Higher education
This topic currently groups 17 published articles across 15 issues.
Dialectical contradictions in postgraduate business education: A Framework for enhancing teaching and learning in UK higher education
Tripti Kohli • Aarti H Modasiya • Kashif Khan • Palto Datta
Volume 12 Issue 02 · 19 May 2026
Purpose of this study: The purpose of this study is to critically examine the role of dialectical contradiction as a pedagogical construct and explore its application within Postgraduate business and management programm…
The importance of relationships and communication in student satisfaction at Rey Juan Carlos University
Carmen De-Pablos-Heredero • Miguel Ángel Morales-Moya • Mónica Santos-Cebrián
Volume 12 Issue 01 · 04 Feb 2026
This study investigates the impact of relational coordination (RC) on student satisfaction in higher education. It aims to identify which dimensions of RC—communication and relational ties—most significantly…
Strategic plans and their contents: What are the important issues in higher education?
Brent M. Graves • Fritz J. Erickson
Volume 12 Issue 01 · 08 Jan 2026
Strategic planning has become a virtual requirement in higher education management. Huge amounts of time, energy, and money are committed to the process by individuals representing every level in a university’s hi…
Digital transformations & innovations in business PG Education: Rethinking curriculum development and teaching practices
Evangelia Fragouli
Volume 11 Issue 02 · 05 Oct 2025
This paper explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming curriculum development and teaching and learning practices in postgraduate education. Drawing on a multi-case qualitative research design across six g…
Artificial intelligence in UK Higher Education: Transforming institutional processes, student assessment, and academic innovation
Evangelia Fragouli
Volume 11 Issue 01 · 17 May 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the UK's higher education sector, impacting decision-making, policy development, knowledge exchange, operational processes, student recruitment, satisfaction, and notably…
Strategic endowment fund management: Elevating quality assurance in higher education - insights from case studies and best practices
Nayer Fardows • Daud Nayer • Agnes Nayer • Sarah Nayer Jaffar
Volume 10 Issue 01 · 01 Apr 2024
This research explores the pivotal role of strategic endowment fund management in elevating the quality assurance standards within higher education institutions. Quality assurance in higher education is of paramount imp…
A quantitative study on students’ perception of online versus face-to-face education
Gabriel De Freitas
Volume 09 Issue 02 · 04 Sep 2023
There are different opinions existing about the leadership crisis relating to the quality of education (Muenjohn, Pimpa, Montague, & Qin, 2016). Several authors believe that the role of contemporary business in HE p…
Micro-Compass quality assurance short programme: Designing effective quality assurance systems in HE Institutions in Bangladesh
Palto Datta • David M J Graves
Volume 08 Issue 01 · 28 Aug 2021
Due to increased demand for quality education worldwide, the Higher education sector globally has been undergoing an unprecedented level of changes over the past several decades. These result in increased public expecta…
Internationalisation of the curriculum: Challenges & opportunities
Evangelia Fragouli
Volume 07 Issue 02 · 19 Mar 2021
Internationalized curriculum development is critical to all institutions aiming to approach internationalisation coherently. Research on the internationalisation of the curriculum (IoC) focuses on the curriculum concept…
Reflecting on the HEA Framework for Internationalizing Higher Education & on the ‘practical theory’ of Handal and Lauvas
Evangelia Fragouli
Volume 07 Issue 01 · 30 Aug 2020
Internationalised curriculum development is critical to any institution aiming to approach internationalisation in a coherent way. Research on Internationalisation of the Curriculum (IoC), emphasizes the notion of curri…
A comparative study of perceived transformational, transactional and passive avoidant leadership styles effectiveness within the Ethiopian Public Universities
Desalegn Sherkabu Abadama
Volume 07 Issue 01 · 30 Aug 2020
This study aimed at comparing (i) the perceived ratings of leaders', non-leaders' and students' on leadership effectiveness and (ii) perceived ratings of various levels of leadership against transformational…
Internationalizing the Curriculum
Evangelia Fragouli
Volume 06 Issue 02 · 27 Feb 2020
Institutions of higher education have placed increasing importance on internationalizing their curricula over the past 10 years. The present work, through application of literature review and review of the Higher Educat…
TQM in Higher Education Institutions: The case of HSJ
Charalampos Platis • Evangelia Fragouli
Volume 06 Issue 01 · 07 Aug 2019
The adoption of a Total Quality Management (TQM) Model could improve many of the administrative structures of public services. The means for quality improvement is based on quantitative features. The European Foundation…
Reporting the impact of Student Centred Learning (SCL): Interactive learning experience based on small-scale study in undergraduate business classes
SAFAA SHAABAN
Volume 05 Issue 1 · 03 Sep 2018
This paper presents an examination of the student response to a small-scale experiment in Student Centred Learning (SCL) in undergraduate business classes. This experiment tests the benefits and the impact of Student Ce…
Some lessons learned in establishing the University of Rwanda
ROBIN H. FARQUHAR
Volume 03 Issue 2 · 26 Feb 2017
The author spent five months in Rwanda as a Strategic Advisor to the Ministry of Education’s Task Force for creating a single national university by amalgamating the existing seven public institutions of higher ed…
Social media as a tool in learning and social behavior in Saudi Arabia
NADIA YUSUF • RANDA AL-MADAH • MOHAMMAD ZULFEEQUAR ALAM
Volume 03 Issue 1 · 05 Sep 2016
Social media tools have become universal because the majority of population worldwide tend to use diverse social media applications. The advancement of technology has provided a chance to accommodate the needs of indivi…
Achieving Gender Equity in Leadership of South African Institutions of Higher Learning: Is Woman Empowerment Mission Impossible in Universities?
MOKOKO SEBOLA
Volume 02 Issue 1 · 08 Oct 2015
Thus far achieving gender equity in the academic leadership of South African institutions of higher learning is a mission not clearly possible. The Commission of Gender and Equity is established in terms of the Constitu…