Issues Related to Chinese Private Higher Education

Organizational Diveristy in Chinese Private Higher Education

Research issues related to education.

Contributions to Efficiency Issues in Higher Education

The concept of effectiveness is hard to measure. There is no standard institutional process to adopt, enabling an evaluator to achieve his/her goals conforming to the default definition of effectiveness: lowering cost and improving services. The concept of technology was viewed as a "black box," something that could be bestowed on schools and classrooms from above. A higher education institutio...

Issues with Language Policy and Planning in Iranian Higher Education

In this study, we attempt to bring to light various organisational and implementational clashes relevant to the conceptualisation of language policies at national level, and the planning of local practices with regard to degree programmes, language journals and conferences in Iranian higher education. We also prove that in its current status, the ELT syllabus in Iran, both at national and local...

Tenure Issues in Higher Education

The system of tenure that dominates American higher education has long been a source of controversy. Tenure has been attacked for entrenching a lazy professoriate, more interested in attending faraway conferences and producing unreadable research than in teaching or in developing practical insights, and has long been defended as an absolute necessity for the defense of open intellectual inquiry...