on large language models are an example of generative AI which brings promises and threats to the higher education sector. In this study, we examine the emerging research area of AI chatbots in higher education (HE), focusing specifically on empirical studies conducted since the release of ChatGPT. Our review includes 23 research articles published between December 2022 and December 2023 exploring the use of AI chatbots in HE settings. We take a three-pronged approach to the empirical data. We first examine the state of the emerging field of AI chatbots in HE. Second, we identify the <i>theories of learning</i> used in the empirical studies on AI chatbots in HE. Third, we scrutinise the <i>discourses</i> of AI in HE framing the latest empirical work on AI chatbots. Our findings contribute to a better understanding of the eclectic state of the nascent research area of AI chatbots in HE, the lack of common conceptual groundings about human learning, and the presence of both dystopian and utopian discourses about the future role of AI chatbots in HE.\u0000</p>","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142210809","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}
Higher EducationPub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01284-0
Marek Kwiek, Lukasz Szymula
{"title":"Quantifying attrition in science: a cohort-based, longitudinal study of scientists in 38 OECD countries","authors":"Marek Kwiek, Lukasz Szymula","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01284-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01284-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we explore how members of the scientific community leave academic science and how attrition (defined as ceasing to publish) differs across genders, academic disciplines, and over time. Our approach is cohort-based and longitudinal: We track individual male and female scientists over time and quantify the phenomenon traditionally referred to as “leaving science.” Using publication metadata from Scopus—a global bibliometric database of publications and citations—we follow the details of the publishing careers of scientists from 38 OECD countries who started publishing in 2000 (<i>N</i> = 142,776) and 2010 (<i>N</i> = 232,843). Our study is restricted to 16 STEMM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine), and we track the individual scholarly output of the two cohorts until 2022. We use survival analysis to compare attrition of men and women scientists. With more women in science and more women within cohorts, attrition is becoming ever less gendered. In addition to the combined aggregated changes at the level of all STEMM disciplines, widely nuanced changes were found to occur at the discipline level and over time. Attrition in science means different things for men versus women depending on the discipline; moreover, it means different things for scientists from different cohorts entering the scientific workforce. Finally, global bibliometric datasets were tested in the current study, opening new opportunities to explore gender and disciplinary differences in attrition.</p>","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142210608","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}
Higher EducationPub Date : 2024-08-21DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01289-9
Julia Morgan, Hazel Marsh, Colin Clark
{"title":"The (In)visibilisation of Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers in higher education equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives in England and Wales","authors":"Julia Morgan, Hazel Marsh, Colin Clark","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01289-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01289-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are under-represented as students in higher education in England and Wales. Moreover, the communities rarely feature in equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategies and practices including race equality initiatives. Drawing upon the reflections and experiences of 14 equality, diversity and inclusion staff across 11 universities (7 post-1992 and 4 pre-1992) in England and Wales, we explore the technologies through which Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are made (in)visible in university EDI discursive spaces. Interview participants included Gypsy, Roma and Traveller academics; subject librarians; Deans of EDI; Widening Participation Managers; Inclusion and Equality Advisors and Managers; and Researchers and Leads on Race Equality Charters and Decolonising the Curriculum. Through inductively analysing our findings, we suggest that the normalisation of neoliberalism across the higher education academy in England and Wales has resulted in Gypsies, Roma and Travellers being constructed as ‘irregular’ in higher education EDI discourse. We demonstrate how neoliberal-informed discursive rules, acting as ‘systems of exclusion’, control what is seen as a legitimate concern and support higher education institutions to intentionally ‘look through’ inequality issues affecting the communities. Informational difficulties, institutional focus on ‘value for money’ and numbers of students which prioritise the market-driven ‘business case’ over social justice, act as technologies of invisibilisation, positioning these diverse communities as not being ‘within the true’ in relation to institutional neoliberal discourses and ‘regimes of truth’. This culminates in ‘institutional inertia’ and neglect towards EDI issues, further contributing to the under-representation of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in higher education.</p>","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142210810","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}
Higher EducationPub Date : 2024-08-21DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01273-3
