The study determines the extent of use of information resources provided in Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Library, Owo, Nigeria by the students. The research design is descriptive design survey. The study utilises structured questionnaire to obtain data. The population of the students is 6,550 and sample size of 1050 was chosen as the participants. A purposive sampling technique was adopted. A total of 1,020 copies of questionnaire from 1050 administered were returned and correctly filled, which produce returned rate of 97.14%. Data extracted were analysed using descriptive statistics. The findings revealed that more than half of the participants always use library. Majority of the participants visit library to use social media (84.02%), 83.91% use it to consult library books, while 83.83% use it to do various assignments. The results revealed that 82.94% of the students preferred using textbooks, followed by 80.39% using social media networked and 72.89% use their lecture notes. It was observed that inadequate current textbooks, poor Internet connectivity and frequent power outages are the leading challenges encounter while using information resources available in the library. The result of this findings show that with the information resources available in RUGIPO library, the library is not fully utilized by the students. Based on the findings, it is recommended that more current and up-to-date journals need to be acquired. There should also be a solid policy and implementation framework by the Executive arms of government towards making poor Internet connectivity become a thing of the past in all tertiary institutions in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.
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The study explored the various causes of conflicts in organizations. The objectives of the study was to find out the nature, types and factors that lead to staff related conflicts in organizations especially tertiary educational institutions. To achieve the objectives, researchers employed the case study approach using Takoradi Polytechnic as the case study. It also involved the use of interview and questionnaire as the data collection instruments for the study. Researchers used the purposive and simple random sampling techniques to select the respondents. A sample size of 276 out of 736 of the population was selected for the study. This constitutes (36%) of the population. The sample was made up of 109 junior staff, 96 senior staff and 71 senior members. These three groups of staff from different departments were randomly and purposively invited to participate in the study. The study would be of immense benefit to management of institutions especially educational institutions since it would inform them of possible conflict that could arise. It would also inform policy formulation and staff training and development programs. It was discovered after the study that there were various conflicts in the organization which could be grouped into intra-personal, interpersonal and inter-group conflicts. These were as a result of the competing for limited resources, power struggle, differences in behavior among others. It recommends the education of staff through workshops and seminars on the differences that leads to conflicts, provision of resources and infrastructure that could mitigate the competition of resources among others.
The legal status of polytechnic has been fundamentally changed from time to time. After the Law of National Education System Number 20/2003 and the Law of Higher Education Number 12/2012 came into effect, the polytechnic has been granted a new legal status that offers more diverse programs at various levels. Since then, polytechnic could conduct vocational diploma programs and degree programs in applied sciences from graduate to postgraduate. This legal status raises legal problems whether polytechnic is a higher education institution in vocational or applied sciences. Best education practices in some countries classify applied sciences higher education as academic education, not vocational education. This doctrinal research paper then will examine this legal problem using statute, historical and comparative approach, in the light of the Development Legal Theory. This study shows that the legal status of polytechnic is heavily dependent on government policy. In the absence of a clear and firm ground policy of vocational education, the legal status of the polytechnic has been interpreted differently from time to time. The government ought to reset the vocational education policy and then reform the law of the national education system. Therefore, the legal status of the polytechnic will be more sustainable and have better legal certainty accordingly. Regarding the recent development of higher education, it will be better if the government constitutes polytechnic as a higher education institution in applied sciences.
International audience ; The Polytechnic Academy of Porto (PAP, 1837-1911) was created in 1837, and replaced the Royal Academy of Navy and Trade Affairs of the City of Porto (RANTACP, 1803-1837). Its creation brought a new paradigm to higher education in Porto, because several engineering courses were then implemented – before that, the focus was on the formation of traders and navy sailors – and it was the first school in Portugal dedicated to engineering outside the military context (it should also be highlighted that Mathematics occupied a central role in its curricula). This work will be divided in three parts: The first part is a brief presentation of the RANTACP. In the second part, the Mathematics taught in the PAP will be presented, with special emphasis on three relevant moments of its history: its creation in 1837, the profound Reformation of 1885 which allowed its scientific apogee and its transition to the University of Porto in 1911. The third part will be a short presentation of the important Portuguese mathematician Gomes Teixeira (1851-1933) that arrived at PAP, as a professor, in 1884.
