scholarly journals ISLAMIC CIVILISATION AND ASIAN CIVILISATION (TITAS) COURSE AS A MEDIUM FOR THE INCULCATION OF ETHNIC TOLERANCE IN UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH: A NEEDS ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (35) ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
Habibah @ Artini Ramlie ◽  
Norshahrul Marzuki Mohd Nor
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
First Year ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Compulsory Subject

The Islamic Civilisation and Asian Civilisation (TITAS) course is offered as a compulsory subject in Malaysian institutions of higher learning (IHL) to expose undergraduates to the world and regional civilization history. In addition, it is aimed at inculcating ethnic tolerance among university students in aspects of diversity relevant to the context of Malaysia with its diverse races, ethnicities, and religions. This study sought to investigate the effectiveness of the TITAS course in Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) as a medium for the inculation of ethnic tolerance and also to identify the necessity of continuing to offer TITAS as a liberal course in the Centre for the Promotion of Knowledge and Language Learning (PPIB) in Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS). The survey method was utilized and a questionnaire that had been adapted to suit the research objectives administered to 475 undergraduates enrolled in the TITAS course during their first year of studies. Descriptive analysis of the findings suggested that TITAS should be continued in PPIB so as to maintain its role as a medium for the inculcation of ethnic tolerance among undergraduates.

The Role of Moral Education on the Dress Code in the Higher Learning Institution

Sains Insani ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-14
Author(s):  
Ira Meilita Ibrahim ◽  
Taufik A. Latif ◽  
Afi Roshezry Abu Bakar ◽  
Muthualagan Thangavelu
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Private University ◽  
Public University ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Dress Code ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of

The advancement of European dress to the rest of the world was linked to the definition of civilization as “a stage of social development considered to be more advanced” and “polite and good-mannered”. The widespread of their fashion style in the 19th and 20th centuries influenced the way the rest of the world attire. The fashion trend and dressing style thus change the purpose of dressing through time. The dressing style in campuses especially in private institutions of higher learning is under particular scrutiny, as it is often said to be inappropriate for a learning environment. This study looked at the importance of moral education, and its role in implementing the dress code for students among university students especially between two types of university i.e. public university and private university. It looked on the dressing style of students, both male and female, and the factors that lead to their dressing pattern which is common among students. This study also advocated the students’ understanding of the content of dress codes in their learning institution and the role played by moral education in regard to dress code. The overall study highlighted students’ perception towards the implementation of the dress code and punishment in their learning institution. The methodologies used to carry out this study are questionnaires and interviews. This study will therefore ascertain the important of dress code among students at higher learning institution and the role of moral education in cultivating values in order to dress properly or decently. Key Words: moral education, dress code, higher learning institution, civilization.

Native Approaches to Decolonising Education in Institutions of Higher Learning

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polly Walke
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
The World

A growing number of Native scholars are involved in decolonising higher education through a range of processes designed to create space for Indigenous realities and Indigenous ways of managing knowledge. Basing their educational approaches on Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies, they are developing Indigenist approaches within higher education. Ward Churchill (1996:509), Cherokee scholar, explains that an Indigenist scholar is one who:Takes the rights of indigenous peoples as the highest priority …who draws on the traditions – the bodies of knowledge and corresponding codes of value – evolved over many thousands of years by native peoples the world over.

scholarly journals Needs Analysis of Psychosocial Module Development Based on Psychoeducation Approach for Public University Students in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 604
Author(s):  
Salleh Amat ◽  
Harizah Izyan Samsudin ◽  
Abu Yazid Abu Bakar ◽  
Mohd Izwan Mahmud ◽  
Mohd Hasrul Kamarulzaman
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Positive Response ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public University ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Module Development

This study is a needs analysis that aims to develop a psychosocial module based on a psychoeducation approach in order to strengthen the assertiveness, social skills, and psychological well-being of public university students in Malaysia. The specific objectives of this study were to identify the perceptions of university students on the need to design and build a psychosocial module, identify the constructs that should be included in the phase of designing and building of the psychosocial module as well as the support that has been received and the support that the students desire while on campus. This survey study utilized a questionnaire distributed to a total of 286 first year students studying at three public universities in Malaysia. The data obtained were analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The findings of the study showed a highly positive response from the students toward the development of a psychosocial module and the constructs listed in the questionnaire. Implications from this study can further solidify the constructs that should be included in the design and construction of the psychosocial module as well as identify the availability of the approaches, strategies, and support activities that have been received and desired by the students.

The Context, Design, and Impact of System-Wide Assessments to Enhance Effectiveness in the Higher Colleges of Technology of the United Arab Emirates

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Marshall “Mark” Drummond ◽  
Matthew A. Robby
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Colleges Of Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
Effective Assessment

This paper examines the use of System-wide Assessments, an innovative initiative to enhance the accountability, quality, and effectiveness within the Higher Colleges of Technology of the United Arab Emirates. The authors review the historic and contemporary influences on college/university assessments and the key forces or factors which have shaped development and need of Outcome Assessments. The paper summarizes the literature on the best practices for assessment and promoting changes. The paper describes the objectives, structures, and processes involved with random use of System-wide Assessments among the 17 Federal colleges. A survey of 80 Deans and Chairs reports the perceptions and ratings of the process and impact of System-wide assessments. The lessons learned are described and inform recommendations for key components of an effective assessment system to promote accountability and improvement in higher education. Findings have significance for leaders of institutions of higher learning throughout the Middle East and the world.

