It is now generally accepted that to enable developing countries to compete in the global economy and be in control of their own destiny, the development of higher education (HE) should be a vital part of policy. The Kenyan economy is at a tipping point where skilled graduates are required but a lack of funding for HE means that only a small number of students are entering university each year. The aspirations of increasing numbers of qualified students are not being met. Without exploiting the potential of its population Kenya will remain impoverished. At the time of writing this thesis the Kenyan Government had no policy for increasing access to HE. This thesis focuses on tackling this dilemma by establishing a private university franchise operation in Kenya in partnership with London University utilising Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) and blended learning. The thesis utilises a case study of such a private HE college in Kenya in partnership with the University of London External Programme. I have been tasked with the management of the design, implementation and evaluation of the institution. The research field contains little assessment of the processes and outcomes of franchised HE in developing countries in Africa. The thesis aims to make a contribution to the research field in this regard. This thesis also looks at the process of creating a blended learning environment from initial problem analysis, through design and development, to implementation and evaluation. It draws on research literature and empirical work including interviews, diaries and questionnaires involving both staff and students. By outlining achievements, challenges, tensions and pitfalls it is hoped that the thesis can have a practical and professional significance and that insights can be drawn for HE institutions and policy makers in developing countries.

In recent years, domestic high education institutions encounter the difficulty of decrease in numbers of enrolling students and increase in number of schools, which is resulted from the trend of less newborn children and more loosing governmental policy by Ministry of Education. In such environments, the private schools encounter high pressure of seeking sufficient enrolling students and more competition among schools. Therefore, management of private schools should focus on increasing efficiency of operating organization so private schools can be developed with more competition in the future. How to operate and allocate available resources and to achieve educational goals become the most important topics for school management. Schools are Non-Profit Organization and this thesis is intended to evaluate the relative efficiency of faculties of colleges or universities with Data Envelopment Analysis¡]DEA¡^, which is popular methods for researches regarding Non-Profit Organization. It includes the CCR model and BCC model and selects 4 input items and 3 output items as evaluation indicators. The thesis employed the DEA model in the case study to evaluate the Overall Efficiency, Pure Technical Efficiency and Scale Efficiency of school faculties and performed slack variable analysis to inefficient faculties to obtain inefficiency reasons and provide further improvements. The case study in this thesis was performed with efficiency evaluation on 19 faculties of certain medical university based on the information of fiscal year of 2008. The results were as below: 1.Overall Efficiency: In the case study, 7 faculties are relatively inefficient, representing 37% of population. This means that over 1/3 of total population is inefficient. 2.Pure Technical Efficiency: In the case study, 3 faculties have no pure technical efficiency, representing 16% of population. The negative result is less than overall efficiency, which implies that the inefficiency may be caused by scale inefficiency. 3.Scale Efficiency: In the case study, 7 faculties have no scale efficiency, representing 37% of population. Such faculties need to adjust their scales to reach the overall efficiency. This thesis also provided the improvement suggestions for inefficient faculties and operation strategies for management.

