Vol. 5 No. 4 (2014)

Most United Kingdom (UK) universities are franchising fast with foreign universities affording low cost tertiary education. Most students and graduates in Mauritius have their degree and other awards from local, Indian or British universities. However, in the recent couple of years UK universities are franchising more and more with local institutions (University of Mauritius and University of Technology Mauritius) with large campuses on the small island of the Republic of Mauritius. Of both French (1715-1810) and British colonisation (1810-1968) until its independence in 1968 the young Republic of Mauritius (12 March 1992) is one of the leading countries in Africa where secondary education is free with a relative weaker fee to enter in tertiary institutions like the University of Mauritius. In a contextualised approach the study that shall follow explain the actual situation transition education in Mauritius where local students are less and less reluctant to go to the UK to have a degree. In return UK universities instead are mushrooming around the island attracting local students who cannot afford to pay high cost tertiary education in countries like the USA, France or the UK. Actually, UK universities are recruiting local academics to lecture on their programmes in Mauritius for local students who despite their high profile cannot afford to pay the fees in the USA or UK. UK universities are also sending their staff to lecture in Mauritius and local students have the same award they would receive in the UK. Indeed, the research reflects to what extent students are willing to remain in Mauritius to avoid obstacles and harassment they would probably face in the UK or the USA in terms of visas, accommodation, job facilities just to name a few. But there is still a cost to pay.

In response to the increase in demand on tertiary education, number of higher education institution raised dramatically over the past few decades. The scenario creates competition environment leading to the needs for understanding how students’ decision were made. Recent literature on higher education has been acknowledging the role of marketing in attracting potential students. This paper explores the decision process of selecting higher education institution within the framework of marketing communication. From the perception of students who are successfully accepted in a higher education institution, the analysis was done to investigate what was the source of information being referred. Analysis was also done to identify which source perceived by the students as their most influential source of information in deciding which institution to apply for. The finding suggests that traditional marketing tools such as news paper and magazine advertisement or publication is still effective as compared with other interactive marketing approach such as websites and education fair. The influence of their significant others such as parents, siblings and peers is also discussed.

Academic cheating is one type of unethical academic behaviors or academic dishonesty. The level of cheating among undergraduate students has tremendously increased. Academic cheating is crucial as it affects the credibility and predictive accuracy in university admission criteria. Despite the concern with academic dishonesty (cheating), most research has been conducted in Western context. Western research has been useful in providing in-depth understanding of causes of academic cheating however; it is uncertain whether the same research findings are applicable to Arab/Middle Eastern countries. This study focuses on academic cheating among Egyptian undergraduate students. The aim is to explore differences in students’ attitudes and reported behaviors to cheating across academic years. Research findings report no significant difference among business students with regard to behaviors and attitudes to academic dishonesty. Except for few statements, students have similar responses to the used scenarios. Findings of this study have important implications to the faculty and its staff. More attention should be given to the communication of right academic behaviors to students, students’ evaluation and assessment, invigilation system, punishment of wrong behaviors, and evaluation of academics.

The present study aimed to explore the relationship between life satisfaction and religiosity among college teachers. Life satisfaction refers to cognitive and affective assessments of life. Religiosity refers to behavior, emotions, and thoughts which are derivative from beliefs about the sacred, associated with a particular religious ritual. A sample of 100 males and females college teachers was selected in a crosssectional survey research design. Muslim Religiosity Personality Inventory (MRPI) by Krauss (2011) and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) by Diener (1985) were used to measure the religiosity and life satisfaction respectively. Permissions to use the scales have already obtained from authors. Data were collected from a convenient sample of 100 college teachers from district Gujrat. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 20.0 version was used for statistical analyses. Findings of Pearson Product Moment Correlations revealed that life satisfaction is positively associated with religious rituals and maumalats at ( p < .001 and p < .01 respectively). Multiple Hierarchal Regression Analysis showed that religious rituals and maumalats predict 29% variance on life satisfaction. The research has implementation that religiosity can play a vital role in life satisfaction of male and female college teachers.

Despite the fact that Z-Theory was published few years ago (2011), many questions arise until today about nature of the theory, its cause and reason. This article is dedicated to answering key questions of the theory, to lift the veil of “mystery” that surrounds the theory for many centuries and keeps the human mind incompatible with Z-Theory.

Theses and research reports of academic staff in various tertiary institutions are normally deposited on shelves in university libraries year in year out. However, the essence of these rigorous academic works is tailored toward solving identified problems. A three day Workshop was held for lecturers to learn and convert their theses and research reports into publishable articles for onward submission to peer reviewed journals for subsequent review and publication. Sixty (60) lecturers registered for the workshop by submitting softcopies of their respective theses and research reports. They were conducted through the Workshop by two facilitators who presented three topics on the subject: things to consider when converting theses and research reports to publishable articles; selecting journals for article publications; and tailoring theses and research reports to the format of the selected journals. The latter topic was done with working examples to enable the participants acquire the requisite skills. The participants were made to select a peer review journal per each of their formatted articles, and allowed to follow up the steps in converting their respective copies presented. The theses and research reports that were converted to papers were submitted to editors of the respective journals selected. At the close of the Workshop about ninety (90) articles were submitted to various journals for review and subsequent publication.

