... competencies and which competency cluster to emphasise in two different institutions and countries. United Kingdom Malaysia Cross-cultural comparison Social and emotional competencies Much has been written in the last 40 years on the efficacy of “competency”-based human resources as a critical...

... factors in relation to the level of internationalization from a faculty's standpoint. These critical factors are unique to HE internationalization and transferrable to other similar institutions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Universities United Kingdom Academic staff...

... an institutional context through a qualitative analysis. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Internationalization Higher education Strategy implementation United Kingdom Numerous scholars are aware of the gap between strategy formulation and strategy implementation and identify various...

... (for more details regarding the international aspects of the four universities see Table I). Universities United Kingdom International partnerships Selecting partners Arranging partnerships Obstacles Partnership UK universities are some of the most popular places for study and work...

...@ulster.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Marketing Branding Advertising Higher education Emotion Decision making Students United Kingdom The UK Higher Education sector is an important part of the economy both in terms of its contribution to knowledge through graduate...

... include “banker university/ies” in case first choice institutions do not accept them. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Marketing Higher education Universities Ethnic groups United Kingdom With the exception of a few years in the recent past, the growth in ethnic minority...

... for strategic and operational decisions at both institutional and sector levels. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Globalization Organizational culture Higher education Universities United Kingdom Although it has been argued that internationalisation has become a key strategic...

... The paper presents a case study of leadership development in practice. Leadership Educational institutions Judaism United Kingdom The United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA) Ashdown Fellowship was launched in September 2000 with the aim of creating high quality leadership for the educational...

... a new form of debt aversion among the participants. HE institutions need to be aware of the variety of forms of debt aversion in order to plan for more strategic recruitment in a new fees and debt economy. Higher education Students Financing Debts Loans United Kingdom The introduction...

... Organizational effectiveness Communities Performance measurement (quality) Individual perception Standards United Kingdom Effectiveness can be defined within the field of economics to mean profit that is when the desired output is achieved (Scheerens, 1992). However, in the context of a school...

... are occupied by graduates from the Grandes Ecoles where the rational and mathematical training is strongly emphasised and the decision making process, to a greater extent, relies on factual or hard data: Business schools Master of business administration Cluster analysis Strategic groups United...

... capital and language facility. Thus, it is safe to assume that students tend to look for study opportunities in countries with which they have a past colonial association. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Higher education Overseas students Decision making Africa United Kingdom...

... studies which investigate the obstacles, difficulties and advantages of internationalization (the evaluation of internationalization process). United Kingdom Universities Mission statements Globalization Internationalization process implies three major phases (see Ayoubi, 2006 , p. 261...

... of attendance. Parents of pupils who regularly miss school tend to treat their offspring differently from the parents of regularly attending pupils and to have much poorer attitudes towards supporting their schools (Dalziel and Henthorne, 2005). Inspection Attendance Education United Kingdom...

... business United Kingdom Universities Partnership Strategic alliances Since the 1990s, universities world‐wide have become more internationally active through increased student mobility, staff exchange and the increasingly international dimension of the curricula. In UK universities and colleges...

... professional student recruitment services to better direct their information salvo, but more importantly it should also raise some questions which are much in need of an answer. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Higher education Assessment Information media Customer information United...

... to be stored (Dale, 2003). It is this aspect that makes it important to capture and measure a service at its point of delivery, rather than after the event, in order to ensure reliability. Peer review Teaching methods Higher education United Kingdom This critical evaluation of peer review...

... and charitable giving to the university sector is decreasing. Income Litigation Technology led strategy Teaching Universities United Kingdom One of the other potential sources of alternative revenue streams available to UK universities is the commercial exploitation of intellectual property...

... empirical literature in the field. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Students Business studies Incentives (psychology) United Kingdom Governmental pressures on UK higher education (HE) institutions to raise substantially their levels of enrolment have led universities and HE...

... professional development Case studies United Kingdom Many would agree that literacy has a central and pivotal role to play in pupils’ ability to use ICT effectively to support their learning. From the outset of the programme, the school had a well‐resourced computer suite which was timetabled...