Universities are paramount change drivers in bringing about a culture of sustainability in society by setting themselves up as models and nurseries for sustainable development. Thus, assessment of sustainability integration within universities is key to their impact on sustainable development. This study conducted an assessment of different public sector universities of Saudi Arabia based on fi...

The cultivation target of physical education major in normal universities is mainly physical teachers’ qualification in basic education. Training of teaching-plan-telling on students of sports teaching major in normal universities has significant meaning to enhance the quality of students in a comprehensive way, realize the target of professional education and facilitate students of sports in n...

Poppleton University made history when it decided to re-name its Department of Physics and Astronomy as the Department of Evidence-based Physics. This restructuring became necessary after the foundation of the new Department of Alternative Physics and Astrology. How did this come about? The Finance and Public Relations departments at Poppleton, with rare foresight, had spotted an opportunity to...

This paper proposes a theory for establishing dominance relations between universities on the basis of their scientific production and the number of citations their publications received in given time window. We apply this theory to the ranking of French Universities.

In this paper we discuss recent developments in rankings of universities and the impact of these rankings on academia in the context of international benchmarking and evaluation. We focus on technical and methodological problems behind these rankings, particularly those based on bibliometric methods, with special attention to the social sciences and humanities. We criticize the recent expert-ba...

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Kenyan universities have experienced a growing phenomenon of student’s unrest, drug abuse, deaths, relationship break ups, exam malpractice among others, which pose serious challenges in the growth and development students. Feelings self-worth develop very early childhood, thus parents guardians play great role determining what child thinks about him or herself. Self-esteem children from either...

     Todays, the parent company has a great role in managing and monitoring subsidiaries and companies in promoting their industrial activities. But, the main problem for pharmaceutical parent companies is the lack of clarity and confusion of responsibilities between units. Successful parenting needs to create the element of 'fit' between the ways parent operates – parent characte...