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International Higher Education (IHE) publishes insightful, informed, and high-quality commentary and analysis on trends and issues of importance to higher education systems, institutions, and stakeholders around the world.
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The aim of the study was to assess the attitude and perceptions of university students in Zimbabwe towards homosexuality. One hundred and forty three students made up of 52% males and 48% females were selected through stratified sampling technique. The students were drawn from the faculty of social sciences at a university in Zimbabwe. A questionnaire was used to collect the data. The sample was composed of 99% Christians. The results showed that students were hostile towards those who...
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grams, and student bodies that are fairly reflective of broader society.While there is some clustering, the data and rankings suggest quite strongly that the links between accessibility and affordability are not straightforward.For example, with the exception of Finland and the Netherlands, no country has consistently high scores across both the affordability and accessibility rankings.
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International Higher Education (IHE) publishes insightful, informed, and high-quality commentary and analysis on trends and issues of importance to higher education systems, institutions, and stakeholders around the world.
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Despite great obstacles over its relatively short threedecade history, Palestinian higher education has helped to meet the rising demand for further education, providing access in West Bank/Gaza to those who had been forcibly deprived of the chance to study abroad. But longstanding demographic and fiscal pressures, coupled with inadequately defined priorities and chronic economic and political problems only heightened by the recent turbulence, have led to a higher education system in...
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The Egyptian Revolution comes amid a period of national and general regional growth of private higher education. Indeed, the Middle East is the last region to establish the private sector across the breadth of its countries. Apart from a few precursors such as the American University in Cairo, the private sector is basically a creation of the last two decades, and its share in Egypt is still small, though it is growing. On the one hand, the new minister says private universities should be...
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International Higher Education (IHE) publishes insightful, informed, and high-quality commentary and analysis on trends and issues of importance to higher education systems, institutions, and stakeholders around the world.
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International Higher Education (IHE) publishes insightful, informed, and high-quality commentary and analysis on trends and issues of importance to higher education systems, institutions, and stakeholders around the world.
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International Higher Education (IHE) publishes insightful, informed, and high-quality commentary and analysis on trends and issues of importance to higher education systems, institutions, and stakeholders around the world.
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After the independence of the colonies in the 1960s, African universities became autonomous and modeled on European ones. The late 1970s and 1980s became the difficult years of economic turmoil. At the same time, a demand for higher education increased. In the 1990s, most universities in sub-Saharan Africa stood in a deplorable state. The turning point in the African universities' fates came with the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education held in 1998, which provided a framework for...
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The article discusses some of the daunting challenges currently facing higher education in Africa, such as student enrollment, funding, research and quality assurance. It emphasises that successfully addressing these challenges requires multiple approaches at institutional, national and regional levels, and needs commitment and collaboration of all stakeholders.
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International Higher Education (IHE) publishes insightful, informed, and high-quality commentary and analysis on trends and issues of importance to higher education systems, institutions, and stakeholders around the world.
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The phenomenon of globalization is defined variously, but in general, it is defined as the establishment of a global market for goods and capital, leading to what could be described as a multiplicity of linkages and interconnections between places, events, ideas, issues, and things, irrespective of whether they are directly related or not. Globalization on the other hand cannot be a reality in any nation if its educational system is not implicitly or explicitly geared towards achieving...
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T he current literature illustrates that cross-border higher education is not a new development.In Nigeria, the University of Ibadan originated in 1948 as a college of the University of London, during British colonial rule.Recognized international providers have always been partners in Nigeria's higher education development.Yet, under globalization crossborder higher education has undergone a major transformation due largely to technologically sophisticated methods of delivery and a dominant...
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The study investigated the influence of face-to-face facilitation on the academic performance of Postgraduate students’ in Distance Education of the National Open University of Nigeria. The study adopted an Ex-post facto research design. The sample consisted of 268 (134 facilitated students and 134 non-facilitated students). The instrument for data collection consisted of 2013/ 2014 first semester examination course result grades in four courses offered in the Postgraduate Diploma in...
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This study investigated the influence of social networking (SN) on the psychological adjustment of adolescents with hearing impairment in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. A purposive sampling technique was employed to select adolescents with hearing impairment. A simple random sampling technique was also used to select 126 adolescents with hearing impairment who were thirteen years and twenty three years of age from both the junior and the senior...
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This article distils some important lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa using case studies of three systems which have successfully linked their economic development and higher education policy and planning: namely Finland, South Korea, and North Carolina state in the USA. These lessons include the link between economic and education planning; the need for a high quality schooling system as the foundation for a productive higher education system; the importance of institutional differentiation,...