This study is a descriptive research. The main purpose and objectives of this study were: 1) To determine the level of commitment of the teachers in terms of the three organizational commitment components namely affective, normative and continuance commitment; 2) To determine the level of instructional supervision as perceived by teachers in terms of its six factors namely inspection, assistance and support, oversight responsibilities, leadership skills, professional development, and collaboration; 3) To investigate the significance of instructional supervision factors affecting organizational commitment of Thai teachers. This study utilized descriptive method. The instrument employed for collecting the data was an opinionnaire regarding the factors of instructional supervision and components of organizational commitment developed by Baffour-Awuah (2011) and Meyer and Allen (1991).The statistics used for the treatment of data were mean, standard deviation (s.d.), standard error mean (s.e.mean), coefficient of variation (C.V.), and Multiple Regression Analysis. Results showed that two of the components of organizational commitment namely Affective Commitment and Normative Commitment are above the expected level or in high level, while Continuance Commitment is within the expected level or in moderate level. All six factors of instructional supervision are above the expected level or in high level. It was also found that among the six factors of instructional supervision, only two of them namely “Assistance and Support” and “Leadership Skills” significantly affect the organizational commitment of Thai teachers. The predictive equation is:

Many senior secondary school students struggle with reading comprehension of expository texts in Nigeria, leading to mass failure in the Senior School Certificate Examinations conducted by the West African Examination Council (WAEC). Research on improving reading comprehension has dwelt on isolated reading strategies taught the learners through the conventional lecture method. No study has explored the effect of video-based training on metacognitive strategies and verbal ability on students’ achievement in reading comprehension. This study, therefore investigated the effect on achievement in reading comprehension of three modes of video instruction in metacognitive strategies of senior secondary school students in North Central zone of Nigeria. It also examined the main and interaction effects of verbal ability level, gender and treatments on achievement in reading comprehension. The study used a quasi-experimental post-test only equivalent group design . Three secondary schools were selected from three States in the North Central geo-political zones in Benue, Nasarawa and Kogi States. In each of the three schools, a total of 120 senior secondary school (SS II) students of both sexes were randomly sampled and assigned to three experimental groups and a control group. The study was guided by five hypotheses which were tested at p<0.05 significant level. A Reading Comprehension Achievement Test (RCAT), developed by the researcher and validated by experts, was the main instrument used for data collection. The data collected were analyzed using t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The research findings indicated significant effect of Drill and Practice Video Instructional Mode (DPVIM), Interactive Video Instructional Mode (IVIM), and main and interaction effects of verbal ability level and treatments. No significant effects on achievement in reading comprehension were found for Tutorial Video Instructional Mode (TVIM) and main and interaction effects of gender and treatments. Based on these findings, it is recommended that reading comprehension teachers should make use of video instruction in developing comprehension skills of secondary school students in Nigeria.

Stakeholders’ perceptions towards a career in vocational education and training (VET) in Vietnam negate the country’s industrial development plan. During the last 15 years, the Vietnamese Governments investment in to the sector increased annually. However, parents and their children still pursue the goal of higher education via the mainstream rather than a career path way using the vocational education and training system. Although stereotypical views of vocational students are being challenged, Confucian ideology maintains some influence over stakeholders’ educational decisions leading to the sustained popularity of higher education. This study explores the perceptions of students on the image of and their loyalty towards vocational education and training. A sample of 300 lower secondary school, 300 upper secondary school, and 300 vocational students was drawn from across the Northern and Southern regions of Vietnam. A survey questionnaire was used to collect data and mean analysis conducted to explore the data. The findings indicate that agreement with statements about facilities and equipment, teacher’s ability, curriculum, and soft skills are the clearest indicators of enhanced perceptions about the image of vocational education and training. Encouragement from parents appears most influential to positively affecting lower secondary students’ loyalty. Unexpected was that vocational students had less interesting continuing in vocational education and training compared to lower and upper secondary school students inclination towards a career in VET. First-hand experience seemingly leads to diminished perceptions and loyalty towards vocational education.

The increasing number of unemployment and poverty led to increasingly perceived importance of entrepreneurship. Development will go well if supported by business because the government is very limited capabilities. Therefore, an entrepreneur development is potential both in number and quality. The fact is that the number of entrepreneurs facing Indonesia is still small and the quality was still low, so that entrepreneurship development is an urgent issue for the success of development. Therefore, model of entrepreneurship learning for new entrepreneur growth is very necessary. This study aims to obtain a model of entrepreneurial learning in entrepreneurial business growth through the use of methods, techniques and learning aids, determination of material and the effect on the growth of entrepreneur business. The study was conducted by using descriptive research and verification research. Unit of analysis is the institution of education providers that have business incubator, both public and private training. The success of entrepreneurial learning process is carried out by taking into account various factors, namely:Iinstructor,Course to be delivered,Methode that use, techniques and tools that will be used and the feedback is expected to learning process.The criteria used for the selection of prospective entrepreneurs consists of three criteria such as:motivation, entrepreneurship skills and business skills.The results showed that the model of learning effective and efficient learning must be adapted to need entrepreneur business include instructors, materials, techniques and tools which is used. This will affect the success of the learning activities in developing or growing entrepreneurial business.