高等教育在全世界任何國家中都是備受關注的重要議題，對於深度學術研究和未來的就業市場皆有牽一髮而動全身之影響力，而大學生素質及教授教學品質正面臨急需改善的轉折點。當近年大學生人數呈倍數大幅增加時，如何強化大學的營運績效成為炙手可熱的議題。隨著出生率的降低，年增的大學間數削弱了高教的品質，依賴學生收入較重的私立大學之經營情形更是岌岌可危。 本文特別針對二十四家私立大專院校作出實證結果，利用各校84年到94年的財務報表以及有關經營面的數字，以當期餘絀作為應變數，包含流動比率、固定資產比率、平均每單位學生支出、生師比、平均每學生數之學費等變數作為自變數，採用財務及非財務比率分析法進行營運資產面、收益面、支出面、教學品質面的實證分析，探討此統計結果與私立大專院校的營運績效之相依性。 結論顯示出，當期餘絀與固定資產比率、固定資產年增率、總資產、捐贈佔總收入比率、平均每單位學生支出、大學部學生比率有顯著正相關關係；且長庚大學與慈濟大學對學費收入的依賴性最小。利用營運績效之評比建立未來私校的退場機制，提供給相關單位作為日後的參考依據。 / Higher education system has developed for a long time all round the world. It is the most factors for fostering talents for employment and advanced research. The quality of teaching and student at universities are facing challenges that needed to improve urgently. While the enrollment population of students in higher education grows rapidly, it is very necessary urgently to clarify the mounting controversy: how to improve the operating performance of a university according to its financial statement, quantity data, and the information related to the operating performance. With the decreasing birth rate in recent years, the quantity of universities and colleges has enlarged rapidly, added to the other factors, private universities will be in a terrible situation that no sufficient students to stand their business sooner or later. We intend in the thesis to find out ways to enhance the quality of higher education by integrating educational resources and testifying the statistical methods. This paper emphasize on the magnitude of operating those private universities with efficient performance. Chapter 1 is the introduction including the background, motives, and objectives of the research. Chapter 2 deals with the review of literature, whereby related the literatures overseas were be discussed. Chapter 3 focuses on the research methods adopted. Chapter 4 is the analysis of the empirical results, and conducted for the establishment of the model. Chapter 5 presents the conclusion and suggestions for further research. The study based on the disclosed financial information of the 24 private universities. The conducted variables used to test the relation can be divided into four categories: the operating assets approach, the revenue approach, the expenditure approach, the teaching-quality approach. There are financial ratio and non financial independent variables selected for consideration in this field. There are 19 explained variables in details, and current surplus (SUR) is the only dependent variable as a whole. This study yielded limited information about the operating performances of higher education. The objective of this research is to seek and find out the explanatory power of the independent variables for financial performance indicators. To the conclusion, the roads to improve the operating performance of these private universities still have taken time. It is better to eliminate the lower-quality universities from the assessment of operating performance

The study tries to show how the private university to operate as a charitable society, especially in terms of accounting, tax and audit. The work is devoted to basic legal characteristics and responsibilities of public service companies in a particular case of private CEVRO Institute. The aim is to show consistency tax accounting with an emphasis on the interconnectedness of these aspects of the audit.

The Diploma thesis discusses Balanced scorecard and Business intelligence solution on universities. Solution is systematically divided into two main units, each with its chapters. First unit focuses on theory of Balanced scorecard and Business Intelligence. There are shown four basic perspectives of the Balanced scorecard and the basics are further enhanced by modifications, focusing on academic environment. Second chapter introduces the basic information readers needs to continue into the most important part of this work, which is pilot implementation of Business Intelligence at the University in Prague. Second unit deals with practical implementation of theoretical knowledge, gained in first unit. The following is specification of University in Prague with proposal of Balanced scorecard for the University in Prague. This is base fo further work, where is implemented pilot Business intelligence solution with basic reports.

