Student Participation in University Governance

Student-Athlete or Athlete-Student: Analysis of Benefits and Barriers of University Sport Participation in South Africa

Background. Universities are perceived as the hub for sports talent identification and development. This perception puts much pressure on student-athletes who are expected to excel in sport despite their academic commitments. Based on this expectation, students who participate in sports could be regarded as athlete-student, rather than student-athlete. Objectives. The study was carried out to ...

Active participation of student s in teaching

Active participation of students in teaching is the one of the effective way of learning in science education according to large investigation. By this way students understand current level of knowledge, increasing the student’s eagerness and their attraction for learning. This study was designed to explore the effect of active student involvement in teaching and learning of the bacteriology in...

Faculty participation in university governance and the effects on university performance

This paper examines the relationship between faculty participation in university decision-making and university performance. Using an aggregated measure of faculty participation, McCormick and Meiners [The Journal of Law and Economics 31 (1989) 423] find that increased faculty control in decision-making is associated with lower levels of institutional performance. Building on the existing unive...

Community participation in water governance

Student Participation in OSS Projects

Open Source Software (OSS) is undergoing extraordinary growth. This rapid growth requires an increasing number of software developers working in a variety of areas. Computing education needs to provide students with professional experience, preferably within the context of a large, distributed software project. Educating students within OSS projects provides a solution to both the need for both...