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The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The higher education and research system faces a constant dilemma. On the one hand, research and higher education are run by autonomous, interrelated academic communities, often described as collegial governance. On the other hand, they are an instrument for the fulfillment of goals that are often external to the academic community. What, then, is the role of academics and academic knowledge in governance of higher education and research, and how does this reflect on and impact their aims and overall place in society? Fostered through joint workshops and an open dialogue, this double volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations develops a deeper understanding of collegiality, examining through a unique comparative perspective how it is translated and practiced in different settings across the world. Concentrating on challenges to collegiality and the erosion of faculty governance, this first installment analyzes global waves of reforms, ways in which various kinds of managerial modes of organization and control come to reshape universities, and how this intersects with the evolving missions of universities as institutions. Revealing the globalization, homogenization and variation that have come to characterize the collegiate system, University Collegiality and the Erosion of Faculty Authority critically considers the state of and future of the higher education system, and how we can consciously shape it moving forward.

The present research is aimed at assessing the extent to which university teachers employ student-centered learning, independent learners, higher order thinking, usability in real world and a conducive learning environment. Demographic differences like gender, age, experience and position differences in teachers' usage of constructivist practices are explored. Six dimensions of the constructivist practices questionnaire are sorted through the use of exploratory factor analysis. It is identified that many teachers use the constructivist pedagogical practices at a moderate level. No significant difference is found in the use of constructivist practices of gender and experience strata, while significant difference is present in the constructivist practices of teachers in age and position strata.

Aim: To examine the relationship between reflective thinking and metacognitive awareness to help medical students to be independent learners who can control their learning and improve their professional performance.
Study Design: It is a cross-sectional correlational study.
Place and Duration of the Study: This study was conducted at the Faculty of Medicine-Suez Canal University in August 2018.
Methodology: This is a cross-sectional correlational study; the study population included the undergraduate medical students in all study years at the Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University. The sample was 264 randomly selected students by using a cluster sampling technique. The instruments that were used for data collection were the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) to measure students' metacognitive awareness levels, Reflection-in-Learning Scale (RLS) to measure the students' reflective learning levels.
Results: The descriptive statistics of both MAI and RLS total scores of students in the six study years revealed that students have mean total MAI total scores = 178 ± 26 and have mean total RLS total scores = 60 ± 13.
The Spearman's correlation between the metacognitive awareness and the reflective learning skills of medical students revealed that there was a statistically significant high positive correlation between the metacognitive awareness and the reflection in the learning of FOM-SCU students (p= 0.699, p-value<0.0001).
Multiple regression analysis revealed that the weighted combination of the predictor variables explained approximately 50% of the variance of reflection in learning.
Conclusion: It is concluded from this study that the students at the Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University have fair to good metacognitive awareness and partial to ample reflective abilities. There is a significantly high positive relationship between metacognitive awareness and the reflective learning skills of medical students.

The world is currently facing a pandemic spreading rapidly in more than 200 countries caused by the SARS-CoV-2. The virus was first thought to have originated from Wuhan, China, and the infection has spread throughout the world, including Indonesia. The mortality rate for COVID-19 in Indonesia is 8.9%. This figure is the highest in Southeast Asia. Therefore, the government made various efforts and policies to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia. One of them is implementing the health protocol, namely 3M (using masks, washing hands, and social distancing). However, due to the increasing number of Covid-19 transmission in Indonesia, the current health protocol became 5M (washing hands, wearing masks, social distancing, limiting mobility and interaction and staying away from crowds) is expected to reduce the transmission rate of the COVID-19 virus. This study aims to discover the description of knowledge of Pre-Clinical Students in Faculty of Medicine, Christian University of Indonesia, Class of 2020 regarding COVID-19. The design of the study is a descriptive survey with a quantitative descriptive. Data were obtained by using questionnaires distributed online with a non-random sampling technique, in which we used purposive sampling. The participants were next screened with the inclusion and exclusion criteria. It resulted in 140 participants who qualified the criteria and whose data could be considered for further analysis. The results showed that from 140 students, 136 students (97,1%) had good knowledge, three students (2,1%) had sufficient knowledge, and one student (0,8%) had less knowledge about COVID-19. The study finds that 136 students (97,1%) in a class of 2020 in the Faculty of Medicine at Christian University of Indonesia have a good knowledge of COVID-19. Keywords: Knowledge, Pre-Clinical Students, FK UKI 2020, COVID-19.