Managerial Skills Development of Selected Private Institutions of Higher Learning in Batangas, Philippines

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carina R. Magbojos
Keyword(s):  
Development Program ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Bivariate Correlation ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Significant Difference

Abstract - Institutions of higher learning face a new situation on higher education. It holds some novel threats and presents some fresh opportunities. Given the uncertainty of the future, collage and university administrators cannot allow their organizations to drift. This study assessed the managerial skills development of the administrators of the five (5) well-established private institutions of higher learning in Batangas, Philippines. A combination of descriptive-purposive research design and survey method was used to determine the managerial dimensions exhibited by the administrators. Mean, Likert Scale, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and and Bivariate Correlation were used. There is no significant difference in the assessment of the three groups of respondents in terms of communication skills and solving problems effectively. However, there is a significant difference in terms of self leadership, managing the task effectively, managing the people effectively, and managing interpersonal relations effectively. There is a very high significant relationship among all the managerial skills dimensions required of the institution administrators using the same managerial dimensions. The managerial skills of the administrators have to be enhanced to improve the quality of people in the institution. The Proposed Executive Development Program and Training Model are strongly recommended. Keywords – managerial skills, institution of higher learning, private institutions, education

On the Teaching of Economics in Africa

1969 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 713-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Kimble
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
First Year ◽  
Technical Quality ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
Industrial History ◽  
Teaching Of Economics ◽  
The World ◽  
University College ◽  
First Year University

The past two years, 1968–9, have seen the publication of a significant handful of economic textbooks, designed for first-year university students in Africa. Their specific aims, their precise range, and their technical quality naturally vary widely; but the important thing is that they have been published at all. This marks the culmination of a long, slow revolution, since the time when the then University College of the Gold Coast began to teach economics in 1949–50, following unmodified London syllabuses. There seemed to be no anxiety to work out any appropriate local substitute for papers in such topics as British industrial history, although this was possible under the regulations; and one of the lecturers told me, ‘There is no need for an African textbook— economic principles are the same all over the world.’

scholarly journals Audit Education as an Effective Tool for Narrowing Audit Expectation Gap: Evidence from Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Cordelia Onyinyechi Omodero ◽  
M. C. Okafor
Keyword(s):  
Chief Executive Officers ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Early Learning ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Expectation Gap ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Executive Officers ◽  
Audit Reports

This study investigates the determinants of audit expectation gap by reviewing several studies to establish its existence and the major causes of the expectation gap. In like manner, many other empirical works on the effectiveness of audit education in providing a solution to the anticipation breach issues are also examined.  The findings reveal the existence of review expectancy crack in different countries of the world.  The major causes of the breach also include performance deficiency, standard paucity, auditors’ compromise of their roles, and lack of public awareness of what the law specifies the auditors’ roles should be, among others.  In the light of the review, this study further discovers that the varying audit prospect disruption can be effectively managed by providing adequate and comprehensive audit education to various users of audit reports and the society at large.  In this study, we propose early learning of audit. An audit should be a general subject in the Universities and Institutions of higher learning.  This will help to equip future managers, managing directors, entrepreneurs, chief executive officers (C.E.O.s) of companies, investors and other stakeholders.

scholarly journals Rethinking Policies, Procedures, and Practices Surrounding Language Learning and Learners

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Griffin ◽  
David Chiesa
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Spheres Of Influence ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Take Back ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
K 12

The summer 2021 issue of GATESOL Journal is replete with research-based insights and strategies for supporting multilingual learners in varied teaching contexts. The five articles in this issue address ways to better equip multilingual learners for success in an increasingly diverse and multicultural society. One common thread throughout the issue is the rethinking of policies, procedures, and practices that surround language learning and learners. As the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is on the rise and the future of K–12 and higher education continues to remain uncertain, we sincerely hope this issue of GATESOL Journal provides our wide conglomerate of readers—from K–12 mainstream and ESOL teachers to researchers and teacher educators in and outside of Georgia institutions of higher learning to state policymakers—ideas they can take back with them to their respective spheres of influence to make a lasting difference in how we do language teaching and learning in Georgia and beyond.

Planning language treatment: linguistics for the third world

1981 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Björn H. Jernudd
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World

ABSTRACTI shall argue that adoption of linguistics at institutions of higher learning in its present international disciplinary form, and in its expression through the medium of English (because English is a major foreign or second language in much of the world and the by far dominant language for the discipline of linguistics), can be contrary to the public good in less developed countries (LDCs) and emerging speech communities. Linguistics in its current international disciplinary form serves needs different from those of emerging speech communities, where a new language treatment system ought to be created by a new cadre of caretakers of the community's language resources. (Language planning; developing countries; linguistics as an international discipline; English)

scholarly journals Planning and Implementing a Graduate Online Team-Taught Marketing Course

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-122
Author(s):  
Rajasree K. Rajamma ◽  
Michael R. Sciandra
Keyword(s):  
Team Teaching ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Potential Solution ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Team ◽  
Educational Delivery

Online courses have become an important educational delivery tool for institutions of higher learning throughout the world. While popular among students and administrators, many faculty members have expressed concerns with online courses. Therefore, this article highlights online team teaching as a potential solution to many of the concerns harbored by faculty members. In particular, we discuss the potential challenges that can be faced by an online teaching team during the various stages from conceptualization to implementation, and offer prescriptive guidelines that would help future teams in navigating those challenges. Importantly, this article explores online team teaching from the perspective of marketing faculty and outlines positive educator outcomes associated with the development of a team-taught marketing course.

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