National universities have been ranked and compared with one another since their conception, and there are now a number of resources available that list these rankings. The U.S. News and World Report’s listing of the World’s Best Universities, the most prominent of these rankings, ranks the top universities based on a number of attributes. However, they overlook the aspect of objective quantifi...

The main purposes of this study are to explore the extent to which public Jordanian universities have adopted Human Resource Information System (HRIS) and to examine the current HRIS uses, benefits and barriers in these universities. A structured questionnaire was constructed based on other previous studies, it also pre-tested, modified and translated to capture data from HRIS users in Jordania...

This paper presents a continuous work related to defining the concern of adopting e-learning system by faculty members in Jordanian universities. The previous research (Evaluating E-Learning System Use by CBAM-Stages of Concern Methodology in Jordanian Universities, 2015) has managed to outline the stages of concern using CBAM framework for faculty members in 12 Jordanian Universities with a to...

The paper re-reads the complex and changing relationships between the university and the nation-state, and between national and supranational (EU-level) educational policies in Europe. It is focusing on long-term consequences of globalisation-related pressures on European nation-states with respect to national educational policies. It assesses the indirect impact of globalisation on European un...

This paper presents an analysis on the links among universities and public research institutes with the industry in Costa Rica. The study analyses information from three different sources. The first one is a data base from the national survey of science, technology and innovation in Costa Rica. The other one is a survey to researches in universities and public research centres. A third source i...

Diversity among institutions or, at least, institutional types, is a policy objective that most systems of higher education pursue although to different degrees. North American colleges and universities, for example, are among the most diverse in the world. In the East, Chinese universities have until recently tended to be highly homogeneous. At the same time both systems are concerned about eq...

Higher education in many countries is in a state of flux and universities have been under pressure to carry out structural reforms in order to become more competitive, as well as generate resources to fund programs. In some countries, where education is turning into a large commercial market, universities have to face competition from other types of educational institutions. Environmental press...

Universities have critical role as sources of intellectual property and talent in regional development and high technology industries. We present a theoretical framework based on social capital and knowledge management literatures describing the knowledge generation and transfer processes for universities. Our research questions are: 1. What are the roles of universities in regional economic de...

difference is the financial weakness of universities. The lack of centrally administered resources makes it much harder for universities in the UK to foster new interdisciplinary research areas, and often forces labs to do almost everything for themselves, which can result in considerable inefficiencies. For biomedical research in the UK to remain competitive, the financial health of the major ...

this study deals with the visibility, influence rate of diffrent links in virtual universities websites. the current community research is consisted of websites of 21 non medical universities websites and 8 websites of iran medical universities. the websites have been retrieved by the use of searchin and goolge webometic tools and are downloaded on personal computers to analyze their links. the...