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Students’ housing satisfaction in the University of Education, Winneba
Get PDFStudents’ housing plays an important role in the success of university education. This paper explores students’ housing satisfaction in the University of Education,
Winneba (UEW). It examined how satisfied students were with the university’s housing systems and services on campus. Specifically, subjective and objective physical variables were used to measure students’ residential satisfaction. Data were sourced from questionnaire distributed to a sample of 400 respondents and an interview with four hall managers/administrators. Frequencies and correlation were used to analyze the data. Majority of the respondents were dissatisfied with the housing systems and services. Interview with hall administrators revealed lack of resources for satisfactory management of the halls. This study concluded that the hall of students’ residence did not match the aspirations and expectations of the students. It was recommended that students’ housing facilities should be improved through regular maintenance. It was specifically recommended that student residential services are improved to involve facilities such as kitchenette, reading room and more washrooms. It was also recommended that students should change their attitude towards the use of hall residential facilities
Literacy Skills: The Bedrock of Faculty Officer’s Performance in Public University Administration
Get PDFThe University Faculty Officer is the senior administrator in a faculty and closely works with the Dean of Faculty, other academics, other administrative staff, and the University community. The use of “literacy skills” is key to the optimization of his/her administrative performance. This paper therefore, used the available literature to discuss how “literacy skills” enhance performance and effectiveness of the Faculty Officer (FO) in university administration. The paper argues that Faculty Officers, as university senior administrators (USA), could perform better when they have good foundation in the use of administrative/management, documents /records and information management literacy skills. This paper recommends a university-initiated supportive learning environment in the form of continuing professional development opportunities in order to optimize the performance of the Faculty Officer who is the hub around which faculty administration revolves
A Critical Look at Issues of Conflict in Academic Staff Promotion in Ghanaian Public Universities
Get PDFSound management practice requires that administrative decisions affecting academic staff promotions reflect systematic, uniformly applied, fair, and valid evaluations of performance. To meet these requirements, a performance evaluation criteria and procedures must be put in place to reflect two decision elements: what will be evaluated, and how the evaluation will be made. This paper reviews literature regarding the three main criteria (Teaching, Research and Publication and Service to the Community) for academic staff promotion evaluation and how the modalities and procedures of academic staff promotions could create fertile ground for conflict to erupt. The paper reveals that academic staff face their evaluation with anxiety. However, the implementation and processing of academic staff promotions are interfaced with challenges. It is concluded that both faculty and administration should cherish the ideal methods and purposes of faculty assessment. Among other things, the paper recommends that administration/management should institute a data-based academic staff performance evaluation programme; specifically oriented toward such administrative actions as promotions. As a sequel, management/administration should robustly enlighten academic staff on their promotion modalities and procedures
Making Employee Training and Development a Tool for Efficiency and Effectiveness in Ghanaian Universities
Get PDFEmployee training and development are considered critical when it comes to employee efficiency, effectiveness and productivity. The proposition of this paper was that employee training and development could ensure efficiency and effectiveness in university administration. The paper focused on the benefits of training and development, and training methods. It also buttressed some training and development programmes in Ghanaian universities. The paper concluded that the success of every organization, including universities, depends heavily on quality human resources. It therefore follows that there is the need for universities in Ghana to ensure that programmes designed for training and development are holistic in nature to equip employees with the requisite knowledge, attitude, skills and experience for job effectiveness. It is thus recommended that management of universities, especially those in Ghana should make training and development programmes a continuous activity to maintain and appraise employees’ skill levels, and motivate them to grow and improve professionally. Keywords: training, development, efficiency, effectivenes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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