To understand the persistence of social inequalities, research in psychology has traditionally focused on individual determinants of the unequal treatment of social groups. For example, a great deal of work has situated the origin of inequalities in the discrimination produced by individuals who are biased by their negative beliefs and attitudes. And yet, several authors proposed that individua...

Cloud Computing is an attractive research area for the last few years; and there have been a tremendous grows in the number of educational institutions all over the world who have either adopted or are considering migrating to cloud computing. However, there are many concerns and reservations about adopting conventional or public cloud based solutions. A new paradigm of cloud based solution has...

Currently colleges and universities are facing a number of problems, including ill designed curricula that do not address demands from the job market. There is also tremendous pressure from society on academic institutions to provide an education that results in guaranteed employment, especially given the soaring price of higher education. Currently, a number of academic institutions are facing...

The world is currently going through a transitional period, moving from the Service era to the Information era. Rapid societal and technological innovations are changing the way we live, communicate, and work. As the rate of the technological/societal change increases, pressure on educational institutions also increases. This pressure is fundamentally about time-lag: the time it takes for educa...

• introduction of fee-charging to decrease the cost of education to the state and the creation of increased competition within the educational sector (new managerialism); • use of consultancies and applied research (entrepreneurialism); • global sharing of ideas so that institutions operate in a similar way (internationalization); • manipulation of learning programs by government on the pretext...

Due to the continuing reduction of funds, management must find ways to ensure quality operation of tertiary education institutions at an optimal cost. This objective can only be achieved by quality control of the educational process. Its requirements are part of the ISO 9001 standard. Among them is the mapping of educational processes for quality management system. A practical manual was create...

This paper attempted to establish the relationship between culture, communication and Human Resources Management in educational institutions in Nigeria. To achieve this, efforts were made to give a general overview of how culture and communication are significant to Human Resources Management. According to the conception of Human Resource Management, manpower planning requires efficient use of ...