This paper studies the effects of environmental pollution in the Polytechnic Ibadan, as public issue for sustainable development. Primary data were sourced through survey method of questionnaire. Spot observation of facilities and staff handlers supported the survey. The data sample size of 250 respondents drawn through random sampling technique was adopted. in this order: 12% were administered to staff at the Health Centre, 20% to staff of Works and Service Units, and 16% to staff in other Departments. The remaining 52% were administered to Students. The data were analyzed using simple descriptive statistical tables and percentages. The secondary data for this work were obtained from Health Centers' documents, literature reviews of related works and text books .The findings of the work revealed that sanitation habit is a way of life in The Polytechnic, Ibadan. This community supported the factor of ensuring a safe and hygienic condition as the reason for consideration with (38%) response. Other factors such as societal values (32%) and mass media (40%) are much more significant to this people than government policies .Also the choice of technological practices is a function of financial capability as it attracted highest attention of 30% responses. It was noted that academic environment favors this programme than urban settlement because of intellectual innovation and creativity of ideas. However this community put up some identifiable obstacles that hindered proper hygienic practices. DOI:10.5901/mjss.2015.v4n1p377
The Management Information System (MIS) in Higher Vocational Education such as Polytechnics functions to coordinate and monitor the planning, implementation, and evaluation of education activities, especially at the study program level. The current MIS serves BAAK's data and information needs, reporting for internal management and providing PD-DIKTI Database. MIS has not fully served the needs of internal customers. The aim of this research is to describe in depth the process of planning and evaluating MIS at the study program level. This research is limited to MIS academic services and support preparation for study program's accreditation of BAN-PT. The theoretical study is supported by theological foundation of Al Qur'an and Hadits, the philosophical constructivism and the theory of Total Quality of Management (TQM). This research uses a qualitative descriptive approach, explore deeply into the data and information needs for students, lecturers, study program, and BAAK. The informant involved internal Polban namely BAAK's person, head of department and study program, lecturers and students, reviewing statute documents, strategic plans, academic regulation, laws and government's regulations related to polytechnic's management. This research reveals that the current MIS program is not based on customer's needs yet by paying attention to business processes in planning, implementing, and evaluating teaching and learning process. MIS in implemented stage solely for BAAK needs, does not yet serve data needs for study programs, lecturers and students, including not yet supports the preparations of program study's accreditation by BAN-PT. Customers are still difficult to get the information needed. The results of the evaluation show that there is a gap between data and information due to several inhibiting factors and a management system that is not yet based on complete data. The novelty of this research is MIS which is integrated with the current management system. MIS is designed comprehensively, not partially on ...
As long ago as 1992, Greville Rumble was writing about the "competitive vulnerabilities" of single-mode distance teaching institutions [universities]. In the intervening years the challenges he described have only intensified, especially so as advancing information and communication technologies have enabled increasing numbers of campus-based tertiary institutions to enter distance learning, usually targeting the part-time adult learner market that was formerly the preserve of single-mode distance learning providers.There are also wider and larger pressures at play. Disruptive digital technologies, globalisation of education, constrained government funding, shifting student expectations, and changes in demand for future skills, are all driving the need both to re-examine fundamental aspects of the ODFL (open, distance and flexible learning) model (as indeed they are for tertiary education more generally), and to re-consider the core ODFL principle of "learner-centricity" and what it might mean within this changing context. The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand has recently undertaken a major programme of digital and organisational transformation to meet the changing needs of its distinctive learner constituency, and to enhance the organisation's flexibility in responding to changing external factors. This institutional reengineering that disaggregates functions and unbundles processes and services, holds potential for both improved performance and enhanced partnering opportunities within a network of provision.