Turkish government published a -Regulation on Traditional and Complementary Medical Therapies' (CAM) in 2014. We aimed at assessing the knowledge and the thoughts of medical students and faculty members of BVUSOM on this regulation of Ministry of Health. All the students and faculty members were included in the research (in 2017-2018 academic year). Five hundred thirteen medical faculty students (68.8% of all students) and 90 teaching faculty members (57.7% of the all faculty members) participated to the study. One hundred and forty-eight (28.8%) of the students and 57 (63.3%) of faculty members reported that they know the legal regulation. At least one of the treatment methods suggested in the regulation was applied by 83 (16.2%) of the students. Four hundred (77.9%) of the students and 61 (67.8%) of the faculty members would like to be educated well enough so that they could treat their patients in any area of CAM. Medical students were more likely to show interest in receiving a training in CAM techniques than faculty members (p=0.03).As CAM is still very new area of interest in Turkey. There are several strategies to integrate it to current medical education, including: embedding lectures, organizing multidisciplinary meetings, scheduling elective rotations and informing faculty members.

This article is devoted to the study of internationalization strategy of the University of Ghana as well as character-ization by visiting scholars of their work at the International Faculty of the University. The paper draws the boundaries between such processes as globalization and internationalization, and also defines the areas of their functioning. The authors turn their attention to the process of glocalization associated with the introduction of a local element, without which the promotion of global processes can be difficult to apply. The paper indicates the reasons for the transformations in higher education, identifies strategic goals and discusses ways to achieve these goals. The article describes the need for internationalization of universities, in general, and the University of Gha-na, in particular. Further, the paper considers priority areas related to partnerships with other universities, attract-ing and recruiting freelance specialists from foreign countries, and creating student and teacher exchange pro-grams. International university teachers from Africa and Europe were interviewed. The study highlights the par-ticular interest in recruiting of international university teachers who have taught and continue to teach at various higher education institutions around the world, and therefore are highly qualified professionals with experience. Exchange with their experiences is in demand by many universities, since, while they are accumulating their own experience in a foreign institution, simultaneously they pass it on to colleagues and students. Our article further focuses on ways that can improve activities of the University of Ghana and overcome difficulties and characteriz-es the advantages and disadvantages of the work of the faculty with students. The paper also presents the results of a survey of respondents, where the international faculty assessed their stay and teaching at the University of Ghana. The results of the applied method of interviewing the international faculty (the object of study) will be-come the key to understanding the problems and solving the issues related to the internationalization of higher education in general (subject of study). The opinions of the respondents will be made available to the manage-ment of the University of Ghana. They may also influence the educational processes of other universities, since the University of Ghana is one of the leading institutions of higher education in the country and Africa, and a leader in the internationalization of education and in modern scientific approaches to teaching

AbstractConservatives in the United States have grown increasingly critical of universities and their faculty, convinced that professors are ideologues from the political left. Universities, for their part, have increasingly adopted a mantra of diversity and inclusivity, but have shown little interest in diversifying the political and ideological profile of their faculties. This essay argues that the lack of political diversity among American university faculty hampers the ability of universities to fulfill their core mission of advancing and disseminating knowledge. The argument is advanced through a series of four questions: Is it true that university faculty are not ideologically diverse? Why might it be true? Does it matter? How might it be fixed.

Die Frauenpolitik der Europäischen Gemeinschaft ist Teil der regulativen Politik "negativer Integration". Sie ist kein Musterfall für eine "positive", gestaltende Integration, weder Element noch Motor der Herausbildung einer europäischen Sozialstaatlichkeit. (Gewerkschaftliche Monatshefte / FUB)

On July 7, 2005, the Faculty of Economics of the University of Göttingen awarded Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen with an honorary doctorate in economics in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the fields of welfare and development economics. On the occasion of the award, Amartya Sen shared his thoughts on the economic development of India and China, with a focus on the longstanding interaction of the two societies. The lecture is complemented by a previous publication of Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen on comparative human development in India and China. This publication should greatly enrich the current debate on the economic development of India and China. Instead of viewing economic development in India and China mainly as a competitive threat, as is often done in Western media, he asks what these two large societies, comprising 40% of the world's population and more than half of the world's poor, can learn, and indeed have learnt from each other in terms of improving the lives of their citizens.

