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South African health sciences students’ perspectives on utilisation, constraints and future possibilities of mHealth and e-Learning
The global COVID-19 pandemic has added considerable complexity to the education and training of health care professionals as well as patient care....
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Curriculum reform in African higher education: solving society’s problems and meeting its needs
Higher education is often regarded as a crucial driver of development in Africa. Notably, the curricula in African higher education institutions are...
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Faculty Perception of Student Engagement in Online Anatomy Laboratory Courses During the COVID-19 Pandemic
When the social distancing guidelines, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused universities to close campuses, there was a rapid shift in the...
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Assessing University-Society Engagements: Towards a Methodological Framework
Higher education institutions pursue three distinct yet interrelated missions of education, knowledge production, and community engagement. Until the...
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What Do Universities Care About?
This chapter examines how care is discussed in relation to university systems through a close and critical reading of the scholarly literature. We...
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(No) time to engage: an exploratory mixed-method study into factors predicting the engagement of postgraduate research students in Ireland
Worldwide, HEIs strive to provide the best possible training for their PGRs, the next generation of researchers. PGRs engagement is crucial for a...
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Develo** Relational Leaders Through Sorority Engagement: A Quantitative Approach
The purpose of this study was to understand what personal, environmental, and experiential aspects of undergraduate sorority engagement promote...
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Student Engagement in Higher Education: Conceptualizations, Measurement, and Research
Researchers have suggested that student engagement in the college and university learning environment is an important contributor to student...
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An African University, Caring with Humanity and Decolonisation
In response to this required continuous awakening inside university teachers at higher education institutions (HEIs), it is worth exploring a...
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Building a Community of Practice: a Case Study of Introductory College Chemistry Students
Engagement in active learning and learning communities is important for persistence of STEM students early in their academic programs. Colleges and...
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An African University and Claims of Democratic Citizenship Education
Given our previous discussions, it is clear that an African university is continuously shaped by debates such as democratic citizenship,...
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Designing Trauma-Informed Online Support and Mentorship for African Applied Science PhD Scholars
We provide a design case using applied trauma-informed frameworks to guide the design and usage adoption of an online support and mentorship platform...
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Transforming Sub-Saharan African Universities—Transnational Collaborations at the Intersections of Gender as a Viable Pathway?
This commentary explores the role that transnational scholarly collaborations, with gender as an entry point, could play in boosting Sub-Saharan...
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Stakeholder influence in university alliance identity – an analysis of European Universities initiative mission statements
The European Commission recently incentivized universities to establish alliances in order to institutionalise regional collaboration through the...
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The Interdisciplinary Model of African American Students’ Academic Profile
In recent years, researchers have shifted from pathologizing Black youths, when investigating the Black-White achievement gap, to focusing on factors...
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Communality, Responsibility and Public Good for Social Justice in University Education: Some Critical Reflections on an African University
This chapter proffers critical reflection on communality, responsibility and the public good as central tenets for social justice in an African...
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Role Models in Action Through YouTube Videos for Engineering Community College Students
Community colleges provide broad access to a college degree due to their less expensive tuition, greater course time offerings, and more open...
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Enhancing Inclusive Higher Education Programmes Implementation Using African Philosophies
Inclusive education aims to ensure that an extensive range of students, including those vulnerable to exclusion are catered to by the extant...
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Are Universities Caring Institutions?
In this chapter, we draw on our empirical data to offer insights into student and staff experiences of care in higher education. To provide a...
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Cultivating an Ubuntu University of Ethical Engagement in Africa
The literature in and about higher education is replete with expositions of the modern university that ought to advance an imagined ecology (Barnett...