...Ntombikayise Nkosi; Thembeka Myende Purpose Early-career women academics (ECWAs) in South Africa face distinct challenges in higher education, particularly across four key performance areas: teaching, research, community engagement and academic citizenship. While institutional transformation...

... to the belief that better things are coming and this situation will teach something meaningful. The duration of positivity can be life-long, while happiness is generally short-lived. Regardless of the cause or element that leads to happiness, it also does not matter how much a person is happy at the moment...

.... Practical implications Teachers' stress is not only an increasing problem over the years but also it was one of the top six most stressful professions. The present study outlines the possible organizational initiatives that can reduce the stresses of the teaching profession. Originality/value...

...Philip Hallinger; Jiafang Lu Purpose The global expansion of higher education has brought about more ambitious educational goals that require new approaches to curriculum, teaching, and learning. While higher education in East Asia is no exception to this trend, it has been observed that both...

...Vuokko Kohtamäki Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how the nature of management and leadership is related to the management and development of teaching and R&D (research and development) in higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach The nature of management...

...Jayanthi Ranjan; Mamta Bhusry; Jayanthi Ranjan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the need for knowledge management (KM) in the teaching‐learning process in technical educational institutions (TEIs) in India, and to assert the impact of information technology (IT) based KM...

...” in learning and teaching within a business faculty. The papers in this issue serve to demonstrate the system's outcomes. Research limitations/implications The paper is essentially descriptive. The described system illustrates one way of organising collaborative research in a university faculty...

... technology (IT) plays a crucial role to store, disseminate and classify the knowledge. Collection, editing, classification, and distribution are some of the key functions to make knowledge valuable to others. Most of the research and teaching databases, journals and professional magazines, etc. help...

...Jane Lu Hsu; Hsin‐Yi Chiu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine evaluations of teaching from viewpoints of lecturers and students to reveal perceived differences in teaching performance. Design/methodology/approach A survey is administered to lecturers and students in a large‐scale...

...Yin Cheong Cheng; Magdalena Mo Ching Mok Purpose This paper aims to report empirical research investigating how school‐based management (SBM) and paradigm shift (PS) in education are closely related to teachers' student‐centered teaching and students' active learning in a sample of Hong Kong...

...Suzanne Perillo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show that in comparison to performance appraisal, “practice enhancement” is offered as a conceptual tool that can be used to develop strategies for reflecting on, communicating changes in and planning for excellence in teaching practice...

...Michael Jackson Purpose In this paper teaching excellence awards are evaluated, with an eye to improving them. Design/methodology/approach Literature is reviewed and an analytic framework developed in Canada is modified to apply to the University of Sydney's Vice Chancellor Outstanding...

...R. Andreu; L. Canós; S. de Juana; E. Manresa; L. Rienda; J.J. Tarí Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present findings derived from research work carried out by a team of six university lecturers who are members of a teaching quality improvement network. The aim is to increase the motivation...

.... Findings The paper discusses the implications of higher education trends on curriculum, teaching and administration in management education. Originality/value This paper brings together a significant amount of information from various sources to provide a coherent resource about management education...

... is conducted of the two most prominent and important streams available to the higher education sector – teaching and technology transfer. The paper furthers this analysis through a discussion of the accompanying legal consequences to UK universities and offers strategies to be adopted by such institutions...

... research literature. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Quality assurance Quality management Quality improvement Higher education Teaching Training The paper (Srikanthan and Dalrymple, 2002) identified a number of independent proposals from the educational research literature...

... for a flexible and enterprising approach to teaching and learning in a cross‐cultural context. Drawing on the authors’ recent experiences at the Washington Business School in Singapore, the paper advocates that this approach will yield greater benefits than current methods. It concludes that an effective...

...Judith C. Simon; Khalid S. Soliman Teaching effectiveness at higher education institutions has captured the public attention for at least three decades. The majority of higher education institutions have investigated the relationships between teaching effectiveness and research productivity...

... of systems practitioners. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Education Learning National curriculum Schools Teaching United Kingdom Time, like an ever‐rolling stream, bears all its sons away; they fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day. (Hymn: O God, Our Help in Ages Past...