Angelique Wildschut, Angelina Wilson-Fadiji
{"title":"COVID-19 experience and student wellbeing amongst publicly funded higher education students in South Africa after the first, and second waves","authors":"Angelique Wildschut, Angelina Wilson-Fadiji","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01273-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01273-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although higher education students have been identified as one of the social groups most affected by the impact of COVID-19, higher education literature appears to focus more on documenting implications for teaching and learning, curriculum and institutions, than student wellbeing. This has resulted in gaps to our understanding and approaches to intervene positively in, student wellbeing within the higher education space ‘post-COVID-19’. Drawing on a novel survey data set administered in November 2021, of the 6877 higher education (University and TVET College) students in South Africa, this paper aims to contribute through cross-sectional data that allows analysis of student experience of COVID-19 and its relationship to student wellbeing. As expected, our findings confirm COVID-19 experience as a significant predictor of student wellbeing. We also identify <i>satisfaction with interventions from higher education stakeholders</i> in response to COVID-19 as the strongest, and the extent to which students felt impacted by <i>changes to their routine behaviours</i> as the weakest, predictors of wellbeing. The paper adds to existing international literature, the South African context with a large sample. Secondly, the analysis provides a more comprehensive view of the link between COVID-19 and higher education student wellbeing, as TVET College students are included. The composite measurement of COVID-19 experience is a further contribution. Finally, the findings add to the literature on COVID-19 and higher education student wellbeing, the experience of disadvantaged students. The findings underscore the emotional health of students as a critical area for higher education policy and intervention during times of uncertainty or disruption.</p>","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142210607","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}
Higher EducationPub Date : 2024-08-20DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01287-x
Lin Tian, Zhuo Lin Feng, Nian Cai Liu
{"title":"Measuring global common goods in higher education: dimensions and potential indicators","authors":"Lin Tian, Zhuo Lin Feng, Nian Cai Liu","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01287-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01287-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The concept of common good(s) is crucial in understanding higher education and its contributions. However, measuring global common goods in higher education has been largely overlooked. This paper proposes a framework to measure global common goods in higher education that contains five core dimensions (i.e., knowledge creation, people mobility, research collaboration, human well-being, and cultural contribution). The framework is based on mostly objectively quantifiable indicators that have broad applicability worldwide. This attempt would facilitate the understanding of higher education’s quantitative contributions to global common goods and potentially help efforts to increase them.\u0000</p>","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142210811","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}
Higher EducationPub Date : 2024-08-16DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01283-1
Erica Wilson, Thomas Roche, Elizabeth Goode, John W. McKenzie
{"title":"Creating the conditions for student success through curriculum reform: the impact of an active learning, immersive block model","authors":"Erica Wilson, Thomas Roche, Elizabeth Goode, John W. McKenzie","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01283-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01283-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Outcomes in higher education (HE) are influenced by the learning conditions created for students. The traditional model of HE, where students attend content-focused lectures over 12–15-week semesters, may not provide the conditions that best meet the learning needs of increasingly diverse HE cohorts. This study assessed the extent to which an immersive block model, a non-traditional form of HE delivery that employs active learning pedagogy and engages students in shorter, more focused periods of study, might enable higher student achievement and satisfaction compared to a traditional semester model. The study examined achievement (<i>N</i> = 27,528) and satisfaction (<i>N</i> = 7924) data from a public Australian university that has moved all coursework units into a 6-week immersive block model. Inferential statistical tests were used to compare results between the traditional semester and immersive block delivery over a 3-year period, as well as with results from control groups that stayed in the traditional model. Results demonstrate that immersive block learning underpinned by an active learning pedagogy has had a statistically significant positive impact on the academic success of various cohorts of undergraduate learners. Stronger improvements in student success were observed in first-year units compared to second and third-year units, suggesting that the immersive block model may be particularly beneficial for students transitioning into HE. Satisfaction was statistically lower relative to the traditional model, particularly in science and engineering, suggesting a need for further investigation into causes of lower satisfaction in these disciplines.</p>","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142210609","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}