Internationalisation has been a major trend in higher education since early 1990s. The Finnish polytechnics came to exist at the same time. A lot of interest and efforts were focused on their internationalisation since early on. There were, however, no clear-cut models or guidelines on why, how and what polytechnic internationalisation should be all about. As a polytechnic Head of Internationalisation in 1995-2001, the author of the present study came to work on exploring and defining higher education internationalisation through a case study. The study was introduced in 1997 by semi-structured interviews of some 20 different actors of Vantaa Temporary Polytechnic (VAMK). Questions were posed to teachers, students and managers concerning conceptions of internationalisation in general and at VAMK. The interviews, as typed out, comprise some 300 pages of text. The theoretical study revealed there was very little written theory or studies concerning higher education internationalisation. Also, a more recent phenomenon, globalisation, was introduced into the same sphere as internationalisation, making the picture more blurred. Un understanding of internationalisation is approached through examining definitions of the term as well as by a brief study on globalisation. Another small study is done on Finland's internationalisation process with the EU membership in 1995 as a crucial turning point. More extensively, the author examines definitions of higher education internationalisation with particular focus on the rationales or motivations of the phenomenon. The research approach as concerns the empirical data is mainly ethnographic, i.e. the researcher is, typical of internationalisation study perhaps, setting on a journey of discovery, investigating the phenomenon as it was experienced by the various actors in the target institution. The research is also a discourse analysis focusing both on the discourse of the polytechnic actors as well as some political, academic and media texts of the time of the study, mid to late 1990s. The focus of the empirical study is on the rationales of internationalisation. While considering her research approach, the author had intuitively looked for metaphors as characteristic phrasings of internationalisation in the empirical data. One metaphor is used in the title of the study, under a bright star, which an informant used in order to describe how internationalisation was organised and targeted at VAMK in the early years. In the final phases of the study, metaphors formed a vital tool in the study besides the more conventional text analysis. Through the study of the empirical data the author has been able to refresh the mainstream typology of the rationales of higher education internationalisation as well as to contribute to the definition of the phenomenon. The author contends that the role of unofficial internationalisation rationales is bigger than conveyed in mainstream definitions. The metaphor study helped describe and understand concepts of polytechnic (higher education) internationalisation, at least at its early stages, by suggesting root metaphors or common underlying understandings of internationalisation such as travel, natural forces and fears of the foreign (languages). As this is a case study, it is not meaningful to make generalisations of the findings. They may, however, be helpful in understanding and analysing the features of education internationalisation, especially as concerns the early stages of the phenomenon in an institution. KEY WORDS: Higher education internationalisation, globalisation, rationales of internationalisation, metaphors of internationalisation.
The article gives a brief analysis in the present state of research, scientific developments, and training highly qualified specialists at Tomsk Polytechnic University. TPU is one of the leading technical Universities of Russia in the field of science and education. The main components of its success are: scientific schools with their old traditions and powerful mental outfit; the developed R&D infrastructure consisting of 3 Research Institutes, the Institute «Cybernetic Center» and scientific centers and laboratories equipped for research in the field of nuclear and accelerating technology, as well as in high-voltage physics, dielectric physics, etc. In spite of conversion, the former experience acquired by Research Institutes while collaborating with military-industrial enterprises allows now to bring forward modern technologies and unique facilities to Russian and foreign markets. Due to this fact the main body of Research Institutes and laboratories is now working away, and new customers are being searched for in Russia and abroad. In 1996-97 30 percent of the R&D conducted by 33 higher institutions of Western Siberia under economic contracts fell to the University's share. The postgraduates' expansion, their intensive research activity form a reasonable basis of the optimistic future of Tomsk Polytechnic University.
Muslim traveller, nowadays, has become one of the potential markets in tourism sector. It is estimated that the number of Muslim traveller will reach up to 230 million by 2026. As a country which has the most muslim dwellers in the world, Indonesia is potential to attract more muslim travellers to visit, especially Lombok-West Nusa Tenggara, as the best Halal Tourism Destination and Halal Honeymoon Destination in 2016. In 2017, it was reported that 20% of the total tourists visiting Lombok was Muslim and 80% was conventional tourists. Without neglecting the conventional tourism, together with other nine provincial governments all over Indonesia, the West Nusatenggara government has made Friendly Muslim market as one of its current and main programs. To support the program, local governments have upgraded and built infrastructures especially in Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Mandalika. The operation requires at least 70,000 professional workers to hit tourism global market. As consequence, tourism education should be significantly grown to fulfil the demands of professional tourism workers. The Ministry of Tourism pointed Lombok Tourism Polytechnic (LTP), as a centre of excellence of Halal Tourism, to be one of the vocational institutions under The Ministry of Tourism by providing qualified human resources through qualification and certification especially to strengthen Friendly Muslim market. Therefore, LTP involves lecturers of various background knowledge related to tourism development and utilizes a curriculum, which is suitable with local people's character and Islamic norms. In tourism industry, LTP also attempts to strengthen Halal Tourism market through creating ranges of halal beverage products. As a centre of excellence in Halal Tourism in Indonesia, LTP has become only one higher vocational institution that has Centre of Halal Tourism Studies. LTP assists the government in taking tourism policies in Friendly Muslim marketing based on the results of research conducted on local experts, destinations and community involved in tourism industries. Through this research organisation, LTP often conducted several research study and community services involving their students. In addition, to get knowledge and professional skills, students also were get more knowledge about Muslim friendly market through seminar and lectures.
