Due to the Bologna declaration and the subsequent switch to the bachelor/master system, student mobility is rising and competition among universities across Europe becomes intense. Furthermore, students are demanding comfortable information and communication solutions. Hence, universities are required to align educationaland serviceprocesses more closely to their students. This paper presents a...

Hertfordshire Business School employs approximately 200 academic staff in a state-of-the-art environment located in Hatfield Business Park. It offers 17 undergraduate degree programmes and 21 postgraduate programmes; there are about 75 research students working at doctoral level. The University of Hertfordshire is the UK’s leading business-facing university and an exemplar in the sector. It is ...

For many years, N recommendations in the Midwest were based on achieving a specific corn yield goal (if you want so many bushels per acre, apply so much N). This began to change in 2006 when several universities in the Corn Belt adopted a substantially different N recommendation system. That system was developed from recent N trial results and took into account the relative costs of grain and N...

A s information technology fuels the expansion of knowledge at an ever-accelerating pace, universities everywhere are confronting the question of how a successful university should be structured in the 21st century. In the past decade, changes have swept European university systems from Britain through Switzerland to Germany. In the United States, publicly funded universities are facing a growi...

This paper investigated the mode of entry as a predictor of success in final year bachelor of education degree examinations in universities in Ekiti and Ondo States, Nigeria. The study population comprised all the 1810 final year 400 level students in the two universities offering education courses namely University of Ado-Ekiti in Ekiti State and Adekunle Ajasin University in Ondo State, Niger...

goal: the current study was performed in order to construct and normalize the marital commitment inventory amongst the students of iran’s state universities. method: this is a descriptive research. the inventory was constructed via delphi technique based on johnson’s theoretical framework. it had 37 items and 2 additional items for detecting lies. in this way 500 persons were selected from the ...

One of the most successful and useful implementations of 3D virtual worlds is in the area of education and training. This paper discusses the use of virtual worlds in education and describes an innovative 3D visualization design project using one of the most popular virtual worlds, Second Life. This ongoing project is a partnership between IBM and three universities in the United States: the Un...

While located at the University of Connecticut, Institute’s mission is to cooperate closely with all colleges and universities in the state to resolve state and regional water related problems, and provide a strong connection between water resource managers and the academic community. CT IWR responds to environmental issues in Connecticut through a statewide Advisory Board and through its invol...

Universities throughout the world are expanding their relevance by responding to and engaging with local and regional societal challenges in multiple ways, including developing various kinds of community partnerships (Baum 2000; Bringle & Hatcher 2002; Butterfield & Soska 2005; Forrant et al. 2001; Stephens et al. 2008). Universities have a particularly interesting potential to facilitate socie...