From its inception in 1914, the Manitoba Law School had been the joint responsibility of the University of Manitoba and The Law Society of Manitoba. Its four year programme was intended to combine both academic and practical training so that on its completion the graduating student obtained not only his Bachelor of Laws Degree but also his call to the Bar of Manitoba. By the early sixties, however, with the burgeoning of legal education in universities across the country, it became clear that an overhaul of the system was necessary in Manitoba. If legal education was to meet the demands of the last half of the 20th Century and the standards being set in Canada generally, then there had to be a tremendous input of resources. This could only come through the University which, in the sixties, was enjoying good government financing.

Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die politische Beeinflussung des Faches Physik an der Universität Göttingen in den 1930er und 40er Jahren. Untersucht werden alle Physikinstitute in den Bereichen wissenschaftliches Personal, Studenten, Forschung und Lehre. Das Kapitel über das Personal zeigt, in welcher Weise die akademische Gemeinschaft bei Stellenbesetzungen wissenschaftliche Qualität, politische Einstellung und Charaktereigenschaften der betreffenden Personen geprüft hat. Zusätzlich zu deren individuellen Eigenschaften waren ihre kollegialen Verbindungen von großer Bedeutung. Die Arbeit rekonstruiert das kollegiale Netz der Physiker, dessen Struktur die teils eigenartigen Personalvorgänge verständlich macht. Dies zeigt auch deutlich die Analyse des gescheiterten Wiedergutmachungsfalles Kurt Hohenemser. Auch die Größe und Zusammensetzung der Studentenschaft unterlag politischer Beeinflussung. Zum Beispiel gab es die meisten weiblichen Physikstudentinnen zu Ende der NS-Zeit, in der Entnazifizierungszeit wurden sie radikal verdrängt. Die Forschungskontrolle der Nachkriegszeit hat zu einer Transformation der vorher von allen Physikinstituten durchgeführten Rüstungsforschung geführt. Manche militärisch relevante Forschung wurde semantisch in einen friedlichen Kontext gestellt und fortgeführt teils sogar unter alliierter Regie. Auch das Lehrangebot passte sich an die jeweiligen politischen Verhältnisse an. Lehrveranstaltungen zu Quantenmechanik und Relativitätstheorie waren in der NS-Zeit selten, die Nachkriegszeit brachte Neuerungen, die das Programm des studium generale um physikhistorische und -philosophische Veranstaltungen ergänzten. Darin fand vereinzelt auch eine Auseinandersetzung mit den Ereignissen der NS-Zeit statt. ; The dissertation examines the political influence on physics at the University of Göttingen in the 1930s and 40s. The examination of all physics institutes is divided into the realms of scientific personnel, students, research, and teaching. The chapter on the personnel shows how in the case of staffing the scientific community considered the scientific quality, the political attitude, and the character traits of the respective candidates. In addition to their individual characteristics the scientists collegial ties were of great importance. Thus the chapter reconstructs the physicists" collegial network whose structure could explain the to some extent strange changes in personnel. This is shown by the analysis of the unsuccessful rehabilitation case of Kurt Hohenemser. Also the quantity and composition of the student body was politically influenced. For instance at the end of the Third Reich the number of female physics students reached its maximum; during denazification the female students were pushed away radically. In the postwar period research control caused a transformation of armament research which had been conducted in all physic institutes before. Some of the military relevant research was continued by semantically putting it into a peaceful context partly even under allied control. Also the curricula were adjusted to the respective political circumstances. Lectures on quantum mechanics and relativity theory were seldom during the Third Reich. In the postwar period lectures on the history and philosophy of physics complemented the studium generale program. In single cases they also dealt with the Nazi past.