The COVID-19 pandemic altered people's life dramatically worldwide, with major concerns in different economic, political, scientific, and public health aspects. The impact on the lifestyle behaviour of the young generation was larger than anticipated. To better understand the influential factors on the lifestyle of tertiary students in an NZ polytechnic due to the COVID-19 pandemic and their correlations, a questionnaire was administrated online by SurveyMonkey to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on life overall, study time and reasons for changing, stress level, living conditions, eating patterns, choice of food, physical activity level, social activities, and sleep time. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, frequency, and correlations to explore the patterns of the influences and the impact of COVID-19 on the proposed questions. The results showed that the extent of the impact of COVID-19 on students' life, in general, was 3.8 (from 0: not at all to 5: considerably). The main reasons for students who either needed an extension or time-off or changed to part-time study were increased stress level (63%), financial reasons (16%), and family responsibilities (14%). For the comparison aspects (prior vs. post-COVID-19 lockdown), meaningful differences were observed in physical activity level (3.26 vs. 2.50) (from 1: very light to 5: very active); and the importance of factors that influenced the choice of food was convenience (3.62 vs. 3.41) and nutrition value (3.65 vs. 3.50) (from 1: very less important to 5: very important). Students were anxious because of fear of infection, lacked physical exercise due to lockdown, and had trouble sleeping. The results of the study provide useful information on the impact on daily life for tertiary students in pandemic times. The research findings can inform health professionals of these influences for appropriate policy decisions and public health practices to promote a healthy lifestyle during a pandemic.
Between 29 April and 1 May, 2008 we attended an international conference that discussed Central Asian security issues. Political scientists and politicians from 17 countries and several international structures gathered in Tashkent for this highly representative forum to assess the already obvious threats to Central Asian security; discuss the new and less obvious threats and challenges; and outline potential cooperation trends aimed at ensuring regional security in the 21st century. The authors, who by citizenship belong to the member states of "organizations and alliances that follow different vectors," have taken the trouble of showing the road toward their countries' potential partnership in the key regional stability spheres. They deliberately avoided agitation and propaganda either of the "pro-Russian" or "pro-Western" security vectors in Central Asia to insist that cooperation rather than rivalry among the main actors present in the region can finally produce a security system that will meet the national interests of the regional states and of the world community as a whole. This is an economically justified and civilized pattern of international relations.
The contingency measures put in place by the government during COVID-19 exposed the students to a new condition to which they must adapt. To understand how the students perceive and cope during the unplanned, changed learning mode, we conducted a study using an evaluation tool which seeks to understand the effect of the contingency measures associated with the emergence of the COVID-19 virus on the students. By assigning a data collection instrument to students who are part of 15 technological universities (TUs) and 7 polytechnic universities (PUs), we determined how they were affected by COVID-19. The questions intended to evaluate the social, economic, academic, emotional, and health effects experienced. A total of 6596 students were assessed in the study representing an appropriate percentage of the Mexican students. The outcome of the study showed that 12% of the students agreed with the online approach to learn adopted because of the contingency. A total of 39% reported that they have a good environmental space for online learning, 32% reported that they mostly take their classes via their mobile phones, and 3% said they lacked access to an internet facility and as such could not take their classes. A total of 14% reported that they have little access to the internet, while 42% reported that they regularly have internet, and both complained that internet fluctuation significantly affects their academic performance. Comparing the different modes of teaching, 52% believe an in-person class is the best approach to learning, but 22% agreed that a hybrid system will be effective. Through a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) it was determined that, in the effects, there was no significant difference in relation to gender. The effects that most impacted the students were economic, connectivity, and a lack of physical activity.
This paper aims to examine implications of Japan's 'polytechnic diplomacy'approach as its international development strategy towards Indonesia. Utilizingconcepts and framework related to international development assistance,triangular development cooperation (TDC), and public diplomacy, this paperargues that development fund disbursement affects interactions among actors,not only in bilateral context but also multilaterally. Mainly, on how this activitytransform an aid recipient into a potential partner for the donor's futureinternational development programs. It is occurred due to the facilitation ofdonor's triangular development cooperation (TDC). The aid recipient's successstory thus prompted the donor to perceive them as its development ambassador.the pattern continues as the donor attempts to disseminate the formula to otherdeveloping countries. The Electrical Engineering Polytechnic of Surabaya(EEPIS) exemplifies the case on how a specific foreign aid approach raises globalmultiplier effects to both aid provider and recipient.