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The misalignment between the expectations of fashion students, fashion tertiary educators, and the fashion industry
What motivates students to study fashion design? What employment opportunities are there in the fashion design industry for fashion graduates? These are some of the core questions raised in this thesis. Fashion design ...
The PhD Viva: Unfolding the practices and experiences of doctoral examiners in Malaysia
This thesis reports on a study of the examiner practices and experiences of the PhD viva from the perspective of doctoral examiners in Malaysia. The PhD viva is an oral examination used compulsorily as part of the assessment ...
The impact of globalisation on an emerging university in Tanzania, East Africa
This thesis presents a case study of a new and emerging university in the Global South. It seeks to understand the university’s practices and how globalisation has impacted on staff, students and management of the university. ...
Assessing Publication-Based Theses
Doctoral examiners are increasingly assessing theses that include publications by the candidate. Little research has investigated how examiners assess a thesis that includes such publications. Most past research has focused ...
Developing Critical Thinkers in Higher Education: A Vygotskian Perspective
Despite critical thinking being an avowed aim of higher education, we currently have little understanding of how students develop as critical thinkers.
This qualitative study focused on the in-depth learning experiences ...
Exploring undergraduate students’ perceptions of factors influencing their engagement and alienation in higher education
Student engagement has been identified as having a positive influence on learning and retention. This has attracted much research on how to enhance engagement in higher education. Studies have considered the role of student ...
'Doing the work of hearing': Exploring Cambodian school girls' educational persistence
This doctoral thesis reports on a qualitative feminist study that explored Cambodian school girls’ educational persistence. The study investigated the multiple sources of support school girls utilised to remain in secondary ...
Troubling plagiarism: University students' understandings of plagiarism
In this thesis, I report on a doctoral study that examined undergraduate university students’ understandings of plagiarism. The thesis addresses a gap in the existing plagiarism research since much of the literature on ...
Exploring what university teachers think about education for sustainability
The higher education literature reveals the highly subjective nature of thinking about the roles of higher education and its teachers with respect to ‘education for sustainability’. We used Q methodology to help to clarify ...
Longitudinal analysis of the environmental attitudes of university students
This article addresses the important questions that higher education institutions ask concerning their impact on their students’ sustainability-related attributes ‘How do our students’ worldviews change as they experience ...