scholarly journals Working Toward Tenure in a Teaching-focused Branch Campus

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Parks
Keyword(s):  
Branch Campus

scholarly journals Xiamen University Malaysia: A Chinese Branch Campus

2018 ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Guo Jie
Keyword(s):  
Branch Campus ◽  
Competition And Cooperation ◽  
The University

The process of founding Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM) reflects the process of education commercialization, competition, and cooperation in Malaysia, ASEAN, and China. This paper argues that the university participates in this process both as a follower and a challenger.

scholarly journals Stakeholder attitudes towards employability in a Sino-British university

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Speight ◽  
Natasa Lackovic ◽  
Lucy Cooker
Keyword(s):  
Research Literature ◽  
Branch Campus ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Graduate Employability ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Stakeholder Attitudes

In 2004 the University of Nottingham opened its branch campus, the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC). Degree-awarding powers for UNNC remain with the UK, but there is recognition that Nottingham must understand the specific context of its Chinese branch; provision therefore operates according to the principal of equivalence rather than of replication. This paper explores stakeholder attitudes towards the university's Nottingham Advantage Award. This is an extra-curricular programme designed to support students in the development of their 'employability'. Launched in the UK in 2008, it was piloted at UNNC in 2010-11 and is now nearing the end of its first full year of operation. Twenty-three interviews were conducted with staff and students at UNNC. These were analysed alongside interviews carried out in the UK and with reference to the research literature. This provided an understanding of the role of the Award overall and in the UNNC context. The study shows that while stakeholders hold broadly similar views in the UK and China, there are subtle differences of emphasis concerning the understanding of, and responsibility for, learning for employability. In addition, a group of China-specific themes emerged from the UNNC interviews that indicated recognition of the need to differentiate priorities and provision for each site. The paper concludes that the challenge for the Award at UNNC is to serve both global and local agendas and that it should strive to reduce the 'information asymmetry' existing between stakeholders to promote effective graduate employability.

Developing and Supporting the Internationalisation of Research Capacity

2014 ◽  
pp. 232-246
Author(s):  
Christopher Hill
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Branch Campus ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
Made In

The internationalisation of education is a common and perhaps overused term that is still little understood. Developments have been made in the areas of recruitment, overseas delivery, and branch campus creation, but the extent to which our institutions are truly “international” is debatable, especially in light of the fact that few can agree on what is meant by the term itself. The need to collaborate, discuss, reflect, and learn from others is vital for developing nations and developed nations alike. It is in the process of sharing best practice that best practice can itself be developed and further enhanced. Engagement, on a glocal scale, can support integrated learning, contextual understanding, and the internationalisation of research capacity and as such, is an area for further review and reflection.

scholarly journals Examining the linkage between class attendance at university and academic performance in an International Branch Campus setting

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-390
Author(s):  
Ajit Karnik ◽  
Pallavi Kishore ◽  
Mohammad Meraj
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Quantile Regression ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Branch Campus ◽  
Class Attendance ◽  
International Branch Campus ◽  
Attendance Policy ◽  
Parent Institution ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between class attendance and academic performance has been an important area of research, with a positive association being posited between the two. The setting for our study is an International Branch Campus (IBC) of a British university that needs to demonstrate the quality of its service delivery both to the parent institution and to the fee-paying students. We employ a dataset of over 900 students in an undergraduate degree programme and subject it to statistical techniques, namely quantile regression and two-stage quantile regression. Our results show that attendance has a beneficial influence on academic performance and this benefit persists at higher percentile of grades. We propose that IBCs could consider an attendance policy that encourages students to attend classes.

Student Mobility in Transnational Higher Education: Study Abroad at International Branch Campuses

2020 ◽  
pp. 102831532096428
Author(s):  
Stephen Wilkins ◽  
Lan He
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Branch Campus ◽  
Branch Campuses ◽  
International Branch Campuses ◽  
Transnational Higher Education ◽  
International Branch Campus ◽  
Communication Competencies ◽  
The University ◽  
Hierarchy Of Effects

The purpose of this research is to investigate the extent to which universities actively encourage students to participate in study abroad at an international branch campus (IBC) owned by the university. We suggest that the quality of information on study abroad provided by an institution in its website may be a good indicator of the institution’s ambition (or not) to have students moving from the home university to a branch campus for study abroad. The selected institution websites were subjected to mixed-method data analysis, which included a content analysis procedure. It was found that some universities appear motivated to achieve IBC-based study abroad and demonstrate the required marketing communication competencies required, while other institutions possibly lack motivation and/or marketing competency. To effectively promote IBC-based study abroad, we advise universities to address the student decision-making process, as suggested by the hierarchy of effects model.

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