This study addresses the research question: What is the effect of higher education liberalization on the regional distribution of universities and educational attainment in Zambia? The analysis captures the transformative effects of liberalization policies on educational access and regional distribution using data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) across seven of Zambia’s ten provinces. We compare regions that established new universities with those that did not, estimating the averag...

Public Policy  Higher Education 

The twenty-first century has been a time of revival and disruption for decolonization movements. Movements such as #Rhodes Must Fall have ignited calls for the decolonization of higher education institutions and challenged the colonial legacy of academia, including the curriculum. As elsewhere in the world, higher education in South Africa is under pressure to reinvent and transform itself. Curriculum decolonization is one of the central issues in the reform of higher education in South Africa, ...

History  Politics  Curriculum Development  Educational Reform  Higher Education 

This study explores the relationship between language attitude and language achievement among Chinese EFL learners, addressing the gap in empirical evidence within the Chinese context. Language attitude is a crucial factor influencing language learning, yet its connection to language achievement remains underexplored in China. The study employs the latent process viewpoint as its theoretical framework, analyzing both qualitative interviews and quantitative data to investigate this relationship. ...

Language Education  Educational Technology  Higher Education 

This research looks at the effects of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices on faculty members’ teaching performance, with a particular emphasis on the School of Economics and Management at Hubei University of Technology. The study looks at numerous HRM strategies, such as faculty training, performance evaluation, feedback systems, and incentive-based motivation. The study’s goal is to examine the efficacy of these HRM approaches in increasing faculty teaching quality. The results show that ...

Sociology  Higher Education 

Aesthetic education is an educational approach that aims to cultivate people’s aesthetic abilities. It intends to enable students to better experience, enjoy, and create beauty by enhancing their understanding and perception of beauty. In recent years, with the intensification of market competition, enterprises have been constantly delving deeper into the market to find effective marketing methods. As an emerging discipline, marketing aesthetics is becoming an essential factor in enterprise comp...

Higher Education 

This study investigates the impact of ineffective leadership on governance in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in northeastern Somalia. Established in 1998, Puntland has grappled with challenges of political instability, corruption, weak institutions, and tribal tensions that impede effective governance. The study utilized a case study design, capturing responses from a demographically diverse sample of Puntland residents to assess leadership effectiveness, governance quality, and public senti...

Educational Psychology  Higher Education 

When exploring the current ideological construction in China, we cannot ignore its close connection with the cultivation and practice of socialist core values. The cultivation and practice of socialist core values require the cultivation of modern civic morality and modern professional spirit. Starting from Durkheim’s theory, the core task of civic moral education should be to cultivate rational morality, while the cultivation of professional spirit aims to strengthen the sense of unity and prof...

Higher Education 

English vocabulary teaching is one of the key and difficult points in college English teaching. Scholars have conducted a series of studies such as lexical frequency, concordance/KWIC (key Word in Context), collocation and semantic prosody related to college English vocabulary teaching based on corpora, and have gained a lot of achievements. Under the concept of ideological and political education in courses, few scholars have conducted research on college English vocabulary courses in moral cul...

Higher Education 

In the era of globalization and digitalization, the restructured communication ecology underscores the importance of international communication competence as an essential skill for contemporary university students. This paper, from the perspective of global communication, explores strategies to enhance international communication competence among non-foreign language majors. It examines the core components of this competence, including narrative ability, intercultural skills, domain knowledge, ...

Sociology  Higher Education 

In view of students’ weak professional knowledge reserve and insufficient opportunities for teaching practicum, as well as out-of-date instructional mode and limited morals and values education resources, this study takes the English-major graduate course “Foreign Language Teaching: Theories and Practices” as an example to explore the implementation paths of integrating the morals and values education into the whole process of teaching. The course design is optimized with a problem-oriented in-c...

Educational Reform  Educational Technology  Higher Education