This study aims to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence skills and foreign language anxiety levels of students from Atilim University Preparatory School, in addition to looking at Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) and Emotional Intelligence (EI) in relation to gender, high-school background, foreign language background and the level of exposure to English. In the data gathering process, 436 students from a private university preparatory school participated. The data were collected in three steps. At first, the participants were given a demographic inventory in order to get some personal information for the research questions. Then, they were asked to complete the Turkish translation of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale. Lastly, they were given the Turkish adaptation of Bar-On&rsquo / s Emotional Intelligence Quotient Inventory. The data were analyzed by the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. To find out the differences between the male and female / foreign language backgrounds / high school types, anxiety levels and level of exposure to Englishrelated tests were used. The results revealed that for students&rsquo / foreign language anxiety levels, there are significant differences in terms of gender, foreign language background and emotional intelligence skills. For students&rsquo / emotional intelligence skills, significant differences were found in terms of gender and high school backgrounds.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Cristiano Camargo - 2016.pdf: 2176593 bytes, checksum: 05722db517c3fa4aaff4371a38a8662e (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-20 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás - FAPEG / This work, a kind of multicases study aimed to learn how foreign teachers working in public and private universities in Triângulo Mineiro and Sudeste Goiano are represented by the teaching and the profession is for them. The study is justified by the fact that it can expose how foreign teachers face the teaching of own challenges today, in addition to cultural and linguistic differences, however, in the face of these situations remains If the activity. Although considerable foreign number in Brazilian university teaching, systematic studies on the working reality of these professionals are scarce. Therefore, to understand the univers e of these teachers, the research was based on the Theory of Social Representations to subsidize what are the representation of the profession and elements that lead these individuals to identify themselves in teaching. In this sense, as a methodological resource semistructured interviews were conducted with teachers where they sought cover different nationalities, genders and areas of knowledge. Through the telling of the stories of teachers analysis categories were established to allow the point of teaching representation elements. Regarding the history of teachers, most approaches that further study was one of the factors that brought them to Brazil due to agreements signed with other countries. As the choice for teaching, the reports emphasize that the school experience, the figure of a teacher and admiration for the activity were decisive for the professional option establishing one of the first factors of social representation. Regarding the effective integration in higher education, there are teachers who have exercised the activity in their respective countries still at graduation, while others did after coming to Brazil to complete the studies. As for the work in the public and private universities note the distinction between the accounts and the significant factor of teaching of social representation. For private institutions of teacher education is what gives it greater representation, especially the work in the classroom and the relationship it has with the students. As for the teachers of public universities credited to work in the teaching-research-extension and active participation in the university as a means to see represented. Also among them, we conclude, foreign teachers find themselves recognized in the profession, which becomes a form of socialization also the working environment in their public and private universities influences the representation that give the work and social responsibility they assume. / A presente dissertação, caracterizada como estudo multicasos, teve como objetivo apreender como professores estrangeiros que atuam em IES públicas e privadas no Triângulo Mineiro e Sudeste Goiano se fazem representar por meio da docência e o que a profissã o representa para eles. O estudo justifica-se pelo fato de poder expor como os professores estrangeiros enfrentam os desafios próprios da docência, além das diferenças culturais e linguísticas, contudo, mesmo diante destas situações mantém-se na atividade. Embora seja considerável o número de estrangeiro no magistério superior brasileiro, estudos sistemáticos acerca da realidade de trabalho destes profissionais são escassas. Portanto, para compreender um pouco do universo destes professores, a pesquisa teve como base a Teoria das Representações Sociais a fim de subsidiar quais são os elementos de representação da profissão e que levam estes indivíduos a se identificarem na docência. Neste sentido, como recurso metodológico foram feitas entrevistas semiestruturadas com professores onde se procurou abranger diversas nacionalidades, gêneros e áreas do conhecimento. Por meio da narrativa das histórias dos professores foram estabelecidas categorias de análise que permitisse apontar os elementos de representação da docência. Em relação à história dos professores, a maioria aborda que a continuidade dos estudos foi um dos fatores que os trouxe ao Brasil em função de convênios firmados com outros países. Quanto a escolha pela docência, os relatos salientam que a vivência escolar, a figura de um professor e a admiração pela atividade foram decisivos pela opção profissional estabelecendo um dos primeiros fatores de representação social. Em relação à efetiva inserção no ensino superior, há professores que já exerciam a atividade em seus respectivos países ainda na graduação, enquanto outros o fizeram após vir para o Brasil concluir os estudos. Quanto ao trabalho nas IES púbicas e privadas nota-se a distinção dos relatos e o significativo fator de representação social da docência. Para os professores de instituições privadas o ensino é o que lhe confere maior representação, sobretudo o trabalho em sala de aula e na relação que tem com os alunos. Já os docentes de IES públicas creditam ao trabalho no ensino-pesquisa-extensão e à participação ativa na universidade como meios de se verem representados. Conclui-se que em comum os docentes estrangeiros se veem reconhecidos na profissão, que se torna uma forma de socialização, além disso, o ambiente de trabalho nas respectivas IES públicas e privadas influencia na representação que dão ao trabalho e na responsabilidade social que assumem.

