In Indonesian educational institutions, religious education, including Christian Religious Education, must be taught to all students and Christian students. However, most students today focus on developing scientific competencies in a particular field rather than general compulsory learning such as Christian Religious Education. The objectives include determining the significance of Christian Religious Education in universities and the role and impact of education on student life at the Manado State Polytechnic. This research concluded that Christian Religious Education must still be taught in all universities because it has a vital role in the growth of intellectual, spiritual, moral, and social students.
The study examined the determinants of Facebook usage among polytechnic students in south east of Nigeria. Specifically, the effects of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived privacy, and peer group influence on Facebook usage were examined using a sample of 3,872 regular students obtained using the Gorg and Ball 1973 formula population of 39.490 of regular programmes including the ordinary national diploma OND and higher national diploma HND in government owned polytechnics in the south east Nigeria. The Facebook Usage Questionnaire FUQ , a 5 point Likert type instrument designed for data collection, was tested reliable at 0.82 correlation coefficient. The tables and frequencies were used to analyses the characteristics of the variables while the Spearman's correlation coefficient. Was used to examine the relationship between Facebook Usage and the selected determinants. The results showed that Facebook usage and perceived usefulness has a very strong positive and significant 0.884, p. 0.001 correlation Perceived ease of use has a strong and positive significant effect Facebook usage 0.964, p. 0.000 among Polytechnic students in south east Nigeria Perceived privacy has a very strong positive and significant effect Facebook usage 0.909, p. 0.000 among Polytechnic students in south east Nigeria and that Peer group influence has a strong and positive significant effect Facebook usage 0.994, p 0.000 among Polytechnic students in south east Nigeria. The study thus concluded that Facebook is capable is controlling a high wave of consumers and can be a veritable avenue for product marketing and image making. It is therefore recommended that marketers should consider the use of Facebook as advertising channel for their products, as products that appeal from the young and student audience can be successfully marketed using the Facebook. Nwankwo Nwukamaka | Prof. I. C. Nwaizugbo "Determinants of Facebook usage among Polytechnic Students in South-East, Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend ...
Presents results of an investigation into the rate of rental and capital obsolescence in the City of London office market. Using a theoretical approach based on a "vintage model" of capital investment and data from the IPD database, assesses the historic rate of obsolescence in the City and draws comparisons with previous studies, finding similar rates of rental obsolescence (1.2 per cent p.a.), but lower rates of capital obsolescence (1.6 per cent p.a.). Considers the potential for an acceleration in the rate of obsolescence resulting from the introduction of new working practices and the emergence of an endemic over‐supply in the market.
"The Royal Polytechnic Institution's story is the first episode in the long, diverse history of the University of Westminster. Drawing on an extensive range of primary and secondary sources this book explores the Institution's reputation for visual spectacle and the popularisation of science. It is lavishly illustrated with contemporary images. A print paperback can be purchased direct from the University of Westminster for £20 following this link: www.westminster.ac.uk/historybooks Staff, students and alumni can claim a 20% discount on this price."
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.
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
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.
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.
