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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

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Additionally, it encourages collaboration, teamwork, and effective communication among students and faculty from various disciplines (Weinberg & Harding, 2004). This enhances students’ critical thinking, knowledge integration, and problem-solving abilities. Educational Psychology Review , 21, 365-378. Szostak, R.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

Additionally, it encourages collaboration, teamwork, and effective communication among students and faculty from various disciplines (Weinberg & Harding, 2004). This enhances students’ critical thinking, knowledge integration, and problem-solving abilities. Educational Psychology Review , 21, 365-378. Szostak, R.

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Panelists Debate Solutions for Nigerian Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Macarthur Foundation in 2004, focuses on developing the capacity of higher education institutions in the West African nation. Economically developed countries have created a “triple helix” of collaboration between academia, government, and industry, according to panelist Dr. Vincent Idemyor, a professor at the University of Port Harcourt.

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Are we on route to gender equality in higher education?

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More women are attending university than ever before and a quarter of the world’s top universities have appointed a female president, but research shows that female academics are being pushed out of academia and are evaluated lower than male lecturers, which could stifle their careers.

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My Marking Life: The Role of Emotional Labour in delivering Audio Feedback to HE Students

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by Samantha Wilkinson Feedback has been heralded the most significant single influence on student learning and achievement ( Gibbs and Simpson, 2004 ). She is also passionate about using autoethnography to bring to the fore her experiences in academia, which others may be able to relate to. Twitter handle:@samanthawilko

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. This is not just a matter of visibility or the fairness of representation…but it’s also about the diversity of experiences that people bring both into academia and into the professional world,” says project director Dr. Volker Janssen. Santiago and Sarita E. The foundation has existed for 33 years.

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The interplay of occupational subcultures and HE curricula changes how and what student professionals learn

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Developments of social research and in particular ethnography, have stimulated discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ researcher ( Allen, 2004 ). Events such as these were difficult and morally challenging situations which stretched and tested my professional and moral compass.