The University of Piano was a private, liberal arts college with a campus in Piano, Texas and an extended campus in Frisco, Texas. The University was incorporated in 1964 under the original name of the University of Lebanon. Classes began in temporary space in downtown Dallas in 1964 and continued on its campuses in Piano and Frisco until the summer of 1976. The University of Piano was comprised of two separate schools within the University: the School of Developmental Education and the Frisco College of Arts and Sciences. This study explores the curricula of both schools and the students and faculty who participated in both programs. This study focuses on the establishment, development and final closing of a wholly privately supported university which accepted both traditional college students and students whose basic academic skills or neurological development prevented their acceptance into traditional college programs. It addresses the history of the University, the roles of its leaders, and the lasting effects of its programs.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T19:13:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 26 / Nenhuma / As facilidades na concessão de crédito a pessoas físicas têm aumentado no decorrer dos últimos três anos. Variáveis como redução das taxas de juros, aumento de prazos de pagamentos e empréstimos consignados à folha de pagamento possibilitaram à população em geral acesso a aquisição de bens móveis, imóveis entre outros. Neste contexto, a procura por mecanismos mais robustos de análise de risco de crédito, no sentido de evitar ou reduzir os níveis de inadimplência do setor se tornaram necessários. Este estudo objetiva construir um modelo econométrico para estimar a probabilidade do risco de inadimplência em uma Instituição Privada de Ensino Superior. Utilizando a técnica estatística de regressão logística, o modelo de risco de crédito foi construído com base em uma amostra de alunos (pessoas físicas) matriculados na Universidade Católica de Pelotas, situada em Pelotas/RS. As variáveis explicativas do modelo foram obtidas a partir da aplicação de um questionário socioeconômico, que gerou um rol de 59 variáveis d / The facilitation in the credit concession to individuals has increased over the last three years. Variables such as the reduction in the interest taxes, increase in maturity, payroll-attached loans, have provided the population in general, with access to consumption property, buildings among others. In this scenario, the search for stronger tools of credit risk analysis, trying to avoid or at least reduce the default rates in the field, has become necessary. This study aims at elaborating an econometric model to predict the probability of default risk in a Private University. By using the statistical technique of logistical regression, the credit risk model has been built based on a sample of students (individuals) enrolled at “Universidade Católica de Pelotas”, located in Pelotas/RS. The explaining variables of the model have been obtained from a socio-economical questionnaire, which has generated 59 variables from which, only 3 were really relevant: existence of previously negotiated debts, possession of a

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:57:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eliana Aparecida de Paula Silva Amorim.pdf: 440268 bytes, checksum: 72cefcf81b2513aed3796373faa738d5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-08 / This study has the main research goal of verify the heterogeneity in the practical work of teachers in the private university. My aim of research are teachers working in two private universities in São José dos Campos, the Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (UNIVAP) and the Universidade Paulista (UNIP). Among the universe of teachers of the private universities, it was chosen teachers of undergraduate courses of law, management and pedagogy. From this data and analysis of interviews with teachers, I tried to put in evidence not the actor himself but how the teacher s work is influenced by the institution where it is done. To accomplish this task I employ contributions of authors such as Brandão, Wanderley, Trindade and Cunha, that work with university development as a whole, without forget classical authors as Marx and Arendt, for theoretical basis I also discuss the contributions of researchers as Sampaio and Anastasiou and Pimenta, with emphasis the undergraduate private teaching and teaching skill in high level teaching respectively / Este estudo tem como foco principal de investigação a verificação da heterogeneidade da(s) prática(s) de trabalho do professor das universidades privadas. O meu objeto de pesquisa são os professores das duas universidades privadas da cidade de São José dos Campos, a Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (UNIVAP) e a Universidade Paulista (UNIP). No universo dos professores das universidades pesquisadas, escolhi professores dos cursos de Direito, Administração de Empresas e Pedagogia. Desta maneira, a partir da coleta e análise dos depoimentos dos professores entrevistados, procurou-se evidenciar não só o sujeito em relação a ele mesmo, mas também como o trabalho docente é influenciado pelo tipo de instituição onde ele é realizado. Para isso, utilizo as contribuições de autores como Brandão, Wanderley, Trindade e Cunha que trabalham com o desenvolvimento da universidade como um todo, sem deixar de lado os autores clássicos como Marx e Arendt, no que diz respeito à base teórica e também com pesquisadores, como Sampaio e Anastasiou e Pimenta, que enfatizam respectivamente o ensino superior privado e a docência no ensino superior