scholarly journals Developing a Practical Framework of Sustainability Indicators Relevant to All Higher Education Institutions to Enable Meaningful International Rankings

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 629
Author(s):  
William Horan ◽  
Bernadette O’Regan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Emission Data ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
Sustainability Assessments ◽  
Campus Energy

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) sustainability assessments are receiving significant attention in the academic literature, with ever more complex grading and ranking systems being developed. This paper aims to provide national policy makers with a simple set of indicators to facilitate measuring progress towards sustainability for the HEI sector, within the context of national sustainability data collection efforts. Candidate indicators were identified and assessed from the two most subscribed to HEI sustainability assessments, namely, the UIGreenMetric and STARS, to develop a sector specific indicator set. This resulted in a final set of 12 indicators, covering on-site energy, greenhouse gas emissions, solid waste, water, travel, education, research, and governance. The proposed indicator set was then compared to publicly available data for Irish HEIs, to identify gaps in data collection, which found that direct campus energy use and associated Scope 1 and 2 emission data alone were collected with sufficient rigour. The described indicator set has the potential to be applied to guiding national sustainability transitions globally and offers a template for accelerating sustainability data collection efforts for the HEI sector.

Ranking Egyptian Universities Using Fuzzy Logic

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Hani M. Arwag ◽  
Yasser F. Hassan ◽  
Ashraf S. EL Saiad
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Fuzzy Logic Algorithm ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
The Media

During the last quarter of a century, university ranking systems have been developed as an outcome of new academic fields and metrics. Although they have attracted wide attention from policy makers, students, academicians, authorities and the media, they have been subjected to criticism. Any university that does not change as with the environment around them is doomed to fail. The results of universities in international rankings are a disturbing and foreboding danger. Universities are seeking to improve its services, students, citizens and visitors, to achieve better results in the international rankings. The objective of this study is spread public awareness of the importance of ranking of universities and higher education institutions, and push these institutions towards excellence and competition in the quality of scientific research and academic performance, and spreading the culture of the orientation about the universities rankings and higher education institutions in Egypt. By using web service we have collected data on Egyptian Universities of interest from a more number of web Services for fifteen Indicator each Egyptian University, We have constructed the weight matrix for the Indicator, Where an algorithm was created to Ranking the Egyptian universities using the membership function (trapezoidal ) in fuzzy logic Has been applied the fuzzy logic algorithm on the that data, we have compared the results with some International rankings for example (QS,U.S Nwes, Webmatix).This study showed positive results about comparing the results we get with some of the global rankings, the study confirmed that the Egyptian universities have high capabilities in the field of scientific research.

scholarly journals What about Provincial Institutions in Higher Education Policy in India?

2018 ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Anamika Srivastava ◽  
Nandita Koshal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Policy Makers

In this article, we take stock of provincial higher education institutions in India, which—advertently or not—have not yet caught the attention of policy makers. However, these institutions employ the majority of the teachers and cater to the needs of the majority of students in the country.

scholarly journals Ambidestralidade organizacional em instituições de ensino superior: proposição de estágios evolutivos de ambidestria

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-118
Author(s):  
Juliano Lima Soares ◽  
Dálcio Roberto dos Reis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Degree Of Maturity ◽  
Different Levels

Purpose  – The general objective of the research was to propose evolutionary stages of organizational ambidexterity.Design/methodology/approach – The research methodology was classified as an exploratory and descriptive study, whose method of data collection was through a questionnaire, the sample was census by adherence, from a population of 110 higher education institutions (HEI), participating in the study 79 cases, distributed throughout the Brazilian territory.Findings  – It is noteworthy that HEI are part of the same economic group, and even though 96% of the cases were classified as ambidextrous organizations, there was a great dispersion between them, suggesting some heterogeneity of the investigated cases. Originality – With the findings, the proposition of the existence of different levels of ambidexterity arose. This phenomenon, in a preliminary way, was labeled as the Degree of Maturity of Ambidextrous Organizational

Networking Industry and Academia

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 437-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Stephens ◽  
George Onofrei
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Real World ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Key Success Factors ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Education Business

Graduate development programmes such as FUSION continue to be seen by policy makers, higher education institutions and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as primary means of strengthening higher education–business links and in turn improving the match between graduate output and the needs of industry. This paper provides evidence from case studies. The findings indicate that the practical application of academic principles in real-world settings provides a useful learning vehicle for academics, graduates and SMEs. Key success factors and strategies for overcoming obstacles emerged from the case studies. In light of these findings, the authors make tentative recommendations to aid the future delivery of similar programmes.

INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS IN THE SELECTION OF INDONESIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: EVIDENCE FROM EDUCATION EXPO VISITORS

2012 ◽  
Vol 02 (09) ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Arif Hartono
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Perceived Importance ◽  
Quality Faculty ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

This study examines the required information and its importance that used by visitors of an education expo to select Indonesian higher education (HE) institutions. The visitors were dominated by the final year students of high schools that are located in the city of Jakarta, Indonesia. The study also investigates preferred promotional tools considered effective by the visitors that influence their choice of Indonesian HE institutions. The results indicated that the top three (in order) of the required information that used by the visitors to select Indonesian HE institutions were scholarships offered, teaching quality and faculty accreditation. Teaching quality, faculty accreditation and scholarship were the top three factors (in order) to be perceived importance by the visitors in the choice of Indonesian HE institutions. Regarding, HE promotional tools considered the most effective that influenced the visitors in selecting Indonesian HE institutions were national television, university presentation and university website. The study results provide important insight for policy makers in Indonesian HE institutions to develop marketing strategy, particularly the strategy related to recruitment and advertising, due to the visitors are potential students of Indonesian HE institutions.

Factors Affecting Internationalization Degree of Higher Education Institutions in Portugal and Spain

2018 ◽  
pp. 348-377
Author(s):  
Marina Amorim Sousa ◽  
Tomás Bañegil Palacios ◽  
Beatriz Corchuelo Martínez-Azúa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Internationalization Process ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Degree Of Internationalization

The aim of this study is to evaluate the degree of internationalization of Iberian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and the factors that influence their internationalization process. The study begins with the contextualization of the HEI internationalization process through a brief historical synthesis and the establishment of the levels of analysis of this process, to focus, in more detail, the organizational level. To this end, it is supported in an organization dimensions model to define the components of the internationalization process and the data collection by questionnaire. The results were processed for each of its components, and the degree of internationalization was obtained by calculating the mean values of the components total. The study concludes that the Iberian HEIs have an interesting level of internationalization, which is higher for institutions with more than 5.000 students, with simultaneous focus on teaching and research, conferring the master's and doctor's degrees.

scholarly journals Making Space in the Standards Agenda: Developing Inclusive Practices in Schools

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Dyson ◽  
Frances Gallannaugh ◽  
Alan Millward
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Inclusive Practices ◽  
Policy Environment ◽  
Local Education ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

In spite of the focus on inclusive education in recent years, there is a relative dearth of studies which explore the complexities of the move towards greater inclusion. This article seeks to redress this situation by reporting some interim findings from a three-year study of schools' attempts to develop more inclusive practices, involving teams of researchers from three higher education institutions working in partnership with 25 schools, in three local education authorities. The development took place within a national policy environment which focused heavily on the issue of ‘standards' narrowly defined. This article reports the way that this context helped to form schools' responses to inclusion and the ambiguities in these responses. It argues, however, that the view of schools' actions as entirely determined by this external agenda is as erroneous as the image of them battling heroically against it in the name of inclusive values. Rather, to a greater or lesser extent, schools tried or were impelled to find spaces within the ‘standards agenda’ where different values and priorities could be realised. The article outlines some of the factors which made this process more or less likely to occur and offers an important new way of thinking about the development of inclusive education.

A Preliminary Assessment of Energy Consumption Behaviour Pattern and Factors Influence Among Malaysian Higher Education Institutions Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Hafizal Ishak ◽  
Ibrahim Sipan ◽  
Abdul Hamid Mar Iman ◽  
Maimunah Sapri
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Management ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Influence Factors ◽  
Behaviour Pattern ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
Consumption Behaviour ◽  
Energy Consumption Patterns

Towards sustainable campus of higher education institutions (HEIs), energy consumption behaviour is one of the several matters that require attention by the facilities manager. Information on energy consumption behaviour helps on developing a good strategy for energy management. The purpose of this study is to assess energy consumption behaviour among Malaysian HEIs student. This study has an objective to determine energy consumption patterns and analyse the factors that influence the pattern. The 'energy culture' framework consolidated with 'centrographic' approach and econometric analysis used to strengthen the findings. A self-administrated survey carried out involving 158 respondents in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor. There are three types of energy use among students in HEIs namely, 'high', 'low', and 'conserve'. The 'device', 'activities' and 'building regulation' are the influence factors on the pattern of energy use.

scholarly journals Application of occupancy and booking information to optimize space and energy use in higher education institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 25010
Author(s):  
Shoaib Azizi ◽  
Ramtin Rabiee ◽  
Gireesh Nair ◽  
Thomas Olofsson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Space Use ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Significant Saving ◽  
Building Management ◽  
Extensive Information ◽  
Building Operation

Building in higher education institutions (HEIs) are characterized as energy intensive Experience from practice showing large discrepancies between predicted and actual energy performance. The deviation can sometimes reach 100%. Explanations often originate from occupant’s behaviour along with building operation. IoT-based smart tools can provide extensive information about building usage to improve the building management, often associates with opportunities, for significant energy saving. The analysis in this study investigate space use based on occupancy and booking information in eight different lecture rooms at Umeå University. The results suggest interventions for significant saving potentials, such as modification of access permission and closing down redundant lecture rooms.

Weapon of the weak

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (9/10) ◽  
pp. 683-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurdiana Gaus ◽  
David Hall
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Resistance Patterns

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how academics resisted and accommodated changes towards the reform process in higher education institutions in Indonesia which has introduced market-driven principle of new public management and the principle of Neo-Weberian model. Using the theory developed by Scott concerning the resistance patterns by powerless or subordinated groups through “weapon of the weak”, this study aimed at mapping the resistance exhibited by Indonesian academics. Design/methodology/approach – This study was a case study using semi-structured interviews conducted with 30 academics in three state universities in Indonesia. Findings – The results of this study demonstrated that academics in Indonesian universities resisted and accommodated the policy reform using their discursive, unobtrusive tactics of resisting. Research limitations/implications – The method of data collection used in this research was based on the interview alone. It would be useful to consider to deploy other forms of data collection such as, observation to allow the building up of strong trusthworthiness of the findings of this research. Practical implications – The authors believed that this study may be useful to give better understandings for policy makers on implementing policies by considering aspects of behaviours of academics as street level bureaucrats in accepting, interpreting, and implementing policy imperatives. These results might also be beneficial for policy makers from other sectors outside higher education in effectuating policy imperatives. Originality/value – The authors argued that, academics actively responded to external pressures which contradicted their own values and beliefs with their unique intellectual strategies by which have been overlooked in the formulation of policy.

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