Move Over Ms. Professor!

This paper seeks to identify the professional challenges, success factors, work environment, institutional culture, research support and gender explicit practices for women in higher education in a post-apartheid South Africa, thereby contributing toward supporting women in academia at different stages in their careers. The study is contextualized within the context of national and global scholarship on the professional challenges faced by women in the academy. This included theoretical explanations and studies of perceptions of the glass ceiling, the glass wall, the mommy track, academic roles, academic bullying, the queen bee syndrome, strategies for the advancement of women and stress experienced by women. Women in the academy are unique and so too are their experiences and coping strategies. In order to fully understand effective coping strategies adopted by women in higher education; as they progress along their careers, it is integral to understand their lived encounters. This study was qualitative, using in depth interviews and collected evidence from twenty women at different levels at the University of KwaZulu Natal. The results of the study are strengthened by existing scholarship and contextualised with the social construction of reality (Berger and Luckmann, 1979)

Research Productivity in Higher Education Environment

Most higher education institutions that have an ambition to reach the highest institutional ranking and seek to have prestige among other institutions consider research productivity as one of the most important measures of educational quality. Therefore, measuring research productivity has gradually been considered as the key to promoting researchers and providing encouragement for creating the finest work. In the face of various challenges regarding the active future contributions to higher education development, the question that arises is this: what will be the role of research in higher education? Tentatively, the influence of research on higher education performance is obvious and direct, and there is a lineal connection between higher education and research productivity. This chapter examines academic staff research productivity. Specifically, it explores the individual and institutional factors that contribute to their productivity while also comparing determinants across academic disciplines. It reviews aspects such as motivation and other factors of research productivity. It discusses research development programs in higher education as a key factor for a blooming future and knowledge incorporation for operative achievements in higher education institutions

The Effect of Justice Perception on Employee’s Motivation of the Public Sector Organizations in Pakistan

Organizational behavior has long been a point of discussion in the areas of management and public administration. Being an integral part of Human Resource Management public service motivation(PSM) has been having a direct effect on the employees’ behavior. An employee with high levels of motivation is considered a good fit for public sector organizations because of their service-oriented values. The current study explores the positive relationship between justice perception and employee’s motivation within the public-sector universities of Pakistan. It further explains organizational commitment plays an important role in the relationship between justice perception and employee motivation. Applying the theoretical lens of Perry’s (2000) process theory and Adam's (1965) Equity theory of organizational justice to examine their views on employee motivation, performance, and commitment.  Theoretical and practical implications for adaptive public sector leaders and employee responses are discussed. However, a survey method was employed to assemble 488 usable questionnaires from faulty/administrative members of public sector universities of Pakistan. The findings indicate that the relationship between justice perception and employee’s motivation is statistically significant and positively correlated. Structural equation modeling (SEM) has been used for hypotheses testing. This study will be among few studies that have highlighted the importance of interaction effect of organizational commitment strengthens the relationship between justice perception and employee’s motivation

Students Awareness on Educational Tour Policies: Commission on Higher Education Memorandum Order (CMO) No. 17 Series of 2012

400 students became respondents in Higher Educational Institutions in S.Y. 2016 - 2017 with the study students’ level of awareness on the Educational Tour. The study used Descriptive – correlational design utilizing. Pearson r, Point Biserial and Eta Correlation as Statistical tools.  The findings state that most respondents answered a much aware level of awareness on the Educational Tour before, during and after the conduct of the study. Lack of money, time, safety and management deficiencies were the moderately felt problems. It concluded that the level of awareness in Educational Tour before, during then after educational tour is much aware. The Study recommends, sustainable awareness programs, inclusion of the discussion of educational tour in student, parent’s orientation and discussed in the student handbook. Constraints with educational tour be addressed before the activity, and a conduct of relevant studies regarding to educational tour be further addressed

The Concept of Teaching Excellence in Higher Education

The institutions of higher education are in a period of substantial change. They are under constant pressure to reveal their accomplishments while facing cumulative levels of economic limitations, modified responsibility structures, and demands to promoting excellence in teaching and learning capabilities. The issue of excellence in teaching and learning has become a significant topic for higher education strategies around the world. This chapter reports on the challenges faced by higher education institutions in advancing the excellence of teaching and learning through educational development programs. It explores how academics adopt and promote excellence in their teaching and how they react to university quality programs

ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING CUSTOMERS’ SELECTION OF BANK SERVICES (A Case Study of Worabe Town, Ethiopia)

Globally, competition in the banking industry has become fierce, and banks are adopting various marketing strategies to determine the consumer and his perception of their offerings. The purpose of this study is to analyze the major factors of a bank selection by a customer and how customers rank the factors based on their importance level to patronize in banking services of worabe town, Ethiopia. A descriptive, cross-sectional survey was conducted among 395 convenience selected bank customers used to identify the predictors of bank choice from different occupation in the analysis. The Data required for this study collected from two sources; these are primary and secondary sources. A convenience sampling was used. The data was then coded, cleaned, analyzed and interpreted with the help of Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) where factor analysis and was used to analyze the data. Chi-square test was used to examine the association between different variables. The finding from this study reveal that group effect, role and status and family effect have significant effect on customers’ bank selection but, culture have insignificant association with customer bank preference as well as the five service quality dimension have significant effect on customer bank selection. The finding also reveals that most five important bank selection criteria for customers are good customer service, security arrangement of the bank, ATM facility, Offered variety service and internet banking. On the other hand, the least three important factors of bank selection for customers are low service charge, parking service and low interest rate on loan

An Impacts of Urban expansion on the Livelihood of Farming Community in Peri-Urban Areas of Dessie Town Using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques

The high rate of urbanization coupled with population growth and migration has caused changes in land use and land cover in Ethiopia. Therefore, understanding and quantifying the spatio- temporal dynamics of urban land use and land cover changes and its driving factors requires lu/lc map integrated with socio economic data. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the impact of urban sprawl on farming Communities over the last 30 years of Dessie town. This study used Remote Sensing and Geographic Information system for quantifying urban land use and land cover change dynamics. Socio economic data was used to analyze the impacts and factors of urban sprawl on prei urban farming communities. Three dates of Landsat image data of the 1988, 2006 and 2018 were used to produce land cover map in general and urban expansion map in particular .Digitization, image differencing and post-classification comparison change detection methods were employed. In addition to this, socioeconomic data were used in explaining the drivers of urban expansion in the study area. The results showed that during the last 30 years, built up area increased from 1088.19ha in 1988 to 3826.5hain 2003 and 6091.12 ha in the year 2018. The annual rate of built up area cover change between 1988 and 2003 was 182.52ha/year. The socioeconomic factors like population growth, rural-urban migration, and reclassification of land is the major driving forces for the observed built up area increment. Therefore, in order to reduce the problem national and regional government policies in terms of urban expansion and other responsible body should get considerable attention for urban planning to reduce the rate of those factors. Like that of improving vertical expansion rather than horizontal

Welcome to University: Have a seat please!

The teaching and learning milieu in a post-apartheid South Africa has transmuted fundamentally. Twenty-five years ago a university class accommodated 100 students; this has augmented into a class of approximately 2000 learners. Notwithstanding this transformed learning environment affects students, academics, and learning process significantly. Failure to deliver supplementary fiscal and human resources has left both students and academics unsupported. The proliferation of students has simultaneously and surprisingly seen a reduction in academics within faculties. Ineffectual organizational human resource and infrastructural developments has compounded the challenges. Scholarship on pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning in large classes is examined, adopting a qualitative desktop methodological approach. The adverse impact on first-year students and academics at universities in South Africa is documented. The results from this study denote the challenges experienced by academics and students in endeavoring to maintain academic standards. Sociological insights on the complexities, challenges, and possibilities that lie ahead, are examined. &nbsp

Progressing Enterprising Education within Universities

This paper discusses the progression of enterprising education, and its impact on the institutional stakeholder, in order to ascertain aspects of identification and engagement. This greater understanding of the entrepreneurial context, between delivery and professional support stakeholders aid in the stipulation of actionable principles towards more effective, entrepreneurship-based courses and programmes. This paper highlights, as derived from literature, the many surrounding factors persistent in enterprising forms of education. These include professional recruitment, institutional strategy, and entrepreneurial behaviours and emotions. These factors impact on core elements of the entrepreneurial context including the institutional focus, programme creation, and the overall student journey. &nbsp

Cracking the Enterprise Code

There is a broad consensus that curriculum design principles and practices must be underpinned by effective institutional, national and international agendas. This argument is strengthened by the assertion that teaching and learning activities are designed and implemented to ensure that design is purposeful towards the improvement of student learning. More importantly, this suggests that there must be a conscious effort in its planning process and the delivery of requisite reactions. In this paper, we draw on reflections of key curriculum design practices, as an attempt is made at highlighting effective enterprise teaching and quality learning. The real notion is the lack of a framework that advances the right foundations for effective enterprise teaching and learning. Thus, the narrative we pursue presents a novel but sophisticated approach to effective teaching